Crittenden press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1879-1907, 1901-02-14

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resigned on the eth.
John Dickinson, of the firm of JohI
Dickinson q Co. Chicago commission
merchants, was expelled from his sea
on the Chicago board of trade, on the
5th, by the board of directors. The
charge against him was cutting the
standard commission rates set by the
board.
Mayor Reed of Kansas City, Mo-, OF
the 9th. signed an ordinance regulat
ing the rates of the Missouri & Kansas
Telephone Co. At present the annua
rate for business telephones is 500
and for residents $4s. The ordinanc,
reduces the rates TO S4S and S36 re
spectively.
Mrs. Carrie Nation, with three fol
lowers, smashed the Senate" the fin
est saloon in Topeka, Kas., on the 5th
She was arrested, after completing heI
work, and taken before the police
Judge, who, after receiving a severe
lecture upon his duty as a judge, re-
leased her.
The Berlin Nossische Zeitung eX-
presses the opinion that Emperor
Williams visit TO England can not be
Invested of political Importance. Not
that treaties or agreements have
been concluded, but many matters
must have been discussed, and prob
ably satisfactorily arranged.
Gov. Barnes of Oklahoma, when in
formed. on the eth, that the Shawnee
Fair association had offered a purse
of $25, 900 for the Jeffries- Rubin prize
fight, declared: mo prize fight can
be held in Oklahoma while l am gov
ernor. Prize fighting is prohibited by
our laws, and the laws will be en-
forced"
DIR. Homer c. Stun, of Mount Yer
non. Ia, has been appointed presid
ing elder of the Methodist Episcopal
church in the Philippine islands, and
will sail from San Francisco for Ma
Mia to take up his new official duties,
April 1. He expects TO take Il dozen
or more missionaries with him and or
ganize Methodist Episcopal churches
in every section of the Philippines.
In consequence of a series of agra
rian riots in the fruit-producing parish
of ST. Mary, Jamaica, the governor,
Sir Augustus Heming, on the 9TH, is
sued a proclamation warning the peo-
pie against attempting to take forci-
bic possession Of any land. The
troubles have slowly been developing
a serious phase, and the authorities
are taking n firm standin the matter.
The secretary of the treasury, on
the 5th, wrote TO Representative Taw-
ney, chairman of the Louisiana pur-
chase exposition committee, that he
had received satisfactory evidence
that the Louisiana Purchase EXPOSE
ton Co. had raised the $10,000,000 re-
quired as prerequisite to govern
ment aid of the great st. Louis expo
sition in 1903. Later in the day the
bill was ordered favorably reported.
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Representative Tawney, of Mime
sofa, chairman Of the special commit
tee on the st. Louis exposition, on the
9Th, filed his report on the bill appro-
priating S5,O0O,O0O in the aid of the
exposition. The report strongly urges
favorable action on the measure, both
on it's merits and in redemption of the
Of arira at ha Iag
session. A minority report, also, while
opposing, gives many reasons why the
bill should be passed.
Senator Smith, on the 9TH, intro
duced "a bill in the Kansas senate
making il felony to participate in a
mob or to purchase rope or firearms
for the use of mob. The bill also
provides that an officer who allows a
prisoner to be taken from his Gus
tody by mob shall be removed from
Office unless he can show To the court
that he was unable to keep the pris-
oner without actually endangering his
life.
The William Kimball public school
at West Superior, Wis, was destroyed
by fire on the 5th. There were nine
women teachers and about two
hundred and fifty children in the
building at the time of the fire. Smoke
was discovered up stairs, and the sig
nal given by the ringing of the gong.
Every child in the building got out in
an orderly manner, the larger ones
helping TO carry out the kinder
gertens.