Crittenden press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1879-1907, 1901-05-02
OTHERWISE UNNOTICED.

Senator Coc'irell, of Missouri, adj
visos the Cubans to accept the Platt
amendments.
Several farmers near Mount Yer
non. Ill.,, have been caught on the old
lightninG-rod swindle, and the swim
dlers have been arrested.
Two more oil wells of the gusher
variety came in at beaumont, Tex,
Sunday.
Nearly the entire business portion
of Florence, Tex, was destroyed by
fire.
Six persons were injured by the de-
railing of chair car near Pattons-
burg, Mo, Sunday.
Woodmen of the World unveiled a
monument at Fort Smith, Ark, to for
mer officers of the order.
Five persons were burned to death
in an incendiary fire at Houston, Tex,
a negro man is suspected and is un-
der arrest.
Fireman John Green, of st. Louis
carried two women and three children
down Il ladder from the third story
of burning tenement.
liighwaymcn at Hot Springs, Ark,
robbed an Omaha man, gagged and
blindfolded him and threw him in
front of moving train. One leg was
horribly crushed.
DR.. Charles II. Parkhurst, in his
cernon in New York, Sunday, de-
clared that indiscriminate negro suf-
frage was legislative blunder.
Henry II. Hamilton, for years a
prominent business man at Sycamore,
Ill.,, died, Sunday, from paralysis, aged
A years.
James Callahan was declared not
guilty OF any completely in the kid
mapping Of Edward Cudahy, Jr., by the
jury at Omaha.
Fire, in the property owned By Miss
Emma CNIey, at Centralia, ILL.,, occu-
pied by j. IL. Tucker, caused loss of
2,GOo.
Sentiment in the Illinois senate is
| overwhelmingly in favor of the full
appropriation of $2jO,O0O asked for in
/ the st. Louis Worlds fair bill.
The sealing steamer Kite, for whose
safety some fear had been felt.
reached st. Johns, y. F., Sunday,
/ with 10000 seals, almost a full load.
James Douglas Reid, known to tcle.
graphers throughout the country as
the Father of the Telegraph" dieG
at his residence in New York city. lie
| had been i'll for many weeks.
George Morrison, 10 years old, shot
and killed two men and fatallywound.
ed third as the result of u quarrel
near Watsela, i'll.
Arbitration of all disputes and op.
! position to sympathetic strikes are
the foundation principles of new
| central labor body to DE known as
the Chicago Building Trades league.
Frederick Kinney disappeared while
canyassing in Kansas several months
ago. Recently his wagon and outfit
were found in possession of Henry
Freeman. Freeman is held under ar.
rest.
The heroic rescuers at Aurora, Mo-,
on Sunday, reached the living tomb
of the five miners who had been
buried by the cave-in three days. Two
were alive, one dead and the other
two are missing.
Frederick Richter, a cabinetmaller,
was shot three times and probably IA
| tally wounded, at St. Louis, while as
cending the stairs leading to his room
in his boarding house.
John Carr, of Joplin, Mo-, commit
ted suicide at Butler, Mo-, by cutting
his throat with pocket knife. In
sanity is supposed TO have been the
cause. His body was sent to Joplin.
I, S. How, 90 years of age, was
killed at East Prairie, Mo-, by a
southbound passenger train, his head
being crushed. Letters were found
on his person from relatives in Gala
| tia, Ill.