Crittenden press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1879-1907, 1900-09-20

Baron Curzon Of Kedleston, vicero.
of India, has cabled the India offic
that good rains have fallen in Madra
and central Bengal and on the Gan
getic plain, relieving all the presen
anxiety regarding the autumn crops
The trouble with the Pima Indians
in Arizona has been adjusted, and the
bucks who rehelled and threatened
violence if their children were forced
to attend the government school, have
subsidized. The Tingleaders were ar
rested.
The Chinese colony of New Yorl
city is collecting supplies to send t.
Galveston. The principal item to b.
sent will be tea. 1t is said that thi!
is the first time that any set of Chi
namen in this country have joined to
gether for the relief of sufferers from
great catastrophe.
1t was announced in Paris, on the
14th, that President Loubet's decision
as arbitrator in the boundary dispute
between Colombia and Costa Rica, ha6
been communicated to the govern
ments of those two republics, but the
announcement did not state which
side M. Loubet favored.
The population of the city of To-
peka, Has, as officially announced on
the 18th, is: 1900, 33,6Os; 1890, 1907,
These figures show an increase in pop
ulation of 1901, or $40 per cent. from
1890 to 1900. The population in 1880
was 1882, showing an increase of 49,
b55, or 10O.67 per cent. from 1880 to
1890.
The United States transport Law
ton sailed from San Francisco, on the
18th, for the far north, to bring
back destitute miners. All the avail
able space below decks was devoted
TO berths, providing bedding for near
ly a thousand persons besides the
regular complement of officers and
crew.
The British steamship Montgomery,
Capt. Secoustie, from Ship Island to
Hamburg, which arrived at Norfolk,
Va, on the 18th, from Bunker, re-
ports having met the great tropical
storm in the Gulf of Mexico. She
sighted two banks, one barkentine and
one schooner ashore on the Florida
reefs.
Secretary of War Root is confined
10 his summer residence at Southamp-
ton, L. l., as the result of an operation
for the removal of a carbuncle, and
will not be able to leave his room
for ten days or two weeks. The Sec
tary is not confined to his bed, and
appears in fine health. No bad results
are feared.
The population of Des Moines, Ia,
as officially announced on the 14th, is:
1900, GO, 1870; 1890, 5O,O93. These figures
show, for the city as a whole, an in
crease in population of 12,O46, 24.o5
per cent. from 1890 to 1900. The pop
ulation in 1880 was % 400; showing an
increase of 26,6s5, or 1885 per cent.
from 1880 to 1890.
President and Mrs. Mckinley ar
rived in Canton, o., on the 18th, in a
special train from Somerset, Pa. They
expect to remain there for some time.
Both seemed to be in excellent health
and spirits, the president especially
showing that he had kept up well I'M
der the strain of weeks of almost in
cessant hard work.
c. j. Sealey, young man of Gal
weston, Tex, who is in La Junta, Col,
received telegram from the mayor
of Galveston, on the 18th, informing
him of the death of 21 of his relatives,
among whom are his mother, two sis
tiers and three brothers. The young
man said that he did not believe he
had n relative left on earth.
The fifty-third grand council of the
Improved Order of Red Men convened
IN Milwaukee on the 18th. The order
is in an excellent financial condition, |
the reserve fund amounting to over
two million dollars. The great In !
cohonee, George L. Green, of Bing-
hamton, n. u, reported over twenty
three thousand new members in the |
past two years.
Claims aggregating $2,3Oo,OO0 or
more have arisen in connection with |
the efforts made, principally in Ha-
waii, to prevent the bubonic plague
from securing foothold in this coun-
try and it's outlying possessions, by
burning down considerable part of |
the japanese and Chinese quarters,
where it was thought the disease
might find Judgment.
Later news from the great disaster
on the Texas coast, received, on the
10th, say that Sabine Pass and Port
Arthur were practically uninjured in
the awful visitation, but abate moth
ing of the first reports of death and
destruction at Galveston, and the
score of other towns heard from. The
dead will number thousands, and the
property loss must reach many mill
ions of dollars. Full details of the
calamity will not be known for days.