Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1902-07-24
THE NEWS RESUME.


Crande train In Marshall Pass
Four large wholesale drug houses,
burned at Dallas. Tex, with a loss Of
s2500O0
Five new Federal jails-four in 10
Indian Territory and one in Alaska
are to be constructed.
Paymaster Bates Of the army owns
the largest cigar in the world. IL 10
sixty-three inches long.
Lightning strikes man at Louis
wills. H.. and tears on all his clothes,
but does not kill him.
Governor Yates has ordered COM
pany OF militia to Eldorado. ILL.,, to
suppress the race trouble there.
Secretary Hays prompt response to
the appeal Of China 10 expected to re-
suit In the early evacuation OF ITEM
Tsin.
The United States battleship I'LL
nois runs aground in the harbor at
Christiania, Norway, and Is badly
damaged
Eloise Bridges Erwin, 10 years old.
formerly a wsll-known actress. who
travelled with Joe Jefferson, died ct
Kansas City.
Cuba has accepted the invitation to
participate in the Worlds Fair and 1t
is expected that 1t Wa. make n credit
able exhibition.
Wireless telegraph equipment Is to
N tu nv hn
ment at all stations and on all the
lighting vessels.
The visit to America OF the Crown
Prince OF Siam will be in simple
style. He will be accompanied only
by his brother.
Oscar *. Lyle. the well-known New
York crop expert, says there will be
2.612.6A3.250 bushels of corn in the
United States this year.
Expert apple men from Missouri and
Illinois held meeting at st. Charles
to discuss the crop situation and the
condition OF the orchards.
A Canada man reports the invention
of machine to lay bricks. He says
It will operate faster than any number
of men and does better work.
Pension Commissioners Eugene F.
Ware. who allowed his membership
in the G.. A. II. to lapse years ago, is
to be reinstatcd at his own request.
At two recent meetings of Oklahoma
and Indian Territory cattlemon 1t
was agreed not to ship any more cat
t,c until there is good advance in
prices.
Miss Mary l.. Pierce. a niece of Min
lister Congcr Is married To Lieutenant
Hammond, l.. $. A.. whom she met
first when the siege of Pekin was
raised.
st. Louis and Eastern capitalists
have organized to build tho third
bridge, at St Louis, contemplating an
investment for terminals etc, of $l5,-
600, 900.
The citizens of Tulsa. |. T., are much
exercised over the discovery of a small
volcano on large hill near there. 1t is
said to have been caused by the press
ure of oil beds underneath.
The skeletonizcr has appeared in
the orchards about Centralia. Ill. This
small insect comes in hundreds and
virtually eats out the tops of fruit
trees, causing them to die.
Counsel for Gaynor and Greene. AT
Qr>ebec. aver in court that an offer
was made to settle the cases against
the fugitives on payment of $500 900 to
the United States Government,
The Government crop report places
the condition of corn al SI.5 per cent.
winter wheat at II rer cent, spring
wheat at 92i per cent, Missouri has
the best corn, standing at lO2 per cent.
A Montana ranchman will build
5000 alrship in New York. and hopes
to rival Santos-Dumont in aerostat'
les He says he has challenged tho
Brazilian to IA hurdle race through the
air.
Fleetwood Gordon prominent
killed Hugo DOclng. COnfcctiOner.
in a fight over bill. Gordon IL
charged with murder under $4,000
bail
The Army Uniform Board recon-
mcnds som" radical changes in the
dress of both officers and men. n its
programme prevails the blue will be
discarded for a green khaki except on
full dress occasions.
A company is being formed at De-
catur, H.. to bore for gas. Residents
in the suburbs of the city for years
have been burning natural gas and It
Is thought there Is an almost mex
haustiblo supply under the town.
Rhodes Clay, an attorney, who was
recently nominated by the Democrats
of Audrain County, as their candidate
for the State Legislature. was shot
and killed In a street fight with At
torney G. A. Barnes at Mexico Mo
Though the Vatican refuses to or
der the withdrawal of the friars from
the Philippines, America Will stand