Crittenden press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1879-1907, 1900-09-20
NEWS IN BRIEF.
Compiled from Various Sources.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL

Sth.
President Mitchell of the United
Mine Workers of America, declared {
strike, on the 18th, in the anthracite
regions of Pennsylvania, which calls
$4,000 miners to quit work on the
18th.
At a meeting convened by the lore
mayor of Liverpool, on the 18th, il
was decided to open a relief fund fol-
the sufferers from the Galveston dis
aster, and G1,500 was Immediately
subscribed, exclusively of over SOC
raised by the Cotton association.
At the second days session of the
Sons of Veterans national encamp-
ment at Syracuse, N. Y, on the 18th
the matter of the location of the Sons
of Veterans university was taken up,
and by vote of 142 to 10 the report
of the committee in favor of Mason
City was adopted.
Adjt.-Gen. Corbin telegraphed to
Gov. Sayers, on the 18th, saying that
if the federal government could be of
any further service to the people of
Texas in their present trouble, with
in the limits of the statutes, to tele-
graph him in what way.
The Transvaal republic will hence
forth be known as the Vaal River col
ony.
The first appearance of Mr.. Ira D.
Sankey, the evangelist, at Exeter
hall, London, on the 18th, was the
occasion of tremendous ovation.
Thousands were unable to obtain ad-
mission.
Returns from all but sc small
towns in Maine give Hill (rep.) for
governor, a total vote of 72,412; Lord
(dcm.), 3O,313; republican plurality,
33.OSO.
The German papers, discussing Mr..
Kruger's arrival at Lourenzo Mar
quez, interpret it as tantamount to
the end of the war.
The steamer City of Seattle arrived
at Seattle, Wash, on the 18th, from
Skagway, with III passengers and
$65O,OOO in gold.
1t is reported from Norwich that
the Standard Oil Co. is trying to OBJ
tain control of the Cheshire salt
trade.
Latest estimates of the property
losses by the great Texas storm, place
the aggregate amount at $4O,O0O,OO0.
The total area involved in the an
thracite miners strike is 472 square
miles, with an annual output of u.s.
100000 tons, employing 14s,OOO miners
and breaker hands. Hundreds of train
crews will be forced into idleness.
The anthracite miners have issued
a statement of their grievances,
which, on its face, shows them to be
the victims of gross injustice at the
hands of the operators. Some of the
abuses complained of are violations
of the laws of Pennsylvania.
Owing to the utter impossibility of
giving proper burial to the dead at
hundreds of bodies have
been burned in pyres formed of the
debris of wrecked buildings. This
course was rendered necessary by
reason of the rapid decomposition of
the unrecognized remains.
Lord Roberts is making concen-
trated movement on Komatepoort,
and has left Pretoria in order to di-
rect it personally. Lydenburg was
abandoned as soon as cap
-ured, the British forces going in hot
pursuit of the remnant of the Boer
army, eastward toward the Portu-
yuese frontier.
Fire, on the 18th, destroyed the en-
ire plant owned by the McMorran
Milling Co., the Port Huron and
Elevator Co. and d. Nc
Moran & Co., at Port Huron, Mich
The loss will reach $3.50 covered
1y insurance. One hundred and fifty
thousand bushels of grain is a total
oss.
Returns received from all but two
If the 521 cities, towns and planta-
ions in Maine show the following
'ote for governor: Hill (rep.), 49,
Sc; Lord (dem.), 1891; Rogers
PROF., 3.1O7; Lermond (socialist),
55; republican plurality, 33,245.
A conservative estimate places the
devastated district of Galveston at
300 acres, which was swept almost |
lean of habitations, and the finan-
ial loss to the city and surrounding
owns is estimated at $40, 100000.
Apropos of looting at Galveston
he best evidence tends to show that |
between fifty and sixty men were
,illed by the regulars and militia, un-
Ier the citizens committee, within AZ |
Iours. One sergeant in Capt. Raj |
erty's Battery o, First artillery,
Tiled three men whom he caught in
he act of taking rings from the
'odies of women.
If Dom Paul Kruger leaves his |
efuge mt Lorenzo Marquee for Eu-
ope he will have to go without his |
wife, as the latter has responded to IA
equest to join him that her health
you'd not permit it.
George L. Gregory, superintendent
4 the San Jose correctional school,
{ Havana, is dead of yellow fever.
lie had been there since July IA, in
he employ of the state. He was a
ative of Whittier, Cal. His widow
nd four children are in Havana.
According to the correspondent of
he London Daily Telegraph, Mr..