Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1904-05-19
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Fort Sam Houston.
Two persons were killed In a train
wreck at Phelps, Tex.
Sam Parks. the noted labor leader,
died in Sing Sing prison.
Four men were killed in an explosion
In a powder mill near Newport, Ind.
Frank d. Roberts, collector Of inter
nal revenue at Kansas City, is dead.
Mrs. Walter Burnett kills Sam r.
Mccall, a merchant of West Vienna,
Ill.
Several persons we're killed in =
storm that swept over Texas from Dor
der to border.
The Rev. Father Edward Geary OF
Omaha, Neb., dies of wounds inflicted
by highwaymen.
The three murderers Of Mr.. and
Mrs. Simon Butcher were hanged at
winchester, Tenn.
Arguments are begun before the
Colorado Supreme Court in the Meyer
habeas corpus case.
The st. Louis administration pro-
poses to make Justice of the Peace
Courts self-supporting.
Sam B. Roby, near Missouri City,
Mo-, fatally shot Mrs. Thomas PEN
nington and then killed himself.
Liberty bell will be exhibited at st.
Louis. Philadelphia City Council ap-
prOpriates $4,000 for the purpose.
Senator Clark of Montana will, It is
said, in a short time marry his 21-year-
old ward, Miss Amelia La Chapelle.
Col. Robert c. Clamery says the
Western Union Telegraph Company
will help to shut down illegal pool
rooms.
A rule requiring the inspection OF
school children's eyes and ears may be
adopted by the st. Louis Board of Ed
ucation.
Daniel ]. Sully files his answer in
the United States District Court at
New York, admitting that his finn is
bankrupt.
The Post Office Department issued
an order to open the new st. Louis
annex at 18th street and Clark avenue
on May 16.
Ed. c. Brown, president Of the de-
funct Sheldon, Ia, bank, is indicted by
the grand jury on the charge Of en-
bezzlement.
Paul Moore, travelling salesman and
former financial editor, killed him
self by shooting on a Page avenue car
in st. Louis.
Rumors are heard at st. Petersburg
of second battle at Chiulien-Cheng,
in which, it is asserted, 1900 men
were killed. The report is utterly
without confirmation.
Judge Mcdonald quashes informa-
ton against E. j. Arnold and Lumplin
A. Gill. alleged promoters Of "get-rich-
quick" concerns. They are freed from
the charge of grand larceny.
Married men of Bayonne, N. J., have
formed an anti-euchre society, with
the avowed purpose of curing their
wives Of the habit of keeping late hours
and neglecting their families.
The st. Louis Board of Police Com
missioners announced that a new po-
lice station would be built on New
stead avenue, and that the lot would
not be used for stable purposes.
Mike Roach and George Clegg, con-
yicted of numbering John Keith, .
street-car conductor Of East st. Louis.
were sentenced to serve ninety and
seventy years in the penitentiary.
Judge Goodwin OF Aurora, ILL.,, is se-
lected by Postmaster General Payne
for Assistant Attorney General for the
Post Office Department, the position
sought by Bert d. Nortoni of st. Louis.
Japan floats a loan in London and
New York for $5O,0O0,OOO, and Russia
borrows $2OO,0O0,00O in Paris, both
loans being for short terms at high
rates for the prosecution Of the war.
The United States Court of Claims
decides that duties levied on goods in
the Philippines by the military gov
eminent were rightfully collected. This
decision saves the government about
100000.
Curtis Jett, the convicted murderer
of John b. Marcum, dismissed his ap-
peal for a new trial before the Ken
lucky Court Of Appeals and will &C
cept the life sentence imposed by the
Circuit Court.
Cattle growers Of the Western States
form an organization, one of whose
objects Is to gather evidence against
the meat combine and lay it before the
Interstate Commerce Commission and
Attorney General Knox.
A Joliet prisoner brings suit for ha-
beas corpus. alleging that the omission
OF certain technical details in his con-
viction entitled him to release. A IA
Vorable decision would have the eject
OF releasing many convicts.