Crittenden press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1879-1907, 1902-11-27
News of the World

recent election.
The director of the mint places
the amount of gold mined in Alas
ka the past ten months at $lS,f0,-
01j.
Gen. Fred Grant recently APP
pointed commander of the depart
ment of Texas, with headquarters
at San Antonio, has assumed COM
mand.
Secretary Of War Root, in his an
nual report, will recommend the re-
establishment of the army cantecn.
abolished by act Of the last con-
grcss.
\ general fight followed an at
tempt to force negro workmen to
leave Beaumont, Texas, in which
Max Weylich, a white man, was
killed.
Rev. Charles Cox, aged G5, pastor
Of a church at Morchcad, Ky. clop-
ed with a f;-year-old girl, mem
Der of his congregation, deserving a
wife and five children.
President John Mitchell. Of the
miners union, refused 10 stand for
election as president of the Amer
lean Federation of Labor. to sue
coed Mr. Gompers
Henry Youtsey, now serving
life sentence under conviction
Of completely in the murder of Gov.
Goebel, Of Kentucky. is alleged to
have made confession, implicat-
ing several parties not heretofore
suspected in connection with the
crime
The admission Of Oklahoma. Ar
iona and New Mexico to state
hood will be one Of the first ques-
tons considered by the senate when !
congress meets in December. \
committee from the senate will
shortly visit the penitentiaries TO
view the conditions.
The St Louis city school board |
has decided to supply free text |
books to the children Of that city. |
j. II. Bingham. collector Of rev.
enue for Alabama, has been re-
moved from office, it Is claimed. on
account of his activity in what Is
called the lily white movement to |
exclude negroes from the councils |
of the republican party.
The reply Of President George f.
Baer of the Philadelphia and Read
ing Coal Company to the charges of
President Mitchell Of the United
Mine Workers, as presented to to
the arbitration commission. ignores
Mitchell as an official Of the union.
and suggests that the commission
the union from any recog-
milton in their conclusions of the
in dispute.
In its annual report the civil SER
vice commission urges that congress
provide for the Redistribution Of
the entire department service. The
commission says that until such re-
classification is made it does not
feel justified in attempting 10 'en-
force any uniform system Of regu-
lations for promotions. 1t urges
that each department adopt a sys-
tenn of promotions of its own.
Howells and the Arbuekles are in
4 fight with the sugar trust for con-
troll of the eastern trade
While no special provision has
been made by the war department
this year for handling Christmas
packages intended for soldiers of
the United States serving in the far
East, yet all such packages so adj
dressed will be ca:ed for and will be
to the various points to
which they may be addressed. so as
o be delivered during the holidays. /
The preliminary estimate of the /
average yield per acre Of corn, as d
published in the monthly report of q
he statistician of the department
If agriculture is 26.S bushels. as I
with an average yield of b
81 bushels in 1901; 25.3 bushels
n 1900 and 1899, and ten year
Iverage of 23.4 bushels. The aver I
by states shows Missouri :
n the lead with 32 bushels per acre,
)hio next with 30 bushels per acre, s
While the lowest in production is I
Texas, with sol per acre. :
Col. j. +. Holden. general traffic
manager of the Choctaw, has been b
ppointed assistant freight traffic n