The Scranton chronicle. (Scranton, Miss.) 1897-19??, 1903-01-17

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All gambling joints have been
closed at Joplin, Mo.
The net earnings of the United
States steel corporation for the year
1902 amounted to 1882. .602, 900.
Daniel J. Hill, assistant secre-
lary of state. has been appointed
minister to Switzerland.
The city of Detroit, Mich, is go
ing into the coal business and will
supply the people at cost prices.
After a recess over the holidays,
tbe anthracite coal strike commits
sion resumed its task of taking tes-
timony on the 9th.
The Spanish minister of finance
has prepared a measure providing
for the free coinage of gold and pro
hibiting the coinage of silver.
Near Joplin, Mo-, in the eastern
part of Jasper county, an l1-foot
body of coal was struck at depth
of 40 feet, and the coal is of the
finest quality.
-Four persons lost their lives in
a fire at Chicago which destroyed
.he Somerset hotel on Wabash ay-
enue. The fire was caused from
bed clothing igniting from cigar
cite.
As a result of collision between
a passenger train and the rear end
of a freight train on the Pennsylva-
mia railroad at Cochrane station,
just above Dubuque, seven men are
dead and seven others injured.
The demand of railway men in
the south and west for a 90 per cent
increase in wages may result in
trouble on some of the large sys-
TENS. A number of roads have
fatty refused to aecede to the de-
mands.
Cole Younger has applied to the
Minnesota pardoning board for
complete pardon, in order that he
might return to Missouri, his old
home. The terms of his parole
forbid him leaving the state of Min
nesota.
The European powers have de-
clined to receive their second in
demnity installment from China on
the silver basis. The question as
10 whether China may discharge
these obligations on a gold or sill
yer basis may yet me taken to The
Hague tribunal for arbitration.
Here is a strong one from Jop-
lin: For three weeks E. Knell, an
undertaken at Carthage, was unable
to unlock the door of a large safe
in his Office, because he had forgot
ten the combination. lie had Civ
en- it up entirely, when luckily in
dream last night he saw the num-
bers that worked the combination
and, arising from his bed, jotted
them down. The next day he un-
locked the safe
The commissioner of navigation
reports 627 sail and steam vessels,
OF 1889 gross ton, built in the
United State and officially number
ed during the six months ended De-
cember 81, 1902. During the cor
responding six months ended De-
cember 81, 1901, III sail and steam
vessels, of 154, ,073 gross tons, we're
built. OF the tonnage built in the
latter half of 1902, 96,379 tons were
built on the Atlantic and gulf, 20
O39 tons Oh the Pacific and 1884
on the grest lakes.
A decision of more than usual in
terest was recently rendered in the
United States district court for the
southern district of Illinois. An
express messenger was indicted for
the sale Of liquor in prohibition ter
rltory. 1t was sought to convict on
the ground that he delivered pack
ages of liquor ordered in licensed
territory, or in other words, the
prosecution contenled that the
place of delivery should be held the
place Of sale. The court held that
the express agent had no knowledge
OF the contents Of the packages,
hence could not be held as guilty
OF violating the federal liquor laws.
Miss Dora Meek, Centralia, H.,
has been silent since September and
sleeping soundly about Is hours a
day, and the remainder Of the time
sitting with eyes half shut appar-
emily hearing nothing. Medicine
and hypOntism have failed to arouse
her.
Miss LYDIA Akers, a teacher in
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