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a 4 r THE CRITTENDEN PRESS I'UIILIMIIKU VfKISIU.Y. MAUION. i t i I KENTUCKY, NEW LAW PROBLEMS. Likely to Arise Out of Attempts to Ex terminate the Mosquito. "Then is likely to bo a new problem in tho law if Homo of the plans fm llif extermination of thr mosquito ii i u curried out," said one of tho younger members of tho Now Orleans bar, to a Times-Democrat reporter, 'ami the members of tho profession v lm Imvo nmdu a apcuiulty ol the law ol damages will havoan opportunity t hjnn uoine very fine theories. ...f, for matuiice, the city of .New Oil'.iiiu, by ordinance, should make tin m roeimitf of citterns compulsory, in,. I .iipjHwe it should bo dot-hired iiLMiiiNt the law to leave water of any Kind -.landing on the promises for unt length of time, and penalty and should be fixed of the offenae, the purpoaeof tin -o provisions being to present xi,MMiutumifroii) breeding. miiiiu man violates this Inw and j.mvhU'8 a breeding place for , i iocs, as a result of his failure to li iv e his cistern screened, or his - in ridding lm promise of and stagnant water. Suppose ii.MMjmtoeB deposit their eggb on the m.i.ue of the (.-intern or other water - fr ome few of thoe injects, you kii"U, might blow in from the h amps. The eggs hatch out and be-i line wiggle tails, and wiggle tails grow wings and boeome mosquitoes, m,'l here you are. The purpose of tin law has been defeated. Suppose fioine of tho moiquitoos drift over to tin place litf.xt door, and one of them u itifeeted with something or other, Htil biteti some member of the family, and the Mid member contracts the ailment with which the ji h infected if these facts .. unl be established, wouldn't it be ii. .loimble within the meaning of the l.iu made and provided? I think bo. i would be actionable negligence, iiint the neighbor could sue, and in imng the measure of damages 1 tho jury would take into ration not merely the outlay of tub on n doctor's bill, but the racking pnin and suffering of the victim, ami the fear, and anxiety, and torture of members of the household. But suppofeo we do not go further than the tormenting sound of the :iV"quito voice. If a man, because of his negligence, and his failure to comply with the ordinance, should breed a pestering lot of mosquitoes on his premises, and they should float over ii.'.xt door to torment and harass the numbers of tho family, break their re-it, rack their nerves, and comport themselves generally in 6urh a way as to become a public nuiancc, wouldn't the tormented family have fnine sort of ground for damages? Jt would seem to mo that they would. f what we hear of the mosquito is true, ho can do more damages than a man's horse, or his dog, or his cow, or any other animal, and many of these creatures, you know, have by their conduct laid the foundation for damage suits. These reflections have coin meed me that the mosquito may after awhile present some rather but interesting legal problems to members of the fraternity, and 1 think the conclusion is porfectly consistent with the facts of the case, and the reasoning applicable thereto." TESTY OLD TESTATOR. Minnesota Man Who' Wanted Ilia Wealth to Die With Him. Making wills is serious business in Minnesota, for the courts there make work of the foolish once, on tho theory that when a man is dead he is dual, and his crotchets and notions dm with him. There will be no lack of sj input hy with the court in tho laicst instance, at any rate, the 2s ew York Post. A man named Scott, living in Minneapolis, grow to hate his relatives as he waxed older, and ho made a will leaving Ju's property, all in government bonds, to the county, to help out tho taxpayers. But as ho advanced in years his hatreds grew more and more From confining them merely to his relatives, he began to hate his neighbors, and finally all the people who wore associated with him in any way. Then he hit upon a echemc. He tore up his first will and constructed another, directing that the bonds be burned, thus causing the Tolue of them to remain for ever in the United States treasury. If he had lived long enough, this scheme, too, would doubtless have seemed unsatisfactory, but ho died soon after. The court quickly disposed of tho will, and now the immediate heirs aro enjoying tho property. NEWS OF THE WORLD. Congress adjourned on the 1st inet. Aguinaldo was given his polilicul freedom July 4. On tho 4th bhow fell for two hours over the mountainous region of Wyoming. Chos. M. Schwab, tho steel trust magnate, U to build n home in New York City to cost $3,350,000. Tho Georgia democratic convention failed to mention in its platform tho national platform of 1900, and no reforenco was made to Bryan. J. H. Kent is under indictment at Fort Worth charged with cutting tho throat of a brother lodge member at a meeting of a Woodman of tho World camp. The first loss of life from lawlessness since the beginning of