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

at Galena, ILL.,, within Few hours OF
each other.
Richard Hearn, a farmer near Mat
toon, ILL.,, was ordered to leave $4,000
in a designated spot for blackmailers
OF his daughter would be murdered.
The barge Sycamore sunk in a col
lision near Port Iroquois. Mich, and
Capt. Joiner and two of the crew
were drowned.
The First national bank of New
York paid a dividend of $1,000, 900 on
old capital stock of 100000. This
was at the rate of 1000 per cent.
Miss Ruth Hanna will christen the
cruiser Cleveland with water instead
of champagne.
Secretary Long has ordered every
ment to refrain from talking publicly
of the Santiago controversy.
Reports show that the drought has
cut the corn crop one-third, but that
The wheat harvest will be the greatest
In the nations history.
The postmaster general has issued
an order placing the American postal
service in China on the same basis as
before the outbreak.
Policeman Pass and his son and w.
+. Knox were killed in fight with ne
groes al 1soline, Tenn.
The corn crop in Iowa has been saved
by rain.
The transport Meade arrived atSan
Francisco from Manila in the record
breaking time of 81 DAYS.
Admiral Kimberly has asked to be
relieved from duty on the Schley court
of inquiry because of i'll health.
Dock laborers struck at San Fran
cisco, Oakland, Mission Rock and Port
Cost. Twelve thousand men are in
volved.
Suit has been begun in New York
TO recover some of the S2,50O.OO0
which Capt. o. NJ. Carter swindled
the government out Of
The body of Banker Penick, of
Charlton, Ia, was found in the lake
near Racine, Wis.
Edwin Gould is planning TO COM
bine all the match companies in the
world.
Mrs. Anna Brudowicz, aged %
years, a bride of "a hours. danced
herself to death at her wedding feast
in McKeesport. Pa.
Emil Hartman, of Duluth, Mimi,
fought duel with lieutenant of
the German army at Achen, the lat
ter being severely wounded.
The assistant secretary of agricul-
ture, after trip through the west,
declared the damage to corn had
been exaggerated.
Gen. Leonard Wood, governor gem
eral of Cuba, arrived in New York from
Havana.
A trainload Of homeseekers return
sng from FL Reno was wrecked near
Kremlin, Okla, and one was killed
and four injured.
A mysterious grave at Kalamazoo,
Mich, was disclosed by the midnight
visits of an unknown woman to the
place.
The grand jury indicted over a score
of election clerks and judges for al
legged fraud in counting ballots in Chi
cago.
Mrs. Carrie Nation, serving a sem
tence in the Jail at Topeka, Kan, for
joint smashing, has been pardoned by
Gov. Stanley.
S. F. Tustin, a druggist, killed him
self at the Great Northern hotel in
because he was too poor to
Settlement Of the steel strike was
delayed by radicals in the Amalga-
mated association, who oppose the &C.
ceptance of Morgan's terms.
Four robbers held up a Baltimore
a Ohio limited train near Edgemoor,
Ind. detached two mail cars from the |
train and blew one open with dyna-
mite, but got nothing. They over
looked the express car containing
Mr.. and Mrs. r. T. Taliaferro were |
in their home near Memphis, |
Tenn, by negroes.
Andrew Carnegie has offered a $4o,-
BOO library to Joplin, Mo.
Mrs. Armon Armonson and eight
year-old son were burned TO death in a
IRE which destroyed their residence
near New Glarus, Wis.
Nolu III the treasury July 81 amount
td TO S504,354 ,297, the largest amount
ever held there.
Alva Jones and wife, an aged couple,
lied almost at the same time in Kin
Mich.
Joseph and Edward Prather (broth-
,rs) were killed by lightning on a
arm near Martinsvlle, Ind.
j. Pierpont Morgan rejected coun-
er proposals of the steel workers
md notified them that the offer made
s final so far as the steel trust is
Isaac Lane and wife were shot to
leath by negroes near Helena, Ark.
Three counterfeiters with their out
Il were discovered in a South Dakota
anyon near Deadwood. II