Crittenden press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1879-1907, 1900-10-11
NEWS IN BRIEF.
Compiled from Various Sources.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.
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been abrogated.
Maxwell d. Long, of the New York
Athletic club, on the 4th, at the Gut
tenberg race track, broke the worlds
440-yard running record, going the
distance in AZ seconds.
Gen. Macarthur reported to the war
department, on the 4th, that five SOL
diers died in the mountains of La
guna province after having made their
escape from the insurgents by whom
they had been captured.
BY another peculiar shift in the cur
rent of the Mississippi river within
the last few days, every remaining
trace of the village of old Kaskaslia
has been swept into the waters, which
now flow directly over the spot where
was once located the first white set
Element west of the Allegheny noun
tGins and the first capital of the state
of Illinois.
Gov. McAIillin of Tennessee has de-
MED a petition for pardon filed by z.
ID. and Frank Thompson, of Memphis,
cadaVer dealers and former leading
undertakers. They were for years
county undertakers and sold bodies
in st. Louis, Cincinnati, Chicago and
other points.
Senator NJ. A. Hanna was the tar
get for ten-pound chunk of ice at
the Thirty-frst ward republican
meeting, in Chicago, on the night of
the 4th. The missile was dropped
through an aperture in the tent di-
rectly over the speakers stand. 1t did
not miss Hanna's head over two
inches. and had it struck him would
have probably fractured his skull.
a Shanghai dispatch to the London
Times says it is reported on good au-
thority that SC missionaries in north
Shansi, who have hitherto beenreport-
ed as missing, have all been massa.
cred.
Albert T. Patrick and Charles +.
Jones were arrested in New York, on
the 4th, on charges of having forged
the name of William Marsh Rice to
checks aggregating S27O,OOO. Patrick
was arrested in the vaults of the New
York Safe Deposit Co. Jones was ar
rested at No. 500 Madison avenue.
An indictment has been returned,
at Lincoln, ILL.,, against four men,
charging raud in the award of the
contract for plumbing on the new
building at the Illinois asylum for
feeble-minded children.
The finding of corpses in Galveston
seems never-ending, 25 a day being re-
covered. 1T is certain now that the
dead in the city will exceed 5000, out
side the city limits on the island 1900
and on the mainland over 1000.
A Wausau (Wis.) dispatch of the
18th said: "The Wisconsin river is rag
ing as the result of heavy rains and
has exceeded the flood mark of last
spring. The damage so far will reach
thousands of dollars and a little
greater rise, which is expected before
morning, will result in immense loss"
Anton march,, aged 70 years,
dropped dead at the Broadway hotel. |
Jentralia, ILL.,, on the 4th, while eat |
ng dinner, owing to apoplexy. Mr.. |
Narchi was native of Switzerland
Ind had no relatives in this country
lie was a soldier in the Second Iii
lois artillery.
John E. Glover, of New Richmond,
Mis-, and John A. Humbird, of ST
1aul, Mimi, have purchased of Fred
Weyerhauser, so, 900 acres of stump.
ige, located along the headwaters of
he Clearwater. The tract contains
oo,oOO,o0O feet of high grade white
line, and over 1,OOO,OOO,OOO feet of
White and red cedar, fir, etc.
Herr Brinkmann, who was inaugu-
ated as second burgomaster of the
lty of Berlin, on the 5th, came out
trongly in his inaugural address in
avor of municipal ownership of trans
'ortation facilities, better dwellings
or the poor and various social re-
orms.
At the Minera Fair, IS miles east of
anton, O., on the 5th, Sid Scott and
'icol, owned by c. A. Mcmahon, of
'antield, broke the worlds record for
pacing team on n half-mile track,
DING it in 2:13. The former record
vas 2:13%.
From its correspondent at ShanR-
al, the Berlin Lolal Anzeiger re-
eived a dispatch, on the 5th, saying
Lat Count Won Waldersee had begun
Systematically to clear the country
etween Tien Tsin and Pelcin of Box
rs.
An accredited representative of an
nglish syndicate, on the 5th, con-
racted for 100000 tons of Alabama ,
pal to be delivered at some point on
ne gulf of Mexico, the deliveries to
ztend.over a period of two years.
The carnival parade, esteemed by
ANY to be the most interesting event
Kansas City's week of festivity,
as reviewed, on the 4th, by probably
lie largest crowd that ever visited !
lat city on a similar occasion.
A dispatch from st. Petersburg ,
lys: "rhe Russian government as ,
nts TO the proposals in Count Won
uelow's note of October /. M. De ,
lers (the Russian minister at Pekin) ,
IS been Instructed in that sense" I