The Scranton chronicle. (Scranton, Miss.) 1897-19??, 1901-07-27
CURRENT TOPICS.
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.


been summoned to his bedside.
The ship Commodore I. Ii. Alle1,
outward bound. with $4,000 cases of
oil for Hong Kong, took fire just out
side Sandy Hook, n. j., on the 18th,
and will probably prove total loss.
The crew and their belongings were
saved.
Generous rains fell, on the nth,
over the greater portion of the corn
belt of the southwest, thus avsrting
a total failure of the corn crop and
putting new life into the pastures.
Secretary of the Interior Hitchcock
left Washington, on the night of the
18th. en- route to New Brunswick for
a season of salmon fishing. He ex-
poets to return about the middle Of
August.
Secretary Hay left Washington, on
the 18th, for his summer home at
Newbury, N. H., where he will re-
main until autumn unless pressing
business should require his return
earlier.
Adit.-Gen. Scott reports from Ha-
vana that Gov.-Gen. Wood continues
to improve. His temperature was
normal on the 18th.
The total registration of homeseek-
ton, Okla, up to the morning of the
18th, was 67,344.
Naval Constructor Gilmore will visit
Havana, shortly, to make a careful
examination of the big floating dry
dock, which has been acquired by
the government by purchase from
Spain.
A syndicate of st. Louis capitalists
is said to have been formed to devel-
op the iron ore fields of Kentucky.
Sixty thousand acres of land in Trigg
county have already been acquired.
The trial of Robert S. Fosburgh, for
the alleged killing of his sister May
l. Fosburgh, on August 20, 1900, was
fairly gotten under way at Pittsfield,
Mass, on the 18th.
Paris, on the 18th, recorded tenn
peratuFe of IS; Brussels, ga; Amster-
dam, 72; Lisbon, "a. Frosty weather
prevailed in the Austrian Alps.
Mongolia is now Russia" says
dispatch to the London Daily Express
from st. Petersburg. Urga, Chinese
frontier station on the road to Pekin,
about two hundred miles south of
Kikhta, has been fortified and gar
risoned by Russian infantry and Co.'S
sacks.
The Orient liner Ormuz, Capt. Coad,
from Sydney, N. S. W., for London,
which left Colombo, Ceylon, June 2S,
arrived off Gibraltar, on the 18th, with
two cases of bubonic plague on board.
In the course of an inquiry, con-
Quoted under oath, at Johannesburg,
various non-commissioned officers and
men of the British army confirmed
the statement that the Beers shot the
British wounded at vlakfontein.
Francis Truth, the "6ivine healer"
was again arrested at Denver, Col,
on the 18th, on a warrant charging him
with assault and battery. The COM
plainant is Miss Lenore Elma Ladd,
former patient.
A Shanghai dispatcn 10 the London
Globe, dated July II, confirms pre-
vious reports of the rising of the
Yang Use river, and says millions of
acres of land are under water, and
that the city of Hankow is threat
ened.
The supreme tent Knights of the
Maccabees has decided that all old
members must be rerated on the same
plan as new members at the age at
which they joined the order.
A bulletin issued by the census Of
flee shows that there has been a de-
crease of the Chinses population in
the United States since 1890 of 17,675,
the number now here being $4,000.
Francis Schlatter, known as "di-
vine healer" was arrested on COM
plant of the Central Union mission
18th, Tor creating disturbance in the
rooms of the mission. He was charged
with vagrancy.
Gov. Hill of Maine has designated
Miss Mary Preble Anderson, of Port
land, to christen the new United
State battleship Maine. which is being
built by the Cramps at Philadelphia.
The heat in London, on the 18th,
exceeded all previous records of the
season, the official record being 81
degrees. The entire absence of any
breeze added to the discomfort of the
heat.
Arthur Orr, builder of the coming
presses used for many years in the
United States mints in Philadelphia,
Carson City, San Francisco and New
Orleans, died at his summer home at
Morristown, N. Y, ON che 18th, aged
S4.
The feature of the Epworth League
meetings at San Francisco, on the
18th, was missionary work, the day
winding up with a great missionary
mass meeting at Mechanics pavilion,
at which addresses were made by sew
eral prominent ministers of the Unit
ed States and Canada
W. Clayton pickersgiii, British con-
sui general for the Pacific coast states
and territories, died, or the 10th, at
sanitarium in Alameda, Cal, to
which he was conveyed few days be-
lore suffering from snalarial troubles.
After being robbed on a Choctaw
Train, returning from FL Reno, Okla,
on the 18th, accompanied by his wife
and daughter, Il. II. Smith, an aged
man from Bonham, Tex, dropped
dead in crowded coach.