Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1904-11-17
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Germany asks Russia for an expla
nation of the Sonntag AFFAIR
Shops are open in London that preaa
your trousers while you wait.
A cheap opera for the benefit Of the
masses is soon to be inaugurated IN
LONDON.
The Coroner's inquest fails to solve
the mystery Of Rosa Butts murder at
Marshall, Mo. &.
Edgar W. Jones, former politician
Of Oklahoma, dies of ptomaine poison
irg at Guthrie.
Twenty persons are buried by the
collapse Of a Memphis bank. One
negro was killed.
Pope Plus has the govt.
The cone of Mount Vesuvius falls
into the volcanoes crater.
In the Fifth Congressional District
of Maryland, a school is organized to
teach negroes how to vote.
France anxiously awaits the devel-
opments in the attack on the War Min
istry, which promises a sensation.
The Russians have improved the
Notifications Of Vladivostok until It 81
declared to be a second Port Arthur.
Illinois mining engineers agree to q
cut of sos per cent in wages at q
joint session Of operators and miners.
Sweeping changes in the Russian
Army at the front indicate Kuropatlxin
intends no offensive movement soon.
A State convention of ministers, juF-
fists and laymen is called at Dallas,
November 81, to consider the divorce
problem.
Secretary Hay and Ambassador
Jusserand sign a treaty providing for
arbitration between the United States
and France.
Japanese troops frequently steal in
to the old section of Port Arthur, but
are driven out with heavy loss the
next morning.
Two witnesses have appeared who
say that they saw Caesar Young kill
himself while riding in a cab with
Nan Patterson.
William Peterson and Mrs. Sarah
Porter are arrested in Valley Park on
warrants secured by farmers wife and
latler's husband.
Theodore Roosevelt, President OF
the United States, issues a proclama-
ton appointing November "a al
Thanksgiving Day. !
england and Russia are engaged In
the composition OF the international
commission which is to investigate
the North Sea tragedy.
A bitter fight will be made on Presf.
dent Gompers at the coming conven-
ton Of the American Federation OF
Labor in San Francisco.
A Missouri Pacific train leaves the
track near Wichita, Kas., but no pas
sengers are injured. The train was
thrown from the track by running into
a drove of steers.
A salvage company buys the wreck
of the Maine from the Cuban govern
ment for $4,000, will raise the hulk
and tow it to Coney Island, N. Y
where It will be exhibited.
Berlin women, on being denied adj
mission TO the opera because the EN-
peror's presence requires low-neclE
gowns, apply scissors to their high
neck dresses and soon have the de-
sired effect.
The Councils inquiry as to the cause
of the idle appropriation may hasten
the restoration Of the old paintings az
the Courthouse in ST. Louis.
st. Petersburg reports a deadlock
about Shakhe, but Mukden adVices in
dictate