Crittenden press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1879-1907, 1904-07-21

WnlCn mas destroyed Sdn Juan ut
Monte. Two hundred lives were lost
with a property damage of $2,0O0,OOO.
Dom Paul Kruger, former presiden
of the Transvaal Republic. died, on tn
14th, at Clarnz, in the Swiss Canton o
Vaud. Death was due to heart weak
ness, resulting from an attack o
pneumonia.
The bUbonfc plague has appeared il
Rio Janeiro, according TO New lorI
Herald dispatch from that city. Tn
municipal and state authorities hav
adopted rigorous measures to Trecen
an epidemic.
Clutching a decree Of divorce, Mrs
Ella Swoboda. in rich attire. was found
dead on a sidewalk in South Park ave
nue., Chicago. on the 18th. a broker
vial which had contained poison, wa.
found in her hand bag.
The system Of condemning political
prisoners in Russia by administrative
order has been abolished by imperial
decree, and persons accused of political
crimes henceforth. will be tried by the
courts under the regular procedure.
Mayor Cyrus W. Davis. of Wateryille
Me, was nominated for governor OF
Maine at the democratic state conyen-
ton. on the 18th, Notwithstanding the
fact that when his name was presented
he protested and announced his With
draNal.
Orders have been issued at the navy
department assigning the cruiser Chi
Cago 10 duty as flagship of the Pacific
feet in place of the cruiser New York,
which is 30 be brought around TO New
York for duty on the North Atlantic
station.
The announcement. in the Transvaal,
of Paul Kruger's death, was received
with general regret and sympathy. The
newspapers make generous reference TO
him, and warmly support the sugges-
ton of the burial of his body in the
Transyaal.
The body of Henry Baxter Kingsley,
OF New York, who disappeared mysteri-
ously November Il, which was found
on the 18th, in the Harlem river a. One
Hundred and Fifty-seventh street, was
identified beyond question at the Har
lem mOrgue.
Mrs Mary Constantine Boone a pi-
oneer Of Kansas City. Mo. died there,
on the 14th. aged 81 years She was
born in Quebec Can. and settled in
Missouri in 1925. When II she eloped
with Daniel Boone, a grandson of the
Kentucky frontiersman.
o. F. Cook, discoyerer Of the Guate-
malan boil weevil-eating ants has
wired the department of agriculture
from Texas that the ants are destroy
ing cotton boil worms, and also de-
stroying similar injurious insects with
even greater avidity than they do the
boil weeyil.
There was no celebration, on the
18th, in the lgOrrote village at the
Worlds fair, over the resembling of
the pants order The good news was
oyershadowed by death in their
midst SuyOn. one of their number.
died at the reservation hospital of
pneumonia.
Samuel L. Clemens mark Twain
and his two daughters, bringing the
body Of Mrs Clemens .who recently died
in Italy, arrived in New York. on the
18th, on the steamer Prinz Oskar. by
way of Genoa. Palmero and Naples
Mrs. Clemens body was taken 10 Ell |
mira, n. y, for burial
On the 18th, Samuel VI. Jones. the |
Golden Rule mayor of Toledo O.. |
died as the result Of a complication of /
diseases. The immediate cause of his /
death was an abscess on his lungs.
When this abscess broke the mayor .
was not strong enough to throw off /
the poison from his system, and death |
resulted
The total dead in the destruction of
the excursion steamer Gen. Slocum. on
"NAl' TO- - SANfI al Jos IN me maj
report presented to Commissioner Nc
Adoo by the inspectors in charge of
the investigation by the police depart
ment Only S97 of the dead were iden-
tihed, 62 were reported missing, and 81
unidentified
There will be no change in the cos
tunes OF the lgorTotes at The ST. Louis
exposition. Statements concerning the
proposed change were sent to the presi-
dent. while explanations were made by
Col Edwards, of the insular bureau
and as a result It was decided that no
order would be issued requiring these
people to wear anything more than
their native dress.
On the 18th, five more deaths were
added TO Chicago's list of Fourth of
July victims. Four died in agony from
lockjaw, while the fifth succumbed to