Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1904-08-18
THE NEWS RESUME
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Of the Week.

The oldest English paper In Paris
has suspended publication.
A strike Of the coal miners IN ths
anthracite region IL threatened.
Wheat futures, owing to the condI-
ton Of the crop, are very uncertain.
twenty-five operators employed By
the Terminal Association quit work.
Sixty automobiles leave Chicago ON
Monday morning bound for St. Louis.
A Missouri girl, preparing for sui
eide, writes express instructions for
her burial.
John w. Kern Of Indianapolis n
nominated for Governor by Indiana
Democrats.
Two autos Of the New England party
en- route to st. Louis are wrecked near
Laporte, Ind.
Mai. Edwin A. Clifford, cashier OF
the Government Printing ONCE, died
In Washington.
Miss Mary Garden of Kansas City
has been commanded to sing for the
King Of Greece.
The recent election Of Councillors in
France has resulted favorably to the
Combes ministry.
The japanese send gunboats up the
Laio river to cut of Gen. Kuropatkin's
retreat to the west.
Trade in grain in the United States
has shown a considerable falling on in
the last six months.
Crime and insanity in Paris have
been increased considerably by the re-
cent intensely hot weather.
A passenger train collides with q
crowded trolley car at Kansas City,
killing one and injuring ten,
Gen. Kuropatkin relates the result
Of an extended reconnaissance toward
the japanese position Aug. 5. .
Admiral Togo reports that three OF
his torpedo boats and destroyer rout-
ed eleven Russian torpedo boats.
Japanese surgeons assert that Rus
sian soldiers have been guilty OF mutt
lating the wounded before death.
Automobiles coming from New
York to st. Louis make new records,
some Of them travelling 176 miles in a
day.
British troops under Col. Younghus-
band are in camp at Lassa, Thibet, the
Grand Lama having fed to a monas-
terry.
The Duchess Of Marlborough. for
merly Miss Vanderbilt, is thrown from
her horse and severely injured at Lon
don.
Experiments In ventilation of street
cars show that the process is simple
and the necessary changes easy to
make.
A lieutenant in the British army re-
turns to the Indian Territory and mar
ries a girl who was his boyhood sweet
heart
A prisoner in the New Haven, Conn,
fail is starving himself to death
through remorse for having been ar
rested.
Joseph Letter has sold his holdings
at Zeigler to corporation Of which
he is reported to own so per cent Of
the stock.
The Chicago Federation Of Labor
indorses the strike Of the Butchers
Union and will assist the strikers
financially.
England is preparing to build larger
warships of both the battleship and
cruiser classes than have ever before
been constructed.
Senator Boutwell,, formerly Governor
Of and Senator from Massachusetts,,
announces that he will support Parker
for the Presidency.
knights of Pythias from all over the
country will meet at Louisville Satur-
day for the annual convention and BIZ
ennial encampment Of the Uniform
Rank.
The story OF the alleged stoning Of
an American consul at Bogota is dis
credited at Panama, whence the 40
count is reported to have come.
A score Of persons are injured by the
explosion Of a bomb thrown into q
crowd of Italians in New York, the dy-
namiter being hurt worst Of all.
One Russian military expert at st.
Petersburg processes to believe that
Gen. Kuropatkin will yet extricatO
himself from his awkward position.
The New York saloon dedicated by
Bishop Potter is prospecting exceeding
ly, while protests at the Bishops course
come from all parts Of the country.
The prize court at Vladivostok de-
cides that the steamship Knight Com
mander, which was sunk by the Vladi-
Vostok squadron, was lawful prize.
Mrs. Miles. wife OF Gen. Nelson A.
Miles. died suddenly at West Point.
where she had gone to visit her son.
Sherman. a cadet In the military aead-
envy.
Delaney Nieoll IA Rppoited vice chair.