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

. betu issued
France Ring. aged IL. employed IN
a button factory at Dubuque, Ia. fei
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 coroner's jury. at Chicago.
: which had listened TO the evidence ir
the case OF Mrs. Emma Lucy Judd.
wife of one OF the officials of John
Alexander Dowie's Zion. returned q
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.
I on q 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 ped, with the
Hamburg-Americar line steamer
Fuerst Bismarck. near Burnhauser. and
returned 10 Hamburg. The Fuers
Bismarck was not damaged. and sailed
for New York according to schedule.
The members % the Ohio delegation
in congress were the guests OF Ia
coma, Wash, on the 23d. They were
greeted by members OF the Ohio So
ciety, including Congressman Cush-
man and other prominent citizens.
Queen Nilhelmina and her husband
will visit Emperor William OF Ger
many, at PottSdam, from Nav 30 TO
June I, at the emperor's invitation.
The making of a new mast and gafy
for Shamrock III. was begun, al
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 un-
derstood. has been written by Chief |
Justice Fuller, and may be formally |
promulgated on the 9th.
EN.-Gov. John Riley Tanner, of Iui- |
nois, died at his apartments in the |
Leland hotel, Springfield. Ill, on the |
25d, Of rheumatism of the heart. aged /
81 years. Though he had been III for /
about a week, his death came unex- /
pectedly.
The five cadets dismissed from the |
academy at West Point have |
the service OF the New York 4
& Bermudez Asphalt Co, ostensibly in
civil engineering capacity. but will
probably be employed in the organi-
zation and training of guards for the
property in Venezuela.
Prof. Frederick Starr, in lecture
10 his students in anthropology at ne
University of Chicago, declared that
Poets, gamblers, drunkards, cigar
stts smokers, persons who are tat
toOed and those persons who part
their haiI in the middle are degener-
ates."
William Webb Ferguson and Mrs.
Mamie Barnes were jointly indicted
~ the grand jury, at Jacksonville,
IT,, on the 23d, charged with poison
ng the husband of the latter, DIR. J.
=. Barnes. The case will be tried in
November.
Katie Daugherty, 16 years old, OF
'coria, H., who had been in for more
han year, saturated her clothing
With gasoline, on the 23d, and then
ct them or FIRE, standing stoically
n the center of the room while she
oasted to death. She lived two
ours, but never uttered a cry of
ain.
The tablets in the Hall Of Fame. in
Jew York, will be unveiled on Mem
rial day with impressive ceremonies.
lany men of prominence will partici-
ate, Senator Chauncey NJ. Depew
the Grafton.
The fate of the steamer Croft,
'hich sailed from New York for
eth, on January 20, 1899, and which
'as never heard of afterwards. is x
lained by the contents Of a bottle
icked up at Granton, England, on the
81. The message said that the
roft was sinking in mid-Atlantic.
Reports OF the devastation of wheat
elds over Mcpherson county, Kas.. :
y the hessian fly continue 10 come.
any fields are entirely ruined and in
theirs TIE damage done by them has
OF reat he'd the limit
Senator NJ. A. Hanna was mustered
TO Memorial Post, G. A. r., of Cleve-
nd, o., on the night Of the 23d. He
as received with great enthusiasm
ld made a brief speech in reply to
lie congratulations upon the new
'nors conferred upon him. I
The schooner {. ii. Hackney, Capt. J
m. c. Ertel, went ashore in a north O
Ist gale off Port Washington, Mich. '
the gath. The Milwaukee life saw ]
g crew was notified, and went TO the q
reck with a big wrecking tug. Al.
r considerable exertion the six mem
rs of the crew were rescued, though ,
e schooner was an utter wreck.
1t is semi-oflicially asserted that the
solution by the ministers of the ,
'wers in Pekin not TO reduce the q
linese indemnity below 100000, 900 (
els is final, and also that China ac-