Crittenden press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1879-1907, 1900-08-09
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.

cause was known for the deed.
Caleb Powers, accused of the MUIR
der of William Goebel, took the stand
in his own behalf in the trial at
Georgetown, Ky.
Carrie NJ. Anderson and John H.
Cummings, blind couple, were mar
ried at Fort Atkinson, Wis, after a
courtship of 90 years.
Angry citizens RACED and burned
the church of strange sect at Shoal
Creek, n. c.
Secretary Root ordered two more
batteries of the Seventh artillery to
China.
Zion" Elders McChirkin and Fish
er, of Chicago, were mobbed by in
furiated citizens in Mansfield, o.. and
given a coat of blue paint from head
TO foot.
The United States training ship
Hartford left Charleston navy yard
for Southampton, England. The cruise
is expected to last a year.
Frank Jones, aged 16 years. shot and
killed James Elan, Of the same age,
at Pana, ILL.,. because the latter re-
fused to stand on his lead.
Large numbers of Indians held
meeting at Tulsa, l. T., and decided
20 divide the Creek Nation into its
original AZ towns and return to their
tribal customs.
James j. Corbett and Kid Mccoy
have been matched to fight 25 rounds
in New York in the last week of Au-
gust.
Census returns of Cincinnati. O..
show a population of 325, 9O2, gain of
2s,994 in ten years.
One million dollars is the amount Sc
cured by f. L. Swazey. the absconding
Kansas City cattleman, before he
started for South America.
Four young girls, Virginia and Elsie
Lowe, of Germantown. Pa. and Jennie
and BERTHE Lonsdale, of Windmere, Pa,
were drowned at Ocean City, n. j.,
while bathing.
The batt.eship Wyoming will be
launched at the Union iron works, San
Francisco, on September 5.
President Mckinley left Canton 10
spend a short time in Washington.
A cloudburst flooded canyons and
valleys and caused disaster along the
banks of many small rivers in Arizona.
The Chicago police raided nine al
legged bucket shops and arrested nearly
400 inmates.
Col. Henry c. Cochrane, command
ant of the marine barracks at Boston,
has been ordered to China to take
command of the marine forces in that
country.
John c. Meyers, a well-known athlete,
swan from Alton, ILL.,, to st. Louis, a
distance of % miles, in six hours.
Cora and Ruby Townsend, twin sis
tiers, and Pearl Flack were drowned
near Saltillo, Tex.
Commissioner of Pensions Evans re-
port shows 991,51o pensioners on the
roll an increase of 2,O1O the last year.
Reports show lake shipments of
grain from Chicago in July the largest
for that month ever known and the
customs collections for July break the
record.
Johnny Nelson, a Chicago cyclist
defeated Jimmy Michael in a 2O-mile
race in Boston by Ave yards. Time,
33:O3 10
Secretary of War Root has ordered
an election of delegates in Cuba and
named November as the date of the
constitutional convention.
Alexander Jester, charged with the |
murder of Gilbert w. Gates 80 years |
ago, was acquitted by Il jury at New
London, Mo.
A large part of the business section |
of Convoy, o., was destroyed by fire.
Roger Wolcott, former governor of |
Massachusetts,, has accepted the ten
der of the petition OF ambassador to
Italy.
The total coinage at the minis dur
ing July was $S,404,427.
The government receipts during
July amounted to $49,955, 100 and the
expenditures $53 ,979,653 leaving def
felt for the month of S4,O24,403.
The total circulation of national
bank notes on July 81 was $32O,O15,-
1855, an increase for the year of $751;
473,97S.
The town of Gilman, Col, was
burned, making homeless upward of
200 people.
Crop reports from the western grain
belt indicate that the harvest will be
large.
The amount Of gold in the treasury
on the list was S431, 17O,7 64, the high
est in the history of the government.
The transport Meade sailed from
San Francisco for Taku, China, with
1000 soldiers aboard.
The whole of the Tintic mining dis
trict in Utah was shaken by an earth
quake.
Smokers of cigarettes will not be
employed henceforth in the packing
house of Swift G. Co., in Chicago.
A storm in the broom corn district of
Illinois did over 100000 damage to
the growing CROP y