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

| United States supreme court il was
held that the ordinance enacted bv
the city government of Detroit,
Mich. arbitrarily reducing street
ear 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 sympathizers
Several fights took place between Of
iiccrs and strikers, and number
Of participants were wounds.
At a recent cabinet meeting Pres
ident Roosevelt requested the MEM
bcrs not to talk to newspaper CORE
spondents about matters under dis
cussion at the scmi-wcckly 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
cd the slightest tendency to resist,
until they reached and captured the
guns. Besides the killed, 467 Brit
ish were taken prisoners.
1t is announced that there has
been organized in New York City
an association 10 promote southern
education to be known as the gen
cral education board. and that more
than a million dollars has bce1
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-
pie of the southern states are ear
nestly 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
mission has handed down a decision
against the claimants for deaths and
injuries received by officers and sea-
men in the wreck Of the battleship
Maine in Havana harbor. The
commission holds that individual
claims of citizens of one nation NAV
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
government or any of its agents.
But such individual claims do not
arise in favor of the officers and
seamen of ship of war, who re-
ceiye. in the line of duty. injuries
TO their persons for which 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 $4,000, 900 had the decis-
ion been favorable to the claimants.
A Galveston, Harrisburg and San
Antonio passenger train was wreck
cd two miles from Maxon, Tex. on
the 9TH, in 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 roadbcd. The accident
was made more horrible by the
wreckage catching fire, and several
unfortunate victims who were pin
Toned down by timbers, and who
were not killed outright. were burn
ed alive. The names of the dead
src as follows: Three children o.
Mart Riddle, of Chetopa, Kan.
Estavon Contraras, Del Rio, Texas:
Andrew c. Shelly, wife and child,