Crittenden press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1879-1907, 1900-11-01
All the News of the Past Seven
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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.

posted notices OF the ten per cent. aG-
vance and the adjustment of the Slid
ing scale.
The stockholders Of 10 railroads in
Iowa ratified the action of the directors
In agreeing TO sell TO the Burlington.
The American answer to the invita-
ton from Germany to acquiesce in the
purposes of the British-German agree
ment to prevent the partition Of China
and maintain the open door" will be
a cordial Endorsement 81 the principles
contained in the agreement.
Charentus broke the worlds record
for mile and quarter on new track
at Yonkers, n. Y. the time being 2:o4.
For no cause known Harry Belts
killed his wife and himself at Cory,
Pa. The young couple were very popu-
lar.
Edward Williams, a Dowieite elder
of Benton Harbor Mich. was eX-
PEELED from Mansfield, o., by the po-
lice.
The Kentucky legislature adjourned
sine die.
The National Civil Service Reform
league declined to accept Carl Schurz'
resignation as president.
The population Of Jackson, Mich, is
25,1sO, against 2O,7s9 in 1890, an in
crease of 4.3S2.
Gov. Gen. Wood says that wonder
full progress has been made in the
reconstruction of Cuba during the last
year, and that the Cuban government
is now se.r-supporting, with a bal
ance of $1,5OO.OO, in the treasury.
a ten-year-old boy was caught turn
ing baltimore & Ohio railroad switch
in Chicago.
Assistant Secretary of War Meikle-
john was caught in a cloudburst near
Stromsburg. Neb., and narrowly es-
capped with his life.
Gloster Barnes, a cclored wife muir
derer, was lynched near Nicksburg,
Miss, by mob of negroes.
The Russian battleship Retvizan was
launched at Cramps shipyards in Phil
adelphia. 1t cost 100000.
The New York state college Of for
estry will send six assistants to the |
forestry bureau at Manila.
The citizens of Oklahoma and Indian |
territory want single statehood for
the two territories.
Four prominent men of Paterson, n. |
j., are in Jail, accused of numbering a
mill girl.
The twenty-ffth anniversary of Van
derbilt university was celebrated at |
Nashville, Tenn.
Anthracite coal operators made fur
Their concessions and it is stated the big |
strike is likely to end in a day or two.
c. L. Alvord, Jr., teller of the First |
national bank of New York city, was
to be a defaulter TO the
amount of 100000. His whereabouts
were unknown.
The Rock Island railroad will extend
its southwestern division TO connect
with the Mexican Central and Southern
Pacific at FL Paso, Tex.
Methodist women's 100000 "twen-
tieth century thank Offering" has all
been raised.
Secretary of the Navy Long has given
his consent to the removal of the bat
tleship Maine from Havana harbor.
Rev. DR.. j. N. Craig, of Atlanta Ga,
dropped dead in his pulpit while ad-
dressing the Presbyterian synod at
Newport News, Va.
The census of 1900 gives California
l population of 1,4s5,Oj3. an increase
since 1890 of 276,923, or 229 per cent.
President Mitchell's announcement
that he will soon make a definite
statement is taken to mean that the
strike will be formally de-
-lared off.
The Georgia legislature convened in
Banker William A. Paulsen was SEN
fenced in Chicago TO an indeterminate '
ERIN in the penitentiary for receiving
deposits after his bank was insolvent.
James Guer and James Galloway
'colored), charged with firing into a
armer's house, were hanged by mob
It Liberty Hill, Ga. |
The entire business portion Of Dun |
want. Kan, was destroyed by fire.
The exchanges at the leading clear O
ng houses in the United States during b
he week ended on the 10Th aggre-
'ated $1,6o5, 493, 1862, against 81 ,571, 406,- /
06 the previous week. The decrease !
ompared with the corresponding
week of 1899 was 1872. ]
There were 200 business failures in q
he United States in the seven days 1
nded on the 18th, against 223 the week
revious and 145 the corresponding Pc t
iod of 1899. r
The increase in registration in Great
r New York over 1896 is $4,000. S
Ralph Sampson, son of Admiral o
ampson, has been recommended for S
cadetship at Annapolis by President
IcKinley. t
The commemoration day exercises e
the one hundred and fifty-fourth
ear of the founding of the university Ii
Princeton. N. j.. were held. ~