Crittenden press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1879-1907, 1902-09-25
NEWS OF THE WORLD.
Preparations are under way for

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eral Of the army, has retired under
the age limit and is succeeded BY
Brig. Gen. Robert 0'Reilley.
On September s the amount o;
gold in the United States treasury
was S5;3,936,l9l, the largest sum
on hand at any time in the history
Of the country.
President Roosevelt delivered an
address 10 the convention Of locomo-
tive tiremon at Chattanooga, and
was elected an honorary member OF
the brotherhood
The navy department is planning
to place all Americans on board the
new vessels as they are built, and TO
eventually retire all foreign born
persons from the naval service.
Gen. ChafTce, since repeated I'M
looked for attacks on American pick
cts, has inauguratcd a vigorous
campaign to subduc the hostile Moros
in the province Of Mindanao. L. |.
A revolt against the sultan OF
Morocco, headed by the sultan's
brother, has grown TO such proper
tions As to alarm the monarch IN
power, who Is collecting a large
army for defense.
Prosecuting Attorney Folk. Of St.
Louis, who As prosecuting the mu-
nicipal boodlcrs of the above city.
has been threatened with assas.ina-
tion. Mr.. Folk says such threats
will have no effect upon him, and
that he viii send every guilty man
to the penitenhary.
Mrs. Joseph Leslie, aged %, was
shot and killed at Bloomington, IL,
by Miss Daisy Carlton, aged 20
Mrs. Leslie had come into posses
sion Of some endearing letters writ
ten TO her husband by Miss Carlton
and was administering punishment
on her with a cowhide when shot
Catholic missionaries Of the Ger
man colony Of Togo, west Africa,
have appealed to the kaiser, 'be-
cause their own and the labors of
other Christian missionaries among
the blacks are in vain. as the Ger
man schnapps barons flood the coun-
try with cheap fusil, turning the pa
tives into drunkards.' The report
says that on an average 2.sS9 quarts
Of rank potato schnapps are INTRO
duccd into that small colony, CON
tanning lis Europeans, all told.
"Rum,' say the missionaries, sac
companies the German black from
the cradle 10 the graTe; when com
ing into the world be is saluted by
a schnapps orgie; the young buck
buys his bride with German
schnapps; schnapps makes brothers
out Of the chief and the wicked fe-
itch priest, schnapps is used to rob
the'blacks Of their land and schnapps
plays leading part at their canni-
bal festivals. The black is getting
more and more demoralized by the
wholesale introduction Of schnapps
J. X. Murrell, one of the m mbers
of the municipal assembly under in
dictment in ST. Louis for bribery,
and for FIVE months a fugitive from
justice, has returned to ST. Louis |
from Mexico and made a complete !
confession, which caused the arrest |
Of eighteen other members and OK
members Of the house of delegates. !
In his confession Murrcll states that |
a majority of the delegates, compos-
ed of men under arrest, formed a
combine, and sold their votes for
the passage Of numerous franchise
and contract bills, notably the light
ing bill and the suburban railway
bill. To secure the support Of the
combine for the lighting bill 81, 800,
or $4,000 each, was paid the hood
lers, and $4,000 was deposited in
a safety deposit vault, 10 be delivered
when the suburban franchise was
granted. Each Of the parties under
arrest is held in $4,000 bond and
only few have been able TO make
the bond. The men under arrest
belong to both the democratic and re-
publican parties.
a farmer in the Indian Territory
applied Paris green to his cotton
with the idea of destroying the