The Scranton chronicle. (Scranton, Miss.) 1897-19??, 1901-11-23
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| Topeka, kas.. on the 18th. The COM
pany intends TO build trolley line
from Kansas City to Olathe. kas. a
distance of 20 miles. and agrees to
complete it within a year from Jam
uary next.
Andrew d. White, the American ann
bassador TO Germany, who sailed
from New York on the Deutschland,
October Is, stopping over in France,
arrived at Berlin on the 18th, and re-
sumed his diplomatic duties.
Orders were issued by the war de-
partment, ON the 18th, directing seven
troops of the Fifteenth cavalry. now
in the department of California. TO sail
for the Philippines on the Hancock,
about December 10.
The Chicago-Great Western passen-
ger train on the Redwing 4 Zumbrota
line miracnlously escaped being
| wrecked near Goodhue. Mimi, on the
14th. As the train was passing over
the bridge the structure fell TO pieces
behind the cars, while in front it
swayed, but stood until the train was
safely over.
Robert Moore, a bondholdcr in the
New Orleans Water Works Co, on the
14th, made application in the United
States circuit court before Judge Par.
lange, for receiver for that com
pany. The court named Frank How
ard receiver.
Gov. Jenkins of Oklahoma appoint
ed William Quinlan, of Naynoka; w.
\. Knipe, of Perkins, and Geo. II
Brett, of Ponce City, MS delegates TO
represent Oklahoma at the National
Live Stock convention in Chicago, De-
cember ,.
Brighten. Robert II. Hall was placed
on the retired list of the army, on the
18th, by operation of law on account
of age. He was born in Michigan and
appointed to the army from Illinois.
Judge j. G. Swinnerton, a well.
known lawyer and orator, died at
Stockton, Col, on the 14th. He was
the father of James Swinnerton, the
well-known newspaper artist.
b. A. Palmer, retired banker of
New York. has made a gift of $50 600
| to the Union Christian college, locat-
| ed at Merom, Ind.
An Amsterdam dispatch of the 14th
said that the condition of Queen Will
| helmina, who is confined to her bed
| through premature accouchment, was
normal. Her physicians, however, pre-
scribed absolute repose. Her mother
had been summoned by telegraph.
Joseph d. Keith was hanged at the
Michigan City Qnd.) penitentiary at
12:11 a. m. of the 18th, for the mur
der of Nora Kiefer. Before his execu-
guilt.
The final draft of the new Hay
Paunoefote treaty in abrogation of
the Bulwer-Clayton agreement and
providing for American control of the
proposed interoceanic canal has been
completed by Secretary Hay and Lord
Pauncefote, and its text was tele-
| graphed to the foreign Office in Lon
| don on the 14th.
The financial report of the Pam
| American Exposition CO.. made by the
auditor, on the 14th. shows the total
to be S3,326,11 net, assuming that the
| assets of $146,454 are collectable at
face
A severe snow storm prevailed in
central New York on the 18th. .Coun-
try roads We're. in some instances.
blocked. and huge drifts piled up
along the fences. In Syracuse sleighs
4
ice was temporarily demoralized.
Fire. followed by an explosion, in
the Baby mine. at Pocahontas, Va,
on the f4th, resulted in the known
death of nine persons and the injur-
ing of score or more. Several other
persons were unaccounted for.
Fully half million dollars damage
was done in Utah by the series of
earthquakes. beginning on the night
of the 18th and lasting until the after
noon of the 14th. In the town of
Richfield alone the damage is esti-
mated at 100000. The Mormon taber-
nacle was badly damaged.
A report has been made by the spe-
cial agent appointed by Gov. Stanley
to gather statistics on the subject of
prairie dogs in Kansas. In the 81
counties covered by the report it is
shown that PA ,s54 acres of land are
occupied by prairie dog towns.
Fire, on the night of the 18th,
cleaned out the Pankratz Lumber Col
yard, al Sturgeon Bay, Wis, which
contained many thousand feet of lum-
ber belonging to the Milwaukee Lum-
ber Co, and a large quantity of shin
giles, the property of the Pankratz
company; loss, 100000.
The attention of Russell Sage having
been called, on the 14th, to a twice
repeated story of his death, the ia
nous financier quoted Mark Twain by
asserting that the reports were, at
least, premature.
On the 18th, X. G. Dun & Co. re-
ported: Failures for the week num-
Der 2l5 in the United States. against
PIT last year. and 27 in Canada,
against 80 last year.
Gen. PalaFieiini, formerly aide-de-
camp to the late King Humbert, of
Italy, died in Rome on fhe 18th.
Secretary Gage, on the 18th, pi.r-
chased Ss57, 800 of short-term bonds.
| Naval Constructor Richmond p.
Hobson has been detached from duty
al the bureau of constructin-- and re-
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