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Crittenden press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1879-1907, 1901-03-21
CLOvERpORT'S FIRE.
Town Almost Completely Wiped
Off The Map.

Fire broke out at Cloverport
last Thursday night, and famed
by a stiff breeze, the flames held
high carnival. When morning
dawned about fifty families were
homeless and without food, and
every business house and indus
trial plant in the town except one
had been licked up with their
contents.
In all about seventy-hve build
lingo were destroyed and that
thriving little city of something
over 1000 inhabitants was almost
completely wiped out, causing
losses that aggregated between
100000 and $4O0, 1000, about $685.
600 of which was insured.
The town has no water works
and the people were at the mercy
of the flames. Louisville, Ow.
ensboro, Evansville and Hender-
son were telegraphed for aid, but
before it could reach there the
town was in ashes. Nothing
could be saved Stores and resi-
dences had their contents hustled
into the streets, but flying sparks
set fire to them and consumed
them. A number of unfortunates
will be able to rebuild and resume
business, but many had not a dol
lar of insurance and lost every
thing they possessed.
Crittenden press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1879-1907, 1901-03-21
Notice..

To the People of Crittenden
County:
Whereas, Typhoid fever, dipth.
liberia, dysenterry, tuberculosis,
measles, scarlet fever, smallpox,
humps, ETC., are or have been pre-
vailing in the county for several
months, and malaria, which is now
known to be an infective disease,
carried by mosquitoes, has pre-
vailed to an alarming degree dur
ing the last year,
1t is ordered by the local Board
of Health that all cesspools, water
closets, pig pens, stables, chicken
coops, manure heaps, piles of rub
bish, decaying vegetables, dead
animals, filthy back yards and lots
be removed, cleaned, drained OF
burned, as the case may be, and
premises cleaned and disinfected
by April LIST, 1901. This order APP
plies with special force to the
towns, and thickly populated com.
munities.
This Board expresses the hope
that this notice will be all that is
necessary, but will prosecute tc
the limit of the law all who fail to
obey this order.
BY order of the Board.
w, j. j. Paris, Sec'y.
Crittenden press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1879-1907, 1901-03-21
A FIGHT
At a Dance Near the Memphis
Mine Friday Night.

Friday night at a dance near the
Memphis spar mines in this coun-
ty, lobe Akers and Scott Robin
son became involved in a difficult
ty and Robinson used his knife
on Akers inhicting painful wounds
on the arm. Ahers came to town
Saturday morning and had his
wounds dressed but declined to
swear out warrant against Rob
inson. He claims that he was try
ing to keep down a row between
his brother and Robinson's boy
when Robinson attacked him with
the knife.
Crittenden press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1879-1907, 1901-03-21
A SERIOUS SCRAP.
Jim Level Makes a Meal off Of
Geo. Stones Under Lip.

Jim Level and George Stone,
two negro toughs, fell out over
some trivial matter and proceeded
to beat each other Monday after
noon. Level used his teeth to
good effect. He buried his tusks
in Stones chin, tearing the flesh
severely. Unfortunately tho fight
ended before either of the negroes
we're killed. Stone gave himself
up, but Level led the officers a
merry chase and escaped. We
hope for the good of the commu-
nifty that he may never return.
Crittenden press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1879-1907, 1901-03-21
Princeton Presbytery.

Princeton Presbytery, of the
Cumberland Presbyterian church,
will convene at Hopsinsville, KY,
April Oil, 1901. This promises
to be an interesting and important
Presbytery. We hope that every
church will be represented. Let
every minister be present. Hop
kinsville throws her doors wide
open and welcomes all that will
come. Pray that the Holy Spirit
may rest upon us in rich abund-
ance. James f. Price,
Stated Clerk.
Crittenden press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1879-1907, 1901-03-21

