Mexico Missouri message., 1903-12-31
THE NEWS RESUME.
Being CONDENSED story Of the News
Of the Week.

Kansas City will have two telephone
systems in operation after the % of
January.
Cracksmen blow the safe in butcher
shop at Desloge, Mo-, and escape with
] $500 booty.
A child ate strychnine tablets near
Nation, Ill, and died before medical
aid could be summoned.
Mrs. Daniel Manning was elected
President Of the Board of Lady Mana
gers Of the Worlds Fair.
A woman dies of lockjaw at Cen.
tralia, Ill, the result of running a pin
in her finger while washing.
The new East River bridge, connect.
ing New York with Brooklyn, and
which cost s21 900, is formally opened
to traffic.
A cotton barge catches fire in the
harbor ut Galveston, Tex, and 400
bales are burned before the blaze is ex.
tingulshed.
Jacob Rils OF New York in a lecture
in Washington, declares the slums Of
the National Capital are the worst in
the country.
Dairymen and poultry raisers Of
Southern Kansas and Oklahoma pro
pose to organize an association for mu-
tual protection.
William G. Frye was elected Presi-
dent Of the st. Louis Board of Police
Commissioners, to succeed Harry b.
Halves, resigned.
The case of Senator Buell. L. Mat
thews, charged with bribery, is contin-
ued in the Cole Co. (Mo.) Circuit
Court to March 25.
Queen Helena Of Rome receives Am.
bassador Meyer in private audience and
promises to attend opening OF the
American Academy.
The superintendent of the Indiana
Industrial Home plans a matrimonial
bargain counter of pretty girls trained
for household work.
Mrs. James Maher dies at Blooming
ton, ILL.,, at the hour set for her daugh-
ter's funeral. Grief is said to have
been the cause of death.
Mrs. Honoretta Marshall of Webster,
Mass, dies at the age of 105 years. She
had distributed nearly all her fortune,
left to her by her husband, to the poor.
Senator Fulton of Oregon has asked
that the government make an appro-
priation for the proposed Lewis and
Clark Exposition, to be held in Port
land.
Receiver Foster Of the defunct Bank
Of the ChicNasaw Nation makes a re-
port to the effect that false entries were
made in the books and intimates the
practice Of fraud.
Gen. Macarthur explains that his re-
marks about a prospective war with
Germany were made in private CONVEX.
sation, with no idea that they would
ever be made public.
John Boddidngtou, Kansas City,
Kan, contractor, testified before the
Grand Jury that certain members Of
the City Council had demanded rake.
offs on paving contracts.
Joseph and Louis Choisser, father
and son, said to have been wanted at
Equality, H., were shot to death in
battle with detectives in a lodging
house at Los Angeles, Cal.
DR.. Edward Everett Hale, the new
Chaplain Of the Senate, is one Of the
noted ministers Of the country, having
acquired fame as a theologian, lecturer.
thinker, teacher and orator.
Premier Combes' plan to take away
the 800 primary schools that remain
under the control OF the religious or.
ders will cost France many millions
for new buildings and teachers pay.
Rumors that the Hampton Trust
Company of Springfield, Mass, was un.
sound caused its depositors to with.
draw money to the extent that the in
stitution was compelled to suspend
operations.
Bonaparte and Woodruff have com
pleted their investigation Of Indian
Territory. affairs and departed fol
Washington, where they will prepare 8
voluminous report for Secretary Of the
Interior Hitchcock.
GoFs AyCoCh Ol IfOILh CaIOllna no
clarss the solution Of the race prob
lem is to disfranchise the negro, theT
let him severely alone. giving him Il
understand that only by toll can HI
work out his salvation.
Chief Of Engineers Gillespie advo
Gates an appropriation Of $20,00O,00I
for the Improvement Of the Mississippi
channel from st. Louis TO Cairo anC
the mouth of the Missouri A width o
200 feet and depth Of eight feet a
low water is proposed.
The treaty for ''the extension Of tn
commercial relations" between tn
United States and China was ratihel
by the Senate. Senator Nelson made
long speech crlticising the convention
He believes sufficient provision for tn
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