Mexico weekly ledger., 1892-10-13
News Items of Interest.

The Supreme Court began It's
October term.
A destructive fire occurred at the
mines at Carthage, Mo.
Debate in both branches of Con-
gress was marked by a show OF ILL.,
temper.
This week a battle royal will be
waged in the Senate on the silver
question.
Great crowds are already in Chi
cago to take part in Chicago Day"
at the Worlds Fair.
An Alabama mob shot to death
a negro who had attempted to out
rage a white woman.
A. NJ. DAVIS, the Oldest mer-
chant of Jonesboro. Ark, was kill
ed in a runaway accident.
The steamship Russia from Ham
burg with six deaths from cholera at
sea arrived at New York.
At Norton, Kas., a merchant
murderously assaulted his partner
and then attempted suicide.
Indians in Northwestern Wyom-
ing are on the rampage, killing the
settlers stock and starting fires.
Most of the House committees
will be kept busy during the present
week considering various measures.
A ~7-year-old somnambulist was
shot and killed near Valley Fur
mace, W. Va, being mistaken for a
burglar.
Two deaf and dumb young women
were killed yesterday by a train
near Bluffs, Ill.,, on the Wabash
Railroad.
A Big Four train struck a loaded
street car near Cincinnati, killing
one person and probably fatally in
juring two others.
Governor Lewelling has offered
a reward of $500 for the arrest and
conviction of the assailant of Miss
Burr at Fort Scott.
John Woods, aged 76 years, died
yesterday at his home near Upton,
Mo, from the effects of injuries
inflicted by a pet ram.
The Ways and Means COMMITTEES
is working on the new tariff bill with
the object of making protection in
cidental to raising revenue.
The Republicans of Iowa are be-
coming more and more dissatisfied
with Jackson and the Republican
press is openly echoing the dis.
satisfaction.
There are about 800 cases, sew
eral of them important, to be dis
posed OF at the next term of the
Supreme Court which eonvenes al
Jefferson City to-day.
o. K. Caldwell, ex-cashier of the
defunct Citizens Bank of Nevada,
Mo-, has been arrested on a charge
of receiving money when he knew
the bank to be insolvent.
The commission and Board OF
Experts investigating the business
methods of the various departments
with a view of lettering them have
made substantial progress.
The 500 miners who have been
on a strike in the East Tennessee
mining districts for IS months
have consented to a 10 per cent
reduction and gone TO work.
A mob forcibly elected Jim Dunn
from a lot in Pawnee, Ok, which he
had settled on during the temporary
absence of Miss Blake who had
made a 15-mile run and secured it.
1t has been discovered that Col
onel William F. Switzler is ineligi-
BILE to the Office of curator of the
State University, to which he was
recently appointed by Governor
Stone.
Jackson, candidate Of the Repub-
licans for Governor of Iowa, has
proposed to the State Committee
to withdraw his name on account
of the pension scandal attached to
his name.
Last Thursday night a young
man at Memphis, Tenn. committed
suicide because his iance broke her
engagement with him. Saturday
the young lady took morphine and
was barely saved from death.
Mass meetings were held in many
cities of Great Britain, at which
sympathy was expressed for the
striking coal miners and the Gov
eminent denounced for sending
troops against the strikers.
GREAT CROWDS AT CHICAGO.
Probably a Million People Inside the
Worlds Fair Gates To-Day.