Crittenden press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1879-1907, 1900-09-13
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Attorneys for the defense in the
dynamiting cases at st. Louis propose
to test the constitutionality of the
special jury law.
An impudent tramp peddler in St
Louis county, Mo-, was driven away
at the point of a shotgun by woman
he annoyed.
| Ruby Richardson, seven years old,
was run over and killed by street
car while returning home from school
at st. Louis.
A letter from London indicates that
Rev. Charles M. Sheldon's criticisms
of the English people are strongly
| resented.
The war between Chicago gas com.
| panies has resulted in the reduction
of the price of gas from 81 to 40 cents
Der 1000 feet.
The combined census reports of 81
cities shows an increase of 3,494,666
in population, or an average gain of
27.90 per cent.
Special Officer T. Rosser Roemer, of
st. Louis, accused of grossly insulting
three girls, is still on duty while his
superiors offer excuses.
The presidents cabinet is widely
scattered. Secretary of War Root is
the latest member to leave Washing
ton on a vacation.
The attorney for former Capt.
Oberlin M. Carter, serving a prison
sentence for embezzlement of govern
ment funds, will ask Judge Thayer, at
st. Louis, for writ of habeaus corpus.
A posse and bloodhounds are on the
trail of two negro robbers, who seri-
ously wounded Farmer Riggs, near
his home in Godfrey, Ill.
Torrential transforms on the island
of Jamaica have washed away miles
of railroad tracks and done much
damage to banana plantations.
The McKenna steel mills, at Joliet,
ILL.,, which have been idle during the
summer, will start on Monday with
good line eff orders ahead.
A safe-blower was captured at
Hackett, Ark, while robbing the
store of johnson & Pace.
John r. Bell, well-known resident
Of Flora, ILL.,, died suddenly of apo
pleXy. He was a veteran of the civil
war.
Joseph Z. Ingraham, a prominent
farmer, near Flora, ILL.,, died, Friday,
of typhoid fever. He was brother
iu-law of Gov. JOHN r. Tanner.
Edward Myers, aged "a, engaged in
painting electric light poles, at
Youngstown, o., while on top of so
foot pole, came in contact with live
wire, and was instantly killed.
The phenomenal advance in the
prices of cotton from Tuesday to
Thursday was followed on Friday by
a crash, which sent prices tumbling
downward from 25 to 40 points.
The war department emergency
fund will be used to relieve the suf-
ferings of the Alaskan Indians, and
the Red Cross society will furnish
clothing and medicine.
The eight-year-old son of James
Hawkins, of Poplar Bluff, Mo-, recent
ly complained of severe, continuous
headache. A doctor examined the boy
on Friday, and removed 90 black
spiders from his ear.
Charles ]. Gilbert, a pioneer men,
Der of the Chicago board of trade,
met death, Friday night, by falling
down the cellarway of an Evanston
store, fracturing his skull.
We learn" says the London Daily
News, that the government expects
decisive news from South Africa with
in a fortnight, and ehat parliament
will be dissolved during the last week
of September"
The president and Mrs, Mckinley
will leave Washington, Monday after
noon, for Somerset, Pa, to attend the
marriage there, Tuesday, of Miss Ma
bel Mckinley and DIR. Hermanus Lud-
wig-Baer.