Crittenden press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1879-1907, 1901-04-11
ALI the News Of the Past Seven
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HOME AND FOREIGN ITEMS
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at Home and Abroad.
The NEWS FROM ALL THE WORLD
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treasury was S3Os,443, 521. The total
debt, less the cash in the treasury,
amounts to 81 1907. 121 .oO9.
President Mckinley and his cabinet
decided that the proclamation of am
nesty in the Philippines should be ex-
tended to Aguinaldo if he has not vo-
lated the rules of war.
The Nebraska Legislature has ad-
journed sine die.
The largest irrigation canal in the
world was opened ard the waters of
the Colorado river were turned in at
the head gates below Yuma, Ari.
The transport Buford sailed from
San Francisco for Manila with troops,
several prominent Judges and three
congressman.
The government receipts in March
were $40, S9l12j and the expenditures
$40, 762, SCI, the surplus for the month
being $9,12S.264
Petroleum in large quantities has
been discovered at Greenvillc, Ia.
This is the first oil discovery in the
state.
Calvin p. Titus, OF Vinton. Ia, the
first American to enter Picking, has
been appointed to West Point.
The government crop report for
March indicated unsatisfactory
weather conditions in the Missouri
valley states and the upper lake re-
gion.
At the close of business March 30,
1901, the total national bank circula-
ton was S35O,O21,s11, an increase for
the year of S79,O6s,743.
The war department is shocked by
charges of wholesale thefts of army
supplies in southern Luzon.
John Guick killed his mother aged
6S years, and his brother, aged q, at
Klein's Grove, Pa, and escaped. Cause
for the crime unknown.
Scores of Duluth { MIMI residents
some poor, find fortune in the rapid
rise of mining shares.
Stanislaus Stepenski killed his wife
and fatally wounded himself in Chi
cago because he could get no work.
j. W. Bashor, of Goshen, Ind. gave
his estate of $4,000 TO the North In
diana Methodist conference for an
orphans home.
The conference of the worlds Sew
enth Day Adventists opened in Battle
Creek, Mich, delegates being present
from Europe, Asia, Africa and Aus
tralia.
Beers brought suit in the United
States court at New Orleans to stop
the shipment of mules TO the British in
South Africa.
The secretary of the treasury bought
So 1000, 900 worth of the old series of
short-time government bonds, there
by reducing the bonded debt and sur
plus.
Valet Jones confessed the cold
blooded murder of aged Millionaire
Rice In New York, charging Lawyer
Patrick as instigator.
A movement has been inaugurated
in indianapolis to erect a suitable mon
ument to the memory of Benjamin
Harrison.
The will of David w. Hitchcock, a
wealthy Boston merchant, gives $780,
900 to Wellesley college, with a pro-
viso excluding Roman Catholics and
cOlored persons.
The business portion OF Fulton,
Ark, was destroyed by fire.
Business failures in the first quarter
of the year were 1886, against 1884 in
the same time last year. The liabili-
ties were $31, 7o3,4 s6, against $33 ,122,-
573 in 1900.
Victor Shultz, a mail carrier at
Marion, Ind, aged IS, shot and killed |
his wife and fatally wounded w. A. |
Eikenberry, n boarder, and then cut |
his own throat.
Almost the entire business portion
of the little town of Lehigh, Ia, was
swept away by fire.
The Vanderbilts have acquired con-
troll OF the Delaware e. Hudson road, |
which will be merged into the New
York Central.
The Minnesota legislature passed |
a law providing for the nomination
of candidates by primary election.
Mrs. Frederick II. Aims has given
100000 to the University of Cincin-
natl for musical culture.
Miss Rose p. Duffey, aged 10, deputy
postmaster at Parnell, Ia, is charged
with embezzling $1,000.
Mrs. William Carroll was burned to
death at Lincoln, ILL.,, by lamp explo-
sion, and her husband was fatally
burned.
marrying Pastor" Meese, of Au-
burn, Ind, reached his fifteen hun
dredth wedding by officiating at his
grandson's marriage in Chicago.
Reduced rates on money orders have
been arranged with Canada
BY the terms of bill passed by the
house at Springfield kidnapping for
ransom is made a capital offense in
Illinois.
By a vote Of IS to 10 the Wisconsin 4
senate killed the anti-cigarette bill.