The Scranton chronicle. (Scranton, Miss.) 1897-19??, 1904-08-06
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PERSONAL AMI GENERAL.

David Bennett Hill and Charles F
Murphy. New York democratic leaders,
are said to have become reconciled at
visit of the Democratic national com
mittee and Tammaly leaders to the
home of Judge Parker, at Esopus, on
the 9th.
Albert Boenert, Theodore Styner and
Phil G. Erb, doing business in st.
Louis under the title of the Missouri
Rental Co., were arrested, on the 9th
by United States officers, charged with
using the mails in an attempt to de-
fraud.
For the killing of his aged father-in-
law. August Raphael, in the kitchen
of their home at Tenth and Geyer ave
nue.. st. Louis, on March 16, Henry
Heusack will pay the extreme penalty
Of the law in the yard of the st
Louis jail on September 6, unless the
supreme court reverses the verdict re-
Gently returned against him.
The report that Port Arthur hao
fallen recurred SO frequently on the
29th as to give rise to the belief thai
there was truth in the rumors and
that over the great Russian Gibraltar
Of the east was flying the flag of the
mikado Whether true or not, there
had been severe fighting for three
days, both on land and sea.
The German foreign Office, on the
10th, stated that Russia had agreed to
fully indemnify German shippers and
their consignees for any losses sus-
taned by the seizures of German ships
and the detention of the Prinz Helm
rchs mail
Investigation of the assassination OF
Minister Won Plehve, in st. Peters
burg, has disclosed wholesale con-
spiracy to assassinate ministers, gov
errors and other high officials who
stand in the way of governmental re-
form.
Capt. Van Schaick, Federal Steam
boat Inspector Fleming and former In
spector Dundberg were indicted by the
federal grand jury in New York in
connection with the disaster to the
steamer General Slocum, on June Is
when nearly 1000 lives were lost.
George F. Golden, president of the
Chicago teamsters' union, was arrest
ed, on the 10Th, for intimidating. Aft
or many heated conferences between
Inspector Hunt and labor chiefs. Gold
en- was released on bail The arrest
caused great indignation and excite
ment among the strikers.
The Pacific Mail Co.'s steamer Ko-
rea which, it was rumored. had been
captured by the Russian Vladivostok
squadron, has arrived at her destina.
ton safely.
After indicting "a bookuakers, the
Chicago grand jury ordered Sheriff
Barrett to take immediate steps to
stop all gambling at the race tracks
in Cook county.
c. r. Ball, attorney for William
Church, recently convicted at Warren
ton, Mo-, of the murder of his foster
parents. MI and Mrs Yeater, is col
Letting evidence to show that young
Church is mentally irresponsible for
his actions.
In the British house of commons, on
the 2Sth, Premier Balfour said the
acute stage of the Red sea incidents
had passed, and that the Russian vol
unteer feet vessels would be with
drawn He laid down the British view
that no bellgerent warship could is
sue from the Black sea.
The assassination of NJ Won Plehve,
IN St Petersburg, has created panic
~ fr;N l.
fresh outbreak OF nihiIism Some claim
that the war with Japan is insignifi-
cant compared to the peril nearer
home.
Special dispatches from Shanghai
and Yokohama, of the 18th, said that
general attack on Port Arthur was
in progress.
The London Times correspondent
al Toxic renews the assertion that the
russian army in Manchuria is using
cum-dum bullets.
The strike conditions at Ziegler. ILL.,,
are not relaxed, both sides watching
developments with utmost vigilance
Eight large sticks of dynamite and
Two dozen percussion caps were found
under the Santa Fe station at Ell Paso,
Tex, on the 9th The explosives
We're so arranged that is is thought
any heavy jar would have set them off
On the 9th, Engineer Bud Durham
vas fatally injured, and two men
Famed Inman we're seriously hurt by
me explosion of boiler at Inman
BIOS sawmill, near Minnowford,
Tenn. The mill was demolished
" is said the United States has de-
.ioed to demand full pay from Russia
lor American goods destroyed by the
sinking of the steamer Knight Com
mander.
onarles Kratz, the former st. Louis
councilman. indicted in connection with
Sue suburban railway deal, is reported
seriously i'll at his home.
resident Roosevelt was formally
so'ined, on the 9th. of his nomination
.,f President By the republican nation
a convention.
me body Of F. Kent LOOMS was
~ atoard the American liner St Paul.
"1len sailed sos New York on the 9th.