Mexico Missouri message., 1903-08-13
THE NEWS RESUME.
Being = condenssA story Of the News
Of the Week.

Thomas A. Edison is enthusiastic
over his new storage batteries.
yellow fever, epidemic in Mexico,
spreads and Texas is threatened.
Sidney Phillips Of Hillsboro, ILL.,. was
drowned by the capsizing Of his boat.
Governor Yates orders Illinois
troops to remain on guard at Danville.
The monthly report shows balance
in the Missouri Treasury of $780,
1861.
Labor Treasurer Murphy of New
York is sentenced to five years in
States Prison.
Georgia Legislature will investigate
charges Of lobbying in defeat of the
child labor bill.
The visit of the King and Queen to
Ireland came to an end with a cordial
reception at Dublin.
Two novel airships are being con-
Btructed on the balloon farm of Carl
Myers at Frankfort, N. Y.
The third hearing of Caleb Powers
in the Goebel murder conspiracy is
now on at Georgetown, Ky.
Dora Clay Brock wants Clay will
probeted, and sues railroad company
for death OF second husband.
George SouthweIl, the well-known
music composer, is stricken with par
alysls at Excelsior Springs, Mo.
License Collector Clifford's receipts
for July amounted to 44,043.52,
breaking all records for ST. Louis.
Missouri boy, shot through the
brain, is improving and physician be-
lieves that child will entirely recover
Conflicts continue in Macedonia.
Bulgarians trapped a force Of Turks
near Phllippi and inflicted severe de-
feat.
Governor Dockery has approved the
plans and contracts for ststuary to
adorn the Missouri building at Worlds
Fair.
John G. Long, United States Cont
sui General to Cairo, Egypt, dies at
Dunbar, Scotland, from the effects Of
a fall.
A bridge across the Willamette
River at Portland, Ore, gave way un.
der a crowd and three persons are
drowned.
Sheriff Floyd of Bond County, Illi-
nois, prevents the lynching of three
peddlers who had been arrested by
a posse of farmers on the charge OF
assault.
Investigation OF the immigration OF
undesirable immigrants discloses
startling facts, and it is reported that
arrests have been made by foreign au-
thorities.
A reciprocity Club is in process OF
organization at st. Joseph, Mo-, by
employers and employees, as a means
to adjust the differences between cap
ital and labor.
New witnesses against White and
Jet, charged with numbering Attorney
]. B. Marcum at Jackson, KY, give
damaging testimony against the feud.
lists at Cynthiana.
King Edward issued an address to
the Irish people in which he makes
some tactful and significant state.
ments, which seem fraught with a
brighter future for Erin.
Two prominent scientists, one OF
them in the employ OF the Govern
ment, are accused of melting Indians
to undergo horrible tortures in con.
uection with the sun dance.
Special term of Audrain County,
Mo, Circuit Court may be called to
try motion for change of venue in case
Of Clarence Barnes, who shot and kill
ed Representative Rhodes Clay.
The services at Notre Dame in
memory of the late Pope were attend.
ed by only two of the State Ministers,
the others being inundated by the
anti-clericsls who threatened 20 cause
a riot.
Doctor H. w. Wiley, chief of the
United States Bureau OF Chemistry, is
preparing to go abroad to give in
struction to the consular agents for
the rigid enforcement of the pure
food laws.
Ben w. Stearnes, the one-armed
prisoner who made a daring escape
from the Federal prison at Fort Leav.
enworth, was captured by a posse
near Richmond, Mo, after being shot
in the leg.
The probability of the construction
Of the Panama Canal causes a boom
in water transportation. and there is
great rivalry between the coast and
interior points as to which shall re-.
eeiye the attention of Congress.
Col. George W. Miles, head Of the
st. Adams School at Radford, Va.
who was a candidate for the press,
dency OF the University OF Virginia,
has withdrawn his name and made =
yirulsDt attack on the faculty ans
Board Of Visitors
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