The Scranton chronicle. (Scranton, Miss.) 1897-19??, 1901-09-28

Mrs. John Brown and her babs were
burned to death at Fort Wayne. Ind.
Burglars took S. 900 from the bank
of J. c. Brainerd d Co., al Blooming
Prairie. MINI.
Former Secretary of State olney was
denounced at a meeting Of his neigh
bors in Falmouth, Mass. for refusing
to help punish an empsoye who ap-
proved OF Czolgosz' deed.
C. L. Shaffer, of Chicago. has been
elected president of the national asso.
citation of railway clerks.
President Rooseyelt's adherence to
the Mckinley policies and the Mekin-
ley cabinet are praised in Washington.
The American Bankers association
viii meet in annual convention IN Nil.
yankee October Is. 16 and II.
The sovereign grand lodge of odd fell
lows in session at indianapolis. Ind.
voted to amend the constitution so
that grand state lodges at their option
may admit men of mixed blood to the
order.
A paroled convict in Ohio who
boasted membership in an organiza-
tion that would pay $4,000 for the
murder of President Roosevelt was
sent back to prison to serve two
years.
The transport Grant arrived in
San Francisco from Manila, bringing
Troop B. of the Fourth cavalry, and
the Twelfth battery of field artillery.
Mrs. James A. Garfield, widow of
the president who was assassinated
in 1881, is prostrated at her home
in Mentor, o., by the murder of
President Mckinley, which has so
wildly recalled her own sorrow.
Michael J. Synon, who was once
convicted in Chicago and sentenced
to hang for wife murder, was ac
quilted on his second trial.
| Six persons were killed and 25 in
jured in railroad collision at Avon,
Mass.
Railroad employees have started a
fund to erect monument to Presi-
dent Mckinley somewhere in the
west
President McKinley's mortal re-
mains now rest in the tomb in West
lawn cemetery at Canton. The final
stages of the journey on the 10Th
were from house to church and
thence to the graveyard, and city and
state, nation and the world at large
We'd with each other in paying the
last tribute. Mrs. Mckinley was un-
able to attend the final services. All
over the United States business was
suspended during the day, and in all
the principal towns, north and south,
every wheel stopped during the start
ing of the funeral service in Canton.
Public buildings and private resi-
dences were draped in black and
memorial services were held every
where.
The steamer Hudson went down in
gale on Lake Superior off Eagle
River, and the crew of 25 men were
probably drowned
As the result of quarrel David
J. Brown fatally shot his father-in-
law, J. C. Fitzgerald, and himself at
Carlinyille, ILL.,, and seriously wound
ed his wife.
Burglars took s., 700 in cash from the
bank at Shullsburg Ia.
A Ferris wheel operating at the fair
grounds in Flint, Mich, fell, injuring
seven persons, three of them fatally.
President Roosevelt, in conformity
with his policy to carry out as much
as possible the plans of President Nc
Kinley, announced the appointment of
w. B. Ridgely, of Illinois, as comptrol-
Ter of the currency.
An explosion of gas at the depart
ment store of A. M. Rothschild q Co.
in Chicago wrecked huge wall, caus-
ing a loss of $25O,0OO.
/ The loss to the steel combine and
workers by the great strike is placed
at $25, ,000,0
Members of the Associated Press in
annual meeting at New York adopted
resolutions voicing high praise of Nc
Kinley, denouncing anarchists and
calling for prompt legislative meas
ures to rid the country of advocates of
violence.
In an interview with Polish report,
er in Buffalo Czolgosz said: What's
| the use of talking about that? KILLED
| the president. | am an anarchist, and
simply did my duty; that's all I'll say
James Everett and his wife and Miss
| Odie Cutler were killed by the cars
near Hamilton, o.