The Scranton chronicle. (Scranton, Miss.) 1897-19??, 1901-09-07
CURRENT TOPICS.
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

Printing Co., of which j. Sterling Nor
ton, ex-secretary of agriculture is the
head, and viii be edited by him. Mr.
Morton is also editor of the Consery.
atiye, weekly paper, and has been
connected with other periodicals at
different times for 20 years.
The will of the late Dowager En-.
press Frederick of Germany was
opened at Hohmurg, on the 2sth,with-
out special ceremony. Her fortune
totals 100000 marks. Her six chil.
dren receive million marks each. The
youngest, Princess Margaret of Hesse
/ (wife of Prince Frederick Charles OF
Hesse) also gets Frederickshof castle,
on which the dowager empress spent
the whole of the three million marks
bequest which she received from the
late Countess Galliera.
A bequest of 100000 to the First
Church of Christ (Scientist) of New
York city, by Helen c. Brush, who
died July z, 1900, was upheld by Sur
rogate Fitzgerald in a decision rem
oered on the 2Sth. The will was con-
tested on the alleged testamentary in
capacity of Miss Brush and undue in.
fiuence on the part of the agents OF
the First Church of Christ.
The United States transport Han
cock arrived at San Francisco, on the
2sth, from Manila, % days out. She
brought 1900 soldiers and e. cabin
passengers.
Mounted troops returning from the
Philippines leave their horses behind.
as it has been found Improbable to
reship the animals, they being prac.
tically worthless for service after
their return.
According to Ali Nouri Bey, former
Turkish consul in Rotterdam, "the
nuxber of Armenians killed by the
kurds will depend upon the outcry
raised in Europe and the pressure
brought to bear upon the sultan. The
same horrible process will be repeated
year by year until all are killed"
zach" Phelps, prominent lawyer
and Gobel democrat leader of Louis.
vile, KY, died, on the night of the
29th, of pneumonia, complicated with
heart trouble. Mr.. Phelps drew the
ten-year agreement of the National
baseball league.
The board of review, at Chicago, on
the goth, discovered, while closing its
ued at 81, ,264, ,529, was not on the books.
An investigation was begun, which de-
veloped some queer juggling.
While the general opinion at Con-
stantinople is that Turkey will yield
and meet France by paying the full
that there is war faction in the sui
tan's cabinet that is urging him to
provoke Franco into some overt act
of hostility.
William Johnson, four-year con-
vict, committed suicide at the Kansas
state penitentiary, at Lansing, by
drinking large quantity of wood al.
cohol. He was sent up from Dodge
City, and had three years to serve.
Editor w. S. Cox, of the Brainerd
(Minn.) Arena, was kidnapped, on the
night of the Goth, by three men, vino
tarred and feathered him, and then
turned him loose. The cause of the
outrage is not made known.
The Presbyterian committee of re-
vision of the Westminster confession
held two executive sessions at Sara
toga, n. Y, on the 29th, and made
considerable progress. DIR. Johnson's
section has been engaged upon a
short statement of the reformed
faith.
The Carnegie public library build
ing at Oklahoma City, Okla, was ded-
icated on the 29th. Gov. Jenlxins and
other prominent men delivered ad-
dresses. The library building cost
$4,000, the gift of Andrew Carnegie.
After electihg officers and selecting
Sam Francisco as the place of meeting
the first Tuesday in September, 1904,
the twenty-eighth triennial conclave
OF Knights Templar, which had been
in session at Louisville, KY, ad.
jourped, on the 29th, to~the date set.
A cali has been issued for conven.
ton in Guthrie, October IL next, of all
persons in Oklahoma named Smith, to
effect an organization for annual re-
unions. 1t is estimated that there are
1000 Smiths in the territory.
The interior department has been
advised of the completion of the sale
of town lots in the town OF Hobart.
in the newIy-ceded part of Oklahoma
The aggregate amount paid for all
the lots sold was S132.0o.
The navy department has awarded
to~Private C. Donan, of the Marine
corps. a life-saving medal for the res
cue from drowning of Private W. Fl.
Gibson, also a marine at Olongapo, +.
l., in June last.
Cuba day. on the 29th, at the Pan
American exposition, at Buffalo, n. y,
was an unqualified success. The exer-
cises held in its honor in the Temple
of Music began with the Cuban ma
tional hymn and ended with star
spansisd Banner" and three cheers
for the StsTs and Stripes