Mexico Missouri message., 1904-02-18
SHORT NEWS STORIES
Caught from the Wires and condsnssd
for Busy Readers.

attack Of bronchitis.
The Federal Grand Jury at 81.
Louis returned eleven indictments.
Two cars OF contract grade wheat
sold in St. Louis last week for 81 q
bushel.
George Clofford Vleh, a st. Louis
man delights Gotham audience by mu.
sic recital.
The peach crop Of Arkansas was
damaged from % to so per cent by the
recent blizzard.
The Humane Society Of Missouri TO
elected nearly all its officers at the
annual meeting.
Reports affecting st. Louis Transit
Company's financial standing caused q
heavy slump in stock.
Wheat. corn and oats all make new
high records for the season in the Chi
cago market, in spite Of considerable
realizing.
The Senate passed the urgent de-
iciency bill carrying the amendment
to appropriate $4.6OO,OOO to the
Worlds Fair.
General John G. Black, chairman of
the Civil Service Commission and COM
mander OF the @. A. r., is seriously i'll
IN Washington.
A town in Java is ruined by a vol
canic eruption, twelve persons being
burned to death by showers Of red hot
rOala from tho orator
William C. Whitney, of New York,
was buried in Woodlawn Cemetery,
after a funeral service simple almost
TO the point Of severity.
The appointment of e. E. McCaslin
OF New York as principal Of the Car
roll School is recommended to the st.
Louis Board Of Education.
Dan Barker and his wife were found
murdered in their home near Riverton.
Neb., and Frank Barker, a brother, is
under arrest charged with the crime.
A bill was introduced in the Mary
land Senate, providing for the submits
sion of a constitutional amendment
which Will virtually disfranchise ne
groes.
Two masked men bound, gagged and
robbed a farmer of $500 near Give.
la. They left him unconscious in the
snow and he came near freezing to
death.
Captain w. A. Adams, of the British
Army, passed through st. Louis en-
route to the far East to watch hostili-
ties in case of war between Japan and
Russia
Mrs. Louis P. Batringer Of st. Louis
objected to No. 13 on her husbands
automobile license tag, and would not
ride with him until he had the number
changed.
The Missouri Worlds Fair Commits
sioners have announced that the Sc
lection Of a hostess for the Missouri
building would not be made at this
meeting.
The telegraph companies and Assoc
ciated Press arranged for fifty or seven.
ty-fiyes wires and several hundred men
at the Coliseum for the Democratic
National Convention.
The town of Lake Village, Ark, is
almost wiped out by fire. Twenty-Five
business houses, six dwellings, the
Post Office. Masonic Temple and other
buildings are burned.
Operators and miners OF the DiUumi-
nous feli disagree at their conference
over the wage scale for the coming
year, and talk Of general suspension
after April is heard.
The promoter Of an alleged endless
chain" scheme is arrested in Chicago.
Many women, 1t is alleged. have given
him money on the promise OF receiving
lucrative employment.
There was no radical change in SEN
ator Hanna's condition. His wife is at
his bedside. DR.. Rixey and the con.
sulting physicians are confident Of
their patients recovery.
Luther Holbert and his wife, negroes,
who murdered James Eastiand, were
burned at the stake by mob at Dods-
Vile, Miss, the scene OF the crime.
Martial law in the Cripple Creek dis
trict, Colo, has been revoked and all
military prisoners turned over to the
civil authorities. John NJ. Glover gives
bond and Is released.
The trial of Chauncey Dewey, mil
lionaire ranchman Of Kansas, and two
OF his cowboys on the charge Of muir
deFing three members OF the Berry
family. Is begun at Norton, Kas.
Morales party, now in control OF the
santo Domingo government, desires an
American DrOtectorate This party
would prevent further revolutions and
build up trade with the United States
The last Of the American troops n
Cuba depart from Havana after q
ceremony. at which President Palna
fselinEly expresses appreciation q
what America has done for Ms eoan,
Try.
Involuntary bankruptcy proceedingl
against ]. G. MARCEL Of Highland