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

One hundred thousand coal miners
and lace workers of France are on a
strike.
Philadelphia Hibernians pledge
themselves to raise $25, 900 to aid
the Beers.
Near Trenton, Tex, Bill Littell
and Sid Gray fought a duel with
pistols, both men being killed.
Thirty miners were entombed in
the Brazil coal mine near Browns
vile, Pa, as a result of gas ex-
plosion.
The wages of 1000 common labor
ers employed in the Carnegie steel
works have been advanced 20 cents
per day.
The remains of Isl victims Of the
Maine disaster were inferred in Ar
lington cemetery, Washington, d.
c., December 2Sth.
Two-thirds of the worlds supply
of sugar is now produced from beets.
according to statistics of the depart
ment of agriculture.
The 2-year-old daughter of Mrs.
Lillian Hammond was kidnapped from
her home in st. Joseph, Mo-, by an
unknown man and woman.
In a wreck on the Northern Pa
cific near MessOula, Mont, Engineer
K. b. Reheim, Fireman c. A. Dick
son and two tramps were killed.
At Yves: Liberty, Ky, Jas. Pat.
ten shot and killed Harlan Cisco.
Patten died a few minutes later from
knife wounds inflicted by Cisco.
Elwood Madden, who disappeared
from Krokomo, Ind, 30 years ago,
returned last week from Cape Nome,
Alaska, where he made $40, 100000.
Emily Blake was hanged at Bran
don, Manitoba, for the murder of
Mrs. Lane, for whom she worked.
The murderess was only22 years old.
W. H. Mackoy, anti Goebel demo-
crat, and A. NJ. Cochrane, repub-
lican, have been appointed state
election commissioners of Kentucky.
Something like 1925, OOO,O 900 will
be paid out in interest and dividends
in New York, Boston and Philadel.
phia soon after the beginning of the
new year.
The convention of the Southern
Educational Association, held in
Memphis last week, was the largest
in point of attendance in the history
of the association.
The attorney general of Sllissis-
sippi has instituted suits against tie
various insurance companies doing
business in that state, alleging viola
ton of the antitrust law.
The United States government
has ordered an investigation to he
made o. the seizure off Delago Bay
by the British war ships of several
cargoes of American merchandise.
Ruhl Smith and wife, of near
Hamlin, Kan, were found dead in
their home by neighbors. They
were victims of coal gas, which filed
the room OH account of a defective
fue.
Secretary Root has approved the
order of Gen. Otis authorizing the
celebration of civil marriages in the
Philippines. Heretofore all mar
riages were celebrated by the Catholic
church, so that Protestants and non
Christians were prohibited from
marrying.
A Berlin newspaper caused SEN
sation by publishing IL report that a
secret treaty had been entered into
between Germany, Portugal and
Great Britain, providing for the
partition of the Portugal colonies.
The story is discredited by the Ger.
man press.
Under the new Chinese Mexico
treaty, the latter country put no re-
strictions on Chinese immigration,
with the hope that this class of labor
will solve the problem of developing
the mines of Mexico. Heretofore il
has been difficult to secure miners
that could withstand the hardships
of the life.
DR.. Schepler, minister of Marin
cite, Wis, interrupted his Christ.
mas sermon to give chase to sneak
thief, who was carrying off a num-
Der of holiday gifts from the parson-
age. After catching the thief and
turning him over to policeman, the
| minister returned and finished +hc