Crittenden press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1879-1907, 1900-07-19
OTHERWISE UNNOTICED.

Col. j. Mack Tanner has taken com
nland of the Fourth illinois regiwcnt.
Rain in Nebraska has aided the corn
crop generally, except in the western
ortion.
kentucky democrats will hold n con-
yention this week 10 nominate a gu
bernatorial candidate.
1t is believed that the Isthmian canal
commission will decide in favor Of the
Nicaraguan waterway.
| The United States Monetary league
will formally notify Bryan of its action
III his behalf at the recent Kansas City
convention.
Fire, at Quincy, ILL.,, destroyed Ev-
trett Wiskirchen's livery stable, ere
mating four horses. Wiskirchen's loss
is $1,000, and insurance $4,000.
The Missouri national guard is in an
nual encampment at Springfield. Mo,
| The lacotion is an ideal one, and the
regiments we'll represented.
DR.. Robert j. Hill, for "a years n
prominent st. Louis physician, died
early Sunday morning, and will be
buried with military honors.
Constant rains falling in the vicinity
of TeNarkana, Tex, throughout the
week just past have proven to be an
Injury to both cotton and corn.
Five persons were injured in
freight wreck on the Queen C Crescent
at Greendale, six miles from Lcxing-
ton, Ky. A COW caused the wreck.
Two prisoners held in connection
with the HUMPHREYS lynchng, nearly
ESCAPED from the Anderson county
(TeX) Jail by tunneling through the
wall
Great numbers of cattle and hogs
in Fannin county, Tex, and adjoining
territory, are dying from a disease UNI
known to stockmen. Some pronounce
il black leg.
{. w. Barnes, under arrest, at ST.
Louis, for train robbery, says that
Nelson" is his brother. Claiming
Barnes, and that their father is an
Austin (TeX.) grocer.
a car of the Union division of the st,
Louis Transit Co. was blown up with
dynamite Sunday night, and two pas.
sengers very badly injured. The car
was completely wrecked.
Frank Neseinheiuer, an employee of
the BurlingtN shops, at Hannibal,
Mo-, died suddenly Sunday night. The
indications were that death was the re-
suit of morphine poisoning.
Illinois apples scored triumph at
Paris when Illinois was marked Is on
a possible score of 20; Missouri, 16;
New York 16 (after having been first
marked AZ, and Nebraska marked 16.
The body of the late Senator Gear, of
Iowa, has been shipped TO Burlington,
where the funeral viii be held. A dis
tinguishcd party accompanied the
corpse from Washington on a special
train.
Mr.. S. f. Hindman shot himself dead |
at Burlington, Ia, because his wife,
who is the receiver of Charity lodge, !
Degree of Honor A. o. U. W., had been
accused of being $500 short in her ac7
counts.
Poverty, i'll health and a weak-mind- |
ed wife impelled Louis Eisen, a shoe
maker, at Baltimore Md, to kill him
self, his wife and 13-months-old babe |
with a razor and to wound his 3D. |
year-old son.
1t is asserted at democratic head |
quarters in Chicago that Eugene V. |
Debs, presidential candidate of the |
Social Democracy of America, will |
withdraw, October l, in favor of Will
lam j. Bryan.
Gov. Allen of Porto Rico and Gen.
Russell Hastings, of Bermuda, were
guests at the Mckinley home in Can
ton, o., Sunday Gov. Allen went to
talk over matters connected with the |
administration of the island.
"The dead are silent and the Chinese
lie." This has come to be a maxim in
Berlin. Even faith in Ii Hung Chang
has fled. No one hopes any longer
that he will reach Pekin before the sit
uation there becomes irreparable.
The investigation of the Cuban pos
tai scandal by the postal department
has developed a remarkable set of ex-
penditurcs by E. G. Rathbone. OF
Rathbone's accounts 100000 has been
or suspended for explana-
ton.
The administration, represented by
Secretary Hay, discourages the idea of
calling congress together before the
regular meeting in December, on the
ground that a state of war does not
exist and is not likely to, and that the
force of 100000 men alerady provided
is sufficient for all purposes.
THE CABINET COUNCIL.