Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1903-06-25
THE NEWS RESUME.

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The food loss in South Carolina is
estimated at S4,345,O0O.
vandalla, Mo-, has raised purse for
the Kansas flood sufferers.
John D. Rockefeller contributes So
600 for the food sufferers in the West
Repair work begins at Granite City,
and this week several plants expect
to resume work.
Topeka is still in need Of aid, and
the Mayor has issued another appeal
for outside relief.
The Kansas City waterworks have
been repaired since the food and the
city supply turned on.
Cold weather reported to have
caused more injury to crops than the
recent floods in the West.
T. F. Mccarthy Of New York was
elected president Of the National
! Team Owners Association.
Seven persons were drowned in the
White River near Aberdeen, Ark, by
the capsizing Of a houseboat.
Governor w. ]. Bailey of Kansas
and Mrs. Ida B. Weede were mar
ried at Kansas City, Mo-, last week.
Trade between Porto Rico and the
United States records a million a
month each in imports and exports.
Three children rescued from a float
ing house at Napoleon, Mo-, are
thought to have fioated down the Kaw
river from Kansas.
Doctor A. R. Hill of Nebraska is
elected instructor in the normal de-
partment OF the Missouri State Uni.
versity at Columbia.
The next draft of regulations for
| government of the General STAFF of
the army places extraordinary powers
in the Chief of Stan.
Count Cassinl, Russian Ambassador
to the United States, says his country
does not want the Jews to leave, and
that 500 Kishenev rioters are now in
jail.
Mayor John Edwards of Granite
| City died as the result Of injuries
received while trying to save his
towns pumping station from the
food.
Judge Emory Speer of Georgia, in
an address at Macon, declared that
General Robert f. Lee was opposed
kn he Of
states.
A meTry-go-round at Evansville, Ind,
ran away with itself, and several small
children who were thrown off the
swing by the conductor, were seriously
injured
The total number of dead in the Car
ollna floods is now estimated at sixty,
while the property loss in Pacolet and
Clifton alone is between $2,5OO,OOO and
$4,000, 900.
The loss Of the potato crop in the
American bottoms caused the price of
potatoes to double in st. Louis. The
crop damage was estimated at more
than S1,OOO,OOO.
B. L. Even, the chief witness against
the alleged murderers Of ]. B. Marcum
Of Kentucky. testified in open court
that Jett and White, the men on trial,
are the guilty ones
japanese publIcists take a serious
view Of the Manchurian situation, and
express doubts whether England real.
ICES how strong Russia is making her
hold In the Far East,
Chinese pirates kidnap an AmerI.
can and demand ransom of $4,000. A
gunboat has been sent to compel the
Viceroy Of the Province to recover and
restore the captive.
A Philadelphia millionaire. returning
from Europe, remembered that he left
a valuable lot Of dismQnds IN a London
hotnli when questioned BY the United
States customs authorities.
The long tie-up In the building in
dustry at New York is ended, the
skilled workmen having withdrawn
from the Board Of Building Trades in
order to return to their tasks.
The steamship Batavia, which ar
rived at New York from Hamburg and
Boulogne, brought over 1854 Storage
passengers. the greatest number ever
brought to that port in one vessel
The potion bridge at Topeka, Kan,
connecting the approach Of the river
| bridge to the north shore, went out
last week and all communicatiOntw with
the main part Of the city was cut or.
The credit men adjourned the ma
tional convention, to meet In New
York next year, A. H. Foote Of st.
Louis received the highest vote for
q place on the executive committee.
The National Bank of Commerce and
the Western National Bank, both Of
New York, probably will be merged