Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1905-01-06
CURRENT TOPICS.
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

PERSONAL AND GENERAL.
Wholesale charges of corruption in
the handling of Red Cross funds by
Russian officials have estranged the
people and practically put stop to
subscriptions.
An oast-bound Wabash passenger
train ran into freight train on a
switch near Fort Wayne, Ind, on the
eth, killing one man and injuring ten
others.
AT Portland, Ore, on the 9th, the
federal grand jury returned seven in
dictln' Dts in connection with the land
that city.
On the 9th John Butler and Guy
Reed, the two negroes who were con-
victed of the murder of r. G. Story at
Thomson, Ca, were hanged in that
city.
Gov. Peabody of Colorado has refused
the requisition from the governor OF
Missouri for T. J.. Parker, wanted at
Sedalia on a charge of obtaining
money under false pretenses.
President Beckwith of the Oberlin
(O.) bank, the ruin Of which was
brought by Mrs Chadwick, was report
ed, on the 28th, to be in a critical con-
dition.
Four men were killed and one in
jured at Walville. Wash, on the 2Sth,
by an explosion Of four boilers in a
saw mill plant.
The Japanese are preparing to make
q general assault On Port Arthur, pro-
ceeding simultaneously from the east
and the west.
Fire destroyed the Coon block and
several other buildings at Estherville,
Ia. on the 2Sth. The loss is estimated
at 100000.
More miles of railroad track were
laid in Missouri In 1904 than in any
other state or territory in the United
States.
The total farm value of the principal
crops of the United States, excepting
cotton, on December 1, was $2,734,SS3,-
7O2
The Japanese, on the evening of the
23th, had succeeded in occupying the
entire fort on Rihlung mountain, in
the defenses of Port Arthur. They are
busy sapping the northeastern forts
preparatory to another assault
Gov, Odell's warrant fer the extra
dition of DR.. Chadwick, from New
York to Ohio, was mailed, on the 2Sth,
from Albany to New York city, d.
rected to Sheriff Barry, Of Cleveland,
o. The steamship Pretoria, with DR..
Chadwick on board, was rot expected
until the 30th.
1t is reported by way CT Toxic that
the Russian Port Arthur headquarters
have been removed to the foot of
Liaotishan mountain, preparatory to
retirement to the fortress there as
last resort.
The New York cotton market took
a decided slump, on the 18th, immedi
ately following the publication of the
census bureau ginning report. The fig
ure announced is II ,S4S, ia commercial
bales up to December lS, compared
with STAT $3.50 bales in the same time
last year.
The coroner's jury at Mount Carmel,
ILL.,, in the case of the victims of the
Christmas day wreck on the Southern
railway, found the company RESPONSE
bic, with the other parties, for hir-
ing men weak both mentally and phys
ically for positions of responsibility,
end in this case hiring man nearly
dead with consumption and cripple,
at salary of only $40 a month, to do
the work of two able-bodied men,"
The annual report on Illinois coal
industry shows 157 deaths in mines
during the past year, and the total
output of mines was 37,077,S9 tons
Seven of nine convicts at the Cali
fornia state prison at Folsom, who
made break for liberty, on the 29th,
were almost riddled with bullets, three
being dead and three in critical con-
dition.
After spending the entire day in
fruitless ballotiDg, the new Delaware
legislature, which convened in extra
session, on the goth, adjourned without
having effected a permanent organiza-
ton.
Hollis hall, the historic dormitory on
the old campus of Harvard university
at Cambridge, Mass, was damaged by
fire, on the 29th and the building was
barely saved from destruction.
Judge Charles NJ. Walker, of Chica-
go, has decided that the city of Chica-
go Is not liable for damages growing
out of the loss of life in connection
with the Iroquois theater fire.
The town of Hartford Ark, in the
center of-the coal mining district of
Sebastian county, was almost entirely
destroyed by fire on the Goth. The esti-
mated loss exceeds 100000.
Admiral Kaznakoff, Russia's repre-
sentative on the, North sea commits
sion, has been recalled and Vice-Ad-
miral Doubassoff has been sent to
Paris to relieve him.
The Chinese government, through
the imperial vice commissioner to the
Worlds fair, Wong Kai-Kah, has pre-
ssnted to President Francis the Chi
reese pavilion at the exposition. The
tender was made IN person by Mr..
wcns and accepted by Mr., Francis