Mexico weekly ledger., 1895-04-04
LATE NEWS ITEMS.
Frederick Douglass win was aled.

Frederick Douglass will was aled,
Gilbert, the Dahomey giant, died at
New York.
MoIie Easiey, living nea Princeton,
KY, killed herself with a rife.
Five children lost their lives In Il
burning house at Minot, N. d..
Unprecedented heat and drought
are reported from many sections.
Safe blowers secured over 1000
from the Auburn en- State Bank.
Captain J. b. Old, Representative of
Oregon county, Missouri, died sudden
ly.
The Japanese fleet will lombard
Takua on the island of Formosa, to-
day.
Postmaster General Bissell is giving
pointers to his successor, William l..
Wilson.
Postmaster General Bissell said his
official farewell to the members of the
Cabinet.
The Hawaiian Advisory Council has
passed Il law prohibiting the return of
exileB.
The Commercial Bank of Cincinnati
assigned to w. II. Campbell, its
cashier.
The Navy Department has contract
ed for a new class of gunboats, carry
ing sails.
The Monterey has been ordered to
Peruvian ports to protect American
property.
The wife of Noah Strevil says that
he killed his father near Fort Scott,
Kan, March 10.
Samuel b. Reed was burned to
death near Trenton, Mo-, said to have
been a case of suicide.
1t is said that if the monetary on
ference is called President Cleveland
VIII dppOlhC dSiSSdbCo-
The defense in the Taylor brothers.
murder trial attempted to prove an
alibi at Carrollton, Mo.
Lii Hung Changes condition is i'm
proved and he may be able to resume
the peace negotiations next week.
The foreign agent of the Agricul-
tural Department doesn't give a very
| cheerful account of European crop
prospects.
Jim Parsons and lobe Smith are in
Jail at Paris, Tex, charged with a
murder committed in Murray county,
Georgia.
Threats of lynching Noah Strevil,
who, his wife says, murdered his
father near Fort Scott, Kas., are be-
ing made.
Secretary Campbell, of the Lexing-
ton (Ky.) Chamber of Commerce, was
killed on his porch by an unknown
person.
NJ. a. Fyke was appointed by Gov
ernor Stone as Police Commissioner OF
Kansas City, vice Bernard Corrigan,
resigned.
Sam McWilliams, the "Verdigris
Kid" and George Sanders were killed
at Bragg, l. T., being the last of the
Cook gang.
1t is estimated that if the income
tax is held valid that the revenues of
the present fiscal year will amount to
1870, 00O, 900.
The juries disagreed in the cases Of
| Whalen and Celia, charged with st.
Louis election frauds, and tried at
Boonville, Mo.
Cora Smith confessed at Omaha,
Neb., that she murdered her father.
Her mother is serving a life sentence
for the crime.
Mrs. Mary Berger, Sc years old, was
bound and gagged and subjected to
terrible treatment by robbers at
Springfield, Ill.
Sherman Woodrey, who escaped
from jail at Dexter, Mo-, on Sunday,
and was re%captured Monday, escaped
again Tuesday night.
The Kansas City (Mo.) Grand Jury
is said to have returned indictments
against Charles S. Owsley, late Re-
corder of Voters.
The body of Joe Underwood, leader
of the attack on the Cincinnati South
ern train, has been found near the
scene of the fight.
President Cleveland is reported to
have emphatically announced that he
has been converted to viewing with
favor the income tax.
Thomas l.. Anderson, of Louisiana,
Mo-, representing Central College at
Fayette, Mo, won first honors in the
Missouri intercollegiate oratorical
contest at Kansas City.
The special agent of the Agricul-
tural Department reports upon inves-
LEGATION that no pleuro-pneumonia
exists in Kansas as reported.
AS a result of a municipal purity
agitation in Columbus, Ind, the Mayor
has summoned the ministers to tel
what they know of corruption in the
town.