The Scranton chronicle. (Scranton, Miss.) 1897-19??, 1903-04-11
News Of the World

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A dozen men were required TO
pull a tooth of a young elephant at
st. Louis.
Miss Bessie Knect, aged % years,
of Salt Lake City. has slept con-
tinuously for more than month.
The London Times has establish
ed news service by wireless tele-
graph between New York and Lon
don.
Several strikes inyolyin several
hundred men have been inaugural
ed at the Worlds Fair grounds in
st. Louis.
An American engineer and five
Mexieans were killed by an explo-
sion of dynamite IN mine at Chi
huahua, Mex.
Five elergymen of st. Louis have
volunteered to conduct a personal
investigation into the moral condi-
tions Of that city.
Owners Of the various lines OF
river steamers have refused de-
mand of the river pilots for an in-
crease of 25 per cent in wages.
A brother of Mile. Emma Touret,
who shot at NJ. MarceI-Proyost, the
French novelist, recently, was
wounded in a duel with the author.
Junius B. Clay, son of Gen. Cas-
sius NJ. Clay of Kentucky, was ac-
cidentally shot and killed by his
wife while they were at target prac-
tice.
A Baptist preacher named Can
non at Pittsburg, Tex, is the in
ventor of an airship, the ideas for
which he claims to have obtained
from the Bible.
Thomas +. Stothard and his wife
whom he had secretly married, com
mitted suicide in his fathers yard
rather than face the anger Of his
father and mother.
! While playing policeman with a
loaded shotgun, Hobart Duncan, 8
years old, shot and killed a play
mate, William Roberts, of the
same age, at Wanamaker, Okla.
Four men we're killed in a polite
al riot at Monterey, Me, which fol-
lowed celebration of the victory
of Gen. Diaz's republican troops
over the French at Pueblo, April 2,
1867.
At a meeting of the board Of d.
rectors of the Chicago, Rock Island
and Pacific railroad in New York,
G. II. Warren was elected first vice
president end George II. Crosby,
secretary and treasurer.
The Venezuelan congress has au-
thorized President Castro to fulfill
the obligations embodied in the
British, German and Italian proto-
coils, which were negotiated by
United States Minister Bowen.
While reading a lesson in mail
course in hypnotism, Marshall
Mink and wife of Galesburg, Ill,
we're placed under a hypnotic spell
from which physicians were unable
to arouse them.
James w. S. Langerman, COM
missioner of the st. Louis Exposi-
ton, has reported that while pass
ing through Morocco with a guard
of 500 men furnished by the sui
tan, he was attacked by rebels and
all but four Of his guard were
slain.
The arrest of Waller Ferguson,
son Of Gov. Ferguson Of Oklahoma,
and student at Wentworth Mill
tary Academy at Lexington, No,
on a charge of carrying concealed
weapons caused riot between the
students and police and resulted in
the arrest Of thirty students.
Judge Adams, Of the United
States district court at st. Louis,
dissolved the temporary injunction
previously issued by him at the in
stance Of the Wabash railroad Off
cials, restraining the Brotherhood
Of Railroad Trainmen and Firemen
from ordering a strike. AT the same
time Judge Adams urged that the
parties to the controversy adopt
some method of securing an amica-
bic settlement.
Judge James n. Tyner, assist
ant attorney general for the post
Office department, whose connection
with get-rich-quick concerns has
been undergoing investigation, has
rendered his resignation.
! San Miguel, the last unreconcil-
"a Esiipiuo leader. was killed in q