The Scranton chronicle. (Scranton, Miss.) 1897-19??, 1902-03-15

dAhouhtNu tAAdt eAS a oiAetitH NaAtaa
Company will not be allowed TO
transfer its concessions to another
nation without the assent of Colom-
bia.
The population of Ireland, by last
years census, was 60,lS7, as against
65, ,563 in 1891 and 72,s52 in 1881,
showing steady decline. The cen
sus shows 31,065 males and 29,l22
females. The families numbered
1877, with an average of Ii per-
sons to family They occupied l2.-
692 houses, being an average Of Is
persons to a house.
Representatives of the Boers had
an interview with President Roose-
yelt last week and requested that
some action be taken by this gov
ernment to prevent the shipment of
supplies to South Africa for the
British army President Roosevelt
pointed out TO the committee that
the attitude of the United States
in connection with the South Afri-
can war had been strictly neutral
and that the government had done
nothing to prevent shipments of
commodities to the Boer forces as
well as the British.
Chas. B. Rouss, the blind million
aire merchant of New York City, is
lead Mr.. Rouss was 66 years old.
He served in the Confederate army,
and erected at his own expense
monument to the dead Confederate
soldiers buried in New York eem-
etery, founded the physical laborato-
ry at the University of Virginia and
gave 100000 for the Confederate
Battle Abbey to be located at Rich
mond, Va. Some years ago he be-
came blind. He offered $1,000,000
to anyone who could restore his
slght, but the reward was never sue
cessfully claimed
1t is announced that there has
been organized in New York City
an association to promote southern
education to be known as the gen
eral education board, and that more
than million dollars has been
placed at the disposal of the board
of trustees. The underlying princi-
pie of the association is stated to be
recognition of the fact that the peo-
pie of the southern states are ear
nestly engaged in the promotion of
public education and that in this eff
for they should receive generous aid ;
and to this end and in pursuance of
this and kindred objects, the ASST
ciation will seek gifts large and
small from those in sympathy with
its plans.
The monthly statement of the
government receipts and expendi
lures shows that for the month of
February the total receipts were
$41 ,159,739 and the expenditures
S39, ,099,2 200, leaving surplus for
the month of $2,06O,449. The re-
ceipts from the several sources of
revenue are given as follows: Gus
toms, $20,213,929, an increase as
compared with February, 1901, of
$1,500,000; internal revenue, $18,-
$500, decrease $3,500,000; mis-
cellaneous, $2,490,000, decrease $2,-
100000. The expenditures on ac-
count of the war department were
$S,57s,516; decrease, $2,400,000
On account Of navy, $5,709,0 ,079; in
crease, S1,35o,0O0. The total ex-
penditures show an increase of $685.
900.
A Galveston, Harrisburg and San
Antonio passenger train was wreck
ed two miles from Maxon, Tex, on
the 7th, in which fourteen passen-
gers were killed and a large num-
Der injured. The engine jumped
the track and three coaches were
piled in a heap about twenty feet
from the roadbed The accident
was made more horrible by the
wreckage catching fire, and several
unfortunate victims who were pin
ioned down by timbers, and who
we're not killed outright, were burn
ed alive The names of the dead
are as follows: Three children of
Mart Riddle, of Chetopa, Kan. !;
Estayon Contraras, Del Rio, Texas !;
Andrew G. Shelly, wife and child,
Loirer, Texas; o. E. Housens, child,
Racine, Wis, Mr. and Mrs. White,
Manitowoc, Wis. Engineer AL Mast.
FL Paso; Fireman Fl. Bertscholst;
El Paso; L. A. Boone, news agent,
Boyline, La Chris Keel, contractor,
San Antonio; w W. Price, engi-
neer, San Antonio.
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