Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1904-09-15
THE NEWs REsums
reIng Condensed story Ct the News
Of the Week.

permanent peace in New York.
Miss May Ellis and Mr. Henry +.
Rogers are married at Troy, Mo.
The business section of lauren, Mex
leo, suffers from a disastrous IRE.
The Worlds Fair has paid S2191.-
s5O.S1 Of the S4,6OOO.OOO Government
loan.
\ homing pigeon makes a remark
able digit from st. Louis to Toledo,
Ohio.
JapGr csc losses at Lao Yang since
August Goth are officially estimated
at 10000.
st. Louis Post Office receipts for
August, exceeded those of 1908, by
S66,245.61.
The third annual session OF the ne
gro Business Mems League was held
I'm st. Louis.
Mrs. Julius Lehman is insane from
worrying over her husbands convic-
tion for bribery.
Four bandits hold up an express
train when 1t stops at the station. of
Kemmerer, Wyo.
Japanese are gaining ground slowly
at Port Arthr, the fighting being al
most continuous.
Washington police search vainly for
Yuh, the "dog-faced boy" who has
been lost several days.
Mrs. T. c. Young, wife of the for
mer Mayor of Webster Groves, has
fled suit for a divorce.
Six persons are burned to death and
fou- others severely burned in an oil
Ere st Yellow Creek, o.
Senator Fairbanks makes the prin-
cipal speech at the opening Of the Kan
sas Republican campaign.
Lord" harrington was attacked by
visitor to the Clayton Jail, who
claimed to be McCann's friend.
A Russian warship, engaged in clear
ing mines from the harbor at Port
Arthur, is sunk b. an explosion.
The Dawes Commission nears the
end of its labors. the books of the
Creek division having been closed.
A Russian warship which put into
Vigo, Spain, for water, insists on stay
ing five days to repair its engines.
The village of Little Bay, Newfound.
land, is burned by forest fires. Three
hundred persons are rendered home
less.
Secretary Loeb strongly discourages
a delegation of negroes who want to
visit President Roosevelt at Sycamore
Hill.
The Missouri Conference OF the NJ.
F.. Church, South, in session at Column
h!a, admits several candidates to the
ministry.
Naples reports that Mount Vesuvius
is again in action, spouting flames
high into the air and sending forth q
stream of lava.
Chinese officials at Chefoo detain a
japanese steamer bound for Much.
wang with supplies and money for the
Japanese army.
The official treasury statement
shows that the United States debt has
increased more than six million dollars
in the last month.
Senator Fairbanks speaks at several
towns in Missouri while on his way to
Maine. where he goes to speak before
the State election.
General Stoessel is reported as say.
ing to the Car, in telegram, that he
thinks the fortress may be able to hold
out six weeks longer.
Thc American fishing schooner Sa.
nlosa is captured by Canadian cruz
ef, fishing within the three-mile limit,
near North Sidney, C. B.
Judge Cullen of the New York Court
of Appeals, a Democrat, has been APP
pointed by Governor Odell to succeed
Judge Alton D. Parker as Chief JUS
tice.
Police Court warrants were issued
against thirty-six dairymen in st.
Louis charging them with selling milk
that does not conform to the city
standard.
Hard fighting continues at Port Ar
thur, where the Japanese capture one
fort, only to be driven away by the
concentrated fire of several Russian
batteries.
c. b. Spahr. editor Of two New York
magazines either fell from or jumped
overheard the steamer Prince Albert
midway between ostend and Dover on
August 80.
General Kuropatkn has withdrawn
his entire force north of the Taitse
River, abandoning Liao-Yang to the
Japanese. in order to try to check the
hanling movement being executed by
General Kuroki
Mcleod and Miles are dropped from
the Missouri Executive Committee of
the State Democratic Committee in
order TO make the number seven, as
required by the resolution adopted at