Crittenden press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1879-1907, 1904-07-21
CURRENT TOPICS.
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

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cheap rooming houses
erected for the thousands of homeseek-
ers registering for the Rosebud reserya-
ton lands
President Loubet of France has sig
nified his intention of comforting the
grand cross of the Legion Of Honor
upon Secretary Hay, in recognition of
his efforts during the past five years.
to strengthen the bonds Of .amity be-
tween the United States and France.
Ii was reported on the 18th that a
great battle was in progress at Ia
Tche-Kieo, in which the japanese were
| in strength on three sides of the Rus
! slams. Military men were Of the opin-
ion that it would prove the biggest bat
/ tie Of the war so far
The strike situation at Chicago, on
| the morning of the 10th looked omi-
| nous. The packers and their striking
employees had not been able TO agree
upon an ALTERATION proposition, and
the foreign element among the strikers
seemed ripe for riot
President Roosevelt has notified the
members of his cabinet that he will be
back in Washington on July 2S. and
that he wants all OF them 10 meet him
there during the first week of August.
Meat from cattle alleged TO have been
affected with Texas fever and blood
poisoning were seized on the 18th boy
Chief Meat Inspector Thomas StrinCer.
of ST. Louis, as il was being delivered
to the poorhouse. insane asylum. female
hospital city hospital and emergency
hospital The meat was supplied by a
Chicago contractor.
William T. Scott. nominee for Presl-
dent of the United States by the - gro
Civil Liberty League. was arrested in
East St Louis. H.. on the 18th by
deputy sheriff on an old capias for a
fine and costs aggregaung $3.50. as
seSsed for running a disOrderly house
Twenty people were killed and about
twenty-five injured on the 18th. in a coli
lision on the Chicago & Eastern Illinois
railroad at Glenwood. % miles south of
Chicago The collision occurred be-
tween a picnic train from that city,
which was returning from Momence,
H., and a freight train, into the rear
end of which il dashed at a high rate OF
speed.
Two hundred persons in Millington,
Nd, are homeless and without shelter
and food as the result of the FIRE, on
the 18th, which destroyed 80 dwellings
and Il places of business. The loss is
placed at $4,000 with practically no
insurance.
Dependent because Of poor health.
Edward Niemann. former employee of
The Bourbon Mercantile Co, POS Wal
nut street. ST. Louis. Mo. committed
suicide in Denver. Col. on the 18th, /
by firing a 32-caliber bullet into his
brain.
According to a London dispatch of /
the 14th, Santos-Dumont. the famous /
aeronaut. has given mp the idea Of re-
turning TO the United States 10 take /.
part in the airship contest az The I
Worlds fair in St. Louis.
4 Toxic dispatch Of the 1lth says /
the Japanese forces have occupied Vim .
Kow che seaport OF New Chwangl .
without opposition. the Rus ians retir- F.
ing. This would indicate the fall Of .
New Chwang.
The honorary board Of Filipino COM
missiorers reached ST. Louis on the
l4ih, and were escorted to their quar-
ters by a special reception committee
and the batalions of Filipino ccastabu-
larry stationed at the Worlds fair
grounds, led by their band OF 50 pieces
They viii remain in S. Louis about a
month.
Charles w. Murtfel6t. a newspaper
writer and an authority on asricul-
ural subjects, died a. his home at
Mo, on the 18th. at he age
II 81 years
Early results Of the strike Of tho
butchers and meat cutters we're OBJ
.oryable. on the 18th, in an advance all
along the line in he price of meats.
10Th fresh and cured. Restaurants I'm
he cities either put up the price of
neat orders or cut dowl the size OF the
portions
Two negroes. Frank Ousley and John
johnston. were hanged together in the
all yard al Pittsburg. Pa. on the 18th.
The execution was witnessed by a son
# James Donnelly, whom the negroes
murdered Just as the trap was sprung
member Of the jury and two specta-
ors fell TO the ground in a faint
On the nth, a two-headcd girl was
orn at Cairo. Ill, To- a negro family
# the name of Shane II died shortly
ftcr birth. The heads were both well
ormCd and es,ed on the shoulders at
bout the same angle The features
we're perfect The body OF the infant
vas fully matured.
After quarreling with his wife, who
ad left him, over a picture Of a dead
aughter, Sam Baldwin, Of Cedar
,apids, Ia, or the 18th. cut her throat
rom ear TO ear with a razor. He then
dashed at his own throat, dying before
e could be taken 10 the hospital.
On the l4th, a fire destroyed all the
lrface Improvements Of the American
;ine a, Gladstone, Col. The loss is es-