Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1903-07-16
THE NEWS RESUME.
Being Condensed story Of the News
Of the Week.

$4,000.
Bernard Quinn stabbed his OWL
son to death in a fight at Richmond
Ind.
The American squadron sails from
Kiel, saluted by the entire German
| feet.
A Philadelphia boy was killed by 8
policeman while attempting to steal
a crate of fruit
During the fiscal year which ended
June 80, 1S2,S29 applications for pen.
sions had been granted.
A whiskey barrel explodes at Mem
phis, Tenn, shattering tho window
panes and glasses in the surrounding
houses.
The war department is notified that
the late President Firmin and fifty
other Haytiens have been banished
for life.
The coroner's jury at Clayton, Mo-,
held Frederick Seymour harrington
on the charge of numbering James
P. Mccain.
Russia, in a semioficial note, makes
It clear that no interference. on &C
count of the Kishenev Jews will be
tolerated.
Ten million dollars worth of fire
works were exploded in the United
States during the celebration of indie
pendence Day.
According to the present rate OF
construction, a trolley ride between
st. Louis and Chicago will be possible
within five years.
Lloyd Scimmel Of GilbertsVille, KY,
lost his life in the fire which destroy
ed the Illinois Central bridge over the
Tennessee river at Paducah.
Judge James w. Craig Of the Fifth
Judicial District of Illinois, was acct
dentally hurt, and will not be able to
sit in court for several weeks.
Three employees of a Georgia post
Office we're removed for violation OF
civil service rules and alleged perjury
before the postofice inspectors.
The usual list Of fatal and serious
accidents are reported from the use
Of cannon crackers and improvised
cannons on the Fourth of July.
Venezuela has expelled French res
ident of Caracas, who brought a claim
of $4,000 against the government un-
der the recently signed protocols.
Abyssinians surprise the Mad Mul.
lah and kill 10000 of his spearmen in
battle at dawn, capturing large mum.
bers of cattle, sheep and camels.
Mrs. F. F. Adams, Jr., Of Mflwau-
kee, says that she was sandbagged
and robbed of S1S,50O while on board
train to her home from Chicago.
! The historic mansion occupied by
| Victor Hugo is presented to the muni.
cipality of Paris by descendants and
other relatives of the great author.
Cletus A. Pfeiffer, real estate deal
er of East st. Louis, sued for S25, 900
for alleged breach of promise to mar
ry by Miss Mae Wood of Millstadt,
Ill.
The new Russian order relating to
places where Jews may live and ac-
quire property sets aside temporary
regulations" which have been in force
since 1882.
The Postmaster General has abol-
ished the office of physician in post
offices, which throws several favored
ones out Of sinecures paying as high
as $1,70O year.
An agent for the Great Northwest.
ern railroad was fatally wounded by
would-be robber in a desperate fight
in the station at Clyburn Junction, four
miles from Chicago.
Children of Jonathan Clark, a mil
lionaire contractor, sue TO have set
aside the will in which Clark be-
queathed to Geneva young woman
an annuity of $4,000.
Cuba signs the treaties granting q
the United States the naval and coal
ing station bases, and vesting abso
lutte sovereignty over the Isle of Pines
in the New Republic.
Shelter men in the employ of the
| trust III NOlOIduO 20 On blIlk6 un
expectedly, and the company may sus
tain severe loss through the freezing
up" Of several furnaces.
The sheriff at Scotsboro, Ala, ii
shot while resisting mob. He ii
finally OverDowered and the prisoner
a young negro yho had outraged &
white woman, is lynched.
The number of victims of the min,
explosion at Hanna, Wyo, 1t is nov
known, Is 2S5. A negro who saved
the lives of several others at the peri
of his own is the hero of the disaster
Receiver Smith takes possession FOR
msIly of the United States Shipbuild
ing Company and announces that hl
win use all his efforts toward placlnl
the concern on a sound financial BIAS
is.
Mrs, Charles A. Dana, the aged Wi
dow OF the noted editor. succumbs 4
injuries received In q fall down stairs
Oliver Hopkins killed George Miz'