Crittenden press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1879-1907, 1900-08-02
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.

PreSl0ent MCKINNEY mas promised
Emperor kuang Hsu to offer mediation
TO preserve the Chinese empire on con.
dition all foreigners in Picking are first
rescued. Great Britain, il is said
agrees with the United States to pre-.
serve China. Minister WI is now
working, through the Picking govern
ment, for the transfer of all foreigners
in Picking to Tientsin.
Joseph Mullen was electrocuted in
the state prison at Sing Sing for the
murder of his wife on June 4, 1898.
Perry S. Heath has resigned as first
assistant postmaster general, to take
effect July 81.
Elijah Clark, a negro who assaulted
Susan Priest, a 13-year-old girl, was
taken from the Jail in Huntsville, Ala,
by mob and lynched.
Three threshers working on the Ken
nedy farm near Fort Scott, Kan, were
killed by lightning.
Fire at ST. Paul, Mimi, destroyed
the Cold Storage and Warehouse COM
pany's warehouse, causing s75o,oOo
damage.
Eleven negroes were drowned in the
Warrior river near Akron, Ala, by the
capsizing of a skiff
Mrs. Jane Lindsay beat in New York
all long-distance bicycle records for
women, going 1900 miles in six days.
The governments holdings of gold
on the ed reached the highest point
in its history, amounting to $427 ,49s,-
ASP.
Gov. Roosevelt addressed the Jewish
Chautauqua assembly at Atlantic
City, n. j., on "Americanism."
The international surveyors have 10
Gated the Canada Alaska boundary &C.
cording to the modus vivendi so as to
include the north half of the Ameri-
can Porcupine district. American
miners protest.
The naphtha launch Casco, owned
by A. Z. Crow, a millionaire resident
of New Rochelle, N. Y, blew up, kill
ing Mrs. Crow and her son Harold out
right and MORALLY wounding Mr..
Crow.
The Eastern elevator at Buffalo, n.
Y, was burned, the loss being $3.50, 900.
A party OF Illinois scientists discov-
cred the walls of an ancient temple
while excavating in New Mexico.
Twenty thousand people at Cape
Nome, Alaska, are in danger of death
by disease.
DR.. William r. Brooks, director of
Smith observatory at Geneva, N. Y,
discovered a new comet in the eastern
heavens.
Geronimo, the Apache chief who led
the Apache Indians in their outbreak in
Colorado, Arizona and other western
states in the '70s, is insane at Fort Sill,
Okla.
Gen. William F. Draper, of Hopedale,
Mass, has resigned as United States
ambassador to Italy.
In a race riot in New Orleans Robert
Charles (colored) killed three police
men and escaped.
In fire at GAINESVILLE, o., Mrs. Will
liam Smith and her two sons were
burned to death.
In a train wreck near Wabasha,
Mimi, Engineer Hathaway and Fire
man Thomas were killed and several
passengers injured.
Mrs. Byron H. Wiley and her daugh-
ter and three other persons were
drowned near Ventura, Cal, while
bathing.
Thomas Bartles, william Bosely and
Mrs. E. NJ. Waller were killed by the
cars at a crossing in Nation, Ill.
Jack Hillsman (colored) was hanged
by a mob near Knoxville, Ca, for as
saulting the young daughter of a
planter.
A steam tube on a yacht burst near
Syracuse, N. Y, killing the three chill |
dren of F. L. Sphinx, owner of the yacht. |
Charles Hale Hoyt, the famous au-
thor, actor and manager, has been de-
clared insane in New York.
Four women were killed and 81 other
persons hurt as the result of an explo-
sion and fire in collar factory in Chi
cago.
Fourth Assistant Postmaster Gen
eral Bristow in his report on Cuban
postal affairs says Nicely, Rathbone,
Rich and others were in collision and
are embezzlers.
Bartholomew Ruello, an italian, the
ding of silver dollar counterfeiters,
was caught In Philadelphia. . >,