Crittenden press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1879-1907, 1902-09-11

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duon 70 Senator Quay.
Attorney General Knox Ia. gone
10 France to take Up the inTestiga-
ton Of the Panama canal title held
by the French company.
In the democratic primaries Of
Alabama. ". L Jelks, present gov
ernor. defeated former Governor
Johnston by 10000 majority.
An electrical company at Lynn,
Mass. Is building a train, which Is
soon 70 he used in Illinois, and
make 20 10 100 miles an hour
Miss Msuds Thompson, prom
inen, young lady, was brutally mur-
dered near Huntington, Tenn, by
james Greer, her sweetheart, b.
cause she would not slope with him.
Postmaster General Smith, in
answer 10 an inquiry as to the course
to be pursued by a federal oiiiee-
holder IN political Affairs, SAYS:
There l. no reason why YOU should
no; be a delegate 20 the conventions
Of your party, but you should not
serve as chairman Of any state or
county convention or committee.
and should not take an unduly act
I've part IN either local or state poll
tics
A clash between striking miners
and troops occurred August 80 at
co,lIery near Tamaqua, Pa. Sew
eral parties on both sides were in
jured and a score Of strikers arrest
cd. All efforts 20 resume operation
in the anthracite territory have fail
ed from the fact that men cannot DO
induced TO take the place Of str.k-
ers. There is being less than 5000
tons Of coal mined daily in the
strike district, where the daily aver
age when the mines are in full op-
Grafton Is 2s,9ss tons daily.
DR.. Peyrat. a French physician,
has called 70 the notice Of the acad-
rmy q medicine a case in which q
man hi; In the heart by a revolver
bullet had been completely cured.
The wounded man was attended IN
one Of the Pans hospitals. who're
DR.. Launay successfully stitched the
wound. Some time ago Or. Il
Dentu reported several cases Of sue
cesstgl treatment Of wounds IN the
heart produced by knives, etc, the
proportion Of cures being from 80 10
42 per cent, but this sPPears TO b.
the first case Of success in dealing
with = man shot in the heart.
Judge Henry c. Caldwell, the
only surviving appointee Of Presi-
dent Lincoln on the federal judi.
cary. has reached the age Of 20
years AZ this age Judge Caldwell
Is entitled 10 retire on full pay, but
as he is still hale in body and Wig
orous in mind be has no idea Of re
signing. Judge Caldwells home Is
in Little Rock, but for several
years he has been spending the sum
mer al Wagon Wheel Gap, IN Col
orado, near which place he has re-
Gently entered 100 acres Of land as
a homestead, and built a home upon
it. Here he has been living the
rugged life Of the mountains, TO
which he ascribes the perfect health
he possesses az an age when the or
binary man is broken in BODY and
mind. His nature is as rugged and
as stalwart as the mountains among
which he lives, and he Is capable Of
a. much labor as the hardest noun
taineer.
The epidemic Of cholera is reach
ing alarming proportions on the
other side 81 the Pacific, the out
break extending further and hav-
ing more victims than ever before
reported. 1t extends from the is
land Of Java 10 Japan, and almost
every city on the coast and many in
the interior are affected. The dis
ease. too, is being contracted by Eu-
ropeans as well as natives. In
Hong Kong, from the tirst Of the
outbreak to August l6, there had
been 525 cases, SIX Of the patients
being Europeans, and 5ll deaths of
whom four were Europeans. In
Tien Tsin the last report placed the
number Of cases for the year at
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