The Scranton chronicle. (Scranton, Miss.) 1897-19??, 1902-01-25
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

A heavy snow storm swept over
Germany on the 18th. The snow was
three feet deep in Thuringia. Rail
road and telegraphic communication
were interrupted.
Gov. Mann of Colorado, on the 1st,
appointed Chas. f. Wilson police COM
missioner of Denver, to succeed John
I. Bottom, resigned. Mr.. Wilson is
president of the Denver chamber of
commerce.
The Bogg bridge on the Glover
Leaf, west of Ramsey, ILL.,, was found
to be in flames at an early hour ol
the morning of the 10th, just in time
to prevent the wreck of the Com
mercial Traveller" the fastest eX-
press on the road.
The w. T. Clark circus, showing at
Welsh, La, near. Lake Charles, was
robbed of $4,000 on the night of the
18th. There is no clew to the rob
bers. The money was secured from a
grip, which was carried off and cut
to pieces.
Rear-Admiral Robley d. Evans has
been selected as the personal escort
of Admiral Prince Henry of Prussia
during his visit to the United States,
a selection that is peculiarly crafty
ing to the German ambassador.
Buried in the ground, in old tin
cans, $4,000 in gold has been found
on the farm OF Mrs. Rozelle Wright,
near Jeffersenville, Ind, who died on
January 4. How long this money has
lain in the ground no one knows. Mrs.
Wright was s4 years old when she
died.
In order to forestall the charge
that he was unwilling to consider
the exceptions of Rear-Admiral
Schley to the findings of the court
of inquiry, President Roosevelt has
decided to defer action until they
have been submitted, and he has con-
sidered them.
The south-bound through train on
the Kansas City Southern was held
up by seven men at a point between
Spiro and Redland, I. T., early on the
morning of the 10th, but no booty
was secured.
Capt. John Alexander Armstrong,
aged "a. one of the best-known river
men between Pittsburg and Cincin-.
natl, died in the hospital at Hunting
ton, w. Va, ON the 18th. He lived at
Point Pleasant, where he operated
the largest docks on the Ohio river.
He was president of the first line OF
steamers that ever towed coal from
Pittsburg TO the south.
At two o'clock on the morning OF
the 18th two shots were fired through
the window of the bedroom of Super
intendent Deck of the Starkville Coal
mine at Starkville, Col. Neither hit
him. It is a mystery what prompted
the attack upon the life OF Mr.. Deck.
He is very popular in Starkville and
adjoining mining camps.
President Roosevelt has promised
to give an invitation to visit Kansas
City, Mo-, on his next trip west his
serious consideration, according to a
letter from his private secretary,
George 3. Cortelyou, received by 4.
M. Clendenning, of the Commercial
club of that city, on the nth.
The twenty-ninth battery of United
States troops arrived at Fort Sill,
okla. ON the 27th, from Cuba, where
they had been for a couple of years.
This was formerly known as Grimes
battery. 1t has now but 63 men, but
will be recruited up to 100.
In the suit for $1,000 damages for
alleged libel brought by Frank n.
Morse. of st. Paul, Mimi, against the
Times-Republican, Judge Caswell' on
the nth, instructed the jury to re-
turn verdict for the defendant.
1t was announced, on the nth, from
the federal Office at Guthrie, Okla.
that in order to prevent contests al
homesteaders should be on their
claims In the new country BY Fehru
sry Z.