Crittenden press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1879-1907, 1902-03-06

not arrive until February %. The
delay Of the ships arrival with its
distinguished guest was due to a
heavy gale, which for time caused
some apprehension as to her safety.
The fate Of Miss Stone, the Amer
lean missionary, is still in doubt,
and it may be possible the United
States will proceed against Bulgaria
and Turkey, who are morally re-
sponsible for her safety. Notwith-
standing the ransom has been paid
over to agents Of the brigands, she
has not been placed in the care Of
her friends, though the delay may
be due to natural causes.
The Fort Smith and Western
Railroad Company is employing full
blood Cherokee Indians on the con-
struction Of the line through that
nation to Guthrie. This is the first
time in the southwest where full
blood Indians have accepted en-
ployment. They have been driven
to it by virtual starvation. The
road foreman says the Indians are
willing and excellent workmen.
Eighteen lives were lost in a fire
which destroyed the Park Avenue
hotel, Park avenue and Thirty
fourth street, New York City. When
il became known that the structure
was on fire the frightened occu-
pants appeared at every window and
many were rescued. Most of the
dead occupied quarters in the high
er stories, and were shut off from
escape by the fire getting into the
elevator shaft.
Another heavy snow storm, some
thing like that in which Roscoe
Conkling was caught in 1888, and
which was the direct cause of his
death, fell upon New York city
Monday, February II, causing al
most an entire suspension of traffic.
About ten inches of snow fell. The
passage of trains, the loading Of YES
sells and other great industries were
generally abandoned on account Of
the snow blockade and the heavy
gale that prevailed.
Everything now presages a late
spring in the south. Nothing as yet
has been done on the farm toward
preparing for planting, owing to the
cold, wet weather, and the time is at
hand for planting corn with not an
acre plowed to receive it. Ordinari-
ly il is the case that many of the
most progressive farmers have their
corn planted and their cotton lind
cleaned off by the middle of Febru-
airy, but not so this time, and the
prospect is not brighter than the
weather. The corn crop last year
was distressingly short; in fact, very
few farmers made a sufficient guam
tity to run their places until the
first Of the present year, and these
had prepared to put in oats to help
out in the early spring, but now
comes the report that all the fall
planted oat crop has been killed by
the repeated freezes, and it will be
necessary to replant.
The spectacle of two United
States senators engaged in a rough
and-tumble fight in the senate cham.
Der while that body was in session
was witnessed February %. Mr..
Tillman, in the course of a speech
upon the Philippine tariff bill, made
serious reflections upon the honor Of
his colleague. Mr.. McLaurin, who
was not in the chamber at the time,
being engaged in committee work,
but he was sent for and appeared
just as Mr. Tillman concluded his
speech. Pale as ashes, Mr.. McLaur-
in rose to address the senate, speak
ing to a question of personal privi-
lege. He reviewed Mr.. Tillman's
charges briefly and then denounced
the statement made by his colleague
as a willful, malicious and deliber-
ate lie. Scarcely had the portentous
words fallen from his lips. when Mr..
Tillman, sitting a few seats from
him, with Mr.. Teller, of Colorado,
between them, sprang at him. Mr..
Mclaurin, who had half turned to-
ward Mr.. Tillman, met him half
av,1 -, a.