The Mena weekly star., 1897-10-13

ed for money that lb IS trying Jo SCH
 it's public buildings and all public
 lands.
 Reports come from Missouri, Kansas,
 Iowa, Oklahoma and the Indian Ter
 ritory reporting the long drouth bro
 ken by good rains.
 While blasting with dynamite Cof-
 feeville, Kan, man investigated slow
 charge The deceased was unmarried
 and 40 years of age.
 Masked men held up St Louis
 night train at Washington park, near
 Kansas City during carnival week. Ut
 tie booty was obtained and the rob
 bers escaped.
 Spanish merchants in Havana, Cuba, held meeting and made plea to the new Spanish ministry to allow General
 Weyler to remain. Premier Sagasta, however, says Weyler must go.
 The Leedy administration in Kansas is out of funds. It is claimed that the 1 Legislature has expended money reck- lessly and made no provisions to meet the expenses.
 A cigarette thrown into the rear of the Kansas City Transfer company's barn last week was the supposed cause of a disastrous fire in which eighty four head of horses perished, some very valuable ones being among them,
 Banks and business houses of Inde- pendence, Kan., nave armed with Winchesters in anticipation of raid by the Al Jennings gang of outlaws. it is reported that such raid was planned, but drunken member of the gang talked too freely and gave the plan away.
 At Springfield, Ill, Dr. William Six pleaded gunty to bigamy and was sen fenced to the penitentiary. The com plainant was James Hornung of Beery, whose sister was Six's eleventh wife. | The others are variously distributed, some being in Missouri, Kansas and | Oklahoma.
 1t is reported that Miss Edna Whit ney, of Chillicothe, Mo, has been giv- eg S400 for the privilege of naming E brand of cigars after her A wit remarks that it is almost as good a thing to be turned down as maid of | honor by Kansas City as to be defeat ed candidate for president
 There is considerable excitement at 1 Sedalia, Mo-, over rich strike of lead | and silver. During the past week | 49.00U pounds have been taken out and | shipped to Joplin. Saturday last the 1 miners, at depth of less than fifteen feet, struck nine-inch vein of lead | which runs between two layers of rock | and is believed to contan large per cent of silver.
 The young wife of Thomas Gleason, 1 a switchman at Newport, Ky. was | forcibly taken from her husbands side | and dragged into field ana criminal | ly assaulted by eleven men. Eleven | men have been arrested and Mrs. Glea- son identified ten of them. Only by desperate effort wholesale lynching | was prevented by the police The l penalty for this crime in Kentucky is death.
 According to news by the steamer Victoria, sixty villages near Tung Chow, China, have been destroyed by floods and s0.0o0 inhabitants drowned or forced to flee as result of an unus- ual rainfall between July s3 and Au- gust l5. The flooded district is only twelve miles from Pekin. The crops are total loss and danger of stary- ation has been augmented by procla- nation that no cattle shall be slain. the object being to appease the wrath of the gods.
 The Kansas City Stock Yards com pany has received one setback in it's fight against the law passed by the Kansas legislature at it's last session regulating charges for handling stock. Judge Foster has declded that the