The Scranton chronicle. (Scranton, Miss.) 1897-19??, 1903-07-18

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hopelessly insane.
Pope Leo is suffering from senile
pneumonia and grave fears are felt
as to his recovery.
The Chinese government has paid
the third installment on account of
the Boxer indemnity.
Arthur Shaddon, a young Missis-
sippi county farmer, was shot and
killed by negro tenant.
Gen. Longstreet, the famous Con-
federate commander, is critically i'll
at his home in Gainesville, Ga.
All American soldiers have been
withdrawn from Cuba, with the ex-
ception of four companies, which
will guard our coaling stations in
that country.
The conductor, whose negligence
caused a wreck on the Southern
railroad near Charlottesville, Va,
in which over twenty people were
killed, has become violently insane
from mental anguish.
( waterspout of immense pro-
portions struck the Bruch Creek
Valley in Pennsylvania, causing a
dam at Oakford to break. The
waters rushed down upon the towns
of Jeanette, Penn, Laimer, Green's
burg, Irwin; Bunell and Warner,
destroying many houses and caus-
ing the death of between thirty and
forty people.
A mob of about 500 young men
and boys at Middlesboro, Mass, en-
gagged in a serious riot, starting sew
eral fires, assaulting the officers and
bombarding the city prison with
stones in an attempt to release one
of their number. The local officers
were compelled to call for assist
tance from nearby towns before
the rioting could be put down.
George S. Morrison, who died a
few days ago in Chicago, was one
of the greatest engineers in the
United States. He built five great
bridges across the Mississippi and
ten across the Missouri river, the
bridge over the Ohio at Cairo, Ill,
and many others. His greatest feat
was the bridge across the Missis-
sippi at Memphis, which has sin
gle truss span of 700 feet.
Cato Garrett, colored, who stab
bed a white man to death, was taken
from officers by a mob five miles
from Vicksburg, Miss, and lynched.
A special grand jury was empaneled
within three days after the killing
and Garrett was indicted. He had
been placed in jail in an adjoining
county for safe keeping, and was
being returned to Vicksburg for
trial when the mob met the train
he was aboard at a small station
and forcibly took him from the
officers.
After four days Of general riot
ing at Evansville, Ind, a company
of militia and mob bent on lynch
ing negro had clash that result
ed in the death of ten people and
the serious wounding of about
twenty others. The mob, composed
of about 1000 men, had gathered
about the jail and began an assault
on the deputies and company of
militia on guard. For several min
utes the contest was waged with
stones and clubs by the mob, the
officers using their bayonets and the
butt Of their guns, when shot
was fired, apparently by some mem
ber of the mob. Then followed a
fusiIade from the jail Of several
hundred shots, which was returned
by an occasional shot from among
the mob. When the firing ceased
it was found that ten people had
been killed and that at least twenty
lay on the ground wounded. One
among the dead was young girl
about 12 years of age who had
stopped with her parents short
distance from the jail out of Curl
osity. Several others who were
killed or wounded were attracted to
the scene by the noise of the mob
leaders. Only four members of the
jail guard we're injured, none of
them fatally.
Twenty-four persons we're killed
and thirteen injured in hea3-on
collision on the Virginia Midland
division Of the Southern Railway
at Rcckfsh, Va. A passenger train
going at full speed dashed into a
local freight standing on the main
track. The fireman and engineer
of the passenger train, two white
and twenty coIorad passengers we're