Crittenden press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1879-1907, 1900-08-23
All the News of the Past Seven
Days Condensed.
HOME AND FOREIGN ITEMS
News of the Industrial Field, Personal
and Political Items, Happenings
at Home and Abroad.
THE NEWS FROM ALL THE WORLD
DOMESTIC.


Wheat. 4s,s1S,OOO bushels; corn, H.
LOCO bushels; oats, $500, 600 bushels;
rye, 625,0O0 bushels; barley, $4,000
bushels.
The Klondike gold output this year
willamount to $40, 200, 900, against $751;
100000 last year
Homer and Walter Bittle and Will
Lanier were killed at Monroe Prairie,
Miss, in street fight.
Jack Belts, a negro, was lynched at
Corinth, Miss, for assaulting a ten
year-old white girl.
The bank at Kingfisher Col. closed
its doors with liabilities of SCI, 600: as
sets. ISL, 900.
William |. futile killed his wife and
himself near Charlton, la. Domestic
trouble was the cause.
A train went through bridge near
Mound City, ILL.,, and MIN Whalen, a
brakeman, was killed, and three other
men were fatally injured.
Henry j. O'Neill, once known as the
charley king" filed petition in bank
ruptcy in Chicago, scheduling debts of
100000 and assets of $1,000.
The son of William j. Bryan was
saved from death by Gen. Wheeler in
the Pullman building in Chicago.
A Dowie votary was thrown into the
public fountain by angry citizens at
Mansfield. O., and nearly drowned.
The Dakota elevator was burned at
Buffalo, y. Y, causing a loss of $780,
600.
The Illinois steel works made rec
ord for a payroll, disbursing $21s,0o0
in wages to men in Chicago.
James Rape, a veteran of three
wars, started on a bicycle trip from
Marinette, Wis, to Chicago and New
York
The revenue cutter Gresham pre-
vented a Portuguese bark from going
on the rocks near Newport, saving
over 100 lives.
Merchandise imports during July
amounted to S63,536,253 and exports
aggregated S1OOA13, sol.
Farmer Jones and Bonnie Turner, a
young couple near Clinton, Mo, took
poison and died together because they
were too poor to marry.
An epidemic of smallpox is report
ed among the Turtle mountain In
dams in North Dakota.
The first society of the Army of the
Philippines was formally organized at
Denver, Col, with Gen. Francis V.
Greene, of New York, president.
At jamestown, o., A. G. Bingamon
killed his wife and his son-in-law,
James Bradley, and then committed
suicide. Family trouble was the cause.
Miss Benedette Brady, of st. Louis,
while en- route to San Antonio, was
robbed of IS 900 worth of diamonds on
the train near Paris, Tex.
While making repairs on a steamer
near Memphis, Tenn, William Brown,
r. Fresheen, John barge and fire.
man were thrown into the river and
drowned.
Gov. Charles H. Allen, of Porto Rico,
sailed from Charleston navy yard for
San Juan on the gunboat Mayfower.
John Grscom and his wife and two
children were fatally poisoned at Pop
lar Bluff, Mo-, by eating ice cream fla
vored with a crude extract.
John j. Mooney, of Kenosha, Wis,
left 100000 to two grandchildren and
directed that he be buried in a $25
coffin.
Mrs. L. S. Grant cannot attend the
grand army encampment in Chicago
owing TO advanced age and the nervous
strain incident to the event.
Fitzsimmons and Sharkey will fight
for a purse of $25, 900 at Coney Island,
N. Y, August "a.
Seven persons were killed and many
injured in collision on the Grand Rap
ids e. Indiana railroad at Pierson, Mich
A storm wrecked three steamers at
Nome, Alaska, and Is persons were
drowned.
The murder of Policeman Thorpe in
New York precipitated race riot, dur
ing which negroes were beaten indis-
criminately.
Fifteen Italian detectives are coming
to the United States to shadow anar-
chists in this country.
Reasonable letters from an anti-im-
perialist taken by American soldiers in
the Philippines were made public; they
condemn President Mckinley.
Alfred Mulkin, an aged resident of
Rockford, ILL.,, who was in Chicago seek
ing his runaway wife, was robbed of
$3.50.
A New York mining engineer, inter
viewed in Chicago, says 10000 gold |
prospectors are starving at Cape Nome
and suggests rescue by the govern
ment.
Sow Beckham, Of Kentucky, has
called an extra session of the legisla-
ture for August 2s to modify the Goe-
bel law.
A hailstorm destroyed 10000 acres
of wheat near st. Thomas, n. d.
A tornado wrecked the Pittsburgh
Pa.) Reduction company's aluminium
works. the loss being 100000.