the coal litnkc in Pennsylvania about two months ago occurred on the 1st inst. near Wilkcsbarre, when a itrikor named Quiseppe, who was endeavoring to entor a stockade, was shot dead, Robert Gait, a St. Louis shoemaker, went into the basement of his home to investigate a gas leak and lighted a match. An explosion immediately followed which wrecked tha building, burying Gale's wife and child in the runis. Galz hint-self was badly injured. Reports to K. G. Dun & Co. show commercial failures for the half year 6,105 in number, with $60,374,856 liabilities, against 5,7G9 insolvencies in the corresponding months of 1901, involving $55,-894,690. Of this year's aggregate, 1,418 wore in manufacturing for S24,145,G22, and 337 in other commercial lines for $6,289,214; as compared with 1,2G5 in manufacturing last year for $21,691,048, 4,-189 in trading for $24,864,207, and 305 miscellaneous with liabilities of $9,249,435. Defaults of banks and other fiduciary institutions numbered 34, with an indebtedness of $16,707,763, against 45 in the corresponding six months of 1901, involving $15,839,389. A statement prepared by Senator Allison, chairman of the committee on appropriations, shows the total appropriations by congress at the session just closed, as follows: Agriculture, $5,208,900; army, $91,-530,136; diplomatic and consular $1,957,925; District of Columbin, $8,G 17,526; fortifications, $7,928,-955; Indian, $91,439,902; legislative, $25,398,381; military academy, $2,627,324; navy, $78,678,0G3; pension, $139,842,230; post offices, $138,416,598; river and harbor, $26,726,442 (exclusive of contracts authorized) ; sundry civil, $60,125,-359; deficiency, $28,039,911; miscellaneous, $2,000,000 ; isthmnin canal, $50,130,000; permanent annual appropriations, $123,921,220; grand total, $800,193,837. The total last year was $730,388,575. Tobacco manufacturers and dealers will be considerably affected by a provision which has been passed by congress without attracting much attention, as a part of tho bill re-rating to the tax and rebate on tobacco. Tho provision is that no packago of manufactured tobacco, snuff, cigars or cigarettes shall havo attached any representation or promise of a ticket or chance in any lottery or an immoral picture. Tho provision will end a systom of advertising upon which tobacco manufacturers havo expended thousands of dollarj. It is believed by internal revenue officials that the provision will prohibit tho prizes that are offered by nearly ull manufacturers of plug tobacoo and cigarettes, awarded by presentation of a specified number of tags or box wrappers. Tho question will probably bo 1 brought to a ruling of the treasury department on a test case. E. G. Rathbone, formerly director gcnoral of posts of Cuba, who was convicted in Cuba on charges involving maladministration of his office, has potitioned congress to order an investigation of all his acts in Cuba. A cyclone swept ovor a settlement near Walls, Tex., kkilling several persons and injuring several others. Tho battleship Brooklyn sailed for England on tho 2d inst. with tho remains of the late Ambassador Harry Tracy, a convict, killed Deputy Sheriff Raymond and Policeman Brooze, near Seattle, Wash., and fatally wounded two other members of a posse that wa trying to capture him. At the recent session of congress 10,700 pension bills were introduced. Morgan's latest scheme is to effect a combine of all the coal minus in the country. Crops throughout tho west were badly damaged June 29 by record brcuking rains. Seven jury bribers were convicted in Chicago and given long terms in the penitentiary. The new ship combine has placed an order for seven faBt freight steamers, to cost $2,000,000. The expenditures of the government in taking the twelfth census approximato $12,000,000 to date. W. G. Tiffony has been appointod superintendent of tho Memphis branch of the SI. Louis, Memphis & Southeastern. Tests of wireless tolegrapiiy systems in use in the United States and Europe will shortly be begun under direction of a board of naval officers. These tcst6 will occur stations eroded at tho navy yard, Washington, and the Naval Academy at Annapolis. At Secretary Moody's suggestion, the cabinet has adopted names for tho six new ships of war authorized by the naval appropriation bill. The four lurgcr ships, two battleships and two armored cruisers, will be named Louisiana, Tennessee and Washington, but it is not yet settled which states shall be chosen for the battleships and vice versa. The two gunboats provided for in the act wili be named the Paducah and the Dubuque. The government is preparing to prosecute holders of excess land in the Chickanaw nation in accordance with a provision in the Indian appropriation bill. This provision, it is said, is now a law, but it is generally understood that the new act is operative from July 1. Hundreds of landholders aro about to vacate every acre in excess of 