Crittenden press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1879-1907, 1903-02-12
NEWS NOTES.

lue hepuDllc or Liberia hal
donated $4,000 toward the purch
ase of a steamship to play between
America and West Africa. TIL,
steamer will be used to carry ne.
gro immigrants to Liberia.
Detectives are said to be lying
in wait for Louise, the clipping
Crown Princess of Saxony, who il
supposed to be hurrying back to
Dresden to visit her sick child.
The officers have orders to detain
the Princess at the border.
Forty fishermen are supposed
to have lost their lives in the
storm which swept over Saginaw
Bay. The men we're living in
shanties on the ice, which was
suddenly broken up.
Republican leaders in the SEN
ate have informed the President
that it is useless to press the rati-
fication of the Alaskan boundary
treaty on account Of the strong
opposition in the Northwest.
Orders have been given for
night and day work on vessels in
the navy yard at San Francisco,
and the Boston, New York and
Ranger are being hastily stocked
with provisions. The internal
trouble in Honduras is said to be
the cause of the order.
Reports have reached Tucson,
Arizona, of the humiliation of a
battalian of Mexican soldiers by
Yaqui Indians The reports that
the survivors brought in indicate
that the troops fell into an ambus.
cade and but few of the 500 men
in the command escaped.
A revolution has broken out in
Honduras and. in response to ap.
peals of United States citizens
there, Admiral Casey's squadron
has been ordered to the Pacific
coast of that country. The out.
break is caused by the refusal Of
President Siena to yield his posi-.
ton to Senior Bonilla, who claims
to have been legally selected as
as Siena's successor.
The Anthracite Coal Strike
Commission has finished taking
testimony. Five hundred and
fifty witnesses were examined and
the stenographers took over nine
thousand typewriter pages OF
testimony. The commission adj.
journed until next Monday when
the arguments by counsel for the
parties interested will be opened
The debate on the Statehood
Bill in the Senate turned on the
question of Mormonism in New
Mexico and Arizona. Mr.. Dubois
of Idaho, and Mr.. Rawlins, Of
Utah, declared that wherever the
Mormon Church exists it takes
part in politics, Both speakers
asserted that member of the
Mormon Church would not think
OF seeking public office without
previously securing the sanction
of the first presidency of thu
church. Mr.. Dubois asserted thar
the sentiment against church
domination in politics is growing
stronger in those states where th,
Mormon Church has branches.
Piqued by the sharp note o.
Minister Bowen, the allied Pow
ers have instructed their represer
tatives in Washington TO take thu
question of preferential treatmen
in the Venezuelan affair to Presi
dent Roosevelt, aud if the latte
declines to interfere, to allow tn,
matter to 60 to The Hague. TIL,
instructions sent to the Ambassa
doris in America do not make !;
clear whether the entire Venezue
Ian controversy is to be referred
to the international tribunal. Ii
order to escape the embarrassment
of a rundown, Secretary Hay
will be approached to leurn whe'
Their the President will arbitrat,
the point. 1t is pointed out tina
Venezuela would consider it al
atfront il Minister Bowen is no
| frat consultad nv tho powers ba