Mexico Missouri message., 1903-07-23
THE NEWs REsUME.
BoIns q CONDENSED story Of IRE News
o. the Week.

LORD Barrington's preliminary
trial was postponed until July 20.
Unable to get beer, sewer builders
on the Piasa Chautauqua grounds quit
work.
DR.. G. e. Mash, one OF the most
prominent physicians In the South, is
dead at Little Rock.
Thomas J. Mostellar of Hazel Run,
Mo, who weighs sos pounds, is said
to be the largest man in the State.
Kfng Victor Emmanuels visit to
France has been postponed on account
Of the critical illness of the Pope.
One man was killed and Ave were
wounded in a free-for-all fight on an
excursion steamer near Mount Vernon,
Ind.
A Texas man blocked street in
New York and caused quite furry by
tossing money to a gang Of 200 news
boys.
Five hundred delegates gather at
Omaha for the eighteenth annual cen.
ventien of the National Editorial Asso-
citation.
Three persons we're killed and so in.
jured in collision of fast express
and an excursion train near Lees Sum-
init, Mo.
Dr.. H. w. Wiley, chief of the Bureau
Of Chemistry, perfects plans to test
the effect of tobacco on the human
system.
Secretary Root held a conference
with President Roosevelt Saturday on
work before the Alaskan Boundary
Commission.
Evansville enjoys the quietest Sun
day in rs years. all the saloons and
clubs being closed by order Of the
Chief Of Police.
George L. Griffith Of Kansas City,
Kas., dropped the reins Of the hood.
lum wagon" to ascend the police court
bench Saturday.
Secretary Root has issued an order
prohibiting members of Congress from
signing bonds Of contractors who fur
nish supplies to the army.
The importation Of diamonds for the
year exceeds any year since 1887, and
shows an average increase Of 600 per
cent in the last five years.
Representative Littauer will be sum-
mened as the chief witness in the in.
vestigation which is to be made into
the glove contract scandal by the War
Department.
The Missouri State Board Of Arbitra-
ton has effected an agreement be-
tween the lead miners and their en-
ployers in the southeast, and work has
been resumed.
The Government has ordered a
tOwnsite company in the Indian Terri
tory to cease cutting the timber in a
valuable walnut grove which it pro-
posed to make town site.
Statistics just compiled by the De-
partment of Commerce show that the
nations business is keeping pace with
the country's growth. Special atten-
ton is paid to the livestock industry.
City Marshal ]. l.. Goodman shot
and seriously wounded Gus Thomure
in personal encounter at Festus. Mo.
Thomure beat Goodman with a cane.
Both are reported in a critical condi-
ton.
Pension Commissioner Ware is
openly criticised for his action in as
signing to special duty his private Sec
rotary, L. S. Terry, who is a nephew
Of H. Clay Evans, in violation of the
ONCE rules.
Tho Christian Endesvorers, in SEES
sion at Denver. agree to forward pc
titions to the Baptist Young Peoples
Union and the Epworth League pro-
posing amalgamation of the three or
CARNATIONS.
The strict police rules of New York
have been suspended during the ex-
tremely hot weather to permit the
poor to sleep in Central PaSiS and the
numerous public squares ana lawns
within the city.
The superstition about a black cat
caused a train crew TO. delay the de.
PSrtUre Of the first train out Of the
new Chicago depot IL minutes. The
train, fast mail, did not depart until
tbs cat had been captured.
Andrew Carnegie has received let
teTs from the Gar Of Russia and from
Queen Wilhelmina Of The Netherlands
thanking him for the gift Of 81, 100000
for the establishment of a permanent
peace palace at The Hague
The United States transport Sumner
struck an uncharted reef near the Is
land Of Luzon and came near sinking
with the Fourth Infantry on board.
The vessel was beached and the troops
transferred to other vessels.
Policeman Richard Bowerman Of
Murphysboro. Ill. who was charged
with contempt of court for arresting
United States Marshals, was fined
s465, or given his preference OF going
20 jail for two months. He win go to