Crittenden press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1879-1907, 1901-07-11

uculcateu on July 10.
Chicago post Office receipts for the
fiscal year just ended were nearly
$s,OOO.OOO.
New York city gained slight relief
from rain Wednesday, but the deaths
caused by heat were ISIS, with 300
prostrations. In Philadelphia the
deaths were 50 and in Pittsburgh 10.
Two men were killed and four
wounded in a battle between union
strikers and norunion workers at the
Smuggler mine near Telluride, Col.
A Great Northern passenger train
was held up at Wagner, Mont, by n
gang of robbers, who got $4,000 from
the express car. The thieves escaped
in the Montana Bad Lands.
The attorney general of Indiana
has ordered an investigation of the
central insane asylum at Indianapolis
to ascertain if any sane persons are
confined there.
The Sturges bank at Mansfield, O.,
failed, together with the Mansfield
machine works. which was controlle,.
by the bank.
An Omaha Judge refused TO inter
fere with proposed bullfights in South
Omaha lie declared it was no more
brutal than football.
Thousands Of carloads of perishable
goods are tied up in East st. Louis by
strike of the freight handlers.
The Allis-Chalmers Co. will build
two big machine shops, one at Milwau-
kee to cost 81 100000, and another on
the Atlantic coast to cost S1,2j0,OO0.
The Knights of Pythias are to be
called upon to rally TO the financial
rescue ofthe endowment rank of their
order.
Hundreds of "sooners" raided Kio-
wa and Comanche lands in Indian ter
ritory. which are soon to be opened
for settlement, and a clash with 5O,-
900 boomers who are encamped about
the reservations is threatened.
Gen. Gomez called on Pre- sident Nc
Knley and is impressed with the sim
cerity of the United States regarding
Cuba.
Judge Thompson, Of Cincinnati, en-
Joined striking machinists from in
-erfering in any way with employers
business.
Six bags of gold amounting to $780,
900 have been stolen from the San
Francisco mint.
The Illinois building at the Buffalo
exposition was formally dedicated.
Directors of the Seventh national
bank of New York held n meeting to
,,1o 90 x.ivrr lanncitnrS in,
full, take up the Marquand loan,
and to reestablish the bank on a SOL
vent basis.
A. L. Johnson's scheme to connect
New York and Philadelphia by troll
ley will be carried out by his brother,
the mayor of Cleveland, o.
Maj. o. L. Pruden has resigned as
paymaster in the army to resume his
former place of assistant secretary
to the president.
Su Shin Chin, the Chinese reformer,
detained at San Francisco. will be
permitted to enter the country.
During the past six days 647 persons
have died in New York city from the
effects of the heat.
ann iNEVibNs an dNlOlduls was
killed by falling 1000 feet from a bal
loon at Muskegon, Mich.
The new battleship Maine will be
launched in Philadelphia on the 25th
inst.
Stamps worth $4,000 were stolen
from the government exhibit at the
Buffalo exposition.
4 Dowieite meeting at Waterloo, Ia,
was broken up by firecrackers and
eggs.
Four persons were drowned at To-
ledo by the capsizing of rowboat.
In a quarrel over a woman Albert
Johnson killed Thomas Spaulding at
Columbus, o., and then killed himself.
The men were sergeants in the gem
eral recruiting service.
Reports from all over the country
show that 10 persons were killed and |
/ GIL injured in rourth of July cele-
brations.
Fire destroyed the building in Bal
timore occupied by Hoen & Co., lith-
ographers and printers, and other
firms, the loss being $G5O,OOO.
Fire destroyed the dressed beef |
storage warehouse of \. \. Jewett |
& Co. in Philadelphia, the loss being |
S5Oo,OOO.
Postmaster General Smith is plan
ming reform in the system of carry
ing periodicals in mails at pound |
rates to shut out spurious publica-
tions.
Bullights at South Omaha degen-
Grated into a farce. No bulls were
killed and none of the "toreadors"
was injured.
Personal AND POLITICAL.
United States Senator James II.
Kyle died at his home in Aberdeen,