Crittenden press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1879-1907, 1901-08-29
All 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.

l2,1s3,OOO bushels; oats, j,546,OOO bus h
els; rye. $4,000 bushels; barley, 49,
900 bushels.
Lightning struck benzine tank in
Philadelphia, exploding it, and six per-
sons were killed and % were missing.
The explosion of a cannon at For;
Riley, Kan. killed two soldiers and in
jureG seven others.
julius Schukneicht. a farmer near
Charles City, Ia. fatally wounded his
wife and himself with knife while
insane.
Two negroes, Will Cooley and Jean
Carter. suspected Of killing Miss Girsla
Wild, were lynched near Pearce City,
Mo.
The Ohio river steamer City of
Golconda was capsized by a squall
near Paducah. Ky, and lG persons
were drowned
Five tons of dynamite exploded at
Herkimer, y. Y, killing T. railroad
employees.
Four boys from six TO ten years old
are accused of stoning a companion
TO death at kokomo, Ind.
Robert Rutter and jefferson Rut-
ter, two farmers, were instantly
killed at NigO. O., by the cars.
The Shelbyville. Bloomfield {, Ohio
railroad has been sold to the Louis
vile & Nashville for S15O,OOO.
Later reports indicate that over 20
persons persisted by the wrecking of
the steamer Islander, which struck
an iceberg off the Alaskan coast.
A justice of the peace at Norwood,
W. Va, stopped trial to shoot a ne
gro who sought 10 rescue a prisoner.
Rear Admiral Howison. one of the
Judges chosen for the Schley inquiry,
is said to have expressed an opinion
adverse to Schley, and the navy de-
partment will ask him to explain.
Comedian Sam Morris amused n
theater audience in Chicago with
jokes while his heart was almost
breaking over the death of his wife,
who took poison with suicidal intent.
Four more mills of the United
States Steel corporation were put in
operation in Pittsburg. Pa, the re-
sumption being the most severe blow
so far suffered by the strikers.
James j. Jeffries and Gus Rubin
have been matched in San Francisco
60 fight for the worlds championship
In November or December.
The new constitution of Alabama
has been completed, and the conven-
ton at Montgomery has adjourned.
Secrets agents OF South American
revolutionists who arrived in New
York declared that the attempt to
unite Venezuela, Colombia and Ecua-
dor under one government would yet
succeed.
Strikers at Rosevillc, o., were en-
Joined from picketing the works of
the OHIO Pressed Brick company.
Gov. Bliss an1 staff and other
prominent persons were in Buffalo on
Michigan day at the exposition.
The battleship Iowa sailed from
San Francisco for Panama.
One thousand armed men drove |
every negro from Pierce City, Mo-,
crematcd one aged man, burned five |
houses and decreed that hereafter |
no colored man shall reside in the |
town.
The house of T. Byrne, at Currie, |
Mimi, was destroyed by fire and his !
four children were burned 10 death.
South Chicago steel workers who are |
opposed to strike issued a statement
to the public, explaining their action |
in refusing to go out.
Lawrence Auchterlonie, of Glenview, |
Ill. won the open championship in the |
second annual tournament of the |
Western Golf association in Chicago.
DR.. Louis Knapp, of St. Louis, gave
up his family and the world to care for
Chinese leper in ST. Louis and 10
make a life study Of the disease.
Bessie and Hazel, aged 81 and 16
years. respectively, daughters of Will
liam Reeve, were drowned in the river
at Maquoketa, Ia.
A fast train on the Alton road was
wrecked at Prentice, H., and Engineer
Sheehan and Fireman Adams were
killed.
John w. Brown, a well-known citizen
of Auburn, Ind, was arrested for al
legged completely in holding up and
the Baltimore 81 Ohio ex-
press train near Miller's Station on
the night of July 81,
Abe Wildner, negro, was burned to
death at the stake by a mob near
Whitesboro Tex, for assaulting and
numbering the wife of w. c. Caldwell,
a white farmer.
Five of the largest shovel manufac-
turing concerns in the country have
consolidated with a capital of $5,00O,-
OOO
Naval officers claim that Admiral
Howison has already disclaimed an in
terview in which he appears as a
Sampson partisan.
United States Judge Estee has de-
.ided that all Chinese born in the Ha-
vaiian islands are American citizens. {