Crittenden press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1879-1907, 1902-05-22
NEWS OF THE WORLD.

gain on the sArpath.
Five hundred people persisted in
an earthquake in GuAiamalA
Potter Palmer. the well known
Chicago millionaire, Is dead
Santos Domingo, cap tai Of the
Dominican government, . in the
hand q revoluu0nlsts.
The Mela-t Pulley Company,
plant a. -. LOUIS ess Destroyed By
FIRE, caused from lga-alng Loss.
100000.
The new state ball admitting Ok
lahoma. AriE0n and Nsv NsUco
has been passed BY tAs loser house
Of congress
The American CIVIC federation
has been unsuccessful IN ~ efforts
20 settle diTerences between employ
- and operator n anthracite coal
regions, AID = strike may yet occur.
The president las summarily Dis
missed John Grant, United States
marshal for the western district q
TEXAS On April l last the attorney
general charged Grant NTH receiv-
ing a fee Of $4,000 for service, II
securing for a Beaumont national
bank q designation a. United
State government depository.
Grant Is said 70 have admitted that
he received the s. 1000
Gen. Chafee reports that on the
4th inst troops attacked and cap
tured the principal port Of Sultan
Bayan, one Of the Moro chiefs, to-
gether with eighty-four surviving
Moro survivors. Hundreds q the
insurgents we're slain, while the
American losses were one officer and
seven enlisted men killed, four Off
GERS and thirty-seycn enlisted men
wounded. The Moros are said % be
the widest tribe IN the Philippine
archipelago.
The town Of 81. Picre, on the IS
land Of Martinique, was completely
wiped out BY a volcanic eruption.
IL IS estimated 10000 people on
the island persisted Martinique IA
one Of the West Indian islands BE-
longing 10 the chain Of the Lesser
Antilles, lying thirty-three miles
south Of Dominica and twenty-five
miles north Of Saint Lucia. It's
greatest length Is forty-thrce miles ;
mean width, nineteen; surface COM
prising $4,000 acres, or $50
square miles. A cluster Of volcanic
} mountains in the north, a similar
group in the south and line Of low
er heights between them, form the
backbone Of the island, which cul-
inmates in the northwest IN Mont
Pelee (4,430 feet). The great mass
Of the population consists Of Creole
negroes and half castles Of various
grades. Since the earthquake II
1S49 nearly all the houses were Of
wood, having only one story. St
Pierre, the commercial center Of the
island, stood on bay on the west
coast.
Six lives were lost in a cloud
burst at the town Of Foss, in Okla
homa, on the Choctaw road. Fiji
teen houses we're washed away and
a Choctaw train had a thrilling race
to escape the food that followed.
Foss was a town Of 500 people. II
was built mostly on high ground.
but extended into the valley. The
cloudburst struck Turkey creek
some distance from Foss, coming
with such suddenness that the peo-
pie in the valley could not reach
high ground. From Elk City 10
Foss the ChOctaw railway follows
Turkey creek for a distance Of six
teen miles. Below Foss the creek
crosses under the Choctaw track and
empties into the Washita, which
the Choctaw crosses further east
The train crew saw the wall Of wa
ter descending the creek and began
race for the bridge across the
Washita. The train barely got into
Foss in time, or just ten minutes
before the bridge over Turkey creek
was swept away. A few minutes
later the bridge over the Washita
was washed out.
II. G.. Squires, secretary Of the
legation at Pekin, has been selected
by the president 10 be minister TO