Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1903-02-26
THE NEWS RESUME.

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Murphy's union labor bin" was
killed in the Missouri House.
The wage scale adopted at Indian.
apolls for coal miners affects 100000
workmen.
Householders complain that there is
an immense scarcity Of female help in
St Louis.
A little girl was attacked and Sc
verely wounded by a wolf near Car.
thage, Mo.
Christopher Moran, n Sioux City, Ia,
steamfitter, sneezed himself to death
in a saloon at Omaha, Neb.
The st. Louis Merchants Exchange
passed resolution favoring an In
crease in the United States Navy.
The Bolivian Government has
agreed that Brazil shall occupy Acre
pending a settlement of the dispute.
Adellna Patti has signed a contract
to give sixty concerts in the United
States, commencing November next.
The resignation of Naval Construc-
tor Richmond Pearson Hobson is &C
cepted by Secretary OF the Navy
Moody.
The Texas Legislature is consider
ing the proposition to appropriate $780,
900 to destroy the boil weevil insect
throughout the State.
Woodbine, N. j., founded by Baron
de Hirsch, soon will be incorporated,
and it is the intention to have all off,
ces filled by Hebrews.
Captain Mills T. Redmon, IS years
In steamboat service on the Mlssissip.
pi River and pilot of the old steamer
Natchez, died in st. Louis.
Ollie Hall, young girl, shot herself
through the heart in her home near
Holden, Mo. She had tried previous
ly to end her life with poison.
Relief work for the famine sufferers
In Finland is well organized, the funds
having been materially augmented by
contributions from America.
Governor Dockery Saturday APP
pointed William A. Davidson of Linn
as Judge for the new district created
by the Missouri Legislature.
William PAUL, baritone of the Castle
Square Opera Company, plunges from
siXth-story window of the Southern
Hotel, st. Louis, and is killed.
A bill to change the quarantine laws
of Texas regarding the movements Of
cattle within the State stirs up live
ly contest in the Legislature.
The coal miners union is strongly
denounced before the Anthracite
Strike Commission by the attorney
representing the Ilonunion men.
Leather Prevail, a negro who was
arrested at Cairo, ILL.,, confesses to set
ting fire to a half dozen big houses
which have burned there recently.
Boxers in the Southern Provinces Of
China, 1t is said, are becoming more
open in their intentions to bring about
a general uprising against foreigners
Rear Admiral Cochrane, retired, as
serts that in some of the British regi
ments petty offenses among the Off
GERS are punished by severe fioggings
daily newspaper has been pub
lished on an ocean liner, which was
in constant communication with shore
while on its voyage across the Allan
tic.
Former United States Senator Hen
~ L. Dawes dies at his home in Pitts
field. He succumbed to an attack OF
the grip contracted the last week Of
1902.
Ex-Governor Stanley of Kansas ii
appointed a member of the Dave!
Commission, to succeed Henry L
Dawes of Massachusetts,, who died las
week.
Relatives of Mrs. Charles Fair brinl
suit against the sisters of the deaC
woman's husband, in the hope tina
they may obtain possession Of the en-
tire estate.
William Hooper Young, by advice o
counsel, pleads guilty to the charge O
numbering Mrs. Anna Pulitzer in New
York and is sentenced to imprison
ment for life.
James Quincy, director of fioricul
ture at Shaw's Garden, ST. Louis, re
signs in order that he may devote al
Of his time to the improvement o
Tower Grove Park.
President Eliot of Harvard Uniyer
sity says that educated young men o
the present day are compelled by tn
rigid requirements of higher learning
TO postpone marriage
Arkansas claims title to a strip 0
land on the eastern part of the India
Territory, and demands that 1t be cet
ed to her before the Territory shal
become a part of the Union.
An earthquake was felt in Missouri
Illinois, Kentucky and Indiana Sur
day No great damage was done, bu
tho shock was sufficient in some loca
tiles to topple chimneys over.