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A WEEK'S RECORD All the News of the Past Seven Days Condensed. HOME AND FOREIGN ITEMS News of the Industrial Field, Personal and Political Items, Happenings at Home and Abroad. THE NEWS FROM ALL THE WORLD DOMESTIC. The sheriff of Ripley county, Ind., paid $4,000 to Mrs. L. C.Jenkins, whose husband was lynched September 14, 1897. The daughter-in-law of former United States Attorney General Miller kidnaped her seven-year-old son at Indianapolis. Roger T. Gill was named receiver of the Old Town bank. one of the bestknown banking institutions in Baltimore, Md. An attorney at Omaha says kidnapers can be sent to the penitentiary. Pat Crowe, suspect in the Cudany case, not yet located. Director of the Mint Roberts says the demand for pennies has been greater this year than ever before. The Providence M. E. church (colored) at St. Joseph, Mo., was partially burned and the pastor, Rev. J. L. Leonard. was fatally burned. Mayor Patterson, of Bismarck, N. D., was arrested by the sheriff on the charge of permitting gambling. On Christmas day there were 30 deaths from violent causes in various parts of Kentucky. All cities report that postal facilities were never SO taxed as during this year's holiday business. Wayne Cromwell, aged 24, and Charles Canan, aged 21, were drowned near Blakeslee, O., and the mother of the latter, when notified of the accident, dropped dead. The twentieth century national Gospel campaign has been officially inaugurated in New York. The Demorest branch of the W. C T. U. in New York denounced kissing as an intoxicant, and therefore to be barred. State Teachers' associations met at Springfield, Ill.; Milwaukee, Wis.; Yankton, S. D.: Lincoln, Neb.; Grand Rapids, Mich: St. Paul, Minn; Indianapolis, Ind.: Des Moines, Ia. Gustave Wolf, the last member of the Bridgeport (Conn.) Suicide club, killed himself. The First national bank of White Pigeon, Mich., went into the hands of a receiver. In a runaway accident at Flint, Mich., Dr. George W. Howland was killed and G. H. Quigley, a prominent business man, fatally injured. The total wheat yield of the United States for 1900 is 522,229,505 bushels; corn, 2,100,000,000 bushels. John W. Tinsley shot and killed his wife in Los Angeles, Cal., and then killed himself. Domestic trouble was the cause. Mrs. Carrie Nation, of the W.C.T.U., wrecked a saloon at Wichita, Kan.. by throwing stones at pictures, mirrors, stock and fixtures. A lone robber held up a stage in a canyon near Hot Springs Junction. Ariz., and rifled the express box. The residence of Mrs. Harriger, near Brookville, Pa., was destroyed by fire and the mother and two daughters burned to death. Clerks of Cuban courts will be paid salaries hereafter instead of fees. William H. Smythe, grand secretary of the masons of Indiana, was mysteriously shot in his office in Indianapolis. Alfred C. Harmsworth, a London publisher who arrived in New York, says American newspapers are too frivolous. Police in Omaha found the man who sold a pony that figured in the Cudahy abduction case and the former owner identified the picture of Pat Crowe as that of the man who bought it. The exchanges at the leading clearing houses in the United States during the week ended on the 28th aggregated $1,786,322,086 against $2,276,197.373 the previous week. The increase compared with the corresponding week of 1899 was 11.9. There were 213 business failures in the United States in the seven days ended on the 28th, against 293 the week previous and 220 the corresponding period of 1899. Edima Goldman said in New York that the anarchists had decided not 10 kill any more kings or crowned heads. Frank Richardson, a millionaire, was mysteriously murdered in his doorway at Savannah, Mo.