will save 189 to the mile. If there
are twelve feet to the post it will
be 226S feet, which added to the
amount in pickets makes total of
II sos feet to the mile. If split
ting costs as much as saving and
lumber is worth one dollar per
hundred feet, then $115,0S per
mile is the sum that the hog fence
costs above that for other stock,
which does not include the cost Of
weaving. But to be conservative
we will call it 500. Find how
many miles of fence you have and
you can tell how much it will cost
to let your hogs run at large.
There are 169,S59 acres of land
in cultivation in Crittenden coun-
ty, by the assessors books. If it
is divided into twenty acre fields
and half the fences cross fences,
then there is in the county 1898
miles of fence; so that the saving
between hog fence and that for
other stock will be about $498, 700.
If the fence will last fifteen years
it will cost each year one fifteenth
of the amount above stated, or
1913, 246, while interest at 6 per ct.
on first cost will be 500, 1922, max
ing a total of $63. 16S per year that
it will cost the farmers of this
county to fence against hogs in
the future, with lumber at present
prices.
Where is the man that thinks
that the weeds. wormy acorns and
cholera germs that the hogs of this
county gather are worth that
amount of money?
The writer of this article knows
that all change is not improvement
but there is no improvement with
out a change. AS a community
7, becomes settled up changes in laws
and regulations of society are alb
solutely necessary. He is of the
opinion that the time has come
when there should be a law to reg
ulate the running at large of stock
in this county. Having been ask
ed by farmers of his community
to write his views on the subject
has done SO hurriedly amid the
press of other business. But it it
shall cause the people of this coun
ty to consider the matter, then all
that he expected to do will have
been accomplishe 1.
Il. +. WHEELER.
Crittenden press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1879-1907, 1901-03-21
Notice..

Going to quit business. Have
stock of general merchandise to
sol. A bargain for some one and
good point for business. My
reason for closing cut, l have so
much farming and other business
to look after. If you want a bar
gain, call on me al Fords Ferry
Ky. j. l.. Rankin.
March IL, 1901.
Crittenden press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1879-1907, 1901-03-21
THE STOCK LAW.
Some Sensible Views Of a Crit.
tenden County Farmer.

With rough lumber worth one
dollar per hundred at the mill,
with wire and other fencing mate
tial high, and with outside range
becoming worthless, the problem
of stock and fence will continue
to demand the attention of the far
iners Of this county.
Probably stock law like that
of Illinois would not suit our con-
dition. In that State no stock is
allowed to run at large; but in
some of the rougher counties of
Ohio and Indiana they have a mo-
dified form of the .same law, in
which certain kinds of stock only
il allowed on the common.
In the opinion of the writer
something of this sort would suit
the conditions of this section. In
fact it was suggested to him by a
prominent farmer and stOc' raiser
uf this neighborhood that we have
II hog law.
Of all farm animals the hog is
the most expensive to fence against
and the least benefited by outside
range. More than half the fenc-
ing is for his benefit, as figures
which we shall give further on will
prove.
q AS we said, the hog is least ben
Gifted. In fact it is a positive. in
iaryfor him to run outside What
littIs mast there is only brings on
disease, while running out spreads
cholera and swine plague, from
Kwhich thousands of dollars worth
die in this county annually. Yet
there is another disadvantage that
possibly you have never thought
about. There will be little i'm
provsment in stock SO long as il is
allowed to shift for itself. Moth
ing but the proyerbial razor back
SOW" and the sandy shote can live
ON the range. Thorobred stock,
used for generations to being kept
,,p and fed find life so different
when turned out with native stock
to root hog or die, usually choose
the latter, and the owners conclude
that "blooded stock don't pay"
But to the cost, and Figures
won't lie."
Have you ever estimated the
cost Of the fencing on y our farm?
Have you ever calculated the cost
Of thelumbor in itY What kind
of a fence are you going to build?
You can't use rails for there is not
enough timber in the county to
fence it il you were foolish enough
TO use timber worth one dollar per
hundred that way. That was all
right when we we're clearing land,
and no market for lumber.
Probably the least expensive and
best all purpose fence is the 80
foot picket fence with a barbed
wire at the top. Now the propo-
sition that We wish to submit for
your consideration is this:
s If hogs were not allowed to run
( at large the five wires used in the
picket fence would make good
/! fence for other stock. We will save
the pickets, half the posts, tho
/, work of weaving the pickets, and
ia more durable fence. The saving
is more than you would think,
without making the calculation.
Counting two 8 inch pickets to
the foot there would be in one
mile 9249 feet of lumber. There
need be only half as many posts in
wire fence, as every farmer under
stands. II posts are Ia feet apart,
Crittenden press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1879-1907, 1901-03-21
0steopathy a Boon to Women.
From OurSpecial Correspondent.
FRANKLIN. KY, |
March 18th 1901.

