The Scranton chronicle. (Scranton, Miss.) 1897-19??, 1902-05-24


Twenty-Five persons were killed and
between 200 and 300 were frightfully
burned by naphtha explosions in the
yards of the Panhandle railway at
Sheridan. Pa s,A-s
The Ohio assembly adjourned sine
die after passing the congressional
redistricting bill.
The visible supply of grain in the
United States on the 18th was: Wheat
35,3O2,000 bushels; corn, 5,697 900; oats,
2,9l7'oo0; rye, 1,346,ooO; barley, $4,000
The president has issued proclama-
tion for the opening to settlement
July II of the Fort Hall Indian reser-
yation in Idaho.
Friends of Rathbone and Neely.
convicted of Cuban postal frauds, ap.
pealed to Gen. Palma for their par
don.
j. W. Voight, a travelling salesman.
fatally shot May Welch and killed
/ himself in Minneapolis hotel.
A thousand Jewish butchers in
New York closed their shops till the
price of "kosher" meat is lowered
and 100000 persons will take to a
milk and egg diet.
Carbonda1e, small town in Kan.
sas, has been almost entirely de.
stroyed by fire.
The biennial session of the Louisiana
legislature began at Baton Rouge.
The president sent TO congress a
special message asking for an appro-
priation of 100000 for the sufferers
by volcano on the island of Martinique.
Jim" Underwood, negro, was
lynched by mob at Decatur, Tenn.
for threatening to kill two prominent
PRESIDENTS
William Malcolm, city treasurer OF
s. Passaic, n. j., admitted that he was
snort $4,000 in his accounts.
III Another advance in prices has beer
made in beef in Chicago on the ground
a that cattle are not being shipped Il
market
Richard S. Rhodes, inventor of thu
audiphone and one of the oldest pub
fishers in Chicago,s was killed by tho
cars near his home.
A cyclone struck Clay City. ind.
doing immense damage to property
and killing John Staley and William
Martin.
Mrs. Helen Sharp, a widow killed
her 15-year-old son and herself with
razor at Burlington, n. ].
President Roosevelt has appointed
committees in all the larger cities to
expedite the collection of relief
funds for survivors of the Martinique
horror.
Archie McEaehern. champion Cana.
dian cyelist, was killed at Atlantic
City. n. j., by running into motor
tandem.
President Roosevelt has ordered a
review of the Cuban postal fraud case
of Estes G. Rathbone. and ordered that
the Cuban court be given needed
power.
The bodies of "a victims of the Pitts
burg naphtha explosion have been re-
covered. Over 300 persons were severe
" burned, including 100 children.
Adam Vincent Noll, a student re-
fused a minister's license by the New
York presbytery for disbelief in Adam,
died from worry over his rejection.
The will of the late Potter Palmer.
of Chicago, appoints his widow as head
of the ss,o0o,0O0 estate, and the prop
erty is left jointly 10 her and their
sons, Honore and Potter. Jr.
Famine is threatened in Martinique
and supplies for 100000 are needed at
once. The United States tug Potomac
has arrived with tons of provisions
Eugene F. Ware. of Kansas. has
taken the oath of Office as commits
sioner of pensions.
The United States cruiser Dixie has
loadcl cargo of supplies at New
York for Martinique.
The United States auxiliary cruiser
Dixie with 1000 tons Of provisions and
clothing for the relief Of the people
onthe island Of Martinique. sailed from
New York.
Patrick Kelley, John Baritch and
John McMiehael were killed BY en- ex-
Riesiou at Girsrdville. Pa.