The Scranton chronicle. (Scranton, Miss.) 1897-19??, 1903-04-11


committed suicide in a st. Louis
hotel.
Count Elliot Zebarowski, Of New
York, was killed in an automobile
hill-climbing race near Nice,
France.
The British house of commons
has appropriated S15o,oO0 for an
exhibited at the louisiana Purchase
Exposition.
The Cuban reciprocity treaty as
amended by the United States sem
ate was ratified by the Cuban sem
ate and the formal ratifcations
were exchanged by cable.
A plot to dynamite the county
jail at st. Joseph, Mo-, to release
Charles May, sentenced to hang for
double murder, was discovered and
one of the eonspirators arrested.
DIR. w. d. Crum, colored, who
was reappointed inspector of Gus
toms at Charleston, S. C., after his
nomination had failed of confirm
alton in the senate, has assumed his
dutiee. The chief inspector re-
signed when the Office was turned
over to the new official.
The Hawaiian legislature has re-
monstrated against the establish
ment of leper colony and ma
tional sanitarium for their treat
ment on the island of Molokai.
Leading medical scientists now
claim that leprosy can be cured, but
that only national supervision
and control would be able to ac-
complish it.
After search lasting several
years, Moses +. Chase, young
man who formerly resided at La
fayette, Ind, was found in a de-
mented condition in a hospital al
Paris. The young man is said tC
be the owner of property valued al
$1,000,000, his right to which ii
contested by certain persons in In
dianapolis, Cincinnati and Other
| places.
A confession Of George Bissert
an ex-polieeman in New York, has
disclosed regular system of black
mail levied by the police upon the
dives in that city, by which mil
lions Of dollars was collected by the
police during the Devery regime.
Bissert confessed that he alone col
lected $180,000 in three years. This
amount. he says. was turned over to
y captain of police and he received
5 per cent of all collections which
he made.
President Roosevelt has started
upon western trip which will oc-
cupy over nine weeks, ending June
5. During that time the president
will travel about $4,000 miles.
Several days will be spent in Yel-
lowstone Park. The president will
proceed leisurely through the west
and will arrive at st. Louis April
81 TO take part in the dedication
of the Louisiana Purchase Exposi-
ton. The party is travelling in a
special train of six cars furnished
by the Pennsylvania railroad and
manned by picked crew Of train
men,
A I general fall in the Mississippi
has relieved the situation all along
the river and lessened the danger
Of more serious breaks in the lev
ees. Attempts to prevent the wild
ening Of the two creyasses near
Greenyille, Miss, and to close the
opening at Hymelia, La, have met
with success and much property
has been saved from destruction.
The water which rushed through
the breaks in the leyee has contin-
ued to spread over larger area Of
territory and further breaks would
cause immense damage to the sugar
planters and truck farmers near
the river. Reports from Green
vile. Miss, which was flooded by
the break in the leyee south Of
that city, showed that the water
was gradually falling and that the
suffering Of the inhabitants had
been relieved. At New Orleans,
Vicksburg, Natchez and other
points, the river was reported TO
be falling.
Two hundred Irishmen broke up
a performance Of "McFadden's Row
Of Flats" burlesque on Irish
character, in New York By peIting
the actors with rotten eggs.
Mrs. Robert J. Drake, 60 years
old, of Covington, Ind. has been
arrested ond cha rs,od NTH 41o ,,,t,p.