Mexico weekly ledger., 1893-11-23


At Wheatland, Mo-, John W.
Quig was killed by John w. and
Orth Paxton.
Prof. T. P. St. Clair, president
of the Christian Collge, Columbia,
Mo-, is dead.
Izadore and George Zimmerman
died from the effects of smallpox
near Moscoutah, Iii.
As75,o0o,OOO fire occurred at Hot
Springs, Ark, two hotel buildings
being totally destroyed.
The Ways and Means Committee
hope to have the tariff bill completed
by the last OF this week.
w. A. Mckay, an impliment
dealer of Wooster, O., was called
to his door and shot dead.
| Judge Speck will assume the du-
ties of Internal Revenue Collector at
st. Louis on November 80.
1t is announce d as assured tina
the tariff bill to be introduced will
be a radical reform measure.
Eighty lives are said to have been
lost in the great gale which has been
blowing on the British coast.
| A collision caused by an open
switch at Long Bell, Ark, result
ing in the death of four men.
Mrs. Greasy Scoggin was slain
near Milledgeville, Ca, by Anna
Walker, her husbands paramour.
Three men, supposed to be the
Bardwell, Ky, train robbers, are in
hiding in swamp near Paducah,
KY.
L. B. Thomas & Co., carpet
dealers of Cincinnati, assigned for
creditors benefit. Liabilities, $780,
loco.
Mrs. f. Reid Slusser, Superin-
tendent of Public Institution of
Kansas City, began suit for di-
vorce.
| Prendergast, the slayer Of Carter
Harrison, does not like the plea of
insanity his lawyers have decided
upon.
| Young Riddle and George Allen
fought a duel at church in Macon
County, Alabama. Riddle was
killed.
i W. G. Parrish, who was in Jail at
| Dallas, Tex, on charge of instigat-
ing murder, committed suicide yes
terday.
i Charles M. Bolans was arrested
at Dallas, Tex, charged with en-
bezzling by means of money-lend-
, ing scheme.
| The Seventh Day Adventists are
making vigorous fight in the
courts of Maryland for the right to
work on Sunday.
/ Springfield has made an offer OF
100 acres of land and $4,000 cash
) to secure the permanent location oi
the Illinois State Fair.
Express Messenger Sayers was
: found dead in his car on the Rio
Grande Western at Ogden, Utah
, with bullet hole through his heart
Judge Fouke, of Hillsboro, Ill.
has ruled that Stale Attorney has
,, no business in a Grand Jury room
unless called by the jury to give ad
vice.
0 DR.. L. S. Merriam, an instructor
: at Cornell University, and Miss M
e L. Yeargin, student, are supposed
to have been drowned in Cayugs
Lake.
= Uncle Jerry Rusk, Secretary o
Agriculture under President Harri
son, died at his home at Viroqua
Wis, from complication o
troubles.
Il Charles Davis and Leonard For
sythe fought duel with swords fol-
a the hand of Miss Margaret Farrell
4 at Napoleon, o. Both are in a crit
> ical condition.
Governor Lewelling OF Kansas has
received letter from Copenhagen
J. steamship agent which greatly en-
courages him in reference to hi!
Gulf ship canal scheme.
T DR.. F. l.. Flanders of Kansa.
City, whose wealth is estimated Al
i from aquarter to half million,
y was taken to the penitentiary last
night to serve three years.
I While Miss Lula Edmonston was
{ waiting, with invited guests, at Oak.
. wood, Tenn, for Orrin Rollins to
l come and marry her he ran OF with
and married one Of the bridesmaids
Some passenger, but no freight
r trains, were run OF the Lehigh VAL
! ley road yesterday. The strikers
4 were all quiet and were Joined by
> the operators of the Northern Di.
IAision.