Crittenden press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1879-1907, 1900-09-13
A WEEKS RECORD
ALI 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.

DOMESTIC.
The population of the United States
estimated from counted census returns
10 75,57s,ooo, an increase since 1890 Of
12,s55,750.
SixUnited States and five British war.
ships are at Bar Harbor.
President McKinley's visit to Canton
has been delayed by Chinese affairs.
Police stopped an incipient race riot in
New York.
Two patrolmen were killed and IL Sc
riously burned by crossing of electric
wires in st. Louis.
Enoch Moss (colored) was hanged
at Bastrop. Tex, for the murder OF
Neal Lane (white).
Labor day was celebrated in the
large cities throughout the country.
Fire wiped out the business portion
Of Potosi. Wis.
Regular army and navy veterans in
camp in New York elected William E.
Morris national commander.
Engineer Ryan was killed and nine
passengers injured in a wreck on the
Northwestern railroad at Freeport,
Ill.
Francis Frohm, a desperate crimi-
nal, was riddled with bullets by a
party of farmers near Elizabethwille,
Pa.
George Bancroft and Charles Robin
SON engaged in . duel on horseback
At Chambers, KY, and both were IA
tally wounded.
Fifteen thousand anthracite coal
miners at Wilkesbarre, Pa, defied the
operators and declared they would
strike September unless demands
were met.
Rev. DR.. F. z. Clark, president of
the Christian Endeavor, returned to
Boston from tour Of the world. He
left Picking four days before the Box
er outbreak,
The Pottawatomie Indians claim
miles Of lake front in Chicago, which
10 valued at SIS, OOo geo.
Hiccoughs caused the death of John
Solmon, chief Of police Of Assumption,
Ill.
The Pennsylvania railway lines west
of Pittsburgh will establish q trav-
cling police force to keep away
tramps.
John D. Rockefeller has made SPELL
man seminary, a negro college at At
lanta, Ca, a present Of $4,000.
Richmond, Va, has q population Of
$1,000 and Charleston, S. c., 55,s07,
both showing slight gains over the
1890 census.
The business failures in the United
States in August numbered 7oS, the
fewest reported in any month for II
months past.
Joseph Dakus, a farmer near Poplar
Bluff, Mo-, was arrested, charged with
poisoning melons and causing the
death of nine boys
Paul Cronin killed Mrs. E. Miller at
Waukesha, Wis, because she refused
TO mary him, and then shot himself
fatally.
Cresceus reduced the worlds trot-
ting record for stations to 2:04% at
Hartford, Conn.
The Michigan peach crop is the
largest in years, taxing the capacity
of steamboats, and railroads.
By the fall Of a corn crib near Peo-
tone, ILL.,, William Krieg and Chris Mill
er were killed and George Krieg was
fatally injured.
Dependent because of i'll health,
Mrs. Hannah Hansel, SO years old,
ended her life and that of her IA
months-old son in Chicago.
At Georgetown, KY, Judge Cantrill |
sentenced ex-Secretary of State Caleb |
Powers, convicted in the Goebel case,
to prison for life.
The population of Albany, N. Y, is
o4,151, against 94,923 in $780,
Elijah Davis (colored) was taken |
from the Charleston (Mo.) Jail by mob
and dashed until the blood ran down his
back for an assault on the city mar
shall.
Since July, 1899, $4,000 immigrants
have arrived at Havana, Cuba.
An earthquake at Lituya bay,
Alaska, killed five Indians and greatly
damaged property.
Thes state bank Of Lamont, ILL.,, closed
its doors with liabilities of SIP, 900; as
sets, $4,000.
During a quarrel ranchmen drove
5000 sheep over a precipice at Sharps-
dale, Col, and all were killed.
vention in Detroit, Mich, elected John
N. Parsons, of New York, president.
The census bureau announces that
the population of Peoria, ILL.,, is $1,000,
an increase of 15,O76 in ten years.
William Fitzpatrick, a weak-minded
man, killed Richard Gordon and fatally
wounded his twin brother at Clifton,
s. l., because they ridiculed him.
The entire business portion of Man
ito, ILL.,, was destroyed by fire.
Women singers in Roman Catholic
churches are alarmed because of the
decree which forbids their appearance
in choirs. [
A conservative estimate OF the total q
of the United States,
based upon twelfth census returns al ]
ready reported. is 100000. {