320 acres in order to escape a fine of $100 for each day they hold possession. The special congressional committee, appointed to investigate the charges of bribery in connection with tho purchase of the Danish West Indies, has reported that there is not the slightest semblance of evidence that any member of congress, either directly or indirectly, was offered or paid any bribe, or was paid any valuabe consideration of any kind or character, to vote for or assist in procuring the proposed adoption or ratification of tho treaty of sale of the Danish West Indian islands to the United States. The act of congress approved April 12, 1902, repealing war revenue taxation took effect July 1. It abolishes all special and stamp taxes imposed by the law now in force, with the exception of the tax of ten cents u pound on tea, which will continue until January 1, 1903, and tho provision in tho present law relative to mixed flour. The present taxes on fermented liquors, snuff and tobacco, and cigarettes have been reduced and the taxes imposed on the manufacture and sale of oleomargarine and process butter by the act approved May 9, 1902, will be enforced. The president has formally declared the restoration of pence in the Philippine archipelago. Ho has placed tho islands under complete civil control, and has extended general umnesty to tho Philipiiios who have been in rebellion. These three things, marking one of the most important chapters in history, were accomplished through the issue of three separato orders and proclamations, one by the president, over his own signature, extending amnesty; one through Secretary Root, by the president's order, relieving General Chaffee of his duties as militury governor, and a tliird, which takes the shape of a general order, addressed to the entire army of tho United States, in which Sec-rotary Root takes occasion to express tho president's high appreciation of the work accomplished, both in Cuba and in the Philippines. Tho Choctaw has handled over 1,000 cars of potatoes this season, grown along its lines. Tho question of the payment of the Chinese indemnity in gold or silver has not boen settled. China insists that the debt should be paid in silver and is supported by the United States. For this reason the ministors will send separate replies to tho Chinese contention. All the countries except tho United States demand payment in gold. '' J I Gov. Van Sant, of Minnesota, hat been renominated for a second torm by tho republicans. President Roosevelt has issued a proclamation, formally postponing the St. Louis fair until 1904. Tlw supreme court of Missouri, in the suit ugaihst tho packing has stistaincd the anti-trust law of the state. Mike Burke, a farmer near St Joseph, Mo., was shot and killed by his wife. He was under the influence of liquor and had viciously assaulted his wife. William Coates, aged 17, murdered his mother at hor home near St. Josoph, Mo. The boy confessed to the crime, declaring his father told him to kill his mothor. Senator Bailey, of Toxas, lost his tomper and assaulted Senator Beveridge, of Indiana, in the senate chamber a few momenta after the body had adjourned for the day. The episode was the result of a heated controversy which the two senators had, when Senator had said that Senator Bailey had made an "unwarranted attack" on Solicitor Penfield of the state department. Acting Secretary of War Sanger sent a communication to tho house in answer to a resolution directing the secretary of war to furnish information as to what amounts have been paid out of tho Cuban people to F. S. Truber or any other person, corporation or association for advocating reciprocity with the United States. The answer of the war department consists of certified copies of vouchers covering the payments referred to it in the amounting to $15,626. A Rock Island passenger train was held up on the night of the 3d, near Dupont, 111. Express Messenger Kane was shot through the groin by one of the robbers. The local safe was forced open, but the amount of the booty secured is not known. One party has been arrested, but declares that he was forced at the point of a pistol to climb on tho engine and demand that the train be stopped. The annual report of Chief Wilkie, of the secret service division, submitted last week to Secretary Shaw, shows that during tho year there wore 573 persons charged with various offenses against the foderal statutes, New York leading with eighty-five prosecutions. Of the offenders, 415 persons were of American birth, the next largest number of offenders being Italians. Sixty-three per cent of those arrested wero convicted. Tho report shows tho fact that during the fiscal year but ono dangerous spurious note was put in circulation, a $5 silver certificate, while there was but ono other even passable counterfeit a $1 silver certificate, whose makers, with their complete plant, were captured in Chicago the same