The Scranton chronicle. (Scranton, Miss.) 1897-19??, 1903-08-15
Jews IN BRIEF.
Compiled from Various Sources.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

feature oil the SlOTm III luinoio, ou
\. 9Th. was the damage done by
Iyhtniug. one fire in Louisville from
hat cause resulting in losses of $780,
0o. Several persons were rendered
enseess from the shocks and consid-
rable farm property was destroyed.
Andrew Carnegie has made known
rs intention to donate $2.500,000 in
United States Steel corporation bonds
: Dunfermiline, Scotland, his BIRTH
lace. He stipulates that the gift
hall be employed in keeping up the
state OF Pittencrieff, which contains
he tower in which Malcom Canmore
married Princess Margaret.
President Kebler of the Colorado
Fuel and Iron Co, of New York, on the
bth, made official announcement that
h. L. Jerome, third vice-president and
treasurer, has resigned, the resignation
10 become effective at once, and that
A. A. Miller has been appointed assist
int treasurer. Mr.. Miller will have full
charge of all financial matters.
The attention of Rome is now CEN
tered upon the solemn coronation cere-
mony of Pope Plus X, which is to oc-
|cur on the 9th, and for which great
preparations are being made. The
throne of ST. Peter, which Plus x. will
occupy, will be surmounted by a cano-
by 40 feet high.
Willard P. Voorhees, was, on the 9th,
appointed receiver for the Perth Am
boy Shipbuilding and Engineering Co.,
Of Perth Amboy, N. j. The appoint
ment was made on application of A.
r. Ramsey, treasurer of the company
A thousand laborers employed in
building trades of Minneapolis, Mimi,
struck, on the 9Th, for an increase In
wages. Masons and all skilled laborers
who are dependent on the men who are
out have also been forced to quit work
At Tifin, O., on the 9Th, Fire Chief
Weimer, Capt. Grogg and four firemerl
| we're overcome by carbonic gas while
Investigating supposed fire in Will
sons cold storage plant. The men
were rescued by the crowd.
Albert Seavis, colored, and Frank
Case, escaped Folsom (Cal) convicts,
have been captured near Davisyille.
Cal. This leaves nine of the 13 escapes
still at large.
The plant of the Little Rock (Ark.) }
Mill and Elevator Co. was burned on
the 9Th; loss between SIS, 900 and $780,
600.
Conrad Schroeder, one of the wealth
lest contractors and builders in Penn
sylvania, shot himself in the head by
accident, on the 9Th, at Scranton. Pa,
dying almost instantly.
Adyces received at Salonica, on the
9Th, said that Bulgarian insurgents
had dynamited the governors palace
at Krushevo, % miles north of Mona
stir, and that SO Turks we're killed. A
detachment of Ottoman troops had
burned the village of Dihove, near
Monastir.
The grand jury at Danville, ILL.,. has
returned indictments for rioting and
defacing public property against Har-
vey, Vangundy, Harry Rennick, Cicero
Davis, William Pettis, Isaac Newton
siade, Horace Murphy, William Red
win, John Kress. John Isom, John Wal
ton, Richard Roberts and Edwin Hart.
A meeting of the grand officers of the
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
was called to order at Cleveland, o., on
the 7tb, to EJECT a grand chief to sue
ceed the late p. M. Arthur and also to
choose first assistant grand chief Up
TO late hour 1t was said that no cleo
uon had taken place.
II was announced, on the 7th, that
tne strike of the employees of the Buff
ialo Union Furnace Co. at Buffalo, n.
l., had heen settled. The company will
not recognize the furnace workers
union, but will deal with the strikers
through the various unions with which
they are affiliated.
A cablegram. from Zurich, Switzer-
land. received in Philadelphia, on the
'tn, announces the death there of Hen
ry s. Louchheim, of the banking firm
Oh II. S. Louchheim & Co., of Philadel-
pnia- He was 20 years of age and well
known in financial circles.
Maurice Runkle, who was jointly In
oicted with Machen and McGregor in
the post office investigation. sur
rendered himself before United States
commissioner Shields, in New York, on
'ne Ith. and gave $1,000 bail for bis APP
pearance when wanted.
sWhitaker Wright, the arrested pro-
moter and director of the London &
Siobe Finance corporation, was re-
leased. on the 7th. from Brixton Jail,
London, satisfactory sureties for his
szeo,Ooo bail having been furnished
Brig.-Gen A. E. Wocdsoa. U. S. A.,
re'ired, died at Paola. Kas, on the 7tE,
aged 8 years. He was in the military
service Il years. He viii be buried in
tne national cemetery at Arlington. Va
Col William il. fheips. the ~ssss=
KnoVn lobbyist. declared In st. Louis.
where he was summoned to appear ~
lore the grand jury. that the lobbyist
wouldn't be needed By the corpora.
ions, at Jefferson City. were II not
l0r the legislative sandbagsers. who
eoa-soct measures 70 compel defensive
action