Mexico weekly ledger., 1895-02-21
LATE NEWS ITEMS.

w. L. White of Jasper, Mo-, died on
a train in Texas.
Lima, the capital of Peru, is sur
rounded by insurgents.
They are trying to enforce the Sun
day law at Louisville, KY.
Paris is preparing for her great ex-
position, which comes off in 1900.
The appropriation bills are getting
through the Senate very slowly.
Queen Victoria's rheumatism has SO
increased that she is unable to walk.
An appeal has been sent out for
starving people in the Cherokee Strip.
The Turks are growing more fanati-
cal and vicious towards Christians.
DIR. William Dyas, a pioneer Chicago
physician, was killed by a train.
Russian Intervention in the Chinese
japan war is considered probable.
Asa Milford of Greenville, ILL.,, a
classmate of Garfield, hanged himself.
The convention of Missouri dentists
will be heldat Pertle Springs on July2
A man with a razor pursued several
people on the streets at Springfield, Ill.
A mob of masked men shot to death
a negro prisoner in the Jail at Kings
ton, Mo.
Senator Jones of Arkansas will try
to have the free coinage bill passed by
the Senate.
Archduke Albert, uncle of the En-
peror of Austria, is dead. He was a
noted General.
A woman and two children were
caught in a South Dakota blizzard and
frozen to-
Steven,Johnson, iii jail at Guthrie,
Ok, on u charge of horse stealing,
| hanged himself.
General 10 o. Shelby is suing at
Lexington, KY, for a portion of his
mothers estate.
The Japanese Government has Or
dered the construction of two mann
moth battleships.
The United States has asked the
Hawaiian Government to stay the ex-
ecution of Seward.
Madge Yorke, an actress, was shot
dead in a Philadelphia hotel by James
P. Gentry, an actor.
Minister Gray's remains crossed the
line into the United States at Ell Paso,
Tex, Monday morning.
1t is said now that there is no pros
pect for the passage of the bill repeal
ing the sugar ~differential.
r. L. Hawkins was a~ssassinated by
a negro near Van Buren,, Ark. The
murderer may be lynched.
The State Department has been
notified that cholera has broken out in
&AtSCIVIiiSs EOCulh
Count de Castellane, who is to marry
Anna Gould, will have a wedding gift
of / 1000, 600 francs from his father.
A stock and passenger train collided
on a curve near Guthrie, Ok. Two
men were killed and 20 people were in
jured.
The Chinese soldiers and sailors who
surrendered at Wei-Hai-W were
taken outside the Japanese lines and
liberated.
Mexican coins which United States
statutes provide may be received at
the Treasury are no longer coined by
Mexico.
A b. & o. train struck an electric
ear at P%ittsburg, Pa, killing one
woman and 9wounding several other
passengers.
China has asked Minister DENLY to
suggest to Japan that the peace ON.
ference be held al Port Arthur or in
the vicinity of Tien-Tsin.
A deputation of French farmers
called upon their minister of Agricul-
ture and asked him to prohibit the
importation OF American cattle.
In a wreck ON the Norfolk and
Western near Huntington, w. Va,
II man was killed and three other
people we're dangerously injured
The Senate Appropriations Commit
tee reported an amendment to the
sundry civil bill providing for the is
suance of 500, 600 900 debt certificates.
There is a movement to take away
some of the appropriation bills from
the consideration of the Senate APP
preparations Committee, which would
also take away some of its power.
Lyons Bound Over.
From the Fulton Sun.
Chas. Lyons, who has been in Jail
since October, on a charge of bigamy.
was given a preliminary hearing be-
fore sSouire Sitfnn Friday Pyoseeuf-