Crittenden press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1879-1907, 1900-11-08
TELEGRAPHIC NOTES.

In coal mine explosion at Ber-
! rysburg, w. Va, IL persons were
killed and two fatally injured.
The October reports concerning
the Egyptian cotton crop are unsat-
isfactory, both as to yield and quail
ty.
Carl Mcrtens, Il well-known musi-
clan and orchestra leader, was found
dead in his room at Los Angeles, Cal,
of consumption.
Terry McGovern and Dave Sulli-
van have agreed to fight % rounds,
December ii, before the club Offering
the largest purse.
Mr.. WI returned to Washington
from Pittsburgh, Saturday, and made
an early call upon Secretary Hay at
the state department.
| William Thomas Welcker, emerl.
tus professor of mathematics at the
University of California, died Satur-
day at the age of 20 years.
The Princeton football team went
down in defeat before the Cornell
eleven at Princeton, n. j., Saturday
afternoon, by a score of IL to 0.
A number of large land owners
will establish slaughter houses at
Koenigsberg for supplying canned
meats excluded by the meat inspec-
ton law.
AT Cane Ridge, Ind, John Kessin-
ger was shot and killed by his father
in-law, Harris b. Rose. Kessinger was
abusing his wife and her mother, and
threatened Rose with a knife.
| David A. Griffith, aged IS, retired
captain of the United States army,
died at Reading. Pa. Saturday night.
For over thirty years he was in the
service on the western frontier.
The American Sunday School
union of the Northwestern district
closed its annual conference at ST..
Paul, Saturday evening, and adj
| journed to meet October to IA in
| Chicago.
An Austrian commission house,
supported by the Austrian govern
ment and an Austrian chamber of
commerce, will be established at Ham
burg for promoting Austrian exports
and imports.
The state department Saturday
sent to the emperor of Japan, through
| United States Minister Buck, at Toxic
Q message of congratulations upon
the occasion of that rulers forty
ninth birthday.
Joseph NJ. Knabenehue, father OF
| Hon. S. S. Knabenehue, editor of the
Toledo Blade, and chairman of the
republican state executive committees
press bureau, died at Columbus, o.,
| Saturday, of old age.
Gov. Roosevelt arrived at Oyster
| Bay, l.. l., on the 0:20 train Saturday
night. His carriage was awaiting him,
and he was cheered by the crowd at
the depot as he entered it and drove
to his home on Sycamore Hill.
Tod Sloan declared, in an inter-
| view, that he would return to England
in March, 1901, and that the talk
about American jockeys had doubt.
less caused the prince of Wales to
break off the negotiations for next
years riding.
The Wilmington has sailed from
Teneriffe, Canary islands, for Gibral-
tar, on her way to the Asiatic sta
ton. The Scindia has arrived at Ca
vite. The training ship Dixie is at Al
giers. The Prairie has sailed from
New York for Havre.
The people of North Peoria have
voted to petition Peoria, Ill.,, to annex
the village, which will add over three
thousand to the population of that
city. This will be the third village
which has been annexed to Peoria
in the last few months.
The Partisan pro-Boer committee
has decided that the sword of honor
for Gen. Cronje, obtained by public
subscription at the time of the Boer
generals surrender, shall be handed
to Mr.. Kruger upon his arrival in
Paris by NJ. Henri Rochefort,