Crittenden press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1879-1907, 1901-07-04

Mrs. Mckinley had her first car
riage ride since she was Frustrated
by illness during the recent journey
through the west.
j. Pierpont Morgan has given TO
Harvard university more than $1,000
900.
Ten thousand acres of grain were
destroyed by fire near Los Banos,
Cal.
In a fight between striking street
laborers and police at Rochester, n.
V. II patrolmcn and 20 workmen were
injured.
Control Of Lehigh Valley road has
passed into the hands of the Erie and
other competing companies by the
purchase of stock.
The government receipts will exceed
expenditures by $77,OOO,00o for the
fiscal year ending June 30. The balance
of foreign trade in favor Of the United
States amounts to S675 100000, an in
crease of $145,OOO,OO0
While working in a field in Lincoln
county, y. c., William Huss and his two
sons were killed by lightning.
Two high school graduates at Mount
Vernon. y. V, were hazed by students,
who tied them to trees in the woods
and left them to the mercy of mos
quitoes for four hours.
Senator VI. A. Hanna gave $500 TO
Kenyon college at Mount Vernon, o.
David J. Brewer, associate justice of
the supreme court, and Charles Emory
Smith. postmaster general, have been
given the IL. ID. degree by the Wesley
an university at Mddletown. Conn.
During a storm which did great dam
age near Pittsburgh, Pa, three per-
sons were killed by lightning.
At Eldorado, Kan. Jesse Morrison
was found guilty of manslaughter in
the second degree for the murder of
Mrs. Olin Castle.
The Forty-third regiment. the last
of the volunteers TO leave the Philip
pines, arrived at San Francisco on the
transport Fitzpatrick
Unknown blackmailers, failing to
extort $1,000 from w. c. Carson,
wealthy Cowley county (Kan)
farmer. burned his home during hi
absence, cremating his wife.
Jesse Nanscoy and his brother
John, aged respectively &c and II
years, were drowned near Ames, la.
The Equity court in Washington
awarded S2SS,OOO to Dewey's sailors
and 100000 to those Of SIMPSONS
fleet for war prize money.
i. Shattick, of Anoka Mimi, was
robbed of $500 on train near
Nauoka. MINI.
In college hoat-races at New Lon
don, Conn. Yale won the varsity and
freshman races and Harvard won the
four-oared event.
The Seventh national bank in New
York was closed by order of the
comptroller of the currency. Heavy
loans on doubtful sccurtJ caused tn
closing.
Don Harmed, Joseph LaFarrc and
Grover Gamphor Of Bowling Green,
O.. were drowned while bathing
near Perrysburg.
Railroad construction this year
promises to exceed the work done in
any similar period since 1890.
-Four men were killed by the falling
Of a scaffold at Buffalo, y. Y.
Lee Setter, aged II, and Walter
Evans, aged 80, were drowned at
Waterloo. Neb.
Edward Ruthven (colored) was cleo
trocuted IN the Ohio state peniten-
tiary at Columbus for the murder Cf
Police Officer Ship in Cleveland on
May 6, 1900.
Rev. w. :. Brandon. of Detroit,
Mich, asked for a divorce because his
wife made him do the washing on
Sunday and get his own meals.
Twenty houses were burned at
Chester Point, Ark. Loss, 100000.
Railways estimate that the grain
crop of the northwest will be the
largest ever harvested.
Lightning killed Marvis Carlson,
first baseman in a ball game at Nor
roe Center, H., and shocked several
other PLAYERS and spectators.