The Scranton chronicle. (Scranton, Miss.) 1897-19??, 1901-08-31
WEEKS RECORD
the News of the Past Seven
Days Condensed.
)ME AND FOREIGN ITEMS
MS of the Industrial Field, Personal
and Political Items, Happenings
at Home and Abroad
b NEWS FROM ALL THE WORLD
DOMESTIC.

he visible supply of grain in the
Eted States and Canada on the 10th
IS. Wheat, 26,76e. 900 bushels; corn.
Es3 900 bushels; oats, 5,546.oo0 BUSH
rye, 5000 bushels; barley. esq.,
bushels.
lightning struck benzine tank in
iladelphia, explodingit, and six per-
BIS were killed and % were missing.
rhe explosion of a cannon at Fort
ley. Kan, killed two soldiers and in
red seven others.
Julius Schukneicht, farmer near
aries City, Ia.s fatally wounded his
fe and himself with a knife while
Iane.
Two negroes, VIII Cooley and Jean
tter, suspected of killing Miss Girsla
ld, were lynched near Pearce City,
[he Ohio river steamer City Of
lconda was capsized by a squall
ar Paducah, Ky, and 16 persons
ERE drowned.
Five tons of dynamite exploded at
Erkimer, N. Y, killing 12 railroad
Rployes.
-Four boys from six to ten years old
fe accused of stoning companion
D death at kokomo, Ind.
Robert Rutter and Jefferson Rut-
kr, two farmers, were instantly
He'd at Vigo, o., by the cars.
| The Shelbyville, Bloomfield & Ohio
hilroad has been sold to the Louis
pie & Nashville. for $4,000.
Later reports indicate that over 20
ersons perished by the wrecking OF
be steamer Islander, which struck
D iceberg off the Alaskan coast.
A Justice of the peace at Norwood,
4 Va, stopped trial to shoot me-
ro who sought to rescue prisoner.
Rear Admiral Howison, one of the
tdges chosen for the Schley inquiry,
said to have expressed an opinion
bverse to Schley, and the navy de-
brtment will ask him to explain.
/ comedian Sam Morris : amused
heater audience in Chicago with
pkes while his heart was almost
Feaking over the death. of his wife,
tho took poison with suicidal intent.
Four more mills of the United
Bates Steel corporation were put in
|peration in Pittsburg, Pa, the re-
hmption being the most severe blow
b far suffered by the strikers.
James j. Jeffries and Gus Rubin
lave been matched in San Francisco
b fight for the worlds championship
j November or December.
The new constitution of Alabama
las been completed, and the conyen-
on at Montgomery has adjourned.
Secrets agents on South American
|evolutionists who arrived in New
fork declared that the attempt to
mite Venezuela, Colombia &nd Ecua-
|or under one government would yet
ucceed.
Strikers at Roseville, o., were en-
oined from picketing the works OF
he OHIO Pressed Brick company.
Gov. Bliss anc staff and other
Prominent persons were in Buffalo on
diehigan day at the exposition.
The battleship Iowa sailed from
|an Francisco for Panama.
One thousand armed men drove
very negro from Pierce City, Mo-,
remated one aged man, burned fiye
Iouses and decreed that hereafter
10 coIored man shall reside in the
own.
The house of P. Byrne, at Currie,
iinn., was destroyed by fire and his
our children were burned to death.
South Chicago steel workers who are
to a strike issued statement
o the public, explaining their action
n refusing to go out.
Lawrence Auchterlonie, of Glenriew,
H.. won the open championship in the
second annual tournament of the
Western Golf association in Chicago.
DR.. Louis Knapp, of st. Louis, gave
up his family and the world to care for
a Chinese Ieper in st. Louis and to
make a life study of the disease.
Bessie and Hazel, aged 21 and 10
years, respectively, daughters of Viii
liam Reeve, were drowned in the river
at Maquoketa. Ia.
A fast train on She Alton road was
wrecked at Prentice, H., and Engineer
and Fireman Adams We're
killed.
John w. Brown, well-known citizen
of Auburn, Ind, was arrested for al
legged completely in holding up and
dynamiting the Baltimore & Ohio ex-
Press train near Miller's Station on
the night of July 81.
Abe Wildner. negro, was burned to
Death at the stake by a mob nsar
Whitesboro, Tex, for assaulting and
numbering the wife of w. c. Caldwell,
white farmer.
Five of the largest shovel manufac-
turing concerns in the country have
consolidated with a capital of s5,o0o,-
600.
Naval officers claim that Admiral
Howison has already disclaimed an in
teryiew in which ne appears as a
sampson PARTISAN
United States Judge Estee has de-
faed that all Chinese born in the Ha-
Nallan islands are American citizens.
Adolph Gustafson, Gust Makd and
frank Koberg were killed by thepre-
nature explosion Of giant powder in
: saine shaft at Izhpeming. Mich.
resident W. r. Harper. Of the Uni-
ssfsaiy Of Chicago, has been decorated
'h the French order of the Legion
: honor BY President Loubet