Crittenden press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1879-1907, 1901-06-27
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.
THE NEWS FROM ALL THE WORLD
DOMESTIC.

Crazed by causeless Jealousy, George
Brown, a miner at Butte, Mont, killed
his wife and then cut his own throat.
The towns of Gate City and Big Stone
Gap in Smyth county, Va, were
wrecked by a cyclone.
Asa Roger, aged eight years, and Carl
Roger, aged II years, of Laketon, Ind,
were drowned.
The fishing schooner White Wing, of
Tacoma, Wash, was given up as lost
with 80 men.
Willie Anderson, of Pittsfeld, Mass,
won the open golf championship OF
the United States.
A thousand Mormon families from
the United States will settle in Mexico
on lands formerly occupied by the
Yaqui Indians.
The transport Pennsylvania arrived
at San Francisco from Manila, with
30 officers and SO men of the Forfeit
volunteer infantry.
Herbert w. Bowen, of New York,
minister to Persia, has been appointed
minister to Venezuela a the successor
of LOOMS, who will be sent to Portu-
gal.
The plant Of the Newport News (Va.)
Shipbuilding company was closed be-
cause of the machinists strike, throw
ing 1000 employees out of work.
Jessie Morrison is again on trial at
FL Dorado, Kan, for the murder of
Mrs. Olin Castle.
Enlistments for the recognized
army are practically completed.
III I &c
o., went 10 Chicago to buy cattle, fell
in love and married Gertrude Miller
in two days.
A new trolley company has been
formed TO connect Chicago and Mil
waukee by an electric road.
University of Michigan won the
college baseball championship.
The Porto Rico legislature will
meet in special session July 4.
Fire destroyed a large portion of the
business section of Greenville, 5. c.
Luther Lasure was killed and three
other men fatally injured in a mine
accident near Bloomington, Ind.
Abe Barrett, a negro who assaulted
a white girl, was lynched by a mob
near Nugent Miss.
The Swedish Lutheran synod in ses- |
sion at jamestown, y. V, refused to |
change its rules barring secret soci- |
ETY. members from church member |
ship.
The joint commission Of the Episco- |
pal church made a report by which |
clergymen are prohibited from join
ing in wedlock divorced persons.
Brig. Gen. John c. Bates, who re-
Gently returned from the Philippines, !
will command the department Of the
Missouri, with headquarters at Oma-
ha, Neb.
The secretary Of agriculture pre-
diets that in ten years the United |
States will produce all the sugar need |
ed for home consumption as a result |
of the beet sugar development.
conspiracy TO defraud insurance |
companies by incendiary fires was dis
covered in Chicago.
An insane Swede, supposed to be |
A. G. Peterson, of Chicago, was killed |
at Rockford, H., by n policeman
whom he attempted to shoot
President Harper, at the Chicago
university convocation, prophesied an
endowment of $5O,OOO,OOO for the uni
versity.
Smith college, at Northampton,
Mass, has teen given 100000 by a
man whose identity is withheld.
Two miles of mountain slid down
into valley at Hopeville, w. Va,
killing two persons.
The Thirty-first infantry, United
States volunteers, was mustered out
in San Francisco.
The Harlem track in Chicago closed
its gates as a result of an injunction
against pool selling.
James F. Ahearn killed his wife and
himself in New York city. Domestic
trouble was the cause.
Hope college at Holland. Mich, con-
ferred the degree of IL. d. upon Vice
President Roosevelt.
Andrew Carnegie will erect a monu-
ment in Pittsburgh to James G.
Blaine.
d. B. Jones, negro preacher, was
hanged by a mob at La Grange, N. c.,
for assaulting Mrs. Noah Davis.
John d. Rockefeller has given Cor
nell university $25O,OOO
Inc Omahd Doard OF educatlon de-
crees dismissal for any woman teach
ers who marry.
Chicago owners of Indiana coal mines
are said to be planning a combina-
ton that will result in a $500 100000
coal trust.
Indictments were returned against
Liant Salisbury, city attorney of Grand
Rapids, Mich, and four others accused
of bribery in connection with the wa {
ter works deal.
Blunders have been disclosed by
the publication of laws passed by the
last Illinois legislature. One bill that {
failed TO pass was approved by the
governor. II