Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1904-06-02
THE NEWS RESUME
Being a Condensed story Of the Nswn
Of the Week.

Ground for jamestown Expositlon
win be broken next month.
Quarrel between France and Vatican
may lead to breaking OF old treaty
Forty-hvs battallons OF Japanese
are landed on the Liao-Tung PENN
sula.
The Missouri State Medical AssOcia-
ton attacked the use of patent medi-
cines.
Adjt. Gen. Bell of Colorado an
nounces that he will resign his office
Monday.
The G. A. R. veterans of Missouri.
encamped at Lexington, are royalty en-
tertained.
A meeting OF the Democratic Ma
tional Committe was held at the Hotel
Jefferson Monday.
Russia buys four steamers from the
Hamburg-Americanl line, to reconstruct
them as auxiliary cruisers.
The fourth meeting Of the Good
Roads Convention was held on the ter
race at the Missouri building. g.
The first collision between Russian
and Korean forces at Kan-Kow results
in rout of the Russian cavalry.
Harry D. Babcock, Jr, a Yale fresh
man, dies in New York of injuries re-
ceived in polo match with Princeton.
General Kuropatkln is Fastening hls
preparations for Withdrawing, hAv-
ing decided to give up even Haicheng.
Tercel Thomas of Pasadena, Cal.
stabs his paralytic son in the back
and then ends his own life. The boy il
dead.
Robert Walsh, son Of Julius g.
Walsh, was one Of the many persons
hurt in street car accidents in st.
Louis.
Seven persons we're killed, five are
dying and many were injured by an
explosion in fireworks plant at Find
lay, o.
The Japanese, after destroying sew
eral miles Of railroad, have re-embarik-
ed and sailed from Kal-Chou, it is as
serted.
Sultan Of Morocco makes OFFER to
bandits for release of Ion Perdicoris
and Cromwell Marley, who are held for
ransom.
Moroccan bandit communicates with
American Consul at Tangier relative
to release of Ion Perdicoris and his
stepsoR.
Although weather conditions have
been unreasonable in portions of the
Mississippi Valley, planting has made
fair progress.
The Newark, o., Savings Bank
closes. A receiver who has been APP
pointed says that he has found dis
crepanctes.
The Mercantile Trust Company OF
| ST. Louis absorbs the American Cen
trail, paying S165 a share for a MAORI
ty Of the stock.
Commander PeGry will conduct q
party OF consumptives to the Arctic
regions, where the sick persons hope
to ind new health.
The strike of the masters and pilots
Of the Great Lakes threatens the West
with one Of the worst commercial dis
asters in its history.
The reception given for the visiting
newspaper men by the Indiana Com
mission was a record-breaker, 1000
guests being present.
The wife of a rich New York man
has been traced to St Louis, having
disappeared from her home several
days ago without explanation.
One OF the four Lascars arrested re-
Gently at Cronstadt on suspicion OF
being a spy claims to be a Filipino.
and as such entitled to American pro-
lection.
W. H. May, an express messenger.
had an encounter with a sea lion.
which broke from its box In a car
while the train was nearing Kansas
City, Mo.
Kansas decides to expunge from
school histories the story that Gen.
Funston swan the Bag Bag River on
the ground that the story, which gain
ed the Kansan his present places, is
fictitious.
One hundred and fifty persons have
died in New York In the last week of
cerebro-spiRal meningitis. The doc
tors are completely nonplussed and do
not know how to stop the spread OF
the epidemic.
Weather conditions generally favor
able in Illinois and crops are In fairlX
good state.
The Good Roads Convention. which
met in st. Louis. will organize
township, county and State associa-
tons to make concerted fight for bet
ter highways.
The battleship Rhode Island VNn
beached shortly after 1t was launeh
at Quincy, Mass, running upon q ag