Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1904-09-29
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The British expedition to 1hibet will
leave Lassa on the return trip Sep
tGmber %.
The American Congress on Tuberl
culosis will meet at Worlds Fair ON
October 3.
The garrison at Port Arthur depends
on the slaughter Of twelve horses daily
for It's fresh meat.
General KuropatIin is said to be-
moving his headquarters north to Har-
bin for the winter.
Major on Governor vardamap's stan
was run over by an auto, but escaped
with slight injuries.
Housekeeping in all its branches
IS to be taught to girls in the New
York public schools.
The Russian auxiliary cruiser Lena
begins to disarm in the United States
naval yards at Mare Island.
An oregan man has invented tele-
phone which transmits also view Of
the face of one of the speakers.
A handsome badge will be presented
to all Missourians who attend the
State celebration on October IL.
The Sovereign Grand Lodge of the
Independent Order OF Odd Fellows be-
gins its sessions at San Francisco.
Miss H. Boyd has returned from q,
successful archaeological explorations
in Crete, having discovered a hidden
city.
The eighteenth annual convention
of the American branch of the TheO-
sophical Society is in session in Chi
cage.
Rains which have rendered the Man
churian roads al lbut impossible have
practically stopped ali military opera.
lions.
Nurses carry thirty-seven babies
down the fire escape from the burn
ing Mothers and Babies Home in st.
Louis.
Organized labor will make a deter
mined effort to dictate the successor
Of Labor Commissioner Carroll d.
Wright
The feeling between the opposing
forces at Port Arthur is so intense
that flags Of truce are no longer re-
garded.
The mother of Bill" Anthony, one
of the heroes of the Maine, is starv-
ing to death in a Hoboken. N. j.. tene-,
ment house.
Mrs. E. st. John Matthews of New
York is the only woman juror who
will serve on the International Jury
of Sculpture.
Three hundred naval reserves Of IL,
linois will participate in the Illinois
exercises September 81 and % at the
Worlds Fair.
Officials of the National Good Roads
Association depart for an extensive
! trip to demonstrate the building Of
good highways.
Joaquin Miller, the Poet of the Sier-
ras," is reputed almost a millionaire,
as the result of a strike of oil on his
lands in Texas.
Three men were buried beneath
pile of brick by the collapse of a wall
of a building at Third and st. Charles
streets. st. Louis.
San Francisco hears that other Rus
sian war vessels are cruising about the
American coast and may run into some
harbor at any day.
Paraguayan rebels have cut of the
capital and it is expected that they
will either make an attack or try to
starve out the city.
Many of those who drew claims in
the Rosebud reservation are now
grumbling because the land is not up
to their expectations.
Several contestants are in prospect
for the $4,000 prize offered by NJ
Charley for the first automobile boat
to cross the Atlantic.
The chauffeur was killed and three
persons were injured in an automobile
accident near Baldwin. in st. Louis
county, shortly after midnight Satur-
day.
Several girls at Columbia, Mo-, stu
dents at the university, volunteer to
wait on the football training table
when the regular walters find other
employment.
AS none Of the contestants have
qualified, the Aeronautic Committee
of the Fair is considering the legality
of extending the time limit beyond
September 80.
Two young women from the Philip
pines are sent to San Francisco ia
be educated at American schools
They will. in time, return to their
homes and teach.
Field Marshal Oyama reports large
quantities of ammunition and stores
taken in the battle of Liao-Yang, Civ.
ing detailed reports from Generals
Kurokl, Nodzu and Oku.
The japanese armies in Manchuria
are again making demonstrations