Crittenden press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1879-1907, 1901-05-30
CURRENT TOPICS.
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

against revolving shaft. on the ed,
and, her hair catching, she was
scalped
The official Prussian crop report
shows that winter wheat is poor;
spring wheat is fairly good.
The coroncr's jury, at Chicago.
which had listened to the evidence in
the case OF Mrs. Emma Lucy Judd,
wife of one OF the officials of John
Alexander Dowies Zion, returned
verdict, on the esd, holding Dowie,
II. w. Judd, husband of the woman,
and Mrs. Sprecher and Mrs. Bratsch,
to await the action of the grand jury.
on a charge of criminal responsibility
for the woman's death.
The mail steamer Reichstag. of the
Dutch East Africa line, of Hamburg,
was in collision, on the 22d, with the
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. line steamer
Fuerst Bismarck, near Burnhauser, and
returned to Hamburg. The Fuers,
Bismarck was not damaged, and sailed
for New York according to schedule.
The members Of the Ohio delegation
in congress were the guests of Ia
coma, Wash, on the 23d. They were
greeted by members of the Ohio So
cicty, including Congressman Cush-
man and other prominent citizens.
Queen Wilhelmina and her husband
will visit Emperor William of Ger
many, at Pottsdam, from May 30 to
June 1, at the emperor's invitation.
The making of new mast and gafT
for Shamrock II. was begun, at
Glasgow, on the 23d.
The decision of the supreme court
of the United States is that the con-
stitution does not necessarily follow
the flag. The decision, however, is
not unanimous. The opinion, it is UNI
derstood has been written by Chief
Justice Fuller, and may be formally
promulgated on the 27th.
EN.-Gov. John Riley Tanner, of Hi
nois, died at his apartments in the
Leland hotel, Springfield, ILL.,, on the
23d, of rheumatism of the heart. aged
81 years. Though he had been i'll for
about a week, his death came unex-
pectedly.
The five cadets dismissed from the
military academy at West Point have
entered the service of the New York
q Bermudcz Asphalt Co., ostensibly in
a civil engineering capacity, but will
probably be employed in the organi-
cation and training of guards for the
companys property in Venezuela.
Prof. Frederick Starr, in a lecture
to his students in anthropology at Che
of Chicago, declared that
poets, gamblers, drunllards, cigar
etts smokers, persons who are tat
tooed and those persons who part
their hair in the middle are degener-
ates."
William Webb Ferguson and Mira.
Mamie Barnes were jointly indicted
by the grand jury, at Jacksonville,
H., on the 23d, charged with poison
ing the husband of the latter, DR.. j.
l.. Barnes. The case will be tried in
Katie Daugherty, 16 years old, of
Peoria, ILL.,, who had been i'll for more
than a year, saturated her clothing
with gasoline, on the Esd, and then
set them on fire, standing stoically
in the center of the room while she
roasted to death. She lived two
hours, but never uttered a cry of
pain.
The tablets in the Hall of Fame, in
New York, will be unveiled on Mem
Orial day with impressive ceremonies.
Many men of prominence will partici-
pate, Senator Chauncey NJ. Depew
delivering the Grafton.
The fate of the steamer Croft, |
which sailed from New York for |
Leith, on January 90, 1899, and which |
was never heard of afterwards, is ex- |
planned by the contents of bottle
picked up at Granton, England, on the |
I'D. The message said that the
Croft was sinking in mid-Atlantic.
Reports of the devastation of wheat |
fields over Mcpherson county, Kas.,
by the hessian fly continue to come.
Many fields are entirely ruined and in
others the damage done by them has
lot reached the limit.
Senator NJ. A. Hanna was mustered |
nto Memorial Post, G. A. r., of Cleve-
and, o., on the night of the 23d. He
vas received with great enthusiasm
md made a brief speech in reply to
he congratulations upon the new
lonors conferred upon him.
The schooner c. II. Hackney, Capt.
Nm. c. Ertel, went ashore in a north
'ast gale off Port Washington, Mich.
IN the gath. The Milwaukee life saw
ng crew was notified, and went to the
wreck with big wrecking tug. Al.
er considerable eXertion the six men,
'ers of the crew were rescued, though
he schooner was an utter wreck.
1t is semi-officially asserted that the
esolution by the ministers of the
lowers in Pebin not to reduce the
,hinese indemnity below 100000, 900
aels is final, and also that China ac-
epts this, thus rendering approxi-
nate reimbursement of the expedi-
ionary expenses of the powers GER
ain.
The Berlin comic paper, "Ulk,'
hows Count Won Waldersee ready TO