Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1903-11-26
THE NEWS RESUME
seInn a Condensed Story 81 tha Flew
Of the Week.

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The boot and shoe factories IN Que.
bee have closed on account Of Iabos
troubles.
Flour and planning mills are burned
at sedalia, Mo, with losses Aggregate
ting 100000.
London police are astounded by tho
record OF Lille Miers. the clsvereaf
woman thief in the world.
A Philadelphia man brings suit Tor
S1o.501.01 for "heroism, calmneAa ana
forethought" in a railroad wreck.
General Hamilton B. Dox, for 90
years cashier of Chicago Bank. dies
Of pneumonia. He was 81 years old.
Henry Gellert, an old Indian fshter
and Kansas raider, who fought with
General Custer, dies at Cleveland. O.
w. A. Muir, principal Of the public
schools at Centralia, NO, dies sudden
~ after q short illness Of penumonia.
Circuit Attorney Folk has been In
Yited to speak at the commencement
exercises at Harvard University next
year.
Greek Indians Of Crazy Snakes bana
are in Washington urging against al
lotments OF tribal lands to individual
Indians.
Members of the Irish Agricultural
Organization Society come TO the Unit
ed States to lecture on the needs Of
Ireland. - - ~sf
A young man, delIrious from typhoid
fever, eludes his watchers and ends
his life by jumping into q well at Shell
byville, Ill.
The senior classes Of the Missouri
University have organized for the purs
pose Of giving a big alumni reunion
next season.
japan suspects Russia Of playing for
delay in Manchurian negotiations In
order to strengthen army and navy Eos
possible war.
The corn crop is 5000 900 bush
els, or an average Of 25.S bushels pes
acre. The general average as to quail
ity is SS.1 per cent.
President RooseVelts open-shop pol.
icy is severely criticised by speakers
at the convention of the Americas
Federation of Labor.
The Denver League for Honest
Elections" proposes to use rifles at thG
approaching charter election in ordeE
to purify the ballot"
Congressman Rixey has bill pend
ing in Congress providing for the en-,
tension of Government aid to Confed.
crate Soldiers Homes.
The Government hopes to Increase
its naval force on the Great Lakes in
order to recruit fresh water sailors
from the great Middle West.
General Dragonmiroff, Governor OF
KEN, was summarily dismissed by the
Car on account OF brutality shown IN
the recent disturbances in his jurisdic
ton.
The commission appointed by the
Czar to inquire into the condition Of
the Russian paesantry urges education
as one necessary means Of improve.
ment.
The statehood fight is to be renewed
at the next regular session Of Congress
when the friends OF the movement be.
lieVe the opposition will be greatly
weakened.
The Business Mems League win
push St. Louis claims for the 1904 Ma,
tional Republican convention at the
meeting of the National COMMITTEES
December IL.
Sailor" Krohn of Boston. who e
pushing a wheelbarrow $4,000 milea
ON wager of $4,000. was in Poplar
Bluff, Mo-, Sunday, 20 days ahead ID
time of schedule
The st. Joseph Gazette, the oldest
newspapers in the city, is sold to T.
E. McJlmsey Of Maryville, o. The
politics will be changed from Demo
cratic to Republican.
The w. C. T. u, in session at Gin,
cinnsti, bitterly oppose considera,
tton even of the bill introduced by
Congressman Bartholdt to restore the
canteen to the Army.
The Post once Department is push.
ing the investigation of the allegations
that rare postage stamps have illegally
found their way from the department
to stamp spectators.
The police at Barcelona dispense .
meeting Of anarchists Sunday, which
had been arranged to celebrate the
anniversary OF the execution Of tina
Chicago anarchists in 1885,
Cotton expectations during oetO6sE
amounted to more than go millions.
and for the year ending October 81
100000 600. the largest total Of Valna
In the history Of the country.
The structural ironworkers at In