The Scranton chronicle. (Scranton, Miss.) 1897-19??, 1903-04-11
Isaac R. Price of New York IL


Lake oil field in Texas.
The French chamber of deputies
has passed a law ordering all re-
ligious orders to disband.
The empress Of Germany was
thrown from her horse and sustain
ed fracture of the arm.
Five men were killed and four
fatally injured by an explosion in
coal mine al Sandoyal, Ill.
Mrs. Mary Ellen Phegley, of
Roots. ILL.,, at the age of 26 years,
is the mother of sixteen children.
Immigration records were brok-
en- at New York last week when
1860 immigrants arrived in one
day.
A negro was hanged at Birming-
ham, Ala. under a new law impos-
ing the death penalty for highway
robbery.
A fierce gale on the Atlantic re-
suited in the destruction of large
number of ships and the loss of
number of lives.
A threatened strike of miners in
illinois has been prevented by tho
granting of an increase Of IL 1-s
per cent in wages.
In a. riot which followed a strike
of 500 miners at Statausk, Russia,
twenty-eight persons were killed
and fifty wounded.
Joseph Kroch, church sexton
at New Haven, tolled his own death
knell by hanging himself TO the bell
rope in the belfry of his church.
Three passengers were burned TO
death and nineteen were injured in
wreck on the Southern Pacific
railroad near San Antonio, Tex.
Herman b. Esher, aged 25 years,
resident of Chicago Nnd stu
| dent in Yale University, commit
ted suicide in a hotel ut New York.
Nick Strickland was XII and
four men were wounded in a battle
between the factions of the How
ard-Manns feud in Morgan eoun-
ty, Kentucky.
Charges of cruelty to Filipinos
have been filed by Gen. Miles
against Lieut. Col. Robert Howe,
who was in command Of a post in
northern Luzon in 1899
A miner at Batavia touched his
torch to small quantity Of pow
der in attempting TO play a prac-
eical joke. A powder-keg standing
near by exploded and four men
were terribly burned.
The commissioner of patents, w.
j. Allen, has rendered decision,
prohibiting the registration as a
trademark of any design or label
that is a stimulation Of the United
States shield or emblem.
Gustavus r. Swift, head of tho
immense Swift packing company,
died suddenly in Chicago. Mr..
Swift began his business career as
butcher and died with fortune
estimated at $10,000,000.
The arrest Of Charles Moore and
Charles Hueblcr, 10-year-old boys,
On a charge of burglary at Kansas
City, revealed the existence Of
burglars union," composed Of
fourteen boys from ten to fourteen
years Of age.
Scores of strikes involving many
thousands Of workmen we're inaug-
urated April at which time large
number Of contracts between em-
ployers and employees terminated.
A strike Of the building trades, in
yolying 10000 men was declared in
New York. Five strikes, involving
5000 men, were ordered in Chiea-
go. Ten thousand bituminous mi
ners in Indiana we're called out and
several thousand brick-layers at In
dianapolis, Sharon, Pa, and other
points were added to the host Of
strikers. Dozens Of small strikes
involving from 200 TO 1000 men
we're inaugurated in all parts Of
the country.
By a referendum vote, the In-
diana miners refused to accept a
proposition of the operators grant
| ing wage increase Of II ~ per
cent and decided 10 suspend work
at the end Of the contract year.
A report Of the census bureau
Just issued shows that the total crop
of cotton in the past year was II >
275, ,105 commercial bales These