The Scranton chronicle. (Scranton, Miss.) 1897-19??, 1904-08-13
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THE NEWS IN Bril-.
PERSONAL AMI GENERAL.

The Rock Island Railroad Co. and
the United States Express Co. have Of
fered a reward of $1,000 for the cap
ture of robbers who held up the Rock
Island train near Tucumcari, Tex, on
July 80.
Ray Brom. who is said to have killed
| Richard Roberts, brakeman, in Deca-
tur. H., April 81, and who escaped and
was caught at st. Joseph, Mo-, and
broke Jail there, has been captured
again at Seattle, Wash
The monthly statement of the public
debt shows that at the close of busi-
ness July 81, 1904, the debt, less cash
In the treasury, amounted to s9So,7S1,-
i1S, which is an increase for the month
of s13 549 ,639.
Brakeman Vaer was killed, Conduc-
tor Martin was probably fatally in
jured, and several passengers we're hurt
by the derailing of a passenger coach
on the Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton
railroad at Royersville, near Ironton,
o., on the 4th.
Alton B. Parker ceased to be chief
Judge of the court of appeals of New
York on the 5th, by handing in his
resignation after two minute session
of court, in which he and five associate
judges disposed of 66 cases remaining
on the calendar
telegram from Digby, N. s., says
that sailboat containing eight or ten
American tuorists capsized and sank
off Smiths cove, near Digby, on the
4th, and that all on board we're
drowned.
Sol Temple. the Oklahoma outlaw,
who shot and almost murdered Police
Sergeant William Gibson. of st. Jo-
seph, Mo-, last May, was given sem
tence of ten years In prison for the
crime.
An engine hauling one baggage car
and two coaches, carrying 40 Pittsburg
miners to take the places of strikers.
arrived at Ziegler, H., on the 3d. es-
corted by 20 armed guards.
A dispatch. from Russian sources, on
the 5th, said that the Japanese attacked
the Russian position at An-Shan-Shan
lmi6way between Hai-Cheng and Lao
Yang. on the Cd, and were repulsed
with heavy loss. The Russian casual
ties are not known
While teaching party of little girls
how to swim, Michael Reilly and seven
of his pupils we're drowned off sand
bar in the Mississippi river at the foot
of Washington street, in Alton, H., on
the 5th.
BY comparison of notes it trans
pres that Mrs. NJ. B. Lichty, of Nor
ril. Kas; Mrs. Jas. Stickel, of Had
dcnia, Kas., and E. J. Dair, of Salt Lake
City, Utah, sisters, each gave birth to
daughter on the same day.
The London Times learns from a
trustworthy correspondent that the Of
ncers of the Russian intelligence de-
partment who examined the British
steamer Malacca, after her seizure, Of
fered her captain $4,000 if he would
declare there was consraband aboard
the vessel.
A ST. Petersburg dispatch of the 5th
says: According TO the latest advices
from Lao Yang, the Japanese have re-
newed the attack all along the line and
the Russians have been driven back
into their main intrenchments."
Five would-be bandits held up a
freight train on the Northwestern rail-
road, near Sterling, ILL.,, on the morn
5 ing of the 5th, but, discovering thtir
mistake, fed The freight was running
.ontthe time of passenger train.
The Hy-wheel of a rs horsepower
engine in the plant of the Johnson Tin
Foil Co., st. Louis, burst while run
ming, on the 4th, instantly killing
Franz Gamache, assistant engineer,
and breaking the left leg of George
Neumann
St Louis weather for the month of
July, as has .been the case for the last
several years, was cool and pleasant.
comparing most favoTably with the
summer climate of northern and east
ern states. The average temperature
for the month was 67.9
rhirty-seven persons were injured in
wreck on the Louisville & Nashville
railroad, near Horse Cave, KY, on the
4th, the result of collision of passen-
ger trains
bulletin, issued on the 4th, by the
physicians attending the duchess of
Marlborough, wing was considerably
bruised and shaken by being thrown
from her horse while riding in Blen-
helm park. on the lst, said that she
was not so well
The International Brotherhood OF
leamsters has reelected Cornelius P.
shea, OF Boston, president, and E. L.
I1rley, of Chicago, grand secretary
snd treasurer. for another term.
The Armour Packing Co.'s branch
establishment in Fort Smith, Ark.
was totally destroyed by FIRE. on the
sin' large quantity OF lard and meats
being consumed.
At meeting of the Bloomington Ill)
street Car Mems union. on the 5th. IL
was decided to call OF the strike on
sae lines Of the Bloomington & Nor
usi Halfway Electric & Heating Co.
.1leh has been in progress since Janu.