Crittenden press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1879-1907, 1900-01-04
NEWS OF THE WORLD.

Gen. Wood will reorganize the
school system Of Cuba.
Roland Reed, the actor, is SER
iously i'll in New York hospital.
Ore averaging $4,000 in gold to
the ton has been found at Cripple
Creek.
Manufacturers of cotton thread
have advanced the price of that arti-
Gle 25 per cent.
The Fenians are said to be organ
izing in New York stste for the in
vasion of Canada.
Andrew Carnegie's latest gift is
SIS, 900 for a public library building
at Lincoln, Neb.
The Thirty-eighth and Fc-tieth
volunteer infantry arrived at Manila
December 9th.
Four negroes were killed in Us
many different rows at Birming-
ham, Ala, Christmas day.
L. w. Rothschild, eldest son and
heir of Baron Rothsrhild, has vol
unteered to fight the Beers.
Five couples eloped from Clarks-
Vile, Tenn, Christmas day, and
succeeded in having the nuptial
knot tied.
The British steamer Ariosto stran-
ded near Hatteras, y. c., and 20
of her crew who took to the boats
were drowned.
Gen. Chaffee, now on duty in
Cuba, may be assigned to service in
the Philippines, as a result of the
death of Gen. Lawton.
Arthur Pryor is under arrest at
Nandalia, ILL.,, charged with the
murder of his father, and his mother
is also held as an accessory.
English soldiers in South Africa
complain of neglect on the part OF
those high in authority in providing
sufficient food and other necessities.
Secretary Hitchcock has given
notice that no more lndi4ns will be
permitted to leave their observations
for wild west exhibition purposes.
The Beers threaten to reduce the
rations Of british prisoners if Great
stops the entry of food into
the Transvaal via the Delagoa bay.
Thos. Hathaway, a railway mail
clerk, was found dead in his car at
Houston, Tex, shot through the
heart. He is thought to have COM
mitted suicide.
j. L. Booker, an insurance agent
at Richmond, KY, after eating
Christmas dinner with his family,
swallowed a dose of carbOlic acid,
dying in great agony.
President Mckinley has announced
that he will appoint Mrs. Potter
Palmer director for the United
States of the woman's department
at the Paris exposition.
Mrs. Mary Harding shetland fatally
wounded Henry Whitman at Brazil,
Ind. The parties were neighbors,
and the shooting was the result of
enmity Of long standing.
Viola johnson, colored, of Bee
vile, Tex, left her 2-year-old child
alone. and when she returned found
it burned to a crisp. Its clothing
caught from the fireplace.
Cards and whisky caused a Christ
mas tragedy at Weldon, H., in which
Harry Somers, son Of a prominent
citizen, was shot and killed by a
farmer named Doc Marcum.
Flina Lopez, a young Mexican,
was shot and killed by some one I'M
known in the Catholic church at
Brownsville, Tex, while midnight
Christmas mass was in progress.
Ed Cane was found guilty of par
ticipating in the lynching last May
in Hampstead county, Texas, of three
men named HUMPHREYS, and given a
life sentence in the penitentiary.
In a drunken family quarrel be-
tween Jed Hardin and his two uncles,
James and John Hardin, at Gunters-
vile, Ala, Jed Hardin stabbed both
uncles to death and was himself shot
and instantly killed by cousin
named Mack Russell.
Every brick building in the little
town of San Jacinto, Cal, was de-
stroyed by an earthquake shock.
Eight Indian squaws were killed
near the above place by the walls of
an adobe tumbling in on them.