The Scranton chronicle. (Scranton, Miss.) 1897-19??, 1903-01-24
News of the World

The house committee on postof-
fees has reported adversely against
the post check system.
The sultan Of Morocco has been
defeated by reyolters and has fled
from Fez, the capital.
Congress viii be asked to appro-
priate$l00,0o0 for a fair exhibit at
the St. Louis exposition.
Brig. Gen. Wood is said to be
slated for military commander of
the Philippines, to succeed Gen.
Davis, who will retire for age in
July.
Forty milliners at Toledo, O.,
have been indicted for violating the
state game law in having for sale
insect eating and song birds as dec
orations.
President Roosevelt has decided
not to appoint Gen. Taft as a MEM
Der of the supreme court, and he
will be retained as governor of the
Philippines.
The city fremen at Tampa, Fla,
went on strike because two of their
number were discharged, and the
city was without fire protection for
several days.
Francis Matillera, a famous bull
fighter, was killed in Mexico, just
across the border from III Paso,
Tex, by an infuriated animal he
was torturing in the arena.
1t is now claimed that Princess
Louise, of Saxony, who deserted
her husband and five children for
French teacher named Guiron, was
hypnotized by her paramour.
Carl Scholz, manager of the min
ing department Of the Choctaw, is
giving much attention to a project
for increasing the output of the
mines along the line Of the Choc-
taw.
The people allxoyer the country
are greatly aroused over the coal
shortage. In many sections it is i'm
possible to secure fuel at any price,
and the extent of suffering is wide
spread.
All foreign consuls have fled from
Fez, the capital of Morocco, and il
is reported foreigners are being
murdered and i'll treated daily BY
adherents of the pretender to the
throne.
In the fourteenth regiment ar
mory, Brooklyn, \. Y, $500 per-
sons played in a game of euchre
at 1875 tables. The party was
given by students of st. Francis
college.
The south has been fortunate on
account of the scarcity Of coal, ow-
ing to the output of scft coal in
this section. Anthracite is being
sold in southern cities for less than
in cities in the north and east.
Mrs. Effic /. Carson shot and
killed r. r. Rigsby, student in a
business college at Atlanta, Ga.
Mrs. Rigsby, who was teacher,
claimed that Carson circulated sto-
ries derogatory 10 her character.
President Mitchell has issued an
appeal to the miners in the an
thracite region to work overtime IN
order to increase the output of coal
and relieve as far as possible the
suffering of people due to lack Of
fuel.
A bloody duel took place few
miles from Alexandria, La, between
James Bryant and William Ates. A
bystander named Dulaney tried to
stop the fight and was desperately
wounded. Both Bryant and Ates
we're fatally wounded.
The Chinese government has de-
clared its inability to pay the in
demnity to the powers awarded on
account Of the Boxer uprising in
gold, and declares should this loan
be insisted on custom receipts will
be collected in the same metal.
Mrs. Amelia Rollo, Of Palmyra,
Wis, hanged her two children, Ar
thur, aged 3 years, and Clarence,
aged 5, and then committed sui
ced by hanging herself. In a note
written to friend before the trag-
edy Mrs. Rollo said: Il am driven
to it by gossips Of Palmyra
A Washington dispatch says it
is likely a compromise viii be reach
ed on the omnibus statehood bill
whereby New Mexico and Arizona
may be admitted as one state. Ok
lahoma, it is said, will also be ad-