Crittenden press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1879-1907, 1900-08-30
NEWS IN BRIEF.
Compiled from Various Sources.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.


the Merchants national bank OF
Helena, Mont, was acquitted, on the
23d, after two weeks trial. of the
charge of making false reports to the
comptroller of the currency as TO the
banks condition.
William and Joshua lowering,
cousins, each aged 2l years and mem
bers of a prominent family: were
drowned while canoeing in the Sus'
quehanna river near Safe Harbor, Pa.
on the 23d.
Prof. Jencks, of the United States
industrial commission, arrived in Ber-
lin, on the 23d, after visiting Austria
and Italy to study trusts and syndi-
Gates, including labor trusts.
Orders have been given to increase
the secret police in attendance upon
Emperor William during the Stettin
maneuvers from September to Sep
TENDER 10.
The post Office department has or
dered the establishment of rural de-
livery, on the 1st, at Craig, Neb., and
additional service at Tellamaha, Neb.
The German government has
taken action substantially similar to
that of the United States in rejecting
China's peace proposal.
Col. William j. Bryan, the populist
nominee for the presidency of the
United States, was formally notified
of his nomination by the Sioux Falls
convention at Topeka, Kas., on the
23d. He also received notification
from the Silver Republican league.
Owing to the critical condition of
affairs in China, which may at any
moment require executive attention,
the president, on the 23d, notified the
G.. A. Il. committee at Chicago that,
in all probability, he would be COM
PEELED to forego his intended visit
during the encampment.
The Chicago Tribune, in its review
of the year 1899, gives the states and
territories where there were lynch
ing and the number as follows; Ala
bama, &; Arkansas, II; Georgia, IS;
Kansas, 3; North Carolina, 3; Penn
sylvania, !; Tennessee, A; Texas, S;
Kentucky, 3; Louisiana, IS; Mississip-
pi, IA; Missouri, 3; Virginia, i; West
Virginia, Z; oklahoma, l. Of the vic
Tins 81 were negroes and % whites.
Jefferson ID. Hall, aged 45, well
known at Virginia, ILL.,, was adjudged
insane on the 23d. The intense heat
caused his insanity and made him
most violent. He whipped his wife
with a buggy whip and threatened to
shoot his relatives.
Harry Davis, an aeronaut, died at
Delphos, o., on the 23d, as the result
of fall received in an ascension. His
parachute failed to open and he fell
1000 feet.
During a heavy thunder storm, on
the 23d. the ordnance building at Fort
Smelling, Mimi, was struck by light
ming and almost destroyed, but the
stone powder magazine, Is feet away,
containing $4,000 pounds of powder,
was uninjured.
William Pethwick, formerly of
Brooklyn, y. V, for many years Earl
Lis secretary and confidential adj
wiser of the Chinese government,
says: Iii Hung Chang should be ig-
nored. He represents the hostile
minority, and will avert their just
punishment by disappearing our
position if he can"
The United States government has
taken the lead in replying to China
that there will be no temporizing ne
gotiations and there is every reason
to believe the powers will be united
in this same policy. The answer OF
the United States was promptly fol-
lowed by similar action on the part
of the Germans.
Gen. Roberts cabled the British war
office, on the 23d, that Gen. De Wet
had crossed the Magliesburg, with a
few wounded, with the intention of
returning to the Orange River Col
ony. His guns have mostly been
buried and his personal following
dwindled to not more than 300.
After considering the affidavits SUBJ
mitted by both sides and hearing ar
guments, Judge Cantrill, at George
town, KY, overruled the motion for a
new trial in the case of former Sec
rotary of State Caleb Powers, con-
victed as an accomplice before the
fact in the murder of William Goebel.
Mr.. NJ. S. n. Pierre, of 31s West For
ty-first street, New York city, negro
from British Guiana, and 200 of his
fellow British subjects, prepared pc
tition to Hon. Percy Sanderson, Brit
ish consul, asking him to take the
necessary steps for their protection.
They allege that they were brutally
attacked by the mob in the recent
riots in that city, and that the police,
instead of giving them protection,
actually urged and melted the mob
to greater fury.
William B. Cox, chief engineer at
the Muncie Qnd.) electric street light
works, was killed, on the night of the
cath, by falling on q live wire in the
power house. He was alone with his
six-year-old baby girl at the time. The
child went to him, lay down in his
arms and fell asleep beside the dead
man.
The statement of the treasury bal.
ances in the general fund, exclusive OF
the S15O,OOO,OOO gold reserve in the dl.
vision of redemDtiOn issued on thp