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

The British military authorities
have taken over the Netherlands rail-
way in South Africa.
Gov. Roosevelt has issued his letter
accepting the republican nomination
for vice-president.
President Mitchell says if blum
nous coal is shipped into the anthra-
cite district the bituminous miners
will be ordered out.
Miss Helen Vaeder, a wealthy So
Getty leader of New Haven, Conn, has
abandoned gay society life and be-
come a nun.
The allied generals in Pekin are in
ducing Chinese to return to work, and
are preserving order throughout the
city.
Charles Brant and Harry Ziesler,
two well-known young men of Little
Rock, Ark, were drowned in Old riv-
err, where they were fishing.
John p. Shannon, supreme dictator
of the Knights of Honor of the United
States, died at Elbcrton, Ca. He was
past grand master Mason.
The stockholders of Centralia (Mc.)
Fair association voted to hold no
more fairs there. The amphitheater
and other property will be sold.
Two young girls living near Fort
Hamilton, in Brooklyn, swan tho
Narrows, Sunday afternoon,a distance
of two and one-half miles, to Staten
Island.
Galveston will be rebuilt. To man,
merchants, bankers, business men and
citizens general declare that the
Island city will become greater than
ever.
1t is asserted that Baron Won Kettle
Ter was murdered in Peldn by Prince
Tuan's order because he, of all the
ministers, refused to depart for Ten
Tsin under a Chinese escort.
Cinnamon by the dozens are flock
ing into Jaurez, Mexico, from all
parts of the republic, and many are
daily endeavoring to enter the United
States.
Two men fatally wounded and one
seriously injured is the record of u
general fight at Dry Ridge, KY.
r. A. Green, a prominent citizen of
Polk county, Tenn, committed suicide
by cutting his throat with n razor. In
August last Green shot and killed DR..
d. w. Gregory, a prominent young
physician, of Benton, Tenn.
Thomas Atwood, a wealthy Trigg
county (Ky.) planter, committed sui
eide at his home six miles west of
Cadiz by severing his jugular vein. No
cause is known for the act.
A dispatch from Shanghai, says
that the United States gunboat Nash
Vile has started on a cruise to the
Yang Use ports.
Extensive improvements will be
made on the United States treasury
vaults at Washington and New York.
It is claimed that they would yield
readily to an expert safe-cracker, IL
he could only get at them.
The Portuguese government has
granted Dom Paul permission to de-
part from Lorenzo Marquee, provid
ing that he sails for Europe. Holland
has offered Kruger transportation on
a government warship.
Russia is seeking lumber in this
country, the timber to be used in
Manchuria, indicating that the car is
about to undertake extensive mill
tary operations in that province.
From interviews with German and
American Representatives in China, Ii
Hung Chang says he is convinced
peace negotiations can not proceed
until Dowager Empress An has been
punished.
In a skirmish with large force of
Boxers, between Pekin and Tien
Tsin, detachment of the Fourteenth
United States infantry was rescued
from a critical position by the timely
arrival of a battalion of Bengal
lancers.
The Adams Express Co. will pay
over to the Commercial national
bank, of Chicago, $4,000, to make up
the loss sustained by the theft of the
package sent to the National State