Crittenden press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1879-1907, 1899-11-23

stronghold.
1t is reported President Diaz, Of
Mexico. does not desire to again be
a candidate.
The Kentucky election middle
will be settled in the courts, or by
the state general assembly.
Mauricia CARA, a notorious Mex
lean smugglcr, was killed by Texas
rangers near Del Rio while resisting
arrest.
Lieut.. G.. G. Wood, of the British
army, grandson of Jefferson Davis.
was killed in battle with the Beers
at Kimberley.
A disastrous railroad wreck oc-
Cured on the Michigan Central,
near La Sale, Mich, in which 30
persons were killed.
Tarlac, the insurgents capital, has
been taken by the Americans. Agui-
naldo and his troops deserted the
town without offering battle.
The United Daughters of the Con-
federacy has assumed the response
sibility of erecting IA monument to
the memory of Jefferson Davis.
Housewives will be interested in
the fact that the price of broOms has
been advanced, said to be due on ac-
count of the short broom corn crop.
The president has appointed cX-
Gov. Joseph ", Fifer, of Illinois, Il
member of the interstate commerce
commission, vice W. j. Calhoun.
resigned.
While John Nunsk and Conrad
Winske were engaged in fist fight
on the railroad track near Enter
prise, Pa, an express train ran them
down and killed them.
The price of zinc ore declined
from s43 to 1913 per ton in two
weeks in the Missouri Kansas dis
trict, due to fight between miners
and owners Of smelters.
As result Al bitter feeling en-
gendered on election day. Lewis
Spiccr and Julius Angel fought ii
duel with pistols at Beattyyille, KY,
each man being MORALLY wounded.
Dick DickersOn. a crazy negro,
assassinatcd y. Il. Graves and Arthur
Maxwell, prominent white citizens of
Round Lake. Miss. Dickerson was
only recently released from confne-
| ment.
Robbers blew up general store
at Cedar Rapids, Ia, with dynamite.
j. ID. Burrell, proprietor of the
store, who was sleeping in an up
stair room, was instantly killed by
flying timbers.
Gatling. the man who revolution
lied methods of warfare by invent
ing the rapid-tire gun, has invented
an automobile pillow. lie proposes
to build the machine so it can be
operated by one man, 1t will do
the work of eight men and twelve
horses. The propelling power Will
be either gasoline or oil.
Major John 4. Logan. Jr., son Of
the late Gen. John A. Logan, was
killed while leading battalion i.
an engagement with the enemy near
San Jacinto on the 18th inst. In
this battle six of Uncle Sans en-
listed men were killed. The enemy
was routed and left G5 of their dead
III the trenches.
A movement has been started to
bring the remains of John Paul
Jones to the United States and inter
them in Arlington cemetery, Wash
ington. John Paul Jones was the
American naval hero of the war for
independence. He died abroad, and
his resting place was unknown until
recently, when his grave was located
in one of the old cemeteries of Paris,
France. Congress will be asked to
appropriate the necessary funds.
Frank Thompson, member of the
firm which has the contract to bury
the pauper dead at Memphis, was
arrested in st. Louis, charged with
taflicking in dead bodies. -Four
trunks, each containing a corpse and
assigned to Thompson, were seized
by the police. The accused does not
deny his guilt, and says he has been
selling bodies to medical colleges fol
some time, his plan being to pack
them with excelsior in drummers
zinc-lined trunks and take them with
him to their destination as baggage.
Thompson was turned over to the