Crittenden press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1879-1907, 1900-01-11
DOMESTIC.


Orlando Stevens, of Ottumwa, Ia.
made a new worlds record in Il competi.
ton mile bicycle race in Los Angeles,
Cal, his time being so 1-3.
Kid Mccoy defeated Peter Maher in
a battle of five rounds at Coney Island,
n.
For the first time in many years the
Mississippi river was frozen over at St.
Louis.
William Ellis and wife and two chill
6ren were burned TO death in their
home near Barboursville, w. Va.
County Treasurer Emanuel ii. Her
shey, of Lancaster, Pa, was missing and
was said to be a defaulter TO the ex-
tent of $4,000.
An explosion of sewer gas at Knox
vile, Pa, wrecked l2 houses and
stables and tore up several streets.
Slight earthquake shocks were felt
at Los Angeles, Cal, and at nearly all
points within 100 miles of that city.
II is said that the FeniGns are stor-
ing large quantities of ammunition in
remote districts in Vermont and Maine
near the Canadian boundary line.
Six inches of snow fell at Macon, Ca.
making a new record for that portion
of the south.
The Pennsylvania Railroad company
placed $50 old employees on the pension
list.
The Carnegie iron works in Pitts
burgh resumed operations, advancing
the wages of 10000 employees, increas-
ing the pay roll over 81, 200, 900 year.
John +. Baldwin has been pardoned
after a term of 90 years in Sing Sing
On. W prison for murder. lie was SEN
fenced for life.
Eden Baptist church at Stromsberg,
Neb., which was dedicated only year
ago, was destroyed by fire.
Andrew Carnegie has given 100000
to Cooper Union in New York, to be
used to establish a day school, where
young men may learn to become
skilled workmen
James /. Moore, aged CO years, shot
and killed his wife, aged %, at Names,
Mo, and then committed suicide.
The Mississippi legislature met ut
Jackson.
Water was turned into the 3,OO0,-
eco Chicago drainage canal and began
to flow toward Lockport, where it will
fall into the Desplaines river, and
thence, through the Illinois and Mis-
sissippi rivers, to the Gulf of Mexico.
President Harper announced that
the Chicago university had received
$4,000 in gifts during the past year.
The government receipts during the
last six months amount to S2S4,703,-
494 and the expenditures to 1868, &c.,
ECO, which leaves a surplus for the half
year Of $21O26,034, against a deficit
Cor the corresponding period of Ss3,-
719,422.
In the Ohio legislature resolution
was passed in the house expressing
sympathy for the Beers.
Secretary Hay has informed the
British government that the United
States regards the seizure of Ameri-
can -four at Delagoa bay by British
cruiser as illegal, and that indemnity
is claimed.
The public debt statement issued on
the ed shows that the debt decreased
s5,70l,S24 during the month of Deem
Der. The cash balance in the treasury
was S9s3,5O5,45 The total debt less
the cash balance in the treasury,
amounts to $1,134, 10000
At the close of business December
80, 1899, the total circulation of national
bank notes was $24G, 1923, an increase
for the wear of S2.4GO.41S
James II. Kelly died at Garbuttsvilie,
N. Y, aged SO years. He was well
known as the inventor of the head
light used on locomotives.
The total coinage at the minis of the
United States during the year 1899 was
o1, as follows: Gold, $ll1,344,-
22o; silver, $2G,OGl,5l0; minor coins,
81 ,S37,451.
Mrs. Charles Chapman and her |
daughter were drowned near Ardmore,
T., and .te shock killed the mother
of Mr.. Chapman.