The Scranton chronicle. (Scranton, Miss.) 1897-19??, 1902-04-05
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-four per year, the National Millers'
federation has been formed in Chiea.
go with Bernard A. Eckhart, of that
city, as president.
At Cambridge, Mass. Princeton won
the eighth annual debate from Har-
ward.
A Rock Island passenger train
struck a buggy in East Pueblo, Col.
killing Mrs. John Close and her infant
son and fatally injuring Miss Ella
Hines.
By the will of the late Robert c.
Billings, of Boston, 81, 600 600 is left to
charity.
DR.. Robert E. Gray, of Garden City,
Kan, was acquitted in Chicago of the
murder of Irma Brown.
Anthracite coal miners will prob
ably not strike, the operators being
inclined to meet them half way in
their demands.
The law extending the term of Of
flee of Judges Ball, Gary, Kavanagh,
Shepard and Sears in Chicago has
been declared unconstitutional by
Judge Tuley.
Secret service agents raided coun-
terfeiters' den at Corona, L. l., ar
| rested five Italians and seized a
large amount of counterfeiting ma
ehinery.
Lawyer Albert r. Patrick, after a
trial lasting nine weeks, has been de-
elared guilty of the murder of Mil
lionaire William NJ. Rice in New
York.
Peary's supply ship Windward ar
rived in New York from its arctic
trip.
Whites and blacks fought pitched
battle near Jasper, Ala, in which
$50 shots were fired, the result not
being known.
Mrs. Hattie Hand and her two chill.
dren were burned to death in a
prairie fire near Anadarko, Okla.
Union labor leaders are protesting
to the president against the removal
of immigration Commissioner Pow
derly.
President Roosevelt has announced
navy will find no favor with him.
Gen. Leonard Wood left Washing
ton on his last visit to Havana in
the capacity of military governor Of
the island of Cuba.
A truce of 30 days has been declared
in the anthracite coal war in order to
give the operators and miners more
time to consider terms of settlement.
The transport Egbert arrived in San
Francisco from Manila with battalion
of the Twenty eighth infantry and 325
discharged men.
Stephen A. Conklin, at Emporia, Kan.
shot and fatally wounded his divorced
wife, wounded her mother and com
mitted suicide.
The Ohio legislature has passed n
bill which provides for municipality
local option, leaving the voters in a
city or town to decide the matter.
The American Tobacco trust is said
to have offered the French government
SIS 900, 900 for the tobacco monopoly.
Whisky manufacturers and dealers
have revived their national organiza-
tion to fight the prohibition move
ment.
A registered letter from Chicago con-
tanning $4,000 was stolen between Mil
waukee and Iron River, Mich.
Floods caused by rain did great dam
age in Mississippi; Louisiana and Ala
bama, and railway traffic was nearly
stopped.
Ex-Alderman E. A. Meysenburg, OF
ST. Louis. has been convicted of accept
ing bribe of $4,000 in a street car
franchise case.
The Modern Woodmen of America
have been sued for $4,000 damages at
Grand Rapids, Mich, by man injured
in an initiation.
Fire destroyed 40 buildings in the
village of Peckville, Pa, leaving so fam
flies homeless.
Gov Cunmins. of Iowa, has vetoed
railway merger bill, declaring it to be
against public policy.