The Scranton chronicle. (Scranton, Miss.) 1897-19??, 1903-08-08
NEWS IN BRIEF.
Compiled from Various Sources.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

In the Doodle cases at Jefferson
City. Mo-, the defense resorted to all
manner of dilatory tactics. the result
Of one move being that Judge HAZEL
was disqualified. Judge Walter w.
Graves, of Butler, was selected to try
the cases.
Gen. Jose Manuel Hernandez, the
newly-appointed Venezuelan minister.
in company with Senior Pulido, the
Venezuelan charge, on the goth, paid
his respects to Acting Secretary of
State Loomis.
As the result of an explosion, on
the Goth, in the Sun and Moon mine,
near Idaho Springs, Col, 22 members
of the miners union are under arrest
charged with conspiracy to cause the
explosion.
During an electrical storm at Pitts
burg, Pa, on the goth, a number of
Italians took refuge in a building
which was struck by lightning. Two
were killed and three others injured.
Twenty persons are dead and so
more are injured as the result of the
explosion of two powder magazines at
Tewksbury, Mass, on the Goth.
Joseph NJ. Riker, president of the
Merchants national bank of Newark,
\. j., gave out a stat en- mt. on the
30th, to the effect that Edmund j.
Smith, former discount clerk of the
bank, was short in his accounts at
least 100000 Smith has been en-
ployed by the bank for rs years, start
ing as an Office boy.
Searehers have tried in vain TO dis
cover the bodies of other victims of
the powder magazine explosion at
Lowell, Mass. The death list, on The
3Oth, numbered 10, with two other
deaths expected.
The militia engaged in pursuing the
escaped convicts.s on the 30th, from
Folsom (Cal.) prison lost the trail,
and it is thought the fngitives have
turned away from the vicinity of Lo-
tus, Cal
The Sullivan Doodle case was post
poned by Judge Timmonds, ON The
30th, till August 10. The grand jury,
which win meet in Jefferson City,
Mo-, August D. has been selected.
Union plumbers who refused to work
with non-union men were locked oul
at ST. Joseph, Mo-. on the 10Th. 1t Is
said the Employers association is de-
sirous of testing its strength.
The postmaster general, On the
30th, ordered the establishment of
free delivery postal service on No
vember / next at Union City, Ind, and
Poplar Bluff, Mo.
Rev. j. Leslie Allsworth, pastor of
the Presbyterian church at Capt Gil
rardeau, Mo-. was drowned while
bathing in the Mississippi, on the
3oth.
Charles Binford, on the 30th, shot
and fatally wounded his wife for
Burglar at Fulton, Ky.
After being severely beaten by his
nephew, August Rosteck. for inter-
ierlng while the latter was beating
ms wife, Gottlieb Rostecl<, of Spring
heid, ILL.,, secured pistol and fired
three bullets into August's body, in
nif'ing probably fatal wounds
indictments were returned. on the
Soth, by the grand jury, at Chicago,
against five sanitary inspectors, in
Guiding John S. Kelley, assistant chief
sanitary inspector, for accepting
orlhes- Kelly is prominent labor
ieader, and was at one time president
OF the Chicago Journeymen Plumbers
union.
The greatest secrecy was MAIN
tanned in the inquiry. ON the 31st, into
the death of little Ewart Checksfield,
who is said to have been poisoned at
bunker Hill, ILL.,, by prominent wom-
an, who gave him candy contairing
strychnine.
John II. Sullivan, brakeman. was
lied and Is worlSmen were injured
IN the wreck of a WORK train on the
DIST, on the Otter Creek division of
the Chicago q Eastern Illinois rail-
road, near Brazil. Ind.
Robert NJ. Wilson, editor Il tie
Durand tIll.) Clapper, stared AT noon
on the 31st, to walk to Cape Lisburne,
on the Arctic ocean, s,c0J miles away.
lie expects to be gone Is months.
Senator Hanna returned to CIeye-
land, o., on the 31st, from Newport,
n l., unexpectedly, to be present at
an important meeting of the Conscli-
dated street railway directors.
Ming Edward, Queen Alexandra and
their party left Galway, Ireland. By
'rain, on the 31st, for Kenmarr, where
'ney arrived at p. m. and met with
an enthusiastic reception.
The sacred college in Rome. on The
ois', approved the paymrI RI $4,000
70 The doctors and Others N1so attend
90 the late pontiff during his last IL
ness.
secretary Root, on tie 3ist. directed
me sale Of the military reservation at
eoiumbus, o.. from 60 days from date
~ us appraised valuation Of $4,000.
ben Starnes, the noted o,e-armed
convict who escaped from Leasen-
worth prison some time ago. has
esen reSa2tured near Richmond, Mo-
1l'er 6eing severely wonnded. and
vas vas taken back 70 Leasen~orth on >
streteher.