The Scranton chronicle. (Scranton, Miss.) 1897-19??, 1902-02-22


the court snstains contention that
S66s, 900 Of outstanding checks are H.
legal
The ninety-third anniversary Of The
birth 81 Abraham Lincoln was eele-
brated throughout the country.
The thirty annual convention
Of the National Woman Suffrage asso-
citation began in Washington
Senator BeYeridge, Of Indiana, says
the Angio,lspanese treaty means q
war with Russia atuo distant period.
The new Ssms-Eaton academy at
Hampton. va, has been dedicated. the
occasion being commemorative of the
founding Of The frst free school in
Anne rica.
The total value Of exports Tor the last
seven months is S5ee 123,f46. against
S532.959.357 FOR the corresponding PC.
riod in 1901
Prof. Charles " Pearson, who de-
nied the infallibiity Of the Bible, has
resigned from Northwestern uniYer-
sity faculty and quit the Methodist
,hurch.
\ new electric headlight tested on
the st. Paul road makes the track vis-
IDLE mile ahead.
\ receiver has been appointed for
the wrecked City savings bank of De-
troit. Valuable securities of the bank
are missing
New York police in report TO The
Italian ambassador declared King
lIumbert's assassination was planned
there
Millers from % states met in Chica-
go and organized the National Fcdera-
tion of Millcrs.
An icequalte was distinctly fell In
Menominee. Mich. Chairs and desks
in number OF Offices were shaken and
bric-a-brac tumbled Off walls
Emperor Williams yacht Iiohenzol-
lern arrived at New York.
Six persons were killed and six more
badly wounded in fight between n
sheriff's posse and mouutaineers near
Middlesboro, Ky
Mrs. Julia Elma Brewster Brick. who
died at her home in Brooklyn, \. y
hequeathed nearly St.oon.noo to chari.
ties
An Erie vestihuled passenger train
was deraied between PhalanN and Ma
honing, O., and % persons were hurt,
one of them fatally.
Smallpox at Des Moines. Ia, caused
the city council TO prohibit all public
meetings.
Alien teachers in the public schools
in Chicago have been ordered to be.
come naturalized on penalty Of dis
missal. They number l5s.
Leonel de Peau. who was Col. Roose
velt's physician in Cnba. IS now il
wa hington 10 report conditions ol
The island. He says annexation Is til,
only thing that viii avert disastrou
revolution.
For tbe seven months ending JanB
airy 81 the balance Of trade in favor q
the United States as against the re-.
Of the world was S345. .90I.909.
President Roosevelt departed from
Groton, Mass, for Washington. CON
fdent that his son will speedily re-
cover from an attack of pneumonia.
Commander BoOth-Tucker. of tho
| Salvation Army. took the oath Of al
legiance in New York as citizen oi
the United States.
In railway collision between BAL
timore & Ohio trains at Indian Harbor
Ind. Conductor HuntleY and Brake.
man Brice, both of Garrett. were
Killed.
Philemon Crelin. n special officer at
Milburn. y. J.. fatally shot his wife and
daughter and killed himself
Representatives of various profes.
| sions told the nationalist suffragista
IN Washington hat the new woman
IS rapidly advancing and that her enc
mics are becoming fewer.
DR.. Roberts, secretary Of the Presb3-
terian revision committee, declares
thai The Presbyterian church repudi.
ates he charge that IL teaches either
fataiism or infant damuaiion.
John Rosel, j.. 2s years old, and
Klttie, his wife. aged %. killed them
selves in New York with poison.