Crittenden press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1879-1907, 1902-02-27
NEWS OF THE WORLD.

dead.
Fourteen persons, most of them
fremen, were seriously injured in a
fire at Brooklyn, n. Y.
Fire destroyed the Champion
Chemical Company plant, entailing
a loss of half a million dollars.
Fighting in Venezuela between
government andrevolutionary forces
occurred at several points last week,
and in a naval battle a Venezuelan
ship was sunk.
Gen. Greedy, chief of the signal
service of the war department, who
has charge Of Geographic lines own
ed by the government, the report
says, estimates the entire cost of a
Pacific cable, including ships and
all possible contingencies, at $10,-
100000, and places the annual ex-
| penses at $4,000.
The Panay scouts. under COM
mand of Capt Walker, in an en-
gagement in the island Of Samar,
=. l., recently captured seven rifles
and numerous bolos, killed a num-
Der of Fiipinos, and also killed the
officer in command, who was q no
torious renegade, named Winfrey, a
deserter from the Forty-third regi-
ment, whom the American troops
had for months been endeayoring
to capture. A man named Long,
who deserted with Winfrey, is still
with the Filipinos.
The Indian appropriations bill be-
fore congress carries $s,s44,500 The
item for support of schools is 49,
247 1920; for fulfilling treaty stipu-
lations, $2,102,l57. The Dawes
commission is reduced in member
ship from four to three, as its work
will be occupied in two years.
Among the general provisions is
one forbidding the Withholding Of
rations because of attendance at a
non-goyernment school; also requir-
ing Indian Territory judges to re-
side at Muskogee.
The house of congress passed the
bill which makes oleomargarine
or imitation butter or cheese, trans
ported into any state or territory for
use, sale or consumption therein,
subject to the laws of such states
or territories, Notwithstanding that
it may be introduced in original
packages, and imposes a tax of 10
cents per pound on oleomargarine
made in imitation of butter of "any
shade of yellow" When not made
in such imitation the tax isSredsccd
to one-fourth of one cent per pound.
A favorable report was made by
the senate committee on pensions on
the joint resolution constituting the
pension law of 1890. The resolu-
ton was intended to give a pension
able status to those who served in
the Confederate army and subse-
quently Joined the United States
army and are now denied the bene.
fits of the act of 1899 on the ground
that they gave relief TO the rebel
lion. The committee expresses the
opinion that it was the intention of
the trainers Of the act of 1890 to in
clude such persons within its provis-
ions.
The Central Coal and Coke Com
pany, of Kansas City, has purchased
all the properties and business Of
the Kansas and Texas Coal Company
of st. Louis. The deal involves
more than 100000 and makes
the Central Coal and Coke Compa-
ny the largest concern Of its kind
west of Pennsylvania. The com
pany will now own as coal mines
in operation, employing 10000 men,
twenty-three company stores doing
mercantile business Of 100000
year; twenty-five hundred compa-
ny houses, used as homes for the
miners and lumbermen; $4,000 acres
Of coal lands in Missouri, Kansas,
Indian Territory, Arkansas, Louis
lana, Texas and Wyoming; lumber
mills that produce 100000 feet
of lumber yearly and Offices and
agencies in every large city in the
United States. The capital stock
of the new company will he in
creased from $4,000 to $1,000
600