Mexico weekly ledger., 1903-09-03
LATE NEWS ITEMS.

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The price OF Kansas coal will be adj
vanced 40 cents a ton, beginning to-
Secretary Root advises slow proceed
ure and much are in exacting finan-
cial legislation.
The a s Of Senator Buell. Matthews,
charged with bribery has-hceh con
ttrn1ed uftiIN November 16.
The new Baptist Church at Mount
Pisgah, Mo-, was dedicated before an
assemblage OF 1000 persons.
The police Of Chicago believe they
have in custody the %rlngleader OF a
gang Of robbers and murderers.
Students for Hardin College are
already beginning to arrive. The
prospect for a fine school is good.
Miss Sarah Logan, Of North Clark
avenue, who fell and fractured her
arm last Thursday, is improving.
The report OF the Bureau Of Com
merce shows very prosperous trade
conditions throughout the country.
A report OF the Geological Survey
shows the production Of petroleum for
1902 to be greater by IL, 600 barrels
than for the previous year.
An explosion in a powder plant near
Ashburn, Mo-, shattered the windows
in a passing train and caused several
women passengers to faint.
Fred G. Kerst, a m~achinist, whose
reason had been dethroned over a
patent, committed suicide at Spring
field, ILL.,, by cutting his throat.
Six Of the men under arrest for
rioting at the Danville, ILL.,, jail were
found guilty Saturday night after the
jury had been out thirty-six hours.
Michael Hoolihan, a Kansas City
bartender, was found beaten to death
in the saloon. The cash register had
been riied and Hoolihan's pockets
were turned out.
A convention Of dressmakers will
open in New York to-day for the pur-
pose of displaying costumes, getting
styles and establishing a unity of
ideas in making gowns.
A woman recently called at the
mortuary office Of Chicago for a copy
of her husbands death certificate.
She could not recall bis name, how
ever, and so the record could not be
found.
Friends OF Sir Thomas Upton are
preparing 10 present TO him a silver
service for the Erin In token Of the
great esteem in which the owner Of
the Shamrock is held by yachtsmen In
America.
A freight train ran away down a
mountain, dashed through Manitou
and into Colorado Springs at a speed
of 100 miles an hour and was finally
wrecked In the railroad yards at Colo
RADIO Springs.
Misses Rose Guthrie and Shirley
Allendorf left to-day for Fulton,
where they will be the guests Of Mrs.
]. J. Brown. Miss Allendorf is from
Kansas City and has been the guest Of
Miss Guthrie ror several days.
Robbers entered the barns Of the
Chicago City Railway at an early
hour yesterday and without a word
fired on the clerks in the cashiers
office, killing two and seriously injur-
ing two others.
General w. L. Cabell, OF Dallas,
Texas, gives the first authentic ac-
count Of the origin Of the Confederate
battle flag. Ii was not designed by a
Federal prisoner, IS a story is going
the rounds, but by Generals Beaure-
gard and johnson, at Fairfax Court
House.
A gang Of robbers, supposed TO have
been led by Harvey Logan, who es-
capped from the Knoxville penitentia-
~ a month ago, attempted to hold up
a Great Northern train near Malta.
Mont. 1t was for holding up a train
near this point that he was in the
penitentlary.
IL takes ESQ TO send Mrs. Suzee
Storr's little girl, who Is paralyzed, Ia
a hospital. The members Of the city
government out Of their own pockets
paid eli. The Christian Church will
pay SO. Councilman Ragsdale raised
the balance OF s23 from citizens, who
gladly contributed.
There were six applications from
parties who desire to rent 4 house In
Mexico fled at the LEDGER office
Monday morning, August 81, before
IL O'Clock. II you have a house "a
rent advertise II In the LEDGER and
you viii ind a customer within an
hour after the publication OF the
paper.