Mexico Missouri message., 1904-09-15
SHORT NEWS STORIES
Caught from the Wires and Condensed
for Busy Readers.

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will be married when the season
closes
Miss Myrtle Crozier asks permission
70 be married in an Agriculture build
ing booth.
The Missouri State Sunday School
Convention at Kansas City elects Of
Reers end adJourns.
The Igorrotes accept challenge for
athletic contests from their ancient
enemies, the Moros.
]. W. Withers, principal Of the YeaA-
man High School, praises st. Louis
educ alton institutions.
Russians managed to save most OF
their locomotives and cars when they
retreated from Liao-Yang.
The Dentists Congress debated the
question of admitting negroes! The
matter was tabled until .19OS.
Mrs. Anne Marie Walker Of New
York falls sole heir to a s60,000,0 900
estate left her by her husband.
Thirty-eight thousand nine hundred
and forty-fye visitors viewed the floral
display at Shaw's Garden Sunday.
Appointments of the st. Louis Ger
man M. p. Conference are announced
by Bishop McCabe at Altamont, Ill
Senator William Clark announces
that he was not the victim Of an as
sault in a Missoula hotel, as was re-
ported.
Tho strikes at MarseiIles, France.
are spreading and threaten to canse ir-
reparable damage to the commerce OF
the port.
Dressmakers have invented a pneu-
matte form which is intended to take
the place of the customer in having
! gowns fitted.
Five men are drowned as the result
Of the overturning Of naphta launch
in Lake Erie, bound from Cleveland
to Vermilion.
Four emergency special patrolmenC
were dismissed by the st. Louis Board
Of Police Commissioners on charges OF
neglect of duty.
Two thousand spectators witnessed
an interesting and highly exciting bull
fight in the arena on the Skinker road
Sunday at St. Louis.
Five persons are killed and five
seriously injured by the premature ex-
plosion Of nitroglycerin at an oil well
near Upper Sadusky, o.
A Texas General blames the anti
canteen regulation for the large pro
portion Of assertions from the army
since it was put in force.
The steamship CampaDia arrives at
New York with a large list of distin.
guished passengers on board, most Of
them bound for st. Louis.
Thousands of Knights Templars al.
rive at San Francisco for the conclave
of the order, and the city is brilliantly
Illuminated in their honor.
Fourteen persons are dead and near
ly score injured as the result of a
tenement fire in New York, though
the property loss is small.
An East Boston woman, in a sudden
fit of insanity, tries to kill her hus-
band and fatally wounds a patrolman
who attempts to arrest her.
General Stakelberg extricates his
corps from its perilous position at
LiaO-Yang and rejoins the main force
under General Kuropatkin.
An Illinois citizen is making bricks
with which he intends to build a high
school, afterward presenting the
structure to his school district.
Charles NJ. Seawell, former assistant
city editor of The st. Louis Republic,
died at his home in Greenville, Ill,
Sunday after lingering illness.
C. G. Fales, a get-rich-Quick broker,
who took the name OF John H. Bles
sing while operating in st. Louis, for.
feited his bond at Kansas City.
Delegates from eighty-four German
American societies adopt the pro
gramme for the observance Of German
Day at the Worlds Fair, October 6.
Premier Combes, in a speech, do
clares that there is no sufficient reae
son why he should alter his policy for
the separation OF church and state.
W. ]. Bryan expresses himself az
we'll pleased with the progress Of this
campaign in Missouri and says he will
go to Indiana after months rest.
Doctor Theodore Drozdowitz Of Chi.
cago and Miss B. d. HurWitB of st.
Louis were married Sunday afternoon
at the Illinois building at the Worlds
Fair
The trial Of State Senator FarriS
under indictment on the charge Of
boOdling while member of the State
legislature, was begun at Jefferson
City Monday.
Nine strikers were arrested in East
ST. Louis, charged with violating the
injunction restraining interference
with packers or their employees and