Crittenden press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1879-1907, 1900-11-08
A WEEKS RECORD
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.
HOME AND FOREIGN ITEMS
THE NEWS FROM ALL THE WORLD
DOMESTIC.

DOMESTIC.
Gen. f. s. Otis has been assigned to
command the department of the lakes
and Gen. Fitzhugh Lee to the Depart
ment of the Missouri.
President Mckinley in a proclana-
ton announces November 30 as
Thanksgiving day.
Cornelius j. Alvord, Jr., the en-
bezzling note teller of the First ma
tional bank, New York, was arrested
in Boston.
A terrific explosion of chemicals, re-
sulting from a fire in the drug house
of Tarrant & Co., at the corner of
Greenwich and Warren streets, New
York, resulted in the loss of possibly
IS lives, injury to over hundred per-
sons, and caused a property loss of
81 100000.
The visible supply of grain in the
United States on the goth was: Wheat,
b9,773,O 900 bushels; corn, $4,000 bush
els; oats, 12,25G,OOO bushels; rye, 1885,
600 bushels; barley, 1907, OOO bushels.
In a wreck on the Northern Pacific
road at De Hart, Mont, seven passen-
gers were killed and several injured.
The military department of Cuba
has been established, with Gen. Leon
ard Wood as commander.
Farm buildings were wrecked by
cyclone at Gypsum, Kan, and John
S. Moor was killed and other persons
injured.
Rosslyn Terrell was convicted at
Marysville, o., of numbering Express
Messenger Lane on August 10 last.
Four desperadoes murdered Harry c.
Hosler, paymaster of a Pennsylvania
coke company, at Connellsville. Three
of the former were killed and the
fourth is in Jail.
The census bureau announces the to-
tai population of the United States at
76,295,22O, a gain of 1925, AGA in ten
years.
Five bodies were recovered from the
ruins caused by explosion and fire in
New York.
The annual report of Adjt Gen. Cor
bin shows the army consists of 1885
officers and G3,s31 men. volunteers
bringing the total up to os,79O.
Two persons were killed in a collision
on the Chicago & Alton road near
Mitchell, III.
Three men were killed in n gas eXplo-
sion in a coal mine near Wilkesbarre,
Pa.
Finley II. Anderson confessed that
he testified falsely against Caleb Pow
ers in the Goebel case at Georgetown,
KY, through the influence of Col
Campbell, Arthur Goebcl and Whar-
ton Golden.
The Mountain house, a famous hotel
at Blanford, Mass, was burned to the
ground.
An 1S-year-old negro youth named
Alternately who attempted a criminal
assault on a 14-year-old white girl at
Duke, Ala, was hanged by a mob.
The southern cotton crop for 1900 is
placed at 100000 bales.
Chicago bank clearings for October
were $6o7 63l,Os7, the largest for any
month but one on record.
Twcnty-six persons are unaccounted
for in the Tarrant fire and explosion
in New York.
George j. Frey was robbed of 1890
while waiting to make a deposit in
the First national bank in Chicago.
Registration shows about 10000
voters in Porto Rico.
The United States fish commission
steamer Albatross returned to San
Francisco from II mouths cruise.
Most of the time she has been in
che Pacific
The business portion of Shelby, Neb.,
was almost entirely wiped out by a
fire started by burglars.
The public debt statement issued on
the 1st shows that the debt decreased
$1,754-351 during the month of Octo-
Der. The cash balance in the treasury
was $2s7 0O5,O32. The total debt, less
the cash in the Treasury, amounts to
81 ,1o4, 4O2, 1920.
The exchanges at the leading clear |
ing houses in the United States during |
the week ended on the Goth aggre-
gated S1,739,411, 15s, against $685. |
4o3,1 1862 the previous week. The de- !
crease compared with the correspond
ing week of 1899 was 2.s.
Miss Mai Lection sued United States
Senator Sullivan, of Mississippi, for
$4,000 for alleged breach Of promise.