Crittenden press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1879-1907, 1901-09-05
Elsie and Julia McFars. two women

Elsie and Julia McFai1s, two women
residing near Knoxville, Tenn, are in
jail charged with having caused the
deaths of three children.
In session in Baltimore the Supreme
Order of Foresters elected Thomas f.
Donahue, of Rhode Island, chief
ranger.
Congressman Hull, of Iowa, chair
man of the house committee on milf
tary affairs, arrived in San Francisco
from the Philippines.
George Howard. one of a lynching
gang. was convicted at Wetumpka,
Ala. Of murder in the first degree and
sentenced to life Imprisonment.
The national banks of the United
States in reports TO the comptroller
Of the currency showed total increase
of resources to $5,675, 100000.
James II. Halls bank at Kinde,
Mich, was entered by burglars and
while the thieves secured only 500
they destroyed the bank building and
all its contents.
\ cave-in at the North Star mine at
Silverton, Cal. killed three miners.
Special agents of the United States
government are watching for ship
ments of arms from New York de-
signed to fall into the hands of the war;
ring factions in Colombia.
Colorado commanery No. 1, of Den
yer. won first prize at Knights Templar
conclave at Louisville. St. Bernard,
of Chicago, won second prize.
Yielding to the demand of the Ne
braska republican state convention,
Gov Savage Cancelled the parole of ex-
State Treasurer BARLEY.
The American Association for the
Advancement of Science in session in
Denver accepted the theory advanced
by Prof. w. j, Niece, of Chicago, that
Adam and Eve never existed.
President Schwab. Of the steel COM
bine, refuses to entertain the arbitra-
tion proposal Endorsed by President
Shaffer, and another proposition for
peace is promised.
DIR. ]. W. Ba shford. of Ohio Wesleyan
university. declined presidency OF
the Northwestern university in Chi
cago.
w ]. Kingsley arrived in New York
from London with S150,000 English
money to bet on Shamrock II.
Allen Richards, George Fortner and
Sam Ray were burned to death at
Ducktown. Tenn.
According to a census bulletin 941,-
760 of the population of New Jersey
are males and 941 900 females, the total
population being 1.SS3,669.
George O'Brien was hanged at Daw-
Rolfe, Fred Clayson and Lineman o.
sen on Christmas day, 1899.
The loss of life by the explosion on
the steamer City of Trenton at Torres
dale. Pa, is now placed at Is, with ten
missing.
Secretary Root left Washington for
his summer home on Long Island for
rest He is suffering from carbuncles.
Census report shows New Y ork state
has surplus of women.
Women in the Virginia constitution
al convention in Richmond turned
their backs on speaker who praised
negroes.
Two persons were killed and 2s in
iured in a railroad wreck at Fairville,
y. Y.
Little Boy, brown gelding, beat the
worlds record for wagon PAGERS with
amateur drivers in Chicago by going
mile in 2:O3 3-5.
The United Typothetae in session in
Buffalo, y, v, elected as president A.
+. Pears, of Pittsburg.
Seventeen business houses at Scran-
ton. Ia, were destroyed by fire.
The grand encampment of knights
Templar in Louisville elected Henry
Bates Stoddard, of Bryan, Tex, grand
commander, selected San Francisco as
place of meeting in 1904 and adjourned.
Joseph Zachello, who stabbed his
mother-in-law to death at Tompkins-
vile, S, l., was put to death in the cleo
trio chair at Sing Sing prison.