Mexico weekly ledger., 1893-10-12
NaMs Items .af interest.

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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 anc
conviction of the assailant of Miss
Burr at Fort Scott.
John Woods, aged 76 years, dice
yesterday at his home near Upton
Mo, from the effects of injuries
inflicted by a pet ram.
The Ways and Means Committee
is working on the new tariff bill will
the object of making protection in
cidental to raising revenue.
The Republicans OF Iowa are be
coming more and more dissatisfied
with ia ckson 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 th,
Supreme Court which convenes a
Jefferson City to-day,
o. K. Caldwell, ex-cashier of tn
defunct Citizens Bank of Nevada
Mo-, has been arrested on a charg'
of receiving money when he knew
the bank to be insolvent.
The commission and Board o
Experts investigating the business
methods of the various department
with a view of lettering them hav'
made substantial progress.
The 500 miners who have beer
on a strike in the East Tennessee
mining districts for 10 month
have consented to a 10 per cen
reduction and gone to work.
:, A mob forcibly elected Jim Dunn
from a lot in Pawnee, Ok, which b
had settled on during the Temporal.
absence of Miss Blake who hat
made a 15-mile run and secured it
It has been discovered that Col
onel William F. Switzler is ineligi
BILE to the office of curator of tn
State University, to which he wa
recently appointed by Governo
Stone.
Jackson, candidate Of the Repub
Iicans for Governor of Iowa, ha
proposed to the State COMMITTEE
to withdraw bis name on accoun
OF the pension scandal attached t,
his name.
Last Thursday night a young
man at Memphis, Tenn. committee
suicide because his fance broke he.
engagement with him. Saturday
the young lady took morphine ane
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 q Million People Inside the
Worlds Fair Gates To-Day.