Ed. PRESS: So many people ask
regarding the value OF Osteopathy
in those troubles peculiar to We
men that we quote the following
from the Rev. Mason w. PRESLEY,
of Philadelphia:
"The first remark that awaken
ed deep interest concerning Os-
teopathy was made by Mrs, j. B.
Forater, wife of the United States
Senator from Ohio. She said:
There is really no need of woman
suffering, as she does, with Osteo-
pathy.' We did not then under
stand the import of her remark.
for We were then ignorant of fe-
male complaints and of Osteopa-
thy, Vow we understand. We
are stiH surprised at the marvel
Gus results reached by osteopath-
ic treatment in cases of difficult,
suppressed or painful menstrual
tiou, II is simply unnecessary that
any woman should suffer from
these canses. Such cases are due
a fall, or displacement, or poor
circulation, or weak nerve action,
The pains in the snBll of the back
the neuralgia suffering, the aches
on either side of the lower abdo-
men. and the depression from
which 30 many women suffer, are
unnecessary. And yet very many
poor sufferers think that these ex-
periences are the common lot of
women. This is not true. We
have many cases in which from
three to five days of suffering eve-
ry month has given way to an al
most painless experience that did
not interrupt the ordinary engage
ments. With a release from the
monthly drain and strain upon the
woman's nervous vitality, there is
an invsriable increase lof strength
and a general improvement'of the
health. Osteopsthy asks the sim
pie question, "Why should the
women suffer as they dor"
We certainly agree with these
words of Rev. Mr. Presley and
believe with Mrs. Foraker that
there is really no need for women
to suffer with osteopathy in reach.
Hundreds after trying all the diff
erent drugs and finding no relief,
give osteopathy trial and thous-
ands of healthy women today tes-
tify to the wonderful success of
osteopathy.
We have proficient lady physi-
clans and are prepared to give ev-
cry care and attention to patients.
The very worse cases are being
cured, and there is no need giving
up hope until you have tried oste-
opathy. Do not delay, but give
osteopathy chance at your case
while a cure is possible. We will
be glad to answer any inquiries re
garding the treatment or regard
ing the cuse of any ..of your read
ers. All communications conf
Dental.
The Southern School of Osteopa-
thy. Franklin. XIV,
Crittenden press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1879-1907, 1901-03-21

The old Southern songs Polk
Miller sings, the rich old stories
he tells in his "Old Times Down
South" are worth going miles TO
hear. Some are pathetic, some
are humorous, all are entertaining
and enchanting,
Crittenden press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1879-1907, 1901-03-21

| have a cottage house with four
rooms and hall, in desirable Sec
ton of the town for sale. Large
lot and good improvements.
], w. Blue, Jr.
Crittenden press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1879-1907, 1901-03-21
Sweet Potatoes.

l have 400 bushels of fine sound
sweet potatoes for sale at $l.OO
wholesale; $l.20 retail.
Geo. L. Whit, Frances.
The times., 1901-03-24
9B5c for l0c and 25C piques.
HECHT AND COnPANY,
5i3-5l5 Seventh Street.

ternOOn from st. Paul's Episcopal Church.
Ground has been broken for the erec-
tion of three handsome residences in Del
Ray. Alexandria County. 1t is under
stood that three more will be erected at
an early date.
Mr.. Paul Kester and his brother, Of
New York, who recently purchased his
tOric Woodlawn, near Mount Vernon. in
Fairfax County, were in this city today.
Mr. KeSter intends to remodel WoOdlawn
and convert it into private residence
A freight car loaded with lumber on
the tracks of the Southern Railway Com
pany this morning jumped the track The
car was Completely demolished and traffic
was delayed for about an hour No one
was hurt
A horse of o. T. Baggett today ran
away in Upper King Street and smashed
the wagon 10 which it was attached.
The funeral of the late w. II. Winston
viii take place from the First Baptist
Church at 2:30 o'clock tomorrow after
noon.
The services at the Railroad Reading
Rooms will be conducted tomorrow after
noon by Mr. ID. Z. Sigourney, of the The
illogical Seminary.
Miss Lillian Hamuill. of Occoquan. Va,
who has been spending the winter in this
city. has returned to her home.
Miss Neenie Turner of Mississippi. is
visiting Mrs. J. II. Bitter in Prince Street.
Mr. Sol Geuaberger, of Helena, Mon, il
in this city To attend the celebration of
his father and mothers golden wedding.
which will be celebrated on the 9th in
stant.
j. Pierpont Morgan. Of New York visit
ed Mount Vernon today.
The times., 1901-03-24
WASTE PAPER IN THE STREET.
4 Probibitiye Police Regulation 10
BE. Rig!diy Enforced.

