Mexico Missouri message., 1904-03-03
SHORT NEWS STORIES
Caught from the Wires and Condensed
for Busy Readers.

ceptS the appointment as fhlllpplno
Commissioner.
George Collins denies that he gave
any Information that led TO the arrest
OF Bill Rudolph.
Reuben wheeles, the frst white
child born In Illinois, died last week
at Nashville. III.
San Francisco and Arizona persons
are indicted for wholesale land frauds
in Western States.
The President has disapproved a bill
increasing the salaries OF members OF
the Creek Council.
Texas banks, instead Of having loans
from New York. supply Eastern insti-
tutions with funds.
st, Louis wholesale merchants will
protect visiting buyers from, exorbltant
clearinghouse rates.
At the request of Governor odell,
Charles r. Dodge is again placed UNI
der arrest for perjury.
George D. Morgan, nephew Of Pier
pont Morgan, returns to San Fran
cisco with a Japanese bride.
W. P. vandergrift, an alleged big.
amist, was returned to Moberly, Mo-,
from the Indian Territory.
Prizes are awarded to producers Of
white and yellow corn at the Missouri
State Corn Show last week.
The funeral of Doctor Carl A.
Swennsen, founder of Bethany Col
lege, took place at Lindsborg.
The st. Louis County Gas Company
asks for franchises to lay mains In
Kirkwood and Webster Gloves.
F. A. Hyde and Henry B. Diamond,
charged with wholesale land frauds,
are arrested in San Francisco.
Louis Lola while digging in a field
near Holdenville, l. T., found an earth
en- vessel containing $4,000 in gold.
William Redmond in the House of
Commons denied that the Irish are
responsible for New York's crime.
For the first time in it's history the
taxes Of st. Clair County, ILL.,, exceed
ed one million dollars, being $1,11S.-
506.45.
The House Committee on Judiciary
gave a hearing to representatives of
the National Women's Suffrage Assoc
citation.
Secretary Taft sent to Congress an
estimate amounting to 100000, to
cover Kaw River improvements at
Kansas City.
Senator Carmack offered a bill
which, if passed, will tend to preserve
the open door" in the Philippine
Archipelago.
Fires cause great damage at Green's
boro Female College in North Caro-
lima and historic Dartmouth Hall at
Hanover, N. H.
Chales Rowen, an electrician, who
paid for his living at the City Jail
in Des Moines, Ia, by doing add Jobs,
inherits $4,000.
Fleetwood Gordon was found guilty
of numbering Hugo C. Doeling and his
punishment assessed at two years
Imprisonment.
Franklin County and st. Louis Off
GERS easily identify Gorney as Bill
Rudolph and steps are taken to secure
his extradition.
A swindler, who claimed 1904 dol
lars were good for a season ticket to
the Worlds Fair, caught several vic
tins at Nation, Ill.
The geological survey made in the
Creek Nation preserve Of the Indian
Territory located 272,3SS acres under
laid by coal deposits.
The two remaining cases against
Prosecuting Attorney Price Stone Of
Cole County are dismissed, and he is
restored to his office.
The Krey Dressed Beef Company
and the Gus Bischon Jr. Packing Com
pany of st. Louis may be consolidated
to fight the Beef Trust.
The question as to whether prohi-
| bltion laws will obtain in the State
to be created is agitating Oklahoma
and Indian Territory citizens.
Thieves secured possession at Hous-
ton, Tex, of a trunk containing
100000 worth of diamonds. The
trunk was afterward recovered.
Lieutenant Wash Jenkins and Green
Hall fight duel growing out OF dis.
pute as to who shall dance with a
Kentucky belle Of Leteher County.
Doctor Jameson, Of Transvaal raid
fame, has been summoned to form a
new Cabinet in Cape Colony, the Pre-,
mier, Sir John Gordon Sprigg. having
been defeated in his race for Parlia'
ment.
The report of Assistant Surgeon
Pierce Of the Marine Hospital Corps
shows that the city Of Panama Is bad
ly in need Of modern sanitation "a
order to make It an agreeable place
to live