Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1903-01-08
THE NEWS RESUME.

public FOR financial aid in his trial.
Admiral Cervera has been appointed
Chief of Staff of the Spanish Navy.
The holiday business in St. Louis
this year was the greatest on record.
Mrs. Mary Hartwell Catherwood,
the well-known author, died in Chi
Sago.
Robbers blew open the safe of the
Bank of Union, Mo, and escaped with
$4,000.
A Georgia negro sends the President
a wonderfully carved cane bearing los
images.
Contract is awarded for new dormi
tory for Westminster College in Full.
ton, Mo.
Robert Emmett Casey of Kankakee
H., dies on the training ship Buffalo
OF dipntheria.
The body of the late Archbishop of
Canterbury is removed to Canterbury
for interment.
The Standard Oil Company has
adopted a pension plan for the benefit
OF old employees.
The American Economic Association
and the American Historical Society
met in Philadelphia
The Western Surgical and Gynecol-
ogical Association met at st. Joseph,
Mo, and elected officers.
Assistant Supervisor John Barron of
Decatur, ILL.,, dropped dead while at
tending the funeral of a friend.
The shaft and pole manufacturers Of
the country have formed a combina-
ton with a capital Of 100000.
Robbers blew the safe in the Post
Office at Golden City, Mo-, but pro-
cured only about 500 in stamps.
Russell Sage is we'll pleased with the
financial outlook and says there is
every indication of continued prosper
ity.
Five children were born to a Ken
lucky couple in eighteen months.
Twins came first and now it is trip
lets.
Bert D. Nortoni Of New Cambria is
appointed Assistant United States At
torney for the Eastern District of Mis-.
souri,.
Christmas tree decorations set fire
to the First Presbyterian Church at
Macon, Mo-. and it burns to the
ground.
The United Mine Workers may de-
| eide to increase the salary of Presi-
| dent Mitchell. He now receives $500
| year.
At Bloomington, H., two women,
heavily wrapped in furs, failed to hear
an approaching train and were ground
| to pieces.
Postmaster q. T. Greening of Corn
land, H., was found short in his &C
counts by an inspector and commit
ted suicide.
President Roosevelt's suggestion
that the Venezuelan controversy be
referred to The Hague tribunal is ac-
cepted by all the parties to the quar-
| rel.
The American Free Trade League at
| Boston demands the removal of the
duty on coal and beef as a means of
preventing extortion by trade monop-
olies.
The Panama Canal Company holds
its annual meeting, and the hope is
expressed that sale of the property
TO the United States soon will be COM
| pleted.
The Standard Oil Company says
that it is not operating in Texas and
denies the report from New Orleans
that 1t has absorbed the Southern oil
fields.
The number of appendicitis cases in
England is steadily increasing, but
the mortality percentage in cases Of
surgical attention is becoming lower
each year,
| Admiral Walker, chairman Of the
Isthmian Canal Commission, refutes
Senator Morgan's changes of eXtrav-
agant expenditure of public money by
the commission.
Secretary Shaw has promoted his
private secretary, Robt. B. Armstrong
of Illinois, to be Assistant Secretary
of the Treasury, to succeed General
Spaulding, resigned.
The City Council of Pine Bluff, Ark,
has discovered that the Cotton Bolt
Railroad owes the city a thousand cars
of stone, and hopes to collect the claim
and macadamize the streets with it.
In a letter to her husband, the
Crown Princess of Saxony announces
her unalterable determination never to
return to the Saxon court, confessing
ut the same time her relations with
the tutor with whom she eloped.
The will of the late Mrs. Ulysses S.
Grant is filed for probate. The estate
valued at s2S4.000. is to be divided
equally among the four heirs-at-law
and next of kin, to-wit: General Fred.
erick d. Grant. Ulysses S. Grant, Jes.
sic S. Grant and Ellen w. Sartoris.
Binger Hermann, Commissioner of