Mexico weekly ledger., 1903-07-30
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LATE NEWS ITEMS.

A wealthy Kansas farmer is found,
throat cut, in a well, and his son Is
held.
Governor Yates returned to Spring
field, ILL.,, Tuesday from his trip to
Europe.
A burglar at Pana, H., after robb-
ing a store, set fire to the building In
the basement.
A farmer near Xenia, ILL.,, shot his
wife in the face with a shotgun while
shooting at rats.
More interest centers in Jefferson
City just now than when the General
Assembly is in session.
Russians have forbidden the further
expectation OF wheat from New
Chwang to japanese ports.
Grand Army leaders are pushing a
measure to pension all veterans OF the
Civil War and their widows.
The Stanberry opera house company
has been organized and that town soon
will have a theater worthy the name.
Chanute and lola, Kas., refuse to
grant permission for natural gas to be
piped TO Topeka and the surrounding
country
Two men broke jail at Lawrence
vile, ILL.,, and the sheriff, with a
posse, is pursuing the fugitives across
the country.
The Missouri Board of Arbitration
is sitting at Pennington, Mo-, in an
endeavor to settle the differences in
the lead belt.
The little white boys at Evansville,
Ind, have taken up the race war and
begun to lombard the houses of the
negroes with rocks.
Blythedale never did believe in do
ing things by halves. That's the
reason it has decided to prolong its
picnic for three days.
Three men are dead and five in a
serious condition al the result of an
explosion which releases ammonia gas
in a New York brewery.
King Edward visits the slums Of
Dublin, to the intense delight of the
poor people, who had never hoped to
see the monarch at short range.
Two women were shot from ambush
near Lake City, Colo, and q Of
them probably will die. The husband
Of the other woman was arrested.
One OF the convicts who escaped
from Folsom Penitentlary isshot dead
in a skirmish with pursuers, and a
pitched battle with the others is
imminent.
The disturbances at Camp Cameron,
By-Lake-C Contrary, during the encamp-
ment of the National Guards, are be-
ing greatly magni6ed by some Of the
State papers.
The roast OF the Forepaugh-Sells
show by the press Of the upper counties
may have been in a measure due to
the shortage In the crop OF compli-
mentary tickets.
The soldier boys are home from st.
Joseph and report a good time. One
boy, on hospital duty, lost eight
pounds, "but you couldn't hardly
notice it at all"
Thirteen convicts escape from the
Penitentiary an Folsom, CAL, the
prison without walls, ana, with several
Of the guards as captiyes, have headed
for the mountains.
Father Albert the first full-blood
Indian to become a priest, was con-
secrated at Oklahoma City with elabo-
rate services. His work will be among
the members Of his own tribe.
According to the trade reviews BUSH
ness conditions the country over are
much better than usual at this time
Of the year, in spite Of the continued
liquidation in the stock market.
officials are much puzzled by the
disturbances reported at Panama, but
the suggestion is made that the upris-
ing may have been inspired by the
Bogota Government, in the hope Of
a better grasp Of Affairs on the
Isthmus.
The Department Of Agriculture has
a bulletin on dairies. Ii de-
clares that the quality Of milk In St
Louis has greatly improved under the
inspection laws recently enacted. A
State sanitary ofice 70 inspect diaries
and herds Is advocated.
The Jefferson City Tribune says
Governor DOckery bad 3 narrow escape
from being struck by lightning while
in his apartments In the man
sion a few nights ago. A treenear bis
window was shattered and the glass
In the window was broken
Take pour horse 70 W. b. Williams
md get him shodso be will travel with