The Scranton chronicle. (Scranton, Miss.) 1897-19??, 1901-11-30
CURRENT TOPICS.
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.


ed in Moscow, Odessa, kherson and
other towns.
". ID. Stearns, leader of the Caney
| q. IT, train robbers, pleaded guilty
at Antlers, l. T.. on the 20th, and was
sentenced to life Imprisonment in the
penitentiary at Fort Leayenworth
kas.
Lieut.-Col. Henry II. Whitney. aide.
de-camp TO Gen. Miles, on the goth
inspected Fort Russell. at Cheyenne.
Wyo., as to its suitability for perma.
nent garrisoning for field artillery. II
is understood Col. Whitney will rec
| ommend Fort Russell as an artillery
post.
The administrative council OF
the court of arbitration at The
Hague decided. ON the 10th. that il
was incompentent to consider the
Boer appeal for Intervention in the
war in south Africa.
The National Grange. in session al
Lewiston, Me. on the 2oth. elected
worthy master.
There was terrible explosion OF
artillery in the barracks at Corunna
Spain, on the Goth, while the soidiers
were emptying cartridges. The bar
racks were burned. Three soldiers
We're killed and II others seriously
injured.
fatal wreck occurred on the San
ia Fe railroad one mile west of Fran.
coma, Ariz.. on the 20th. Seven train
men We're killed and three passengers
and fourteen trainmen injured.
The military government established
over the native city of Tien Tsin con
tinues in effect, the military comman-
ders refusing to yield the collection
of taxes TO the Chinese. They also
decline to submit the question OF
their control of the native city to the
ministers of the foreign powers in
Pekin, holding that continuance OF
tha military government there is vital
to the maintenance of communication
between Pekin Pekin and Taku.
The navy department, on the 21st.
received telegram announcing the
arrival of the cruiser Buffalo at San
Juan, p. Il. Considerable anxiety had
been felt over the safety of this YES
sci, owing to a report that she hat,
been wrecked.
The Berlin Boersen Courier, on the
21st. said: M. Van Rooy. the singer.
is very i'll, and has consequently can
celled all future engagements"
Germany and Russia are together
preparing a common circular note
proposing an anti-anarchist confer
ence.
Manitoba will have fully 10000, 900
bushels of wheat for export this year.
King Edward has checkmated the
thrifty British mobiles who proposed
TO line their pockets with American
and continental gold by the sale of
their seats in Westminster abbey for
the coronation, by decreeing that, ex-
cept in official capacity, none but
British subjects are to be present.
In the recent disastrous wreck on
the Santa Fe near Needles, Ariz., the
entire mail carried by both trains
was burned. At least 10000 letters
mailed in Los Angeles, Cal, for the
east, were destroyed.
Advices from Pagosa Springs, Col,
where a company has been drilling for
oil for some time, announce that a
gusher has been struck at 300 feet.
1t is not known yet what the extent
of the flow is.
Harvey S. Dale, of Chicago, will as
sist the authorities of New Jersey in
every possible way to punish his wife.
Mrs. Elizabeth Dale, now under arrest
in Hoboken, charged with the murder
of their fiye-year-old daughter Eme-
line.
A member of the Canadian immi-
grafton department, says there viii
be movement from the United
States of not far short of 100000 per-
sons to the Dominion next year. The
Dominion has gained this year IT,
600 settlers from across the border.
The election, on the 2fst, in the
parliamentary contest in Galway,
ireland, between Col. Arthur Lynch,
who fought as a colonel in the Boer
army, and Horace Plunkett, unionist,
resulted in victory for the former
by 1,247 to 473.
The winter quarters of Wallaee's
show, at Peru, Ind, were burned
on the 2tst. The fire started n the
elephant house, and spread rapidly.
The animals became panic stricken
and their cries of terror mingled
with the shouts of trainers and en-
ployes trying to drive them out of
danger. The animals were all safely
removed.
High diplomatic opinion in Lon
don is substantially a unit on the
proposition that recent Developments
have placed the Monroe doctrine of
the United States beyond the domain
of practical dispute.
The famous Declaration of Inde-
pendence of the United States, which
is preserved in a cabinet, in the state
department at Washington, is now
practically nothing more than a
blank sheet of parchment, the text
and signatures. with the exception
of here and there stroke, having
completely faded.
One man insane, one broken in
health and half dozen under a regu-
lar course of treatment is the price
| paid for the examination and at
tempted balancing of the tangled ac-
counts of the city of Chicago.
The French senate, on the 22e,
adopted proposals, supported by The
| premier. NJ. Waldeck-Rousseau 10 APP