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

The dead body of Tom Madison, the
slayer of the Smith county (Kansas)
family of three women, was found, ON
the 29th, in field near Cowles, Neb.
He had been shot by himself, and had
apparently been dead a number Of
days.
Harry H. Devereux, mayor of Spring
field, ILL.,, has been indicted by the
grand jury of Sangamon county, on
FIVE counts charging malfeasance in Of
fee in permitting the operation of
gambling houses, slot machines in sa-
looms and other places. and poolrooms.
W. w. Armstrong, a Lake Erie &
Western freight brakeman, whose home
Is in Lima, o., was killed in freight
wreck on the 29th, at Newly Crossing,
two miles west of Elwood, Ind.
The total net revenues Of the United
States for the last fiscal year were
$3.50, ,390674, an increase of $3S,98S, ,439
over the year preceding, and the total
expenditures s506,099,0O7, an increase
of sS5,7S2,034 The surplus was $54,-
2s7667, as compared with s91, ,2S7,375
in 1902.
In all the states which comprised
the Southern Confederacy the gov
ernors are assisting the govern
ment in its attempt to collect a
complete record of the confederate
troops, and persons have been desig-
mated to supervise the work in all
these states, except Florida.
faOtafiva anraap,apf mas raaohad
at Pekin. on the Both, providing for
the signing of the commercial treaty
between China and the United States
at Shanghai on October s. Mr.. Copger
is sanguine that the matter will go
through on the date mentioned.
The biggest day In the history of
the Illinois state fair was witnessed on
the 1st, with $4,000 people on the
grounds. Excursion trains ran from
the furthest limits of the state, and
the city contained the largest crowd in
its history. The weather was ideal.
The coal miners of Colorado Springs,
Col, numbering about 300, at mass
meeting. on the 1st, voted to strike
because of the refusal of the operators
to grant an eight-hour day and 20 per
cent. increase in wages. Six coal mines
are idle as a result.
President Roosevelt was deeply
grieyed to learn of the death of Sir
Michael Herbert, British ambassador to
the United States, for whom he had
warm feeling of personal regard He
sent message of coincidence on the
1st to Lady Herbert
Daniel H. Ogden, prominent busi-
ness man of Ogden, Utah, was shot and
instantly killed while duck hunting,
on the 1st, IA miles west of Ogden.
The wound was inflicted by a stray
shot, the one firing it being unknown.
The three Van Werner brothers
were electrocuted at the Dannemora
IN. Y) state prison on the 1st for the
murder Of their uncle, Peter A. Hallen-
back, on December "a. 1901
The jury in the case of Mrs. Julia
Edwards vs. the Alton Light &
Traction Co, in a $1,000 damage suit,
at Alton, ILL.,. for alleged injuries re-
eeived, disagreed, on the 1st, and an
asked by the justices of the peace. The
Fifty thousand locomotive firemen
employed by the american railway COM
panies have started movement for a
wage increase and uniform agreements.
The increases asked run from ten to
twenty per cent.
George B. Mcclellan was nominated
by the New York city democracy, on
. the night of the 1st. for mayor. The
gPpnpc arouDd avtn lo1l uhara the
convention was held, are said to have
been without parallel in the city's po-
. litical history.
At the close of September, 1908, there
we're in active operation 5.096 national
banks, with an aggregate capital OF
5 sf6l AIT ,O95, net increase in number
since March IA, 1900, of 1,479 banks
and S145 los, 900 capital
I The large hay barn of Thomas Cur
lis, in Posey county, Ind, was de-
stroyed by fire. ON the 1st, entailing
loss of several thousand dollars. This
makes % barns burned in Posey coun-
", since the first of the year, and all
OF the fires are supposed to have been OF
incendiary origin.
1' Ata r.. 0uilcit WuO AaS bcth u'A
aer $1,000 bond since July 27, charged
with the murder of Ewart Checksfield,
az Bunker Hill. ILL.,, by giving candy
containing strychniLe, has been indict-
ca by the Macoupin county grand jury
Tor murder.
important changes occurred. ON the
"a, in the official roster OF the Illinois
central railroad. C. L. Ewing became
superintendent of the system, with
headquarters in Carbondale. Ill, and
". ). King became assistant general
superintendent of the Yazoo & Missis-
sippl Valley, part OF the system, with
headquarteTs at Memphis, Tenn
William Rockefeller, of New York.
IN the I'd, received warning that he
would be the next victim Of the men
VINO assassinated Orlando p Dexter
the Adiroa lack mountains.
word from DasTnoral, received on the
q, stated that King Edwards health
vas again excellent and that his maj
Ay Contemplated a distance mo
"l run from Balmoral to London.