Mexico weekly ledger., 1897-06-10
LATE NEWS ITEMS.

of11ce at davenport, NED.
James Berry, the tramp Millionaire,
and his bride are at Salem.
The Republicans continue to have
trouble over the sugar schedule.
Japan, it is said, has threatened to
sever relations with the Hawaiian Re-
The judicial elections in Illinois re-
suited in great gains for the Demo
Gratis.
A cloudburst in southeast France
has caused a property loss of 10000
900 francs.
Ohio Democrats in Washington are
very hopeful of carrying the state the
coming fall.
Fraternal memorial day was OBJ
served by various secret societies at
Lexington, Mo.
The w. @. T. u. presented the pris-
oners confined in the pen at Jefferson
City, Mo-, with flowers.
Ex-Congressman Sorg, of Ohio, has
announced his candidacy for the Unit
ed States Senatorship.
By the fall of an elevator in the
New York Post Office six men were
injured, two of them fatally.
The Universal Postal Congress has
decided to hold its next assembly at
Rome, Italy, in February, 1908.
Special Commissioner Calhoun says
the Cuban instruction Is gaining
strength and the end is not visible.
A pleasure tour over the United
States is being arranged for the dele
gates to the Pan-American Congress.
The schooner Pearl was sunk by the
| English tank steamer, Aral, off Wolf
| Rock and three of her crew drowned.
Three men were killed by falling
| walls in a fire in the Standard Biscuit
Company's factory in San Francisco
The retention of the Canovas Cabi'
net In power In Spain has increased
anxiety at Washington over the Cubar
war.
The Kansas Republican League ii
trying to get one Mark Hanna to de.
deliver an address at their State Con-
vention.
Several Senators and Representa-
tives have left Washington for Chica-
go, where they will enter the silver
conference.
Charles Barber, an attorney a
Washington, d. c., shot Dorothy 8
Squires, his stenographer, and com
mitted suicide.
August Miller, a Judge of election il
Chicago, excused himself for half al
hour yesterday, and going home, blew
his brains out.
Attorney General McKenna has in
stituted suit against a Kansas City liv.
stock exchange for t~ransgressing tht
antitrust law.
Prentice Tiller, the noted express
and post-office robber, escaped from
the custody of a United States Mar
shall at Kansas City.
Richard Caldwell, a Memphis Negro
prize fighter, killed a negro woman a
Cairo and was in turn killed by thu
officer who tried to arrest him.
John Callicott, the negro prophet
Of Lafayette, Ind, who has predicted
the end of the world next Sunday, de
livered his farewell address yester.
day.
Southwest Kansas cattlemen ar,
raising a fund to increase the vol
and coyote bounty, these pests hay
ing become exceedingly destructive
to live stock.
Mckinley is much worried over thu
decision OF the spanish government u
uphold the Canovas Ministry. HI
could have dealt better with Sagasts
and the Liberals.
Rev. @. o. Brown, who was princi'
pal In a famous scandal case at Sa1
Francisco, has been accepted by the
committee of ministers appointed t.
pass upon his case. He will preach il
Chicago.
Engineer Idler, of the Vandalis
Line, had a terrible experience. A
man, intent upon suicide, took a posi-
ton on the track and laughed at the
Mortified engineer, as the train crash.
ed into him. The mangled body has
not been identified.