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

mus March 2l.
March 81 the japanese feet
made another unsuccessful attempt
to bottle up the harbor at Port
Arthur.
Rose Mcdonald, aged l., and Net
tie Broniski were suffocated in
fire in the Hotel Newcomb at
Quincy, H.
Several delegates chosen from
Nebraska to the national democrat
ic convention are ayowed opponents
of Mr. Bryan's policies.
A terrific windstorm did much
damage at Louisville, Ky, and 9TH
er sections of the state. A number
of people are reported as having
been injured.
The government weather bureau
has issued bulletin warning resi-
dents Of the Mississippi valley that
the flood danger will be reached by
the 9Th of April.
The entire corps of teachers of the
Gainesville (Ill.) city schools
walked out on a strike because one
of their number was dismissed for
whipping pupil.
S. J. Potts, former cashier of the
First National Bank, at Petty, Tex,
has been sentenced to five years in
the penitentiary upon plea of
guilty of embezzlement.
Mother Jones, the noted woman
organizer of miners, went to Color
ado to assist the striking coal min
ers, but an order of court was Sc
cured and she was deported.
Five men have been placed under
arrest in st. Louis, charged with at
tempting to blow up several livery
stables with dynamite because nom
union men are employed.
The Hepburn bill granting states
police power over original packages
of intoxicating liquor coming into
their borders as Interstate COM
merce has been reported favorable.
The bursting of a 12-inch pipe
line of the STANDARD Oil Company
beneath the bed of Rocky river at
Liverpool, O., allowed the petroleum
to escape in squirting stream. In
some manner it became ignited and
soon the river was a solid mass of
fire. Wharves and many buildings
along the stream were destroyed be-
fore the large volume Of oil that es-
capped burned itself out.
As the magnitude of the military
operations in the far East becomes
with each budget of dispatches
more obvious the conviction gains
ground in London--and there are
evidences of similar views in Paris
that Russia's policy of acting on
the defensive in Manchuria will
induce Japan finally to be content
with a defensive attitude in Korea,
and that the upshot of the war will
be a compromise.
United States Senator Burton Of
Kansas was convicted in United
States court at st. Louis of having
accepted compensation to protect the
interests of the Rialto Grain and Se-
curities Company of st. Louis, be-
fore the postoffice department. II
the verdict of the jury is sustained
Senator Burton will lose his seat in
the senate and forever be prohibited
from holding any office Of public
trust. Burton's recourse is an APP
peal to the United States circuit
court Of appeals, which body is the
final arbiter in his case.
The public health report for Feb
rhary, reviewing conditions in Pam
anna, is especially interesting at this
time. Total deaths from all causes
were 95. The estimated population
of Panama is $4,000. The mortality
rate, therefore, is 63.32 per 1000 per
annum. These facts are reported
by Assistant Surgeon Pierce. Fevers
the largest number, 16; tu-
berculosis came next, with IA there
were three deaths from old age, six
from pneumonia and seven from
phthisis. There were other deaths
from ordinary natural causes and
several accidents added to the total.
Sam Rudolph, the Union, Mo-,
bank robber and murderer, has been
convicted and sentenced to be hang
ed. Collins, Rudolph's partner, was
hanged on the day the latter was
convicted.
The newspaper advertising agen-
cy Of, Pettingill & Co. of Boston has
been placed in the hands of re
ceiver. Pettingill & Co. have been
doing business in Boston since 1913.