Crittenden press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1879-1907, 1901-01-24
OTHERWISE UNNOTICED

The war revenue reduction bill will
be reported back by senate COMMITTEES
within a few days.
Serious charges against the Illinois
board of agriculture have been made
in the Carrollton Qll.) Gazette.
st. Louis delegates have gone to
Washington to appear before the spe
cial Worlds fair committee of the
house.
Frank Meyer, under arrest, at ST..
Louis, for the first time, hanged him
self with his suspenders, but was cut
down by n turnkey.
Congress will probably send a COM
mittee to the Philippines to investi-
gate the conditions and make recon-
mcndations in regard to civil govern
ment.
Joplin (Mo.) railway employees have
passed resolutions protesting against
the reduction of the passenger fare
from three to two cents per mile.
They say the employees would be the
first to suffer.
Miss Claire Kelly, of Texas, has becu
selected by the governor of Chihua-
hua, Mex, to dedicate the miliiOn-dol-
lar thcater at that place.
The Centralia (Mo.) board of health
has declared that city free from
smallpox. Three negroes who had
the disease are entirely well.
The British steamer Lake Erie,
Capt. Jones. sailed from Cape Town.
for Canada, Sunday, carrying 400 of
Strathcona's Horse.
It. is reported nj st. Paul, Mimi,
that Archbishop ireland has received
a cabegram from Home notifying him
o fcleyation to the cardinalatc.
Col. w. -. Kinds, of Mattoon, ILL.,,
is now glad that he owns land
near the Texas oil fields. lie was COM
PEELED to accept 500 acres as II sccuri-
ty debt. lie considered it ii losing
deal at the time.
The British four-mastcd ship Noel
Tryyan foundered in the channel off
Cherbourg, France. Seven out of u
crew of Is were saved.
Wa Ting Fang, the Chinese minister
to the United States, brought his visit
to 81. Louis to II close at noon, Sum
day. by giving audience to "A dclega-
ton of Chinese.
Prof. Paul j. Robert, of Mobile,
Ala. has received official notification
of his election as n member of The
Socictc Astronomiquc de France.
DR., DAILY, intructor in geology at
Harvard, is planning a scientific cXpe-
l.. I
brador for the summer of this year
10 study the placial formations.
The McCoy-Sharkey fight, which |
was scheduled for next month in San |
Francisco. has been declared off, /
owing to the refusal of the board of |
city supervisors to grant license.
\ wreck occurred on the Ohio Gem
trail. near Fulton, o. Engineer Brown
was killed and Brakeman Rcinhart
ost both legs and will probably die.
The Oakdale elevator. located at
street and Harvard aven-
10, Chicago, and owned by the Leet e.
Fritz Commission Co., was destroyed
BY fire Sunday night; loss. $4,000.
The controversy between the min
rs employed in the Consolidated Coal
COS mine in Breeze, ILL.,, and the
members of the company. over the
quality of powder furnished, has been
Imicably settled.
a man, supposed to be Patrick KEEL
Y, was run down and killed in the
criminal railway yards at St. Louis.
Two trains passed over the body,
utting it in two.
The beautiful church building erect
d by the congregation of the Meth
dist Episcopal church of Vandalia,
H., of which Rev. j. G. Tucker is pas
or, was formally dedicated, Sunday,
y Bishop Fitzgerald, of st. Louis.