The Scranton chronicle. (Scranton, Miss.) 1897-19??, 1904-04-23

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was defeated for congress in the
Sixth Alabama district by ]. II.
Bankhead, present incumbent.
Fire in Mckinney, Texas, de-
stroved property valued at 5000, 900,
with insurance $150,000 The fol-
lowing firms we're burned out:
White Dry Goods Company; Larg-
ent Bros, books and jcwelry; White
& Price. drugs; Heard & Price, gro-
GERS. and A. E. Daw, grocer.
Prince Hugo Hohenlohe married
Nine. Helga, the famous and
beautiful circus equestrienne. Nine.
Helga's first husband was a circus
performer The princes mesal-
lance violates the clause in the Ho-
henlohe family laws, providing for
forfeiture of rank in the event of
mesalliancc. The prince gladly
made the sacrifice.
The mysterious disappearance Of
$4,000 registered package, sent
BY the Traders bank of Kansas
City to banking house at Great
Bend, Kan, on February 8 last, has
been unraveled. The man who stole
the money and confesses the crime
is Edward Griffith, a son of the post
master at Great Bend, and there is
woman in the case.
Tucker Pinckney, brother of
Congressman Pinckney, was shot
and killed at a negro church near
Hampstead, Texas. Pinckney with
a companion who had previously
had trouble with some negroes, went
TO the church during service. I'M
mediately after Pinckney entered
the church firing commenced and
he fell dead with seven bullets in
his body.
Judge Benton, in the circuit
court at Richmond, KY, has thrown
out on peremptory instructions Of
mental incapacity, all the various
wills left by the late Gen. Cassius
NJ. Clay. This leaves the generals
property to his natural heirs, and
cuts off Dora Clay Brock, who at
one time received considerable no.
toriety as the youthful wife of the
aged statesman.
A western senator is authority
for the statement that ex-Secretary
Of War Roots is slated to succeed
Chief Justice Fuller of the United
States supreme court, upon the re-
tlrement of that eminent iurist.
The ex-secretary has been slated by
enthusiasts for every prominent Of
iice where possible vacancy might
occur, from president down, since
his retirement from the cabinet.
Commissioner Of Immigration
Mrgent asserts that a large ma
lOnty of immigrants coming into
lhls country are of dangerous
class, and advocates radical changes
IN the immigration laws. The to-
tai estimated alien immigration to
The United States from 1776 to
1920 was 250,000. The total num-
Der of arrivals for the fiscal year
ending June 80, 1908, was S51 .046. !
BY the explosion of two thousand
pounds of powder on the battleship
Missouri, twenty-nine men were in
siantly killed and five injured, two
fatally. The explosion occurred at
PENSACOLA, Fla. The Missouri was
oh The target range with the Texas
and Brooklyn at practice, when a
charge of powder in the 12-inch left
nand gun was ignited from gas and
EXPLODED and, dropping sparks be-
iow' lgnlted four charges of powder |
IN the handling room and all ex-
poded. Only one man of the en-
'lfe turret and handling crew sur
rived.
Preparations are being made to |
install at the worlds fair in st.
LOUIS the Arkansas exhibit of the |
Il, iron Mountain land department.
Inc space assigned for this exhibit |
: IN the main exhibit hall on the |
afst floor of the Arkansas build |
ing. Mr.. Dean, commissioner of |
me Iron Mountain land departs
mcnt, has gone to the trouble of |
preparing one of the best exhibits
y Arkansas products the public has
ever viewed.
Inc United States supreme court |
Aas decided that books published pc
looleally are not entitled to trans /
mission through the mails as sec
0nd class matter.
l.. lne states of Nebraska, Kansas. |
s'lssourl, Iowa, Minnesota, Oklaho- |
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