Mexico weekly ledger., 1897-07-15
LATE NEWS ITEMS.

LATE NEWS ITEMS.
Three Mexicans fought nearBrowns-
vile, Tex. One is dead.
Lead and zinc both rose In price in
the Missouri market.
Five men wanted for robbery were
arrested at Lexington, Mo.
On account Of iI-health, ]. \. Rus
sell, of Wataga, ILL.,, committed sui
eide.
Kansas farmers r already COM
planning of the plague of grasshop-
pers.
Miners of the Danville and Spring
field (Ill.) districts have decided to
strike.
About August LIST, 80 families of
Dallas, Tex, will establish a colony In
Mexico.
There is no indication that the Sultan
intends to withdraw his forces from
Thessaly.
Mark Hanna has moved into the
White House by invitation of the
President.
At La Cinta, N. M, In aged woman
charged with withcraft was murdered
by two boys.
Conference on the tariff held a four
hour session Sunday. No important
point was decided.
The people of Kansas have decided
that the army of tramps of that state
must work or starve.
1t has been decided to place a per-
manent garrison at Fort Washington,
opposite Mount Vernon.
McKinley's currency commission
message may pass the house, but its
chances in the senate are poor.
Rev. VIM. b. Young Is working as
an ordinary laborer and mechanic on
his new church at Underwood.
Warren Rule ran away on the eve
of his marriage to Miss Potts, near
Carlyle, ILL.,, and can't be found.
The Senate Committee on Foreign
Relations is preparing to force McKin-
Iey's hand on the Cuban question.
The President is expected to sign
the order in day or two, revoking
the consolidation of pension agencies.
Missouri ofice-seekers in Washing
ton are beginning to think that Kerens'
pull at the white house is out of order.
The fact that this administration
has done nothing for Cuba will be
brought forward in the state cam
paigns.
Oklahoma's wheat crop promises to
be heavier than ever before. Experts
estimate the yield in the territory at
80, 0O0, 900.
Bids from SO publishing companies
were opened at Jefferson City Mon
day for supplying the state with
school books.
The wheat growers of Kentucky
met at Lexington to devise ways of
holding this years crop of wheat for
better prices.
Mrs. Elizabeth J. Isbell lost her life
in an elevator shaft in the store of
Scruggs, Vandervoort & Barney In st.
Louis yesterday.
Upton, the king of English shop
keepers, the nan who secretly gave
$125, 600 to feed the poor of London,
is visiting this country.
Anti Filley forces are being organ
lied in the three st. Louis Con-
gressfonal districts to capture Con-
gresslonal nominations.
st. Louis has made a large demand
on New York for small notes-$1, 81
and % bills-with which to move the
crops now being harvested.
The seventh international conven-
ton of the Baptist Young Peoples
Union of America will be held in Chat
tanooga, Tenn, July Is to IS.
Adam Winebrenner, a Beatrice
(Neb.) man, was beaten by a mob and
tarred and feathered for the brutal
beating of his step-daughter.
Assistant Secretary of the Interior,
| Webster Davis, has decided that a man
injured by the enemy while watering
army mules is entitled to a pension.
A dipping tank has been built at
Fort Worth, Tex, where cattle infect
ed with Texas fever are treated the by
new process for cure of Texas fever.
The Democratic tariff c~onferees
have been notified that the Republic
can m embers will be ready to sub
NIT their grab bill to them Thursday
or Friday.
Friends have made the plea for the
pardon of the Youngers from theMin-
nesota penitentiary. To-day argu-
ments will be heard protesting against
the pardon.
Wharton Barker, of Philadelphia,
who has been abroad investigating.
says that If England will open the
Indian mints the way to the coinage
of silver is clear.
Phillip Emmerich was seriously ca
by William Lehman during a fight
over the formers wife in St. Louis
Mrs. Emmerich jumped from a cal
and broke two ribs.
1t is probable that when thu
operators have sold their surplus
stocks of coal at good profits the min
ers' strike will end; the men then vii
receive somewhat better wages.
;, Elder Greer to Remove to Mexico.
AS announced in the Times Of Ma.
9th, at the last convention of the Sc
dalia District Missionary Convention