The Scranton chronicle. (Scranton, Miss.) 1897-19??, 1901-07-06

Mrs. Mckinley had her first car
riage ride since she was Frustrated
by illness during the recent journey
through the west.
J. Pierpont Morgan has given TO
Harvard university more than $1,000
oo0
Ten thousand acres Of grain we're
destroyed by fire near Los Banos.
Cal.
In a fight between striking street
laborers and police at Rochester. y.
Y, Il patrolmen and % workmen were
injured
Control of Lehigh Valley road has
passed into the hands of the Erie and
other competing companies by the
purchase of stock.
The government receipts win exceed
expenditures by S77.oo0.oo0 for the
fiscal year ending June 80 The balance
of foreign trade in favor of the United
States amounts to S675 100000, an in
crease of $145,000.ooo.
While working in field in Lincoln
county, n. C., William Huss and his two
sons were killed by lightning.
Two high school graduates al Mount
Vernon, n. Y, were hazed by students
who tied them to trees in the woods
and left them to the mercy of mos.
quitoes for four hours.
Senator NJ. A. Hanna gave $4,000 to
Kenyon college a Mount Vernon, o.
David J. Brewer, associate justice of
the supreme court, and Charles Emory
Smith, postmaster general. have been
given the Ii. ID. degree by the Wesley
an university at Middletown, Conn.
During storm which did great dam
age near Pittsburgh. Pa. three per-
sons were killed by lightning.
At Eldorado. Kan. Jesse Morrison
was found guilty of manslaughter in
the second degree for the murder of
Mrs. olin Castle.
The Forty-third regiment. the last
of the volunteers to leave the Philip
pines, arrived at San Francisco on the
transport Fitzpatrick.
Unknown blaclSmailers, failing TO
extort $4,000 from w. C. Carson, a
wealthy Cowley county (Kan)
farmer, burned his home during hi
absence, cremating his wife.
Jesse Vanscoy and his bro ther
John, aged respectively &c and II
years, were drowned near Ames, la.
The Equity court in Washington
awarded $2ss,oo0 to Dewey's sailors
on5 Qsnn non - +bo.o oF Ca,,,,s,,, .,
fleet for war prize money
B. Shatticll, of Anola, Mimi, was
robbed of $4,000 on a train near
Manoka, Minn.
In college boat-races at New Lon
don, Conn, Yale won the varsity and
freshman races and Harvard won the
four-oared event.
The Seventh national bank in New
York was closed by order of the
comptroller of the currency. Heavy
loans on doubtful security caused tn
closing.
Don Harmed, Joseph LaFarre and
Grover Gamphor of Bowling Green,
O.. were drowned while bathing
near Perrysburg.
Railroad construction this year
promises to exceed the work done in
any similar period since 1890.
Four men were killed by the falling
of scaffold at Buffalo, N. Y.
Lee Setter, aged II, and Walter
Evans, aged 32, were drowned at
Waterloo, Neb.
Edward Ruthven (colored) was cleo
trocuted in the Ohio state peniten-
tiary at Columbus for the murder CT
Police Officer Shipp in Cleveland on
May 6, 1900.
Rev. w. S. Brandon, of Detroit.
Mich, asked for divorce because his
wife made him do the washing on
Sunday and get his own meals.
Twenty houses were burned at
Chester Point, Ark. Loss, 100000.
Railways estimate that the grain
crop of the northwest will be the
largest ever harvested.
Lightning killed Maryis Carlson,
first baseman in a ball game at Mon
roe Center, H.. and shocked several
other players and spectators.