day they attempted to put one of their notes in circulation. The monthly report of the of tho department of agriculture shows the average condition of cotton on June 25 to havo been S4.7, as compared with 95.1 on May 26, 1902; 81.1 on June 25, 1901; 75.8 on July 1, 1901, and a ten-year averago of 85.6. With tho exception of North Carolina, whero there seems to have been a slight improvement, and Virginia, whero there is no appreciable change in every cotton-producing state shows a decline during the month, the de cline being greatest in Texas, whero it amounts to 22 points, and in Louisiana, Indian Territory, Mississippi and Alabama, where it is 11, 10, fl and 8 points, respectively. The condition is, however, still in excess of the ten-year average in tho following states, by the number of points stated in each case: Virginia, 2; North Carolina, 6; South Carolina and Florida, 9; Georgia and Arkansas, 7; Tennessee, 1JJ; Oklahoma, 2; and Missouri 10. ACROSS THE SEA. It i still a crime to shout "Vive la France!" In Alsace-Lorraine. The colossal equestrian st.'tue at Home of King Victor Emmanuel II. is now nenrlng completion. The Ktattie U about 33 feet in height from tho leu'l on which the horse stands to tho crown of the king's head. Tho feathers in his helmet are about live feet extra. There will be upaco for one or two persons to get into tho head, and for tour or five in the head of tho horse, . BREVITIES OF FUN. "Which do you like better monev or nobility?" "Well, J loe adollni. but 1 worship a sovereign!" mart Set. His liair Dyed. "Why, Willie," said his teacher, "what mukes your hair so red?" "Aw, I just had scarlet fever and it settled in me head." Widow. An Expcit. Penfield "Which is the best writer of fiction these publishers have?" Mcrritt "The fellow who writes their book advertisements." N. Y. Sun. The Field of Danger. Greene "Some folks fancy that golf is a dangerous game. Do you think there is any danger in it?" Gage "1 had two friends who got engaged on the golf links last season." Boston Trans-script. M isundcrstanding. Mrs. Slangay "Surely, John, you haven't brought anyone home to dinnerl" Mr. Slangay "Surely I have! Haven't you got any grub for 'em?" Mrs. Slangay "Of course not. You told me you'd bring home a couple of lobsters for dinner." Mr. Slangay "Well, that's them in the parlor' Philadelphia Press. "Jerry," said Flaherty, "they do sa-ay that shmokin' th' poipc is to be quite fashionable." " "lis a thrue me la-ad," said Jerry, and he clasped both hands over the match and turned Tiis face to the breeze. "But it dipinds a dale on who shmokes it whether 'tis so fashionable or no." Indianapolis News. LIKE OIL-COVERED ROADS. Georgia Farmers Consider Recent Experiment a Great Success. The work of oiling the roads is taking right along with fanners and people who come to Augusta from the country, says the Augusta, Ga., Herald. Nearly the whole of a recent week was spent by the gang assigned to this work and the apparatus in treating the Wrightsboro road to this new bath. The first experiment was made several weeks ago by Judge Eve at the stockade, but he thought the experiment hud not been given a proper test when used under shelter and decided us soon as practicable to get on the road in open with the oil. The experiment at the stockade was such a success that the grand jury recommended the use of the oil on the roads and the Wrightsboro thoroughfare was selected as the first to be given the treatment. Several farmers coming into the city the other day over that portion already covered say the travel has been greatly improved. They notice at once the absence of the dust usual on a hot day and say their horses seem to really enjoy traveling over it. Where tho sun strikes the work the oil percolates with surprising rapidity and in a couple of days the road is in good condition for traveling. After the bath the surface is left with a kind of spongy covering yet of a nature into which the tires of the vehicles do not sink or cut as might be expected. The experiment period is practically over now and the new material will be used on the road improvement throughout tho county. QUITE RIGHT, TOO. No Occasion for Hilarity Over Appearance of Baby's First Tooth. "George," exclaimed Mrs. Young-husband, with a radiant smile, "baby has a tooth." "Has he?" wa6 the response, in a tone which betrayed no emotion, "You don't seem surprised' 'Tin not surprised. All babies havo first teeth. If our didn't have any I'd manage to work up some excitement, perhaps." "I thought you'd be ever so pleased and happy about it." "No; 1 don't see that it's any occasion for especial congratulation. Tho baby has my deepest sympathy." "What for?" "For having the first tooth. He has just struck the opening chapter of a long story of trouble. Pretty soon he'll have other teeth." "Of course he will." "Every one ho cuts will hurt him. Then his second teeth will come and push