Mexico Missouri message., 1903-03-05
THE NEWS RESUME.

The Venezuela blockade has been
oficlally raised.
st. Louis Baptist Association spends
S1l,903 last year in mission work.
John Parke. old resident OF ST.
Louis, celebrates ninetieth birthday
anniversary
A tornado wrecks the passenger
steamer Olive near Norfolk, Va, caus-
ing the loss Of II lives.
Eight persons are killed by an ex-
plosion in the magazine OF a cane fac
tory at Fostoria, o.
The volume of valentines that pass
ed through the st, Louis Post ONCE
was the greatest on record.
II is reported that the Car win
free Russia by inaugurating a moder-
ate constitutional Government.
No candidates have been found for
the Office of Mayor of Ferguson, Mo,
which pays a salary of 81 year.
William Hooper Young is taken to
Sing Sing to begin his life sentence
for numbering Mrs. Anna Pulitzer.
A bill in the Missouri House would
reduce the fees of the st. Louis Excise
Commissioner from 40 to % per cent
T. J. Reynolds of Collinsville was
chosen president of the Illinois Mine
Workers at their convention in Spring
field.
Vienna merchants declare the Bal.
kan crisis has been greatly overdrawn
and that all the excitement is ficti-
tious.
James r. Garfield is to be appointed
Commissioner of Corporations, under
the law providing for a new depart
ment.
Various claimants for the Fair es-
tate are preparing for severe legal
battle by collecting evidence in
France.
Parliament is opened at London, on
Tuesday, with much ceremony, the
King reading his speech in the House
of Lords.
Edwin ]. Arnold, the turf promoter
indicted for fraud, was born near
Terre Haute, Ind, and comes from re-
spected family.
One girl is killed and nine persons
severely injured at Salt Lake as the
result of a collision between a sleigh
and locomotive.
The worst blizzard of the winter, ac.
companied by 12-inch snowfall and fall
in temperature of 20 degrees, visited
st. Louis Sunday.
A missing mail pouch which contain
ed papers worth $1,000 has turned up
at indianapolis, and it is believed that
its contents are intact.
Crisp's bill providing for separate
coaches for white persons and negroes
in travelling was sent to engrossment
in the Missouri House.
The nomination OF Mr.. Cortelyou to
be the first Secretary Of Commerce
and Agriculture is Immediately con-
firmed by the Senate.
Citizens OF Charleston, Mo-, suffer
ing from a prolonged scarcity Of fuel,
seize coal belonging TO, the railroad in
order to relieve distress.
The protocols for the immediate
raising Of the Venezuelan blockade are
signed by Minister Bowen and the rep
resentatives of the allies.
Colonel H. r. Pratt has resigned as
superintendent Of the Carlisle Indian
School and has received the official
~ hfs
London women are complaining
against the "gilded cads" who annoy
them on the streets and, under the
laws of England, are immune from ar
rest.
Thirty-one members of the crew of
the Dos Hermanos have been convict
ed of murder at Manila. Three are to
be hanged and the rest imprisoned for
life.
The Arkansas Legislature has decid.
ed to make searching inquiry into
the fight between Governor Davis and
other members of the Penitentiary
Beard
State Superintendent Darlington is
sues an appeal for adequate supervis-
ion in the rural schools, asserting that
progress under the present plan is inn
possible.
CONSERVATION was caused among
the inhabitants Of Bingham, Utah, by
falling meteor, which caused sound
like a clap of thunder when it struck
the earth.
The jury in the ghoul case at In
dianapolis, was unable to agree and
was discharged. A violent alteration
between two jurymen occurred during
the deliberation,
A London business man who inquir-
ed Of a post.oiice agency for a subur-
ban address discovered that he could
mail himself" to his destination for
3 pence per mile
The Home Trust Company has been
organized with capital Of 100000 for
the sole DurnOse ~ h.alnfnr Andrayy