Mexico Missouri message., 1903-08-27
TaE NEMs REsUME.
Bslns CONDENSED story Of the News
Of the Week.

Albert 10. Batson, q Missouri boy, is
hanged at Lake Charles, La, for the
murder of the Earl family.
Commissioner Bright concludes the
Drainage canal hearing at Peoria, ILL.,.
and II Is resumed at Lasslle. III. Mon
day.
An earthquake early Sunday morn.
ing made St. Louis tremble and fright
ened many residents. No damage was
done.
Governor Taft Of the Philippines Is
said to have a desire TO succeed to the
place in the Cabinet once held by his
father.
Professor W. J. MCGEE announces
his intention OF resigning his position
as ethnologist OF the Smithsonian In
stitution.
Columbians send petitions to their
congress to save the country" by ap-
proving the Hay-Herran Panama Can
al treaty.
The National Convention OF Car
ment workers at Indianapolis rein.
states the Union Of Women's Tailors
Of st. Louis.
August A. Busch approves plans for
his palatial summer home, to be built
on part of the old Grant farm, in St.
Louis County.
Rioters stoned the pIckets on duty
at the Danville, ILL.,, jail Sunday, and a
fuslllade followed. AS far as known
no one was shot.
The importation Of tin by the United
States last year reached a total OF 49,
100000 pounds, the greatest in the his.
tory Of the country.
The abnormal activity OF Vesuvius
has caused intense alarm among the
inhabitants of that region, who are
praying for safety.
Ten persons were injured, two fatal.
ly and four seriously. in = rear-end col.
lIsion OF two trolley cars In the su:
burbs Of Kansas City.
NJ A. w. Louis, Superintendent OF
Supplies in the Post once Depart
ment. is to be retired on the charge
Of irregularities in purchasing sup
plies.
Owing to a strike in the big drain
age tunnel at Cripple Greek, some of
the rich mine owners may be COM
PEELED to complete the work them
selves.
The British Parliament is prorogued
and may be dissolved in the autumn
before time to reassemble, the future
Of the Government being much in
doubt.
Jim Mccoy shot and killed John
Hancock, his brother-in.law, near
Ozark, Mo, the result OF a family feud.
Both men are scions OF old Missouri
families.
The State Board of Arbitration rem.
ders a decision in the labor troubles
Of st. Joseph, Mo, leaving the situa.
tiOn about the same as it was before
the strike.
Postmaster General Payne declares
that Geo. w. Beavers, former Superin-
tendent Of the Division Of Salaries,
will be prosecuted to the fun extent
of the law.
Mgr. Falconio Sunday laid the cor.
ner stone OF the Dominican House Of
Studies and formally launched anoth-
err adjunct to the Catholic University
OF America
Seventeen negroes were publicly
whipped at Whitesboro. Tex, because
they refused to leave the city when
10 10 b.,
state OF terror prevails.
Curtis Jett and Thomas White are
convicted Of the Marcum- assassina
ton, and sentenced to life fmprison-
ment in the Kentucky PenitentiaTy.
An appeal has been taken.
Jules Verne, the novelist, is said to
be in a very delicate state OF health.
He declines to have an operation
performed for cataract. fearing that
he is too old to stand the shock.
Wellinformed Russians say there Is
no question in dispute with China re.
garding which President Roosevelt
could use his good Offices. as intimat-
ed in a dispatch from Yokohama.
The Rev. A. A. Cairn, rector of the
Episcopal chu.ch at Carlyle. Ill, has
posted a notice in his church that
girls and women are requested not to
attend services in their bare heads.
The Health oficer OF the District OF
Columbia scores the mothers Of Wash,
ington who weaned their babies in hot
weather and calls attention to the as.
tonishing number Of deaths in such
cases.
The Martin gang, wiped out In a
desperate battle with ofhcers near
Pawhusla recently. had terrorized Ok
lahoma Territory Tor several months
and made a remarkable record OF dsr-
ing crime.
The Navy Department is said to be
considering the erection Of q hospital
to cost $4,000 at Algiers, La II IS
thought such an institution will be