Crittenden press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1879-1907, 1902-03-20

H'i" ll"' llc oIulDdnct clldclcu DY
the city government of Detroit,
Mich, arbitrarily reducing street
car fares to 3 cents was irregular
and without binding effect.
The town of Norfolk, Va, was
placed under martial law on the
9Th inst, on account Of rioting Of
street car strikers and sympathzers
Several fights took place between of
licers and strikers, and a number
Of participants were wounds.
At recent cabinet meeting Pres
idcnt Roosevelt requested the MEM
bcrs not to talk to newspaper CORE
spondents about matters under dis
cussion at the semi-wcekly meetings.
II was thought best for the presi-
dent himself TO make public such
matters as he deemed proper to be
given out Hereafter the president
will do this.
Detailed reports Of a battle be-
tween Beers and British November
cath show that Delaney, the Boer
commander, laid his plans with care
and precise knowledge Of the posi-
ton. For two hours the British
held out They then divided and
were overwhelmed. 4 few minutes
of cautious fighting and all was
over. The Beers galloped along the
line. firing at every man who show
ed the slightest tendency to resist,
until they reached and captured the
guns. Besides the killed, 467 Brit
ish were taken prisoners.
II is announced that there has
been organized in New York City
an association TO promote southern
education 10 be- known a. the gem
eral education board, and that more
than a million dollars has been
placed at the disposal Of the board
of trustees. The underlying princi-
pie Of the association is stated to be
recognition Of the fact that the peo-
pile of the southern states are ear
ncstly engaged in the promotion Of
public education and that in this ef-
for they should receive generous aid;
and to this end and in pursuance Of
this and kindred objects, the asso-
citation will seek gifts large and
small from those in sympathy with
Its plans.
The Spanish treaty claims com
has handed down a decision
against the claimants for deaths and
injuries received by officers and sea-
men in the wreck of the battlcship
Maine in Havana hnrbor. The
commission holds that individual
claims of citizens of one nation may
arise against the government of an
other nation for redress of injury to
persons or property, which such citi-
zens may have sustained from such
or any Of its agents
But such individual claims do not
arise in favor of the officers and
scamen of ship of war, who re-
ceiyc, in the line Of duty, injuries
to their persons for which a foreign
government is responsible. The
claims so far filed with the commits
sion which would be affected by this
decision amount TO about $2,50O,-
900, which probably would be in
creased TO $1,000, 900 had the decis-
ION been favorable to the claimants. /
A Galveston. Harrisburg and San
Antonio passenger train was wreck
ed two miles from Maxon, Tex, on
the 18th, i'm which fourteen passcn-
gers were killed and a large num-
Der injured. The engine jumped |
the track and three coaches were
piled in heap about twenty feet
from the roadbed. The accident
was made moro horrible by the |
Treckagc catching fire, and several
victims who were pin
oned down by timbers, and who
we're not killed outright, were burn
ID alive The names of the dead
ire as follows; Three children o
Mart Riddle, of Chetopa, Kan.
Estayon Contraras, Del Rio, Texas
Andrew c. Shelly, wife and child,
Ioirer, Texas; o. T.. Housens, child,
Racine, Wis; Mr.. and Mrs. White,