Mexico Missouri message., 1904-06-09
THE NEWS RESUME
Being = CONDENSED story Of the News
Of the Week.

FAR IS IOTmally u6ulCatSus
Champ Clark addressed the Missouri
State Bankers Association.
The funeral Of Major N. M. Hobbs
Is conducted al Jefferson City, Mo.
Robbers crack a safe in a st. 10
Seph, Mo, saloon, and secure $1.1OO-
The Territory Of Oklahoma sues the
American Bonding Company for S244.-
300. i
Money for the Republic OF Panama
will be coined at the San Francisco
Mint.
Two Russian officers are arrested al
Hardin for arming Chinese robberl
bands.
Wheat and corn are I'm fine condi4
ton in Kansas and heavy yield is pre-
dlcted.
Spencer wins championship in Mis-
souri, State shoot; Powers takes Elliott
trophy.
Chinese say that the evacuation OF
Dslny by the Russians is practically,
completed
Weekly report shows that nlinoisi
crops are slow in growth, owing to
wet weather.
Pennsylvania State delegation rep-i
resent the House Of Congress at thei
Quay funeral.
Dumont makes successful trial OF,
balloon built for airship contest at St,
Louis in June. {
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hurrying to Port Arthur to REINFORCE
the troops there. !
Kansas River and other streams inl
the State are rising rapidly and all,
trains are delayed.
Texas crop condition reported good,l
but warmer weather and rain needed
for cotton and corn.
The annual Episcopal Convention.
the Right Reverend Daniel s. futile
presiding, convened In St Louis. /
Solemn services are held at Toxic
in honor OF fifteen officers who per-
ished on board the battheship Hatsuse.,
Four fremen fall with floor at fire
in American Supply Company's plant
at st. Louis and escape with slight in
juries.
State Senator Jesse L. Jewell is &C
quilted of charge Of soliciting bribe
in connection with bekng-powder
legislation.
| Government finds the Bob White to
be destroyer of boil weeVil and other
crop pests and recommends birds
preservation.
William Allen White goes to Topeka
to take the Office of State Accountant
OF Kansas and Governor Bailey refuses
to appoint him.
Past week intensifes uncertainty OF
the future in financial world, which is
transferring attention from the fall
election to the crops.
American trade in Nsnchuria in.
creases but Consul reports that Ameri-
| can agencies are needed, as strong
competition has begun.
The report that the Russians, de-
spairing OF raising the Begatyr, have
sunk her to the bottom. after dismant-
ling her Of all the guns.
The Chicago Drainage Canal hear
ing closed. The completed testimony,
makes a record of 100000 words.
The costs of the suit to date amounts
to $515,e00.
The schooner Fanny Adele was
burned to the waters edge In the har-
Dor at San Francisco. The fire caught
to the wharf and for a time the whole
wharf was threatened.
The large number of fatalities when
the cruiser Yoshino was sunk is ex-
planned by the statement that falling
masts disabled five of the vesserS
boats after the collision.
The Korean Minister departs from
st. Petersburg, going to Berlin. It is
stated that his leave has nothing to do
with the war.
Twenty thousand Thibetians sur
round Colonel Younghusband and his,
handful of troops at the British mis-
sion at Lyang-Tse. &
The tax committee bill was passed
by the st. Louis City Council. A resO-
luton to inquire into the width oe
street cars, to prevent accidents. was
introduced.
Russian correspondence captured
On board a Chinese junk indicates that
ut least two Russian tornedo-bOat do
stroyers were lost in the recent naval
operations at Port Arthur. /
General Oku has issued a proolama-
lion to the natives OF Liao-1'ung PEN
lnsula. assuring them OF Japanese pro
lection and promising TO pay for all
the property used by the JApanese
Army.
Cossacks in Korea are causing much
alarm among the inhabitants. A Rus
sian writer asserts that General Mist
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