The Scranton chronicle. (Scranton, Miss.) 1897-19??, 1904-04-09

Parker for the presidential nomlna-
ton.
To guard against yellow fever,
Gov Lanham of Texas has issued a
nroclamation declaring quarantine
in effect along the Gulf coast.
The gunboat Nashville and tor
pedo boat destroyer will go up the
Mississippi river to st. Louis some
fine this month. 1t is expected
they will be at Memphis about the
18th.
Flood losses along the Ohio are
reported greater than in many
years. farmers being the heaviest
sufferers. the loss on the wheat crop
alone being over quarter Of mil
lion dollars.
Iowa miners and operators fail
cd to agree on a scale for the next
twelve months and as a result all
The miners in the state are tempor-
uily closed and $4,000 men are out
d employment.
Mrs. W. A. Phillips of Paint
Rock, Ala, publicly horsewhipped
Dr. Lowe, a justice of the peace,
because he performed the marriage
ceremony when her 14-year-old
daughter was the bride.
The Union Trust Company of
Boston and the Federal Trust Com
pany of Cleveland, have closed their
doors. A prominent official of the
latter company has disappeared and
it is reported he left big shortage.
The city of st. Louis has as
sumed charge of removing the city's
garbage For many years this work
has been done under contract by
company of which Edward Butler,
the alleged boodler, was at the head.
Adolph Miller, aged 16, was
foundguilty of murder in the fourth
degree for the killing of Joseph
Peppold in the juvenile criminal
court at st. Louis. The maximum
punishment is confinement in the
reform school until 21 years of age.
Colombia has lost the suit
brought in the courts of France
against the Panama canal company.
This decision has the effect of re-
moving the legal obstacle in the
way of the transfer of the canal
concession from the company TO the
United States.
The endorsement Of Judge Par
ker for the presidency by the New
York democracy makes it more than
probable that he will be the party
nominee. There has not been much
discussion as to who the most avail
able man is for second place, but he
will likely be westerner.
Should the bill now penSing in
congress admitting New Mexico and
Arizona as a state, and Indian Ter
HfOT and Oklahoma as a state, the
capital Of the former will be Santa
Re and the capital of the latter
Guthrie, an amendment having
been adopted to that effect.
1t is reported that a number of
foreigners, mostly Americans and
Europeans, have been murdered in
a Chinese uprising in Shan Ting
and Shang 81 provinces, on the
border. War has been made a pre-
'ext for Chinese bandit operations,
and 1t is claimed the Russians are
also looting indiscriminately.
A passenger train on the Texas,
Sabine Pas sand Northern was
wrecked near Longview, Tex
as, and several passengers
were injured, four fatally. |
me wreck is believed to
nave been due to failure Of Sec
non crew to properly place a new
'au- The entire train was turned
over. 2
A bill has passed the French
chamber of deputies and will be-
come law, suppressing all forms
q teaching by religious orders. The
new law does not make any distinc-
aoh between authorized and unau-
'nonzed congregations, but sweeps
away the whole fabric Of teaching
Oy religious orders, thus in effect
substituting the system of state
'enools for those heretofore con-
uucted by the orders.
ol recent decree the second bat |
.non of Panaman troops on the
's'nmus is disbanded, leaving only |
y que battalion under the colors, and
1'e vessels forming the Panaman
navy are offered for sale.
alexander Dowie, of Zion fame,
mo sno Is now visiting in Austria, has
Yen denied the use Of public build