Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1904-01-07
TIE NEWS REsUME.
5eIna . Condensed story Of che liew
Of the Week.

from preacher at Houston, Tex.
Hiram w. Beckwith, law partner %
Abraham Lincoln, died in Chicago.
The new French battleship, Patrie.
came near sinking when launched
The Argentine Republic has sold two
men-of-war through London agency,
The Bondelzwarts tribes in German
Southwest Africa have risen in revolt
A steel plant at Joliet was destroyed
by IRE, entailing loss estimated e
$4,000.
Paris is little excited by the decision
in the Dreyfus case. Dreyfus refuses
to talk.
General Macarthur returns from his
tour of inspection of the Hawaiiau
Islands.
Carnegie has set aside 100000 for
the benefit Of workmen injured In the
steel plants.
The Salvation Army at New York
furnishes Christmas dinners TO 10000
poor persons. t
Russia orders millions OF pounds Of
beef and other war supplies from Chi
cago packers.
France will buy Of Italy the old home
Of the Bourbons, the family Of the late
King Of Naples.
Thirty-eight persons were killed and
124 injured in seventeen Pennsylvania
collieries last year.
Charles Brown, bridegroom Of one
day, is stabbed to death in q saloon,
fight at Pineville, Mo.
A sharp earthquake is felt at Los,
Angeles, Cal, where citizens at first
think it is an explosion.
Bert Barron, II years old, killed HIS
father while protecting his mother
from assault at Joplin, Mo.
The Acre treaty between Bolivia and.
Brazil is ratified by the Bolivian Con-
gress by vote Of Al to IL.
More than I$1S4.OOO,OOO will be dis
tributed in dividends and interest I'm
New York City in January.
The infant son of c. Oliver Iselln re-
ceives a gift of 100000 from his
grandfather at the christening.
The cruiser Olympia has been. or,
dered to Cartagena to convey United
States Minister Beaupre to Colon.
A movement is on foot to beautifY
London with boulevards similar to
those which are the fame Of Paris.
The Mayor Of Council Bluffs. Iowa.
is accused Of protecting gamblers in,
his city, at a stated sum per month.
The New York Department Of labor
reports an increase in membership and
number Of unions during last year.
The leaning tower Of Garisenda at
Bologna has been sold to Baron Fran
chetti, who is prominent as composer.
Foreign diplomats are making every
effort to ascertain what course tina
United States will pursue in the event
Of war in the far East.
A duel was fought in Paris over the
Dreyfus case. One man WAS wounded.
and. contrary to all tradition. the oppO-
nents are still unrecOnciled. ~
The exports Of the United States dur
ing the year Just closing show subj
stantial gains in all the great groups
under which satisfies are classified.
Fire in the laboratory of the Geo
logical Survey destroyed valuable maps
and chemicals. The typographical
maps of the WORLDS Fair were saved.
Mrs. Anna N. Spence Of Alexander
County, ILL.,, owns an atlas published In
New York in 1896. II Is said to be thu
oldest book OF its kind in the United
States.
James Gillespie is held without bail
on the charge of numbering his twin
sister. The three other persons I'M
volved are released on bond at Rising
Sun. Ind.
W. ]. Bryan has bought the Bryan
homestead at Salem, Ill. The purchases
is a sentimental one, Col Bryan stat.
ing that he will continue to reside IN
Nebraska.
The relatives Of Joseph and Louis
Choisser of Equality, ILL.,, desire an in-
vestigation Of the killing at Los An
geles, in which both the ChOissers
lost their lives.
Russia Is to use sterner measures In
Finland in order to overcome the OBJ
structive tactics OF certain officials and
school teachers to proposed governs
mental changes.
Attorney General Hsmlin Of Illinois
rules that Coles County, on account or
the tangled condition Of its hnaneess
shall issue no more jury warrants until
next September.
Gov. Taft's tentative arrangements
for the purchase Of the friaFs' lands IN
the phflinniuae hava han annravaa
The price 10 be paid for the $4,000
acres is $7.2s9.Ts4. #
A blizzardswe over the Upper Mls.
sissippi Valley last week. bringing nils
cry to the homes Of thousands oa the