Mexico weekly ledger., 1892-11-24
LATE NEWS ITEMS.

President Harrison has saved
more than half his salary.
Green b. Raum wants $3.50, 000,-
900 for pensions next year.
A.. l.. Mason, the millionaire
and riverman Of Kansas City, is
dead.
VIM. Binders, a Milwaukee
bookkeeper, killed wife, child and
himself.
The Texas rainmakers at San An
tonic seem to have met with some
success.
The steamer Rosa Lee, with a car
go of cotton, burned at her warf at
Memphis.
An Indiana Republican has voted
for Blaine every Presidential election
since 1888.
At Mount Sterling, Ala, a mer-
chant waited for burglars, killed one
and captured two.
The National Republican Commit
tee is in bebt$225 900 and has no
money to pay off.
Twelve thousand acres of valua-
BILE timber lands were opened to set
Element in North Michigan.
The BRIDES dress burned just be-
fore the wedding at Marshall, Mo-,
but the festivities went on.
Secretary Elkins has assumed
responsibility for keeping Howard
Sutherland in a good fat job.
Society at Washington will be in
retirement for another month, ow-
ing to Mrs. Harrison's death.
Secretary Tracy has given Lieut..
Peary three years leave of absense,
and he will 60 to the Arctic Ocean
again.
Representative Oates of Alabama
gives substantial reasons for the
calling of an extra session next
April.
Bridge-jumper Steve Brodie has
trouble on his hand over his atten-
tons to a pretty woman other than
his wife.
Hungarian laborers on an Ohio
railroad locked their boss in a tool
chest and were burning him when
he was rescued.
Allan Harrison was hanged in the
presence of 10000 people at Hun
tington, w. Va, for the murder OF
his sweetheart.
There was a meeting of promi-
nent Iowa Democrats at Dubuque,
To-, to begin preparations for next
years State campaign.
w. P. Boone, president of the
Boone & Mackey Tobacco Company
of GAINESVILLE, Mo-, fell through an
elevator and was badly hurt.
An open switch at Aida, near
Grand Island, Ne5., caused a wreck
of two Union Pacific trains, killed
four men and injured others.
A Canadian astronomer says that
if Biela's comet were to pass be-
tween the earth and the moon it
would cause another Noah's flood.
The great strike at Homestead
has been declared off by the Anal
gama,ed by a vote of 101 to 81,
and the five months labor struggle
is over.
1t is charged at Denison, Tex,
tina both the Clark and Hogg wings
of the Democratic party will knife
Senator Mills in his race for the
Senate.
At Fairhaven, Wash. IAN avalanche
swept sleeping man and wife into a
lake, crushing the mans leg, but he
rescued his wife and swan ashore
with her.
1t has been proved that the ma
who fired the first shot of the Re-
bellion at the attack on Fort Sum-
ter was Captain James of Fort
Johnson.
Republican office-holders are.work-
ing numerous cheeky schemes to Sc
cure Republican successors who may
hold over under a Democratic adj
ministration.
The new Holmes comet is not
the Biela comet and instead of
coming nearer the earth it is reced-
ing and is now over 100, 600, 900
miles away.
The hostile legislation of this
country against the Chinese is
threatening a wholesale closing out
of Chinese business enterprises, es-
pecially ON the Pacific Coast.
Guy Kelly, of Nashville, Tenn,
and Carl Herdman, of Bowling
Green, KY, met to fight a duel Fri
day in the latter city. Herdman
named bare knuckles, and just as
the ''duel' was fairly under way
the police arrested them.
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