Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1903-01-29
THE NEWS RESUME

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for one year.
Citizens Of Newman, Ill, hold
up. passenger trpin and conhscate the
coal in the tender.
Apostle Reed smoot OF the Mormon
Church is elected to the United States
Senate - spite Of protests.
The deadlock for election Of SEM
ator IN Inc Delaware Legislature
seems far from being broken.
Editor Gonzales dies at Columbia,
s. G., from the wound inflicted by
LieutenaDt Governor Tillman
The German Reichstag begins
fight on the Standard Oil Co., fn the
interests of domestic refiners
The memorial arch in honor Of Bar
ON gOn Kettler was dedicated in Pc
KIN with impressive ceremonies.
Abram s. Hewitt, former Mayor OK
New York and Representative in Con-
gress from 1874 to 1887, Is dead.
AT engineer is killed and firemaT
fatally injured in a rear-end collisiof
Of freight trains near Yandalia. Ill.
The United States Supreme Court
declares Dakota divorce obtained BY
six months residence to be invalid.
Forty-dve coal dealers are indicted
by the Chicago Grand Jury for an al
legged conspiracy in restraint Of trade.
Governor Sayers, on behalf Of the
State Of Texas, accepts the statues Of
Stephen b. Austin and General Sam
Houston.
A delegation from tine Oklahoma
City Single Statehood Convention re-
turns home from Washington dis
couraged.
A bill was introduced in the House
at Washington to appropriate $4,000
for statue Of Samuel J, Tilden Of
New YORK.
Ruskin College, which Walter Vroo-
man founded at Trenton, Mo-. is to
be moved to Glen Ellyn IN, sub.
urb Of Chicago.
The National Board OF Trade urges
Improvement OF inland waterways. F.
p Kenneth of Sc. Louis is elected sec
ond vice-president.
The Missouri House Of Representa-
tives instructed the Attorney General
to investigate the coal combine and
prosecute yiOlators.
Minister Bowen arrives in Wash
ington prepared to take up at once
the peace negotiations with the allies
on behalf of Venezuela.
Judge McEihinney OF the Clayton
Circuit Court declared the special road
tax law enacted by the Missouri Cen
eral Assembly to be Illegal
George Meyers, prominent farmer
near Keyesport, Ill, sent HIS wife away
to VISIT relatives and took morphine.
When she returned he was dying.
One person was killed and thirty
seriously injured in a wreck on the
Great Western Railroad, near Syca-
more. m, caused by a broken rail
The Illinois Retail Clerks Associa-
ton demands the Sunday closing Of
all places of business except drug
stores, barber shops and cigar stores,
Fire at the Christian Orphans
Home, st. Louis, imperiled the lives
of ninety-eight children and twenty
adults. but no one was seriously In
jured.
The Missouri Court OF Appeals de-
cided that tne fellow-serVant act,
passed by the State Legislature, APP
plies to street as well as steam rail-
roads
The authorities at Annapolis and at
the Navy Department have decided to
drop the investigation Of the hazing
Of Midshipman Pearson at the Naval
Academy.
Secretary Hitchcock has filed
charges against w. L. Distin, Surveyor
General of the District of Alaska, al
leging "incompetency" and peculiar
practices
The German Government has sent a
note to the United States denying tho
report that 1t is endeayoring TO ac-
quire colombia's interest in the PAM.
ma Canal Co
The homeo Percy Welliyer Of Mus-
dock, ILL.,, was wrecked by the explo-
sion OF a water boiler. He allowed II
to freeze and then started IRE in
the kitchen stove
Aguinaldo's suggestion FOR the es-
Enlistment OF Philippine bank on
money to be loaned BY the United
States has been submitted to Con,
gTess by the War Department.
The export trade Of the United
States In December was the greatest
for any month in the history OF the
nation, with one exception-Oc October,
1900 the total being s14S,OO0.000
Mrs. Martha j. Sweringen, one Of
the pioneer residents Of St. Louis, Is
dead She decided her estate, valued at
sI.000,OO0, to her daughter, ii order
to avoid litigation after her death
Charles f. Kelly, member OF the ST.
Louis House of Delegates, is convicted
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