The Mena weekly star., 1897-12-22

K. G. Dunn O to. Wcchly hcFiC"
 of Trade reports exports as heavier
 this year than ever before and busi-
 ness very heavy in nearly all lines.
 Few failures are reported.
 J. z Smith, St Joseph, Mo, butch
 CT was held up in his store and robbed
 by three negros who then locked him up in a refrigerator. When rescued
 he was almost frozen and suffocated. Prof D. A. Robinson of Guilford, N. c, is in Baltimore taking treatment
 for threatened hvdrophobia, caused
 by the bite of kitten on Novemb Der O.
 A boy bitten by the same animal at that time has since died as result.
 Mrs. Mary Ellen Lease of Kansas
 has made the statement that she will quit the lecture platform, which has
 proven unprofitable, asd enter the
 political field as candidate for con gress in opposition to Jerry Simpson in the Seventh district
 The Kansas City Pitts burg X Cuff has placed an order with the Baldwin locomotive works for fifteen ten wheel freight locomotives, to weigh not less than l15, poo pounds on drivers. The engines were designed by F. Mert- shemer. superintendent of motive power and equipment
 Kid Mccoy defeated Dan Creedon in fifteen rounds in their fight in New York last Friday night It was one of the best boxing exhibitions seen for years. If Fitsimmons is considered as out of the middle weight class, this leaves Mccoy undisputed middle weight champion of the world.
 A bill has passed both houses of Congress absolutely prohibiting pelag- ic sealing Tn the Pacific ocean by Americans or others, It also forbids the importation of seal skins by any person whatsoever, whether raw, dressed dyed or manufactured. The intent of this measure is to cut off the chief market of the British and Cana dians, who take and cure the skins and dispose of them in the United States.
 The steam ooat Arabi struck a snag in the Missouri river near Parkville, Mo-, in August in 1856, and sank so quickly that it was with difficulty that the few passengers were saved. Since that tune the Big Muddy has changed it's channel, leaving the boat deeply buried in the sand. Recently it has been located and it's chief cargo, GOO barrels of whiskey is now being taken out, very much to the profit of the searchers.
 William Carr was hanged at Liberty, Mo. Decem Der r for the brutal mur. der of his three year-old daughter, Belle Carr, on October 10 last, by throwing her in the Missouri river near Kansas City. Many Liberty peo- pie believe that Mrs. Carr. the child's step-mothcr, instigated the crime per- haps even killed the child before it was thrown in the river, and many angry threats have been made toward her. She is under indictment for cruelty treating the child and will be tried in January.
 William Strauss. leading citizen of Elk City, Kan, was buried yester- day, his death having been due to talk ing rough on rats. His two sons are now lying at the point of death, and it is not thought that either will re- cover. k. Nj. Reed and his little daughter, who took supper with the Strauss family, are very low from the same cause. It seems that the rough on rats had been placed in box in the kitchen cupboard and leaked through crack in the box, getting into the coffee, which was on a lower shelf.
 A proposition is being discussed to make thorough reform of the natur- alization laws on the lines of the inn migration educational test bill. That IT, aoo.,ra hoe haan