Crittenden press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1879-1907, 1901-07-04
A WEEKS RECORD
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.
HOME AND FOREIGN ITEMS
THE NEWS FROM ALL THE WORLD
DOMESTIC.

Forest park has been selected as
the site on which to hold the worlds
fair in St. Louis in 1908.
Miss Carrie Brown, aged %, said 70
be the latest girl in The world,
weighing $50 pounds, died in Gale
donna, Wis.
The Pynchon national bank at
Springfield. Mass, closed its doors.
William Myers, of Chaska, Mimi,
was drowned in a fruitleSs attempt
TO rescue his three-year-old son from
drowning.
Judge Stevens. Of Manatec county.
Fla, was killed in a duel with knives
and his antagonist was badly wound
ed.
Before the eyes Of their eight chill
dren lightning struck dead Mr.. and
Mrs. George Wcis on their farm near
Louisville. Ky.
Alfred Anderson killed his vile
with a hammer at West superior,
Wis, because she had been away
from home all night.
The body Of the late Adclbcrt s.
Hay, killed by a fall in New Haven,
Conn. was buried in Cleveland. O.
The transport Hancock sailed for
Manila from san Francisco with Adjt.
Gen. II. e. Corbin and other officials
on board.
John Considine. formerly a Chicago
politician and gambler. killed ex-
Chief of Police w. J.. Meredith at
Seattle, Wash.
John Hockstock was killed and de-
voured 10y a pack of wolves near
Mellen, Wis.
The transport Logan arrived in
San Francisco from Manila with the
Forty-fourth volunteers and six COM
panies of the Thirty ninth regiment.
In st. Paul, Nch., County Judge
Smith declared the state curfew law
unconstitutional
John T. Klein. Chicago printer
pleaded guilty of bgamy. lie has
two wives, two babies. two homes,
two names and two jobs.
The navy department has decided
10 abandon all efforts to aid the naval
militia because of lack of interest
shown by such organizations in plans
for their training.
information showing the results of
the repeal of the canteen law which
will be laid before congress.
Fire at Mayfeld, Ky. destroyed
33 residences and two tobacco ware
houses, the loss being 100000.
Four Dowie elders who attempted
TO hold a meeting in Evanston, ILL.,,
were driven out of town by enraged
residents,
The president of Yale college an
nounced a gift of $4,000 to begin
work on new buildings.
Two men were killed and five badly
injured by the explosion of cupola
full of molten iron in Chicago.
George Williams, dying at Vinita,
]. r., confessed the murder of T. f.
and Green Smith at Pryor Creek, l. T.
Fourteen persons were killed in a
Wabash railway wreck at Cass Sta
tion, Ind, and 30 were injured, some
of whom may die.
An oil tank at Decatur, Ind, was
struck by lightning and $4,000 barrels
of petroleum destroyed.
Additional details of the West Vir-
ginia flood indicate the death list will
exceed 100. Another cloudburst did
great damage to property.
Mrs. William Conley and her daugh-
ter, Mrs. William Hobbs, were drowned
near Mercer, Wis, by the upsetting of
q boat.
Louise Strothoff, aged 10, and Frank
C. Forrest, 81 years old, carried out a
premeditated plan to die together near
Quincy, H., because of parental objec-
ton to their marriage.
4 Eber and Louis Pearsons, aged re-
spectively 16 and IA years, were
drowned at Ottumwa, Ia.
The transports Thomas and Buford,
with nearly 1000 soldiers from Ma
Mia, reached San Francisco.
Fire in a coal mine near Wilkesbarre, |
Pa. caused the death of four men.
Two thousand Christian Scientists
made pilgrimage TO the home Of Mrs.
Eddy at Concord, N. II.
Between $3O,0O0,oo0 and $4o,ooo,ooo
Is to be spent in the next few years
on the roadbed and equipment OF the
Southern Pacific railroad.