The Scranton chronicle. (Scranton, Miss.) 1897-19??, 1901-08-03
CURRENT TOPICS.
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

Secretary of War Root has direct
ed the preparation of an order Great
ing board of army officers to investi-
gate the whole subject of changes in
| the military posts throughout the
country.
In the southwestern tier of Ne
braska counties. along the Kansas
! line, where corn and pastures are
abandoned as failures, farmers are
disposing of their stock and mer-
chants are cancelling orders.
Admiral Dewey has consented to
preside over the court of inquiry de-
manded by Rear-Admiral Schley and
consented to by Secretary Long. The
/ court will sit in September in Secre-
/ tary Longs reception room.
Director Campbell of the Lick OBJ
servatory. at San Jose, Cal. puts no
faith in the theory advanced by some
eastern astronomers that the extra
ordinary weather conditions in the
middle west are due TO solar causes.
A civilian named Pinnick, has been
sentenced, at Manila, to one years i'm
prisonment and to pay $1,000 for re-
ceiving supplies stolen from the aom-
missary department.
terrific explosion of petroleum,
on the 25th, in the most thickly-popu-
lated quarter of Patum, government
of kutais. Russia. wrecked the whole
center of the town. The loss of life
and property was very large.
Gen. Arthur Henry Paget has been
given command in South Africa. He
sails from England August 10 to take
up his new duties.
Jerman Reisco was formally pro-
claimed president of Chill on the 25th.
He was elected TO the Office June 25.
On the 25rh the Berlin chief of po-
lice ordered the last storage batteries
removed from the street ears.
Rear-Admiral l.. A. Kimberley said,
on the 25th, that owing to i'll health
he would ask to be relieved from
serving on the Sampson-Schley court
of inquiry
good rain fell at Muskogee, j. T.,
on the night of the oath, and the tenn
perature fell 20 degrees.
Fire, at Davenport, Ia, on the 25th,
laid waste an acre of saw mill and
residence property equal to 20 city
blocks, entaling loss of 100000. One
hundred families we're rendered home
less.
Chill is jeopardizing the success of
the Pan-American congress by an in
timation that she desires to do as she
pleases, regardless of her neighbors.
In other words, she has been invited
TO party and wants to run the af-
fair.
Mr.. and Mrs Frank Leaf, of Colo
RADIO Springs, Col, are the proud pa
ents of possibly the largest baby boy
ever born in America. His net weight
is IL pounds, height "a inches and
chest measurement 15s4 inches.
The plant of the Cincinnati Desic-
eating Co., manufacturers of fertliz-
ers at Jones' Station, seven miles west
of Cincinnati, was destroyed by fire
on the night of the 25th. Two dwell
ings were also destroyed. &he loss is
$50 900; partly insured.
J.F. Phelan & Co.'S big dry goods
store at Sioux City, Ia, was destroyed
by fire, on the 18th, supposed to have
been started by the concentration of
the suns rays in the front show win
dows. The loss il $4,000. Several of
the clerks were injured in trying to
escape.
The latest development in the fight
between Senators Tillman and Nc
Laurin, in South Carolina, came on
the 25th, when the executive commit
tee of the democratic state committee
adopted resolution ruling Senator
McI.aurin out of the democratic par
ty.
At the session of the Minnesota
Bankers association, at Duluth, on the
25th, resolution was adopted disap-
proving of the parole of the Youngers
and deprecating the notoriety given
them.
A New York dispatch of the 25th
says that investigation of the breaks
in the suspension rods of the Brook
lyn bridge reveals a shameful neglect
of the superb structure on the part
of the bridge commissioners.
Secretary Long, on the 25th named
the Schley court of inquiry as fol-
lows: Admiral George Dewey, presi-
dent, and Rear-Admirals Louis A.
Kimberly~and Andrew f. X. Benham
tretired). Capt. Lemly is named as
judge adv ocate.
A small snowfall occurred in the
upper end of Estes park, near Lyons,
Col on the 25th. Longs peak looked
white with snow at night. The wealth
er was quite chilly.
Arguments on the application of
Lone Wolf and other disgruntled In
dams, for an order enjoining the fed
eral government from opening the
Kiowa-Comanche and Apache reserva-
tons to settlement, were heard at Ell
Reno, Okla, before Judge c. F. Irwin,
OF the territorial court, on the Goth.
The hearing closed at noon and Judge
Irwin reserved his decision.
The heaviest rain of the year fell
over northwest Missouri, on the 26th,
soaking the ground completely and
effectually breaking the drought
which had covered a period of sin
eweeks. From half to three-quarters
OF an inch of water fell. Corn is lost
beyond hope of redemption, but pas
lures will be greatly benefited.
A formal invitation to be present in