Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1902-12-25
The HEWS RESUME.

| estSS1ashe1 In Ltndon.
Metos alexander Shaw, philanthro-
plat and coal operator, is dead.
". H. Bishop has been appointed
CorsEl General at Genoa, Italy.
PATS burglars carried off the tax
collectors safe, with all its contents.
1t is reported ihnl the proposed soft
coal combine in indiaRZ has been
abandoned.
The United States Government viii
compile l%G of patrons of the rural
free delivery goutes.
A receiver has been appointed for
the National Bank of South Pennsyi-
vaniar ct Hyndman, Pa.
James Scott is sentenced - che
Penitentiary for life at Belleville, ILL.,,
for killing Otto Schultz.
Insurance companies seek to dis
| courage the use of parlor matches as
o precaution against fires.
The House passed the Senate bilS
providing for four million dollar union
station at the national capital.
a blizzard, which adds greatly to the
discomfort due to shortage of fuel.
A band of nearly 200 Indians has
! gone on the warpath In the vicinity OF
the new Government trail to the Klon-
dixie.
The plan for making reservation In
dams self-supporting works well at the
Cherry Creek Agency, in South Da-
kota.
| Under the provisions of the will OF
r. C. Billings, the millionaire philan-
| thropist, 100000 is given away to
charity.
Congressman Rucker asks the Post
| Office Department to establish Post
Office at Collinswood, Charlton Coun-
ty, Mo.
The Supreme Court of Missouri sus-
tains the constitutionality of the COM
promise beer law enacted by the last
| Legislature.
Juise Ryan overruled the motion
for new trial filed by Robert M.
Snyder, who was convicted of bribery
| III oJ. LOUIS.
The great reservoir and dam of the
| Nile are opened at Assouan. the Khe-
dive and many mobiles and Minister'S
being present.
The National Reciprocity League at
Detroit adjourns after adopting resolu-
tons favoring reciprocity with Cuba
and Canada.
John w Gates, the Chicago million
aire, donates $4,000 for improve
ments of Pert Arthur, Tex, where he
has winter home.
A new bank, with s10,000,000 cap
ital is organized in New York, to con-
solidate the banking interests of large
insurance concerns.
The French senatorial elections, at
| which one-third of the seats in the
| chamber will be affected, will take
| place on January t.
Two men were killed and eight Sc
riously burned in a gas explosion in
the waterworks tunnel 100 feet below
Lake Erie at Cleveland, o.
The tariff bill now pending in the
| German Reichstag is aimed at the Uni
ted States in retaliation for the lat
| ter's high protective duties.
The Missouri Supreme Court APP
points Judge T. w. Hawkins of Ma
| rion County to succeed Mrs. Jennie
Edwards as State Librarian.
President Roosevelt promises Pres
| ident Francis that he will be present
at the formal dedication Of the Worlds
Fair in st. Louis on April so next.
General Bliss has returned from
| Cuba with q reciprocity treaty grant
| ing Cuba 20 per cent reduction of tar
! if on her exports to the United States.
DR.. Harlan, the Colombian charge
at Washington, predicts that Pan
ANA Canal treaty will be ready to
submit to Congress before Christmas.
Illinois labor men are preparing to
use all their influence upon the COM
| ing session of the Legislature to pro-
cure the repeal of the convict labor
law.
Former President Cleveland anc
Booker T. Washington deliver ad-
dresses at Philadelphia at a meeting
in aid of a manual training school for
negroes
Marshal Montfort of Yukon, Ok,
was shot in the stomach in fight
with four robbers who blew the Post
once safe open and escaped with
their booty.
Taxpayers of Ottumwa, Ia, will be-
come stockholders of waterworks
company because the state courts win
not permit the city to incur further
Indebtedness.
The Pacific cable was successfully
landed az San Francisco. Elaborate
ceremonies marked the completion OF
the project which was touDded by
John W. Mackay.
George Sawter, United STATES Con-
sui st Antigua, British West Indies.
has been appointed Consul General at
Guayaquil, Ecuador, to succeed the
late Thomas Mast.