Crittenden press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1879-1907, 1900-08-16
A WEEKS RECORD
ALI 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.
HOME AND FOREIGN ITEMS
THE NEWS FROM ALL THE WORLD
DOMESTIC.

The transport Logan arrived at San
Francisco crowded with refugees from
China
Andrew White, ambassador to Ger
many, says Germany and Russia are
likely to unite in a war against China
In a railway wreck at Aurich, Ark.
five persons were killed and two others
fatally injured.
The visible supply of grain in the
United States on the 9th was: Wheat,
47,594,0O0 bushels; corn, 1890 600
bushels; oats. 1855, 900 bushels;' rye,
$4,000 bushels; barley, $4,000 BUSH
els.
Gov. Gen. Wood decided to recog-
nize either civil of ecclesiastical mar
riages in Cuba.
N. E. Backenstoss reached Seattle
on a bicycle, having made the trip
from New York in 81 days.
The city of Buffalo, N. Y, has a
population of 1920, a gain in ten
years of 96,G55.
The government asked Chicago pack
ers to submit bids on an order for
100000 pounds of meat for the Amer.
ican armies in the orient.
Four ocean liners started from New
York to win a mail contract race across
the Atlantic.
The large floating dry dock bought
at Havana from the Spanish govern
ment will be located at Pensacola.
cyclone which swept over Burling-
ton, VT, and vicinity caused two deaths
and several hundred thousand dollars
damage to property.
A cigar-shaped train attained a speed
of So miles an hour and broke all rec
oros between Philadelphia and Balti-
more.
The intense heat caused nine deaths
anal many prostrations in Chicago.
Gov Tanner has suspended the ILL
nos cattle quarantine law until le-
gality is adjudcated.
A summary of the condition of all
the national banks in the United
States at the close of business June
20, 1900, shows the aggregate assets
to be S4,944, 956.623, the highest ever
reached in the history of the national
system.
John Grouix, an aeronaut. was killed
at Ottawa Beach, Mich, by falling ECO
feet.
In Cincinnati John w. Jolly shot
and killed his sister-in-law, Emma
Kleekamp, and then killed his wife
Domestic trouble was the cause.
a passenger train on the Monon
road collided with freight engine at
South Raub, Ind, and three persons
were killed and several injured one IA
tally.
Dynamiters have begun again to
place explosives on the tracks of the |
st. Louis Transit company.
Estimates on the wheat crop Of Min
nesota and the Dakotas show a yield |
of less than half that of 1899.
The census bureau gave the popula-
ton of Providence, II. l., at 175, 600, a |
gain Of 43,451 since 1890.
William Bateman Leeds gave his |
bride in Cleveland o., presents to the
value of over $5OO.0OO.
The gross postal receipts at so of the |
largest post Offices for the month of |
July aggregates $685. S3, a net in
crease of $685. over July, 1899.
There is promise of larger num-
Der OF visitors at the Yellowstone park |
this season than in any previous year.
The fire losses in the United States
and Canada in the first seven months
of this year amount to $116,90S, 900,
against 81, 1926, $50 in the same time in
1899.
The federal census shows Chicago's
population approximately 100000;
estimated increase, 81 per cent.
The Third battalion at Fort Sheri-
dan, ILL.,, has been ordered rushed TO
San Francisco, to embark there for
China.
Hawaii has closed its last school for
teaching the native language.
After a family quarrel Charles Da-
Dor, 65 years DID, shot and killed his
wife and himself in Chicago.
w. T. Turner and wife jumped from
a rapidly moving train near Admission,
Ala, and were killed
A fire which started from spark in
the lumber yard of the Polska Indus
trial company at Crivitz, Wis, caused a
loss of $15o,oOO.
Admiral Dewey says war is on he {
tween the United States and China. u