these out. That will hurt him again. Some of the new ones will grow crooked, likely as not, and he will havo to go to the dentist and have instruments adjusted to them to pull them into line. Then he'll cut his wisdom teeth. They will hurt a lot. After that he'll have to go to the dentist and lot him drill holes and hummer until his face feels like a freat palpitating stone quarry. I shouldn't like him to go through life without teeth. But I must say that I don't see any occasion for the customary hilarity over an event that means so much in the way of sorrow and humiliation." London Tit-Bits. WATCH THE WORKERS. Public Stopped to See Simple Process of Moving a Big Pole. A gang of men were tugging awaj at a great pole the other day on ono of the biiMuess streets trying to get it through an alley to the inside of the block, says the Washington Star. When in place it was to curry telephone wires, and as the telcphono u&ers wero evidently numerous in that locality the pole was correspondingly long and thick. One of the giant3 of the forest had fallen when the ax was laid at tho root of this specimen, for what was left of the tree, stripped of its branches and its bark, must have been fully 60 feet long and some three feet in diameter. The men pulled and hauled, but apparently made little progress, and yet it was no small force that was applied, as no less than 30 sun-bronzed united their strength in the task. Finally with a lift altogether tho lightest end was raised high enough to permit a small platform on two wheels to be run under, and upon this a portion of the weight rested. Tho gang of men moved forward u little, and, raising the tree trunk, the platform was pushed farther along until a point was reached where the ends were balanced and then the bulk was easily pushed along the street on tho wheeled platform to the alley. As is usual when any manual labor is going on in the streets of the city, spectators gathered about watching with the interest of fascination the spectacle of other men at work. Why such a commonplace as men at labor should attract attention is one of tho curious problems of human nature which has never been fully explained. Naturally, as they looked they talked, and the latter was largely critical of the methods employed, as well as tho way the job was being done. From the curbstone spectators the boss of the gang might have had for nothing a whole lot of suggestions. But none were offered, perhaps because nono were requested. One man who had a cool place beneath tho shade of a tree remarked, casually, but also disdainfully: "They raised them poles just that way 40 years ago. Where is your modern machinery?" he added, with scorn. "Perhaps hand labor is cheaper," observed his neighbor, who looked discontented. "The boss of this gang," broke in a keen-looking man, "said there wero machines for handling telegraph and other poles, but his company did not have one." At that point in the discussion tha pole began to move rather rapidly up the street and the group of spectators melted away. FOREIGNERS IN CITIES. Largest Proportion in Fall Rl7er, Smallest in Montgomery, Ala. The larger part of the foreign-born population of the United States is found, of course, in the large cities, says the New York Sun. But there are few cities having more than one-third of their population foreign born, and there is no city in which one-half of the population is foreign born. The nearest approach to the latter condition is found in Fall River, whore 48 per cent, of the population, including many French-Canadians, is foreign born; Lawrence, Mass., 45 per cent.; Lowell, Mass., 43; Passaic, N. J., 46; Woonsocket, R. I., 44; Manchester, Mass., 42; New York, 37; Paterson, 36; Boston, 35; and in the west, Chicago, 34; Detroit, 33; Milwaukee, 31; Cleveland, 32; San Francisco, 34, and Duluth, 39. These are the cities having the largest proportionate foreign-born population. The number of cities in which native-born Americans not only predominate, but predominate so largely as to constitute fully or nearly nine-tenths of the population, is more numerous. Binghamton has 89 per cent, of its population native born and Elmira has 82. Allentown, Pa., ono of tha strongholds of the Pennsylvania Germans, has 91 percent, of its population native born; Harrisburg, the Pennsylvania capital, has 95 per cent.; Washington, the national capital, has 92; Richmond and Norfolk, Va., have 96; York, Pa., has 96; Chattanooga and Nashville, Tenn., havo 96; Topeka, Kan., has 90; Indianapolis has 89, Terre Haute has 92, Charleston has 95, and Lexington, Ivy., 96. But the American city which comes nearer to having an exclusively native population than any other is, perhaps, Montgomery, Ala., with 98 per cent., though Montgomery does not usually Tank among tho important cities of tho United States. Little Rock, Ark., has 94 per cent, of American population and Los Angeles 80. i i i i