Mexico Missouri message., 1903-09-24
THE NEWS RESUME.
seino q Condensed story Of the News
Of the Week.

Eight inches of snow falls in Mon
tana. covering much grain still stand
ing.
Southwest Missouri Conference OF
the Methodist Church, South, meets
at Sedalia.
D. B. Bryan, General superintend-
emit of Education in the Philippines,
has resigned.
The Government will keep watch on
spectators in the eleventh National
Irrigation Congress.
Firebugs make a second unsuccess-
full attempt to burn a public school
building at Centralia, III.
The Cole County Grand Jury con-
vened at Jefferson City. Mo, Monday
to resume the Doodle investigation.
Miss Lora A. Jordon, q young school
teacher of otterville, Mo-, was drown.
ed Sunday while trying to ford a river.
A monument to the soldiers Of Bond
County, Illinois, win be unveiled Sat
urday. September 10. at Greenville, Ill.
The work Of the joint Flood Commit.
tee of the two Kansas Citys is prac-
tically completed. It distributed S74,.
400.
Government Is reported to plan
changing of Newport, the resort, into
a fortress for protection OF Rhode
Island.
Thomas Taggart of Indiana, It is re-
ported, may succeed Senator Jones as
chairman of Democratic National
Committee.
A petition is filed at st. Joseph, Mo-,
to force George d. Fullerton, a prom
lnent banker at Skidmore, Mo-, into
bankruptcy.
William Hoffman, killed his father
in-law, William Brandt, near Mayes-
town, ILL.,, and then fed, but was later
captured at Belleville.
Two hundred cases of typhoid fever
are reported at Topeka. Kan. The cpl
demic is ascribed to the impure water,
following the June flood.
The United States demand for
tropical products increased from $780,
100000 in 1875 and $30O,O0O,00O in
1895 to S4OO,OOO,OOO last year.
William l. Dawson, a member of the
Illinois Legislature, who had been
travelling for his health, dies on 2
train of quick consumption near Man.
kato, Kan.
Great Britain has formally protested
to Washington against the seizure by
the United States of several islands
near BorneO which are claimed by
England.
George Bollinger and c. c. Adams,
who recently testified for the defense
in the Jett-Wnite trial at Cynthisna,
KY, have been indicted on the charge
Of perjury.
Corn prospects in Missouri and IL
linols show some improvement and
there probably will be about an aver
age crop unless the late crop is caught
by the frosts.
A yellow-feVer epidemic prevails in
Mexico. 1t is reported that 1900 per-
sons have died at Linares. A shotgun
quarantine prevails at Monterey, Ba-
wet and Linares.
President Harper OF the University
Of Chicago has announced that a spe-
clal privilege to explore the region of
Babylon has been granted to him by
the Sultan Of Turkey.
Members OF the Citizens Alliance OF
Denver are to be arrested on charges
of conspiracy to riot, as a result of the
labor troubles at the Sun and Moon
mine at Idaho Springs.
Major Delmar trots mile at Syria.
cuse in 2:01h, establishing a new
worlds record for geldings and lower.
ing by three-fourths of a second the
mark set by Cresceus.
Demonstrations we're made by peas
ants against Premier Combes in Paris
at the unwilling of the statue to Ern
est Renan Sunday. Troops were used
to check the disturbance.
The Prussian Cabinet proposes a
great canal to connect the Rhine
Weser and Elbe rivers, thus complet
ing Emperor Williams great scheme
of an interior canal system.
Official details of the Colombian Re
public's proposition. asking the United
States $2O,OOO.OOO more for Panaml
Canal. have been received, but propo
sition may not be considered.
The Department OF Commerce ant
Labor will ask Congress to approprl
ate $1,000, 900 for additions to the Gov
eminent Printing once, already thu
largest establishment in the world.
II Congress appropriates all tn,
money for the Navy Department tina
Secretary Moody will ask for, the sun
set aside for progress and mainte
nance will be more than 100000 0O
Committees representing the Pres
by terrain and Cumberland PresbyteI
fan churches will meet in st. Loul
late this month to discuss plans look
Ing toward the intimate union Of tn