The Scranton chronicle. (Scranton, Miss.) 1897-19??, 1903-10-17
NEWS IN BRIEF.
Compiled from Various Sources.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.


The Russian minister at Pelxin is said
to have informed the Chinese foreign
Office that Russia will never eyacuate
Manchuria unless her latest demands
are granted. China is said to have ap-
pealed to japan.
John Evans and John Cord, miners,
employed at the Silver Star mine, at
Lake City, Col, were instantly killed
and their bodies horribly mangled, on
the 7th, by an explosion while thawins
out giant powder.
A story is published in Paris to the
effect that King Peter of Seryia is con-
fined in a fortress at Belgrade under
control of the officers who assassinat-
ed King Alexander and Queen Draga,
and conducts the affairs of state under
pressure of the conspirators.
Another attempt at fight was made
by Prof Langley's areodrome at Wide
water, Va, on the 7th. Under the mo-
mentum of its start the flying machine
travelled about hundred yards and
then plunged into the Potomac, total
wreck
That marvel of mechanical con-
struction, the Ferris Wheel, which was
one of the greatest attractions of the
Midway of the Chicago Worlds fair.
has been rescued from the junk pile
and will be set up under concession
at the st. Louis. Worlds fair.
After attempting for three days to
break the Franklin union of press
feeders, the Typothetae and the Print
ing Pressmen's union, of Chicago, on
the Sth, gave up the fight. A truce was
arranged pending the settlement of the
disputed points by conciliation board
and the press feeders returned to work.
The mines north of Colorado Springs,
Col. were successfully opened with nom
union miners, on the Sth, about one
hundred men reporting for work, which
was about one-third the usual numbek
The operators believed that they
would soon have full quota of miners.
Union miners made no resistance.
The failure of Albert Nudge & Sons.
printers, of Boston. Mass, was an
nounead, on the Sth. Assets, 100000;
liabilities, $4,000 insufficient capital
was said to be the cause of the failure.
Fire. on the 8th, destroyed the Up
dixie Grain Co.'S elevator, in Missouri
Valley, Ia, together with 100000 BUSH
els of grain. Loss, 100000; fully in
sured.
The president, on the Sth, appointed
William R. Pope to be associate justice
of the supreme court of New Mexico.
Minnie Britt, negress, who was
condemned to death for murder, has
written to Judge Caruth, of Louisville.
KY, requesting him not to grant her
lawyers motion for new trial. She
said she feared life term at the sec
ond trial, and would rather go to
heaven from the gallows than to spend
the rest of her days in the penitentiary.
Earl Neil and j. M. Peterson, the
young men who were attendants at
the Kansas state insane asylum and
who were charged with the murder OF
A. B. L. Maxwell, one of the patients,
were acquitted, ON the 9th, in the
Topeka district court The jury was
out a little over IL hours.
1t is believed that Thomas Cassidy,
who was reported killed by being run
over by Chicago & Eastern Illinois
passenger train, at Danville. ILL.,, on
the 9th. had been previously murdered.
The crew of the train that ran over
the. body claimed 1t was cold, showing
he had been dead several hours.
In broad daylight, and under the
very eyes of the police force OF Alton.
ILL.,, Arthur Taylor, who was convict
ed, on the 7th. on a charge of larceny
and given an indeterminate sentence in
the penitentiary, escaped, on the 9Th,
from the Alton city Jail.
Sir Thomas Upton sailed. on the
9th, for England on the White Star
liner Cedric.
The terms Of the general treaty OF
arbitration between France and Great
Britain have been concluded. There re-
mains only minor questions of detail
to be settled The treaty follows the
general lines OF the Hay-Pauncefote
treaty.
The octogenarian marquis OF Done
gal who, on December %. 1902. mar
ried Miss Violet Twining. aged 22, has
been presented with son and heir, OF
which the ancient marquis is said to
be intensely proud. Should the child
i've, Lord Henry Fitzwarren Chicnes-
ter's aspirations will vanish.
The upper Mississippi is on a high
again. All bottom farm lands between
Hannibal. Mo, and Keokuk. Ia, are
under water and the late corn and
winter wheat which has been sowed
VIII be total loss.
Twenty-seven indictments we're re-
turned in the federal court at Helena,
Ark, on the Sth, against white citizens
OF Cross and Poinsett counties, who
are charged with conspiracy TO de-
priys certain negro citizens Of their
ngnss, guaranteed to them under the
constitution of the United States
The monument erected TO the MEM
ory oi both Union and Confederate sol
aiers of Maryland who participated In
me battles around Chattanooga, Tenn.
vas dedicated at Orchard Knob near
.he srcation o. Grants headquarisrS
% the Sth.