Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1902-10-02
THE NEWS RESUME.

George Gould says his system VIII
absorb the ST. Louis Valley Railway.
Owing to the coal shortage the
schools of Brooklyn may have to
close.
The Queen Of the Belgians dies sud
denly at Spa. being attacked by heart
failure while at dinner.
The broomcorn harvest in Illinois is
almost over. The brush is particularly
good and is selling at 500 ton
Rostand, the French author, is re-
ported to have definitely abandoned
writing on account of his poor health.
Fifteen pioneer citizens of Clinton
County. each of whom is more than 80
years old, are forming an old settlers
association.
Mrs. Gentry Shelton, of st. Louis.
inherits $4,000 from the estate of her
uncle, w. S. Stratton, the Colorado
millionaire.
Ambassador Herbert will sail for thu
United States the end of the month,
bringing with him a choice lot of his
favorite wines.
The commercial teleSraphcrs Of the
United States perfect the organization
of an international union at the Chi
cago convention.
On appeal. the Steel Trust wins one
of the two injunction suits brought to
prevent the conversion Of preferred
stock into bonds.
An Italian lawyer, accused of muir
dering his brotherin-law. Count Bon
Martini. is captured in frontier town
of the Austrian Tyrol.
Secretary Shaw announces that. in
the last week, he has distributed Sl0,-
0000 among the banks to relieve
the financial stringency.
The 1901 900 mark in the issuance Of
marriage licenses was reached at st.
Louis when James Adamson and Miss
Jennie Seghers obtained license to
wed.
\ Hot Springs, Ark, Judge grants
an injunction against the operators Of
slot machines. 1t is expected that a
general crusade against gambling will
follow.
The cotton growers of Mississippi
are rushing the crop to the mills as
fast as they can have it ginncd. APP
parently satisfied with the present
prices.
-Four persons are killed, two mortal
" wounded and several others injured
in q feud fight on the streets of SDo-
kogee, a new town in the Indian Ter
ritory.
The officials of the Missouri State
Free Employment Bureau declare the
demand for help of all kinds exceeds
the supply, and better wages are being
offered
The first section OF the new Pacific
cable is completed at London and
probably will be laid from San Fran
cisco to Honolulu before the end OF
the present year.
United States officers at Ardmore, |.
r.. raiGed all the gambling houses of
the town. arrested the employees and
frequente,s, and burned the parapher-
malta in the street.
4 Macon (MoD woman after obtain
ing a divorce from her husband calls
in her carriage at his hotel and takes
him driving in order to make his stay
in town the more pleasant.
An Illinois woman, CrG2ed from the
excessive use of strong headache pow
Gers. left the house at midnight and
ended her life by throwing herself
down a thirty-foot cistern.
Mr.. stephen Paget surg on to the
West London Hospital, has perfected
a method of repairing broken noses
which requires but few minutes, and
leaves absolutely no scar.
The slayer of Eugene Miller, who
was found dying in an alley at Spring.
field. H., has been arrested. He is a
negro, II years old, and he says he
fred the shot accidentally.
The sympathy of the Belgians is
aroused for Princess Stephanie, who is
forbidden by her father, King Leo
pold. to attend the funeral of her
mother. Queen Marie henriette.
The United States agent at Musco-
gee has advertised for the general and
school warrants of the Cherokee Ma
ton. The United States is going to
clear up the whole Cherokee debt
A fakir who was preparing for the
street fair was arrested at Wagner, |.
T., on the charge of false pretenses. lie
had made a cement man, which he was
going to display as 'petrifled man.
A cable steamer barely escapes from
the vicinity of La Soufriere, Island OF
st. Vincent, when that volcano sud-
denly becomes active, and tae effort to
repair the cable has been permanently
abandoned.
Governor Longino Of Mississippi has
given his final decision declaring that
he will not call special session Of
the Legislature to consider the repeal
Of the insurance laws. The decision