The Scranton chronicle. (Scranton, Miss.) 1897-19??, 1902-05-31
DOMESTIC.

Near Ardmore, /. T., a construction
train plunged through high trestle.
-Four men were killed, and q injured,
seven of whom may die
As he was leaving the senate Blind
Chaplain Milburn was struck by
runaway horse attached to a buggy.
The large toe Of one foot was cut off.
total of SO bodies have been recov-
cred from the Fraterville mine near
Coal Creek, Tenn. Ernest Mcdonald
was taken out alive. but so badly man.
gled that he cannot live
The thirty-ffth annual encampment
of the Illinois G. A. r. is in session at
Rock Island. At Des Moines the twen-
ty-eighth annual meeting of the Iowa
G. A. R. is under way.
\ schoolhouse near Brandon, MINI.
was demolished by tornado. Ida
Hanson, the teacher, was killed, and
several scholars injured.
A temporary injunction against
packers was granted by the United
States court in Chicago, preventing
operations under the alleged trust
agreements. The packers did not re-
sist, but denied charges and asked
full hearing. The latter may II OF come
till August.
A waterspout killed six persons in
CoYington, KY, caused S1,0o0,ooo
loss in Cincinnati, and damaged prop
erty in the Miami valley as far as
Dayton.
Judge John II. Baker, of the United
States circuit court at Indianapolis,
notified the president that he is ready
to retire when his successor is APP
pointed
The French battleship Gaulois, bear
ing delegates to the Rochambeau
statue unveiling at Washington, has
anchored near Annapolis.
President Roosevelt, at the unyeil-
ing Of the Colonial Danes monument
in Washington to soldiers of the Span
lsh war, said the United States had re-
deemed its promise to Cuba to the let
ter.
Two companies of the Twentieth
United States infantry from Fort Sheri-
dan, H., will participate in the cere-
monies of the unveiling of a statue to
the late President Mckinley at Mus
kegon, Mich, May 30.
Crazed by his infaturation for little
Abitha Mccullough. a 13-year-old girl,
William Austin killed the girl and four
other persons and then committed sui
eide in lonely farmhouse of William
Wilkinson, near Hastings, Fla
Two hundred and twenty-five lives
We're almost certainly lost through an
explosion in the Frateryille shaft at
Coal Creek, Tenn. Thirty-four bodies
nave been recovered The workmen
are eentombedthree miles from the pit.
mouth without hope of rescue.
William Leet who was last week
convicted in the superior court at
erand Rapids. Mich. of the murder
Of his wife, Nellie Leet. by choking
and burning her. has been sentenced
oy Judge Newham to 30 years in
prison.
school teachers. are making prep
arations to attend the National Edu-
eatlonal association convention. to be
held at Minneapolis July Sill.
"a Boatmann, of Marinette, Wis,
ana Caroline GARNER, aged 10, OF
aenominee. Mich. were drowned in
Tue river at the latter place by the
salisizing of rowboat.
oonzafes de Quesada has been
named Cuban minister to Washing
eon; sagasta is to be consul general
At New York.
sinety-eight are known to be dead
ene 1913 injured as result Of the tor
Nseo which swept over Goliad. Tex.
y IS said that Samuel Hoar. of Con-
~, Mass. has been rendered by
!. sslaent Roosevelt the position on
~ ~ eaited States supreme bench now
ss.p,sa -. by Justice Horace Gray, and
- M Hoar has accepted. Judge
n- k said to have notified tia
oent Of bis intention TO retire.