Crittenden press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1879-1907, 1902-05-08

AldN given 'lh'AN tAA"t 49,
close on Sunday and at ~ o'clock at
night
\ bin has been introduced in the
lower house of congress abolshing
all duties on meats imported into
this country.
Several regiments Of cavalry will
shortly be sent to the Philippines to
relieve the infantry now doing
mounted duty.
Several parties are under indict-
mcnt in Chicago, charged with jury
briblng in connection with suits
against the Union Traction Com
pany.
Influential republican members
are said TO be interesting themselves
in the Miles case, urging upon the
president that he should not be re-
moved.
All the leading transatlantic
steamship companies have been con-
sohdatcd. The deal was made
through the Morgan banking house
and the capital stock Is $l5O,OOO,-
600.
Striking dye workers at Patterson.
Y. j., started a fight with policemen
and non-unionists IN which pistols
and clubs were used. Many per
sons on either side were seriously
injured.
In a recent public address Gen.
Funston Is credited with crticising
the attitude taken by Senator Hoar
as to the Philippine Islands This
led President Roosevelt to request
the Kansas general 10 cease speak
ing in public while holding a com
mission IN the army.
Several fires occurred at Dallas,
Tex, on the goth, thought 10 have
been the work Of inccndiaucs and
as a result Fireman Will Span and
VIII McAgec are dead The prop
crty loss is placed at 100000. The
first fire was the Dorsey printing
plant and while the entire depart
mcnt was battling with the flames AZ
that point a second alarm was turn
od m from Wholesale district,
where twenty buildings. business
houses and residences, were consam-
"a.
Wesley Atkins. who when u
year, OF age murdered has father
and stcpmothcr at their home IN
Clayton county, Iowa. has been
granted a conditional pardon. after
serving ten years Of life sentence.
The boy had been corrected for
some trivial olTcnse and at night
secured his fathers revolver and
committed the double crime. lie
then went back to bed, slept I'll
morning, when he went 10 a neigh
Dor and told that his parents had
been murdered by robbers He was
suspected and when arrested broke
down and confessed
An awful river disaster occurred
a few miles from Cairo, H., on the
Goth, when the steamer City Of
Vicksburg was burned. At least
IS Of the $50 people on board the
vessel persisted. The vessel was dis
covered TO be on fire about 4 o'clock
in the morning, and a panic follow
ed among both crew and passengers.
One OF the surviving members Of
the crew gives this account: "The
fire was discovered at 4:O5 o'clock
in the forward hold BY AIS the
entire boat was IN flames and at
( 80 the whole boat was wreck.
The front stairways burned, cutting
of any avenue Of escape. We
alarmed the sleeping passengers,
bursting open their doors 10 awak-
en- them. They ran out without put
ting on life prescryers, and crowded
aft. The officers held them back
while the one yawl was loaded with
women and children. The scene was
awful. About twenty or thirty
were taken of in the boat and then
those in the water were rescued.
The water was very cold and the
passengers were in their night
clothing. Those who were not burn
ed up in the boat d.owned in the
cold water, and all persisted except
those who were able to swim. | was
one of these When We reached
shore we were unable to stand and