The Scranton chronicle. (Scranton, Miss.) 1897-19??, 1902-01-11

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sry. has been released. The report
lacks confirmation.
A well-known Scottish artist, John
died of starvation in Bel
last. on Christmas night. His body
MAS found in miserably squalid sur
foundings. Dalrymple exhibited at
he Royal academy, and took three
,arst prizes for designs at the Paris
exhibition.
Commissioner Janney, of Ogdens-
burg. \. Y, ordered the deportation
of q Cinnamon for having unlawfully
Entered the country. Appeals are be-
Ing filed in each case. Forty-five Chi
lamen are now in the county Jail
here awaiting the action of the
ligher court.
The British war Office, on the 30th,
eeeived a dispatch from Lord hitch-
mgr. dated johannesburg, saying
hat the British prisoners captured
yhen the Beers successfully rushed
eol. Firman's camp at leefontein,
december "a, have been liberated and
to Bethlehem.
The navy department has decided
10 establish wireless plants at the
navy yard and at An
napolis. The plans for the necessary
Equipment of the two stations are
bow being worked out under the di
lection of Admiral Bradford, and ex.
periments will be under way at an
tarly day.
q The government of New Zealand
has decided to order all steel bridges
Prom the United States in the future.
This decision comes as result of the
fecent experience of the Manawatu
Railway Co., when the American bid
bn big steel viaduet amounted to
but one-quarter of the price bid by
English firms.
A waterspout burst over the town
n Saffee, Morocco, on the goth. 1t
Inundated the lower part of the town
|or the space of IL hours, sweeping
|yerything into the sea. Two hun.
lred persons are reported to have
>een drowned There were no Euro
Reans among the dead. The damage
b the town was enormous.
The circuit court at Toledo. o., on
he Sd, handed down a decision af-
|rming decision of the lower courts
|iving Mrs. Adelaide Smith. of FIRE.
bont, a Judgment of s5,4o0 against
be estate of the late President r. r.
Hayes. Mrs. Smith was bitten by IA
.og belonging to the late president
[nd this was the cause of action.
III is expected that efforts will be
enewed before long for the settle
bent of the numerous controversies
Fhich have long existed between the
Tnited States and Great Britain,
rowing out of relations along the
anadian border, the Atlantic fisher
IS, war ships on the great lakes, the
Ilaskan boundary, and other ques-
ions.
A comparative statement of the re-
|eipts from the war revenue act of
|une 13, 1898, and the war revenue
'ednetion act of March 2, 1901, shows
hat the former act produced between
|uly l. 1900, and November 30, 1900.
|46, ,30s. The revenue reduction act
ii the latter date produced in the
Forresponding period in 1901, s29, 49,
|42, decrease of S17 ,199,666.
The new battleship Maine is rs per
fent. completed, according to report
Received, on the Sd, at the navy de-
fartment. This is such rapid adj
fanee on the new ship that naval os-
petals are satisfied she can be placed
n commission by February Is, 1903,
which will be the fifth anniversary
of the sinking of the former battle
ship Maine in Havana harbor.
George Huesman, the Cincinnati po-
|hceman who was publicly degraded
and dismissed last fall for having
spoken disrespectfully of President
Aehiniey when he was shot, was de-
eiard insane, on the I'd, and sent to
an asylum. The testimony showed
nat some years ago he suffered from
sunstroke and later received an cleo
'ric shock and had been insane for
years.
some time ago John D. Rockefeller
onered to give dollar for dollar to the
rochester theological seminary for
al funds that the institution might
raise from other sources up to the
amount of S150.OO0. The time limit ON
ar Roekefeller's offer expired on
me lst. Rev. DR.. J. ". A. Stewart,
CHAIRMAN of the seminary's executive
-. linlttee, says that more than $780,.
W has been raised tor the seminary,
W. Rockefeller's gift Will therefore
soluble this sum.
sohS Pinover. a young wholesale
sseor deSler of Middletown, y. Y.
'ae 18th jumped from the Brook
!. Bridge He was stiIl alive when
s.a 70 a hospital Pinorer told ths
s'ors he simply wanted to see Il
sia make the jump a1d live.