Crittenden press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1879-1907, 1902-06-12
NEWS OF THE WORLD.

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Snow fell in northern New York
May rs.
High water throughout OklahC-
ma has done great damage to crops
and other property.
/ E1-Congressman Bailey has BEEN
nominated for governor by the II
publicans Of Kansas
NJ Waldeck Rousseau, the French
premier. has resigned, and viii be
a candidate 10 succeed President
Loubet
The estate Of the late Amos Cum
mings. member Of congress from
New York. Is valued at less than
/ $4,000.
The Continental and American
. Tobacco Companies, It Is claimed.
have acquired control Of the leading
+ tobacco concerns OF Cuba.
Hall Walker. colorcd, proprietor
Of a negro boarding house at Tex
arkana. was shot and killed by his
wife. Jealousy was the cause Of the
crime
J. Pierpont Morgan has turned
his attention TO the west Last
week he purchased q large block Of
stock in one Of the strongest banks
IN ST Louis.
American sovereignty over the
island Of Cuba ceased MAY 20, when
the new republic was formally turn
ed over to President Palma and
other officials.
Abe Wirherup, white, was taken
from Jail at Paris, No, by a mob
and hanged. Witherup brutally
murdered a young man with whom
he was in partnership.
Naval operations in the Philip
pines from May /, 1898, when Dew
ey entered Manila harbor, to Jan
uary l, 1902, cost the United States
government Sls,392,OOO. This
amount includes pay Of officers and
men, equipment, transportation and
supplies.
The stockholders Of the st. Louis
Southwestern railroad have decided
10 issue new stock to the extent Of
SIS, 500, 900, and S25,OOO,0OO Of
new bonds. The new issue will be
made to retire outstanding second
mortgage income bonds and to pro-
vide for new equipment Of the
road, for the purchase Of the stock
Of other railroads. A portion of the
issue will be expended for the pur-
chase Of the Stuttgart and Arkansas
River railroad.
Scattering attempts by Moros to
kill American soldiers who wander
from the lines alone continue. Sec
ond Lieut.. Robert G. Humber and
Sergt Walling, Of the Tenth infan-
try, were attacked when about five
miles from Camp Vickers in the
Island of Mindinao. 4 single Moro |
appeared with a flag Of truce in his
hand. When he had come quite |
close TO the two soldiers he sudden
ly whipped out a creese and slashed |
Sergt. Walling so fiercely that the |
latter's arm was almost severed from
the body. Lieut.. Humber fred at |
the Moro, but he escaped.
President Roosevelt delivered the
Decoration day Grafton at Arlington
cemetery, Washington, in the course
of which he referred to lynchings
and alleged cruelties in the Philip
pines, as follows: "From time to
time there occur in our country, TO
the deep and everlasting shame of
our people, lynchings carried on
under circumstances Of inhuman
cruelty and barbarity-a cruelty in
fnitely worse than any that has ever
been committed by our troops in the
Philippines; worse for the victims
and far more brutalizing to those
guilty Of it. The men who fail to
condemn these lynchings, and yet
,lamor about what has been done in
the Philippines, are indeed guilty
If neglecting the beam in their own
Eye while haunting their brother
about the mote in his"
Six railroads running out of
Memphis have been indicted by the