The Scranton chronicle. (Scranton, Miss.) 1897-19??, 1903-01-17


The representative of Porto Rico
at Washington has announced that
the island aspires to statehood in
the Union.
A masked mob released two par
ties from jail at Lcwisburg, Tenn,
who were charged with taking part
IN a lynching.
Mrs. Mary A. Morgan, a woman
who had lived in three centuries,
died at her home in Dubuque, Iowa,
aged 105 years.
In a wreck on the Southern Rail-
way near Birmingham, Ala, the en-
gineer was killed and twenty-seven
passengers injured.
The Eastern Steel Company has
begun work upon four open hearth
furnaces which will have capacity
of 10000 tons per year.
At Joplin. Mo-, because the wa
ter company established minimum
rate, the city councilmen voted to
purchase the waterworks.
Chicago factories will ship $2,-
100000 worth Of harvesting ma
chinery to be used by the wheat
growers of southern Russia.
At 0akdale, La, thieves broke
into the Watkins railway Office,
blew the outer door of the safe off
the hinges with gunpowder, and Sc
cured 81 and some express pack
ages.
Because his brother refused to
give him a cigarette paper Pink
Grove, a young man living at Grove
Park, Fla, plunged a knife into
his heart, killing his brother in
stantly.
Five men entered the First Ma
ton Bank at Abingdon, ILL.,, bound
and gagged the night watchman and
blew open the vault, securing $4,,
20G. Two of the men were captured
and a portion Of the money recov-
cred.
Rev. George G. Rankin, pastor of
a church at Dallas, Tex, made
personal tour of gambling houses in
the above city and succeeded in hay-
ing the proprietors indicted by
furnishing evidence to the grand
jury.
Miss Eta Alldridge, the 22-
year-old daughter of the sheriff at
Oneonta, Ala, liberated two prison
ers during the absence of her faith
er. She accompanied one of the
prisoners, Mayherne Murphee, e
young man charged with murder.
The army is suffering from a
shortage Of officers in both the medi-
cal department and ordnance de-
partment. Neither branch Of the
service seems to offer sufficient in
ducement to secure the necessary
number of officers to perform the
work of these departments, and,
Notwithstanding several recent ex-
aminations, the surgeon general of
the army has been able to obtain
but few properly qualified medical
officers. The conditions prevailing
III the ordnance corps are nearly as
serious in the navy, where they are
no naval engineers.
Miss Tony Dunlap was acquitted
at Aledo, H., Of the charge Of
numbering Miss Allie Dool, after
trial lasting three weeks. The girls
were old acquaintance. Miss Dool
was a clerk in a dry goods store,
and one day in company with an
other young lady, Miss Dunlap visit
ed the store and tender Miss Dool
girl some chocolate drops. Shortly
after eating the candy Miss Dool
was taken with commissions and died
in great agony. The prosecution
proved the chocolate candies con-
tanned poison, and that Miss Dun
lap gave them to Miss Dool was adj
mitted. The testimony also deyel-
oped the fact that Tona Dunlap and
another young woman had eaten
candies taken from the same paper
bag, and that neither suffered in
jury Miss Dunlap stoutly main
tanned her innocence, and her law
yers tried to establish theory Of
accidental poisoning. Lack Of mo-
tive for the murder was also a
strong argument in defendants fa-
vor.
1t is announced that the Rock
Island and Choctaw companies have
determined upon the extension con-
Meeting ST. Louis, via Kansas City,
with Gasveston, the new line to
cross the Indian Territory from