Crittenden press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1879-1907, 1902-08-21
NEWS OF THE WORLD.

health.
Thirty-fye buildings in the bust
ness section Of Washington, La,
were destroyed by fire, entailing a
loss of 100000.
A number Of people, said to have
taken part in the lynching Of ne
gro at Leesburg, Va, have been in
dicted by the grand jury.
Harry Benton, a negro boy II,
years of age, was lynchcd near Ho-
mcr, La. for criminal assault on q
little 4-year-old child.
Charged with paying rewards for
assaults on non-union workmen, the
scale varying according to the de-
gree Of injury inflicted, eleven union
brass mouldcrs were indicted by the
grand jury at Chicago. This is said
to be the first action of the kind ever
taken against laboring men in the
west.
Tracy. the outlaw who escaped
from the Oregon penitentlary sew
eral weeks ago, is still at large
Tracey declares that he wants to
hold up a bank or rob an express
car. He says that he has promised
to give the sum of $4,000 within one
year to the parties who helped him
escape from the Oregon pcniten-
tiary. lie is making his way to
the hole in the wall country in
Wyoming. When there, he declares
he will be a thief among thieves and
thinks he will be safe.
/ Two Of the robbers who held
up a MEXICAN Central train and Sc
cured $4,000 from the " en- E.ssa
express car have been captured at
Gomez Pdlacio and nearly $4,000
has been recovered The first rob
Der to be caught has been fully iden-
tilted as Bill Taylor, who held up
Santa Fe Pacific train in Texas
and killed two men. He was SEN
fenced TO death for that crime, but
escaped 10 Mexico. Fifteen thous-
and dollars Of the booty secured in
the recent robbery was recovered
from Taylor.
About 10000 bound volumes Of
the census report FOR 1900 have been
issued and mailed TO those entitled
70 them, and 10000 more are 10 be
[ printed and mailed before the work
is finished. Two volumes are deyot-
ed to the report on population and
two each TO agriculture and vital
statistics. Four are for manufac-
lures. The latter will require an
edition OF fully 5000 to meet the de-
mand, and calls have been made for
more Of the others than have been
printed When the work Of publ
cation is completed there will be
made an abstract Of the entire work
of the census bureau and a statistical
atlas.
Commodore Montgomery, a noted
Confederate naval officer, who on
one occasion during the war came
near capturing Gen. Grant, died a
few days ago at the home Of his son
in Chicago. Commodore Montgom-
cry was born in Carrollton, XIV, in
1917, and from his youth until the
war broke out was engaged in river
traffic. At the battle Of Mobile Bay
he played conspicuous part. He
was in the engagements at Fort
Pillow and New Orleans, and at
Memphis he lost his feet
According TO statements obtained
from reliable sources, it is the in
tention Of the vatican that the friars
Of the Augustinian. Dominican,
Franciscan and Recollecto orders
now in Manila, who number about
$50 men, should leave there in small
numbers at different times, so that
when the moment comes to resume
negotiations between Gov. Taft and
the apostolic delegation, all the fri
ars will have left the archipelago in
such a way that the friar question
will have resolved itself without the
necessity Of further discussion.
President G. S. Richardson Of the |
miners district organizations in the
Kansas district states that the mi
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