The Scranton chronicle. (Scranton, Miss.) 1897-19??, 1903-01-17
News Of the World

The government reports winter
wheat in good condition.
Webster, Col, a summer resort,
has been totally destroyed by fire.
The State University building in
Norma, Okla, was totally Destroy
ed by fire.
The town of Vista, in southeast
ern Oklahoma, has been destroyed
by fire. Loss, $4,000.
Senators Penrose of Pennsylya-
MIA and Hansbrough of North Da-
kota have been reelected.
Bishop Gulston T. Report, head
of the Roman Catholic church in
the Hawaiians islands, is dead.
The Houston, Texas, labor coun
Gil has invited the trades unions
composed of negroes to affiliate with
it.
Capt Marmaduke and his crew
of Americans, who about six months
ago took charge of a Colombian
gunboat, have resigned.
Ex-Goy. Hogg has disposed of his
oil holdings in the Baumont field.
1t is said the ex-governor has
cleared about $2,0O0,000 on his in.
yestments in oil lands.
Hon. w. J. Bryan, who has just
returned from a tour of Mexico,
declined to be interviewed by a re.
porter on the financial conditions
of the above country.
A a result of a collision between
passenger train and the rear end
of a freight train ON the Mononga-
hela division of the Pennsylvania
railroad near Pittsburg. Pa,
seven men were killed and five bad
ly injured.
j. A. Traylor, manager of a mine
near Eureka, Neb., was attacked by
a crowd of miners, when he drew a
pistol and killed three Of them and
wounded two others. The miners
had declared they would run Tray
lor out Of the community.
Fire followed by an explosion at
Hobart, Okla, caused a loss of $780,
900. The fire started in a hardware
store where dynamite was kept.
The force of the explosion was so
great great that that towns thirty thirty miles from
Hobart reported the shock.
It is understood President Roose-
welt will shortly appoint Governor
Taft to be associate justice of the
supreme court to succeed Justice
Shiras. Gen. Luke e. Wright, of
Tennessee, is TO succeed Mr.. Taft
as governor Of the Philippines.
The census bureau report on the
cotton ginned from the 1902 crop
up to and including December 81
last is 9,311,s35 bales, irrespective
of shape or weight, equal to $685.
-5O3, according to the commercial
counting. The ginners' estimate is
1,057,771 bales. This is 90.2 per
cent of the crop.
The president has directed the
appointment Of Capt. Louis D..
Lawton, twenB-sixth infantry, to
be major in the Judge advocate gem
erals department. Maj. Lawton
was badly wounded while with COL
Liscum's column on the assault on
Tien Tsin. His injury is perma.
nent and he will be retired at once
with his increased rank.
The bureau Of insular affairs Of
the war department has prepared
for publication comparative
statement showing that for the ten
months ended October 81, 1902, the
customs and revenues in the Phil
ippine archipelago we're 81, 7,475,5S6,
against s6,921,559 in 1900, and s3,-
f59,993 in 1899 The figures rep
resent the total customs house re-
ceipts expressed in United States
currency value.
Mr.. Wilson, secretary Of agricul-
ture, has ordered printed 100000
copies Of the report made by Mr.. W.
d. Hunter, a specialist Of the de-
partment, on the results Of his in
vestigations in Texas during the
past year on the rayages Of the cot
ton boil weeyil. Mr.. Hunters re-
port is the most complete that has
ever been made upon this subject,
and there is a great demand among
cotton growers for copies of it.
The statement Of the coinage ex-
ecuted at the mints Of the United
States during the calendar year
1902 shows total of SIS, 9,4s5,815,
as follows: Gold, s47,1O9,s52;