Mexico Missouri message., 1903-02-19
THE NEWS RESUME.

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Legislature to prohibit pool selling
within the State.
An insane mother Drained her infant
against the iron bars of her prison cell
at Checotah, /. T.
The STANDARD OIL Company is trying
TO buy the Galician oil fields, to crush
competition abroad.
It is reported that the Crown Prin.
cess OF Saxony and M. Giron intend to
visit the United States.
Residents Of the South Park addition
to St. Joseph helped themselves to sew
eral carloads of coal in the railroad
yards
William Redmond, NJ. p, is released
from prison at Dublin, where he was
sent for making an alleged incendisry
speech.
Eleven persons are burned to death
and II are injured in fire on Malcolm
Island, north of Vancouver, British Co
lumbia.
Judge Caldwell, in the st. Louis Cir
cult Court OF Appeals, held that the
property of bankrupt is subject to
State taxes.
The anthracite operators complete
their testimony before the Strike Com.
mission and the miners begin offering
evidence in rehuttal.
Daniel Kane of Sedalia, who escaped
from the Missouri State Penitentiary
at Jefferson City last Saturday, is
caught after a fight.
/ Cracksmen blow the bank vault at
Dexter, Kas., and escape in the night
on a hand car with their booty,
amounting to $500.
The pastors Of Louisville, KY, meet
and adopt resolutions, calling upon the
citizens to take some action to prevent
the reign Of lawlessness.
The warships composing the Pacific
Squadron are ordered to Honduras,
where they will watch the progress OF
the impending revolution.
Germany decides TO readmit the Jes.
uits, who, since 1872, have been ex-
cluded from the Empire, though they
will not be permitted to establish chap
ters.
The task of making a complete sur
vey of lands in the Indian Territory
has been completed and the men en-
gagged in the work soon will be dis
missed.
Jerry Richtmyer, the Steelville bank
robber, who was arrested in ST. Louis,
valves a preliminary hearing at Ches.
ter, ILL.,, and is bound over to the
Grand Jury
The Twelfth Battalion of Mexican
regular soldiers has been almost ami
Inflated in a battle with Yaquis, after
having chased the Indians away from
San Marcial.
Four craftsmen, who blew the bank
vault at Cambridge, ILL.,, and stole S1O,.
900, are tracked in the snow to a barn
near the town and are captured under
a pile of straw
Cairo, ILL.,, suffers a $4,000 fire which
destroys a cooperage and buggy and
| implement house. A whole block is
burned at Waukomis, Ok, entailing a
loss of $4,000.
The Pullman Car Company will pay
ten-hour wages for nine hours work
beginning April 1. One thousand addl-
ional men will be required to carry
out the scheme.
The whole Beyers family is arrested
near Flat River on the charge of be-
Ing accessories in the Union Bank rob-
berry, but are subsequently released on
their own recognizance.
Thirty or forty routes for rural coun-
try delivery in st. Louis County viii be
among the improved Post ONCE facil-
tiles to be established in st. Louis be-
fore the Worlds Fair.
Witnesses for the miners before the
Anthracite Strike Commission are
unanimous that the demand for pay.
ment by weight is the only fair method
where coal veins are level
The annual convention Of the United
Brewery Workers is held in Cincin.
natl. The organization operates with
out president, by system OF rota.
ton Of presiding officers.
Colonel Samuel, one of the best.
known statisticians in the United
States, and formerly a resident OF St.
Louis, where he was engaged in the
commission business, dies at Florence,
Ala.
Admiral Dewey, president Of the JET
ferson Memorial Association has is
sued an appeal t. the American people
for funds TO erect suitable monument
TO the memory of the author OF the
Declaration Of Independence.
A farmer near Fishery, Mo, thrash
es his wheat harvest ia January, after
1t had been lying in the shock since
August 1t had not dried out until
freezing weather He shipped the
grain to market and sold It for 65 cents