AS a result of a recent communication
directed to the District Commissioners
by s. Sine. of 725 Massachusetts Avenue
northeast, an order has been issued to
the lIeutenauts Of the various precincts
by Major Sylvester, directing them TO
see that their men enforce the police reg
uIation regarding the scattering Of waste
paper upon the streets OF the city. Major
SyIvester's order appends a copy of the
letter of complaint, the text of which is
as follows:
Having understood that the Commits
sioners are about to make regulations
concerning the scattering OF paper in the
streets, / beg leave To ask that the reg
ulations If not already covering the fol-
lowing cases may include the classes Of
persons operating more in the resident
sections than in the strictly business sec
tions. and not as liable TO attract the
attention of the officer.
First. School children on their return
from school tear writing paper into bits
and scatter them regardless of the park
ings. these being specially difficult 10 re
move.
Second The fakir who unwraps his
fruit, throwing the papers in a pile by
the curb the men and children who eat
luncheon by the wayside. or on a vacant
lot and leave the bags and wrappers;
and those. a large class, who deliber-
ately remove paper from their market
baskets or packages and cast II upon the
parkings or sidewalk.
Third. Those who strip advertising
boards, the parkings IN front OF which are
covered thickly with scraps. As we
have on wide avenue. watched
large pieces Of wrapping paper and en-
tire newspaper sheets blow nearly two
squares, the extent of territory reached
by these collections on a windy day may
be easily estimated.
Paper bags in all sizes. in all kinds of
conditions besides innumerabie circulars,
and pamphlets, which have been drop
ped in packages by the distributors, who
were in too great a haste to complete
their work properly, line our fences and
bank around our doorsteps.
THE children might be reached through
their respective schools and, judging
/ from the effect Of the signs on the reser-
l yations. in the absence Of chains, it
would appear that similar prOhibtOry no
! ticcs on vacant lots and advertising
/ boards might be Of service"
/ Following this. with view to more
/ thoroughly impress the Importance Of
/ the matter upon his subOrdinates. the
! following circular has been issued by Ma
/ jor Sylvester,
| ''The Commissioners are very anxious
/ that attention be given sweepings. litter
| ings. waste paper, and all else that con
/ stituteS debris within the police regula-
! tiOns. j hope that all persons found
| sweeping the same into the cutters will
| be required to observe the law"
The times., 1901-03-24
ACCUSED OF sHoPLIFTING.
An Apparently Refined Woman Ar
rested in New York.

NEW YORK, March pa woman of
apparent refinement was locked up to-
night in the Tenderloin police station on
a charge of shoplifting. She said she was
Mrs Mary Davis. thirty-ninc years old, of
Arlington, " J. She was eXpensively
dressed and wore d diamond brooch at
her throat and several diamond rings.
She was accused of stealing sixteen yards
Of silk valued at $3.50, eleven handker-
chiefs valued at 1915, and eight yards Of
lace valued at $50. She was arrested in
a Sixth Avenue dry goods store by John
r Iarkin, 4 detective employed in the
store.
I.arkin's attention was called to the
woman by clerk at the handkerchief
counter. The clerk was not sure the
woman had carried away any handker-
chiefs. but he knew they had disappeared
from the counter in front of which the
woman had been standing. For that rea-
son he thought it best to ask the detec-
tive to watch her.
I.arkin was inclined TO be little skep-
tical of the clerks judgment when he
saw the woman under suspicion. She is
a pronounced blonde, and her high col
Jared sealskln cape was very long one.
Her black hat was becoming, and her
black silk skirt did not show any wear.
Altogether. she haA not the slightest ap-
pearance Of being Of the sort who would
carry away other people property.
Larkin kept his eye on the woman, how
ever, and II was not long before he, too,
began to have suspicious
She made several tours of the store,
and stopped at many of the counters Al
the lace counter there were more than
twenty women. The woman picked up
several squares Of lace. and the most
valuable piece she handled was slipped
.,a..Y Hays - Eh ia
from the counter she glanced back sev-
eral times TO see if she was being fol
lowed Satisfied that no one had seen her
she went direct TO the silk department.
The times., 1901-03-24

She secreted q small piece OF silk under
her sealskin cape there and started out of
the store. Larkin thought it about time
70 intercept her. Tapping her on the
shoulder he said Madame. won't you
come with me to the private Office Of the
store?'
"Why-why, what's the trouble?" the
woman trembingly replied.
We'll, there is a little difference be-
tween you and the store" said Larkin.
The woman started away and the piece
Of six fell from under her cape. Lar
kin took hold of her arm. told her who
he was, and asked her not to make
scene.
Her face became deadly pale and she
trembled so that Larkin had to hold her
to keep her on her feet She began to
weep and wiring her hands but Ldrkin
led her To the Office. There he told her
that she was under arrest
oh, why did ! do it, sObbed the Wo-
man. why did ] do it?' Then she be-
came hystercaL She moaned cried, and
begged to be allowed to go free. She
was i'm such "A highly nervous state that
she was detained at the store for nearly
an hour. At the end Of that time she
became Ca!mer and Larkin asked her
why she had stolen
u don't know, sOhbed the woman. Z
never did anything like that before. /
aid not need il. Why see, here is my
bankbOGlS." She produced a bankbook
made out to NJ. Davis. When she was
asked if that was her name she said it
was. My husband is Il wealthy produce
dealer down town. said the woman, and
We live in Arlington, n. J.
Telling her that she might send word to
her frien Of her predicament if she saw
fit. Larkin told Mrs. Davis that he would
have to take her to the police station.
After another crying spell she was ready
to accompany him. She wastahen before
Sergeant Churchill, in the West Thirteth
Street station and her pedigree recorded
on the blotter Then she was locked Up
On a charge of grand larceny.
NEWARK. \. J., March 23.-rhcre are
only two families named Dav in Airing
ton. n j. The one is the family III
Frank Davis, Of s Beach Street and the
other is thar of James Davis, q stone
cutter Of Elm Street. None Of the mem
hers of either family was i'm New ; ork
today, nor do they know of the woman
who was arrested in New York The
Arlington directory contains no Davis
who is produce dealer.
The times., 1901-03-24
FRIGHTENED BY A NEGRO.
Miss Katie Drnger Saved From In
jury by n Letter Carrier.

jury by Letter Carrier.
The police Of the Ninth precinct are
making determined efforts to locate the
unknown colorcd man who for q month
has been insulting women pedestrians in
the vicinity of Ninth Street and Massa-
chusetts Avenue northeast. Another case
was reported last night by Miss Katie
Drager, twenty years Of age whose home
is at 1910 East Capitol Street. She report
ed that between and s o'clock, while
walking in Massachusetts, Avenue, near
Ninth street. q cOlored man suddenly
caught her hy the arms. Miss Dragef
cried for help. and the negro was fright
ened away by q passing mail carrier
To Policeman Ricketts, Miss Drager de
scribcd her assaiiant as brown skinned.
apparently about twenty years old, about
five feet eight inches I'm height, and wear
ing small side whiskers.
Immediately after the affair was re-
ported policemen In citizens clothes were
detailed ia search for the negro de-
l-Fib-2
The times., 1901-03-24

Miss Elsie Hager is visiting relatives
in Rochester. Pa.
Mrs. Wayne f. Beyers is quite sick at
her home in South Fairfax Street.
Prank Hume. of Alexandria County
who hSE been i'll for some time, is i'm
proving.
Post +. of the Travellers Protective As
SOcfatiOn. held a business meeting tonight
in the rooms of the Business Mems
League. and transacted considerable rOu-
tine business
The times., 1901-03-24
,Inrrinec Liccnses Issncd.

Marriage licenses were issued yesterday TO Rob
crt B. D.n-more Waterford, Va, and Willie
Lamb. Port Republic Va; Charles j. Ruth and
Anna NJ. GssliI; Thomas Willis and salina
Tas los.
The times., 1901-03-24
This is a "money-baCk" store

And the offer which hold out to every purchaser of
gracious return of his her money when there s DIS
satisfaction is sincere. g h1
The times., 1901-03-24
Mail orders always satisfactory

When sent to u.s. because can give them the same
consideration orders given before the counter. Nail
order department is perfectly equipped.
The times., 1901-03-24

George s. Wilson, Secretary of the
Board OF Charities has forwarded TO the
Commissioners a recommendation that
the new male workhouse building be 10
Gated on the plateau in the southeast part
of the Washington Asylum reservation,
almost Immediately north Of the female
workhouse and located SO that it will
face the east.
The times., 1901-03-24

Joseph r. Fague, acting as attorney for
William s. Anderson, has requested re
mission of interest and costs on side
walk assessment against east half of lot
o. square 496.
MIR. Fague. also as attorney for John
r Hunt, has requested remission of in
tcrest and costs on sewer assessment
against west half of lot A. square 1929.
IN 10th instances the special assess
nent clerk has recommended that the re-
quests be granted as the assessments
declared void
The times., 1901-03-24
25c for SOC corded wash silks.

The best silk offering have made Will be made tomor
when sale this lot of handsome corded wash silks
25c yard which the silks which everybody sells at
soc and which honestly worth J0c There wide OF
coors and sorspnks blues white, avendessome decided
strpessome plain coors with cords Every thread of these is
pure silk. And Doc is wonderfully little for them