The Scranton chronicle. (Scranton, Miss.) 1897-19??, 1901-08-17
NEWS OF THE WORLD.

Lord Kitchener estimates the num-
Der of Beers now in the field against
the British at 5000.
Governor Mcmillan of Tennessee
is a probable candidate for the
United States senate.
Many persons who drew land in
Oklahoma for speculation, have be-
come discouraged and forfeited their
claims.
Charles Bentley, colored, was
hanged by mob near Leeds, Ala,
for the murder of white man. He
confessed.
Ex-Speaker Tom Reed is being
mentioned as the republican candi-
date for mayor of New York at tho
coming election.
The British house of commons
voted an appropriation of $4,000,
900 to complete a cable from Aus
tralia to Canada by what is known as
the Pacific route.
The farmers of the south will be
among the greatest sufferers from
the strike of steel workers, as cotton
ties will greatly increase in price il
the trouble is not speedily settled.
Governor Yam, of Shang Tung
province, has issued a sensational
proclamation declaring that foreign
missionaries/have no right to inter-
fere in any way by their teachings
against Chinest religions and Gus
toms.
The steel trust announces that il
is prepared to spend as much money
as necessary to destroy the Amalga-
mated Association, whose members
are now on strike. 1t looks as
though this will be the most bitter
fight that ever took place between
capital and organized labor.
One of the biggest and most dar-
ing robberies on record is reported
from San Francisco. The Selby
Smelling Company is the victim,
and the loss is placed at $280,000.
The thieves tunneled under the outer
wall of the building to the vault and
carried away 1900 ounces of gold,
worth $40 an ounce.
In the course of an interview with
Mr.. Kruger, published in the Paris
Figaro, the ex-president of the
Transvaal said: eve have already
once proposed peace directly to Great
Britain, and we will not renew the
proposition. All we are willing to
give for peace is money, if Great
Britain asks it. No price is too dear
to obtain independence and the right
to live as a free nation
Exports of manufactures from the
United States show an apparent de-
crease of $23, 3,342,5S3 in the fiscal
year 1901, compared with 1900,
the detailed figures having just been
completed by the treasury bureau of
statistics. These figures do not in
clude exports to the Hawaiian
Islands and Porto Rico, which are
now customs districts of the United
States.
Hon. w. G. Price, United States
treasurer under President Buchanan,
died at his home in Chicago last
week. When Buchanan ordered Ma
lor Anderson to transfer his force
to Fort Sumpter Judge Price be-
heved the south was being betrayed
and resigned his Office in anger. He
was with General Price at the battle
of Pea Ridge and captured by the
Federals and confined in prison at
Alton, ILL.,, till September, 1862,
when he was exchanged.
John Wesley Pennington, negro,
was burned at the stake near Enter
prise, Ala, before a crowd of 500
enraged and determined citizens of
Coffee county. The assemblage was
composed of both whites and blacks,
and though the suffering wretch
pleaded for mercy and frantically
endeavored to break the chains that
tightly bound him, not a trace of
sympathy was shown on the faces
that peered at him through the
flames. Pennington had committed
brutal assault upon Mrs. j. G. Da-
Wis, and confessed his guilt.
The United States gunboat Ma
chan has been ordered to proceed to
Colon, near the eastern terminus of
the Panama Railroad, to protect
American citizens and their prop
srty.
A tramp who refuses to give his
name is in jail at Newkirk, Okla,
for stealing dozen eggs, worth in
the market Just Z cents. He grabbed
the eggs from a woman who was car