Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1904-01-28
THE NEWS RESUME.
ssIns . CONDENSED story Of the News
Of the Week,

Gov. Cummins Of Iowa Is inausurats
cd for his second term.
A posse fights a battle with high
waymen near Harrisburg, III.
Senator Hanna is reelected United
States Senator from Ohio By big ma
jority.
John Robertson is hanged 1t Kinks
vile, Mo, for the murder Of his father
in-iaw.
Charles Keuler Is stabbed to death
with steel-pointed umbrella az Boop-
vile. Ind.
A mother and two daughters arc
burned to death in their home At TerTe
Haute, Ind.
John M. Glover breaks hts parc'e
and is lodged IN Cripple Creek jail by
military authorities.
Henry wrape OF st. Louis Is elect
lred President Of the Tight Strive Man-
ufacturerers Association.
Episcopal Bishops Of the Western
States assembled az Kansas City for
the missionary convocation.
The American Car and Foundry Co.
orders a reduction Of 10 per cent I'm
wages, effective February /.
Post Office Inspectors have visited
Nevada, and are probing the method
by which the site was chosen .
Mai. Gen. Bates takes formal com
mand Of the Northern army division
with headquarters in st. Louis.
The Mississippi House Of Represen-
tatives refuses to cut down the apprO-
priation Of $2,5OO.0O0 foe common
schools.
Duke Philip Of Orleans seeks d.
vorce and petitions CuEia for dIspen-
sation to wed daughter Of Austrian
nobleman.
Many reforms in China are prOmiB-
ed through the treaty between that
country and japan, which has just
been ratified.
Three persons are killed and two.
others poisoned at Alexandria, ATk-.,
by drinking ginger ale favored with
lemon extract.
May Willard, serving q i've years.
sentence, escaped from the peniten-
tiary at Jefferson City, taking the ma
irons furs and IS.
Holbrook EppilI, wanted In various
parts Of the United States on various.
charges Of forgery and swindling, Is ar
rested In California.
The Massachusetts, Committee on;
Relations Between Employer and EN-
ploye reports compulsory Industrial
proft-sharing impracticable.
The Few Governor of Maryland pro
poses in his inaugural address that the
Constitution of the State be changed
so as to limit the franchise.
The cattlemen's convention at Port
land adjourns after electing #. Z Hag-
enbarth OF Utah President. The next
session will be held at Denver.
The Court of Appeals of Springfield.
ILL.,, rules that pOolrOoms are a nRisr
ance, upholding the dscistOn Of the
Madison County Circuit Court.
The Steel Trust is allowing employees
to subscribe for preferred shares on
the same basis as last year, except
that the price is $50 q share tusted q
$s2.5O.
A Federal Judge at sun Francisco
rules that a Chinese born in this eoun-
try has the right to return fVOm
abroad, regardless OF his present Hlls-
glance.
Eighteen claims for damages aggro-
eating S166, 500 for personal injuries
were fled against the St Louis Tran
sit Co. In the Circuit Court IN one day
last week.
Cattlemen in session at Portland
unanimously approve the plan to form
a $5,00O,000 corporation to buih4 pack
ing houses in competition with the So
called trust
First Assistant Postmaster General
Wynn testified in the Maehen trial He
admits that he frequently signed pa
pers from Machen's department with
out examining them.
} Gov. Murphy OF New Jersey, In his
annual message to the Legislature. re
, commands measures to abolish the
growing nuisance OF advertising signs
along lines Of travel
The Chicago City CoaneH pOstpOnas
action on the proposed new Gre regU
latiOns. and, In Consequence. there Il
little prospect OF the thsaters opening
agnin for several weeks.
Congressman BarthsAdt o. 81 Louis
Is eIscted President Of the American
+, Branch Of InterparliamenthFy UnlOa
, for Arbitration, which viii meet In 81
, L01is during the WOrld'S Pair.
|, Colombia is not only rushing troops
/. to the frontier. apparently with thl
q intention Of invAaeng the lsthmus bul
I has enlisted the friendship OF some q
the Indians inhabttlng TIE border eoan