Crittenden press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1879-1907, 1902-07-17
Gov. Van SAINT, Of Minnesota. has


been renominated for a second term
by the republicans
President Roosevelt has issued .
proclamation, formally postPoning
the st. Louis fair until 1904.
The supreme court of Missouri,
in the suit against the packing SOM
bine, has sustained the antitrust
law of the state.
Mike Burke, q farmer near st.
Joseph, Mo-, was shot and killed by
his wife. He was under the inhu-
ence Of liquor and had viciously as
saulted his wife.
William Coates, aged II, murdered
his mother at her home near St.
Joseph, Mo. The boy confessed to
the crime, declaring his father told
him to kill his mother.
Senator Bailey, of Texas, lost his
temper and assaulted Senator
Beveridge, of Indiana, in the senate
chamber a few moments after the
body had adjourned for the day.
The episode was the result of q
heated controversy which the two
senators had, when Senator Beve-
rige had said that Senator Bailey
had made an "unwarranted attack"
on Solicitor Penfeld of the state de-
partment.
Acting Secretary Of War Sanger
sent a communication to the
house in answer TO a resolution di-
recting the secretary of war to furn-
ish information as to what amounts
have been paid out of the
Cuban people to F. S. Truber or any
other person, corporation or associa-
ton for advocating reciprocity with
the United States. The answer Of
the war department consists of GER
titled copies of vouchers covering the
payments referred to it in the res ilu-
ton, amounting TO $15,G26.
A Rock Island passenger train
was held up on the night of .he Sd,
near Dupont, Ill. Express Messen-
ger Kane was shot through the groin
by one Of the robbers. The local
safe was forced open, but the amount
of the booty secured is not known.
One party has been arrested, but
declares that he was forced at the
point of a pistol to climb on the
engine and demand that the train
be stopped
The annual report of Chief
Wilkie, Of the secret service division,
submitted last week to Secretary
Shaw, shows that during the year
there were 573 persons charged with
various offenses against the federal
statutes, New York leading with
eighty-fve prosecutions. Of the of
tenders, AIS persons were of Ameri-
can birth, the next largest number of
offenders being Italians. Sixty
three per cent of those arrested were
convicted. The report shows the fact
that during the fiscal year but one
dangerous spurious note was put in
circulation, a S. silver certificate,
while there was but one other even
passable counterfeit 81 silver
certificate, whose makers, with their
complete plant, were captured in
Chicago the same day they attempted
to put one of their notes in circu-
lation.
The monthly report of the sta
tistican of the department of agri-
culture shows the average condi-
ton of cotton on June rs to have
been 84.7, as compared with 95.1 on
May 26, 1909; ST. on June rs,
1901; 75.s on July /, 1901, and a
ten-year average of $50. With the
exception of North Carolina, where
there seems to have been a slight
improvement, and Virginia, where
there is no appreeiable change in
every cotton-producing state shows
a decline during the month, the de-
cline being greatest in Texas, where
it amounts to % points, and in
Indian Territory, Mis-
sissippi and Alabama, where it is
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