Crittenden press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1879-1907, 1899-11-30
Corbett and ,Jeffries will battle


cent.
The bodies of the victims of the
Maine will be shinped home from
Cuba.
The English won complete vic
tory over the Beers at Belmont,
Natal.
a government fruit experimental
station is to be located at Mountain
Grove, Mo.
Gen. Funston sailed for the Phil
ippines November 22d on the trans
port Indiana.
Leading cigar manufacturers of
Cuba and the United States have
formed a syndicate.
Winston Churchill, son of Lady
Randolph Churchill, is held as a
prisoner by the Beers.
An earthquake shock, lasting half a
minute, badly damaged number of
houses in Santiago, Cuba.
1t is reported a New York insur-
ance company purchased 10000, 900
roubles of Russian 4 per cent guar
anteed bonds.
The Forty-first regiment sailed
November goth from New York for
Manila on the transport Logan via
the Suez Canal.
Cornelius Corcoran, of Chicago,
shot and killed three of his children
and fatally wounded the fourth.
lie then killed himself.
Fourteen Knights of Honor lodges
in Chicago seeded from the organ
ization because of dissatisfaction and
set up rival concern.
A lone highwayman lined up
five men on Il public highway near
Santa Fe, N. NJ, and went through
their pockets. lie secured only s27
from the quintette.
The executive committee of the
national republican league will meet
in Washington December 18th to
fix upon the time and place for its
convention in 1900.
Charles Dunning, who claims to
be a nephew of Russell Sage, was
convicted at Waco, Tex, of embez-
Element and sentenced to two years
in the penitentiary.
The report of the commissioner
of immigration shows that for the
months of July, August and Sep
TENDER of this year the number of
immigrants admitted into this coun-
try was rs, 365, which is an increase
of 1908 over the same months of
last year.
The commissioner of internal rev.
enue has rendered decision in which
he holds that every bank Except a
savings bank coming within the
statute) is required to pay special
tax, even though no capital is en-
ployed, for every branch or separate
place at which the business of bank
ing is carried on.
At Dexter, No., Elijah Moore,
10 years of aged, murdered his
father while he slept by blowing
his head off with a shotgun. The
murderer made a confession, giving
as his reason for the deed that his
father was strict in his discipline,
and would allow him no spending
money. The dead man was a min
lister.
Gen. Wheeler has decided not to
return from the Philippines to take
his seat in congress. In an inter-
view the general is quoted as saying
"that if congress, the first day of its
session, will pass resolution declar-
ing in unmistakable terms that the
sovereignty of the United States is
to be maintained in the Philippines,
it will be performing sacred duty;
that such resolution would save the
lives of many American soldiers and
of thousands of deluded Philippines,
avert famine for those islands, and
render unnecessary the expenditure
of millions of dollars"
The surgeon generals annual re-
port shows the total number of
deaths in the United States army,
including regulars and volunteers,
from May /, 1898, to June 80, 1899,
was 6,619, of whom 496 were killed
in battle, PIG by accident, 202 died
of gunshot wounds and wounds re-
ceived in action, 2,774 from typhoid
fever, 476 from malarial fever. 1854
from DneumOnia. 342 from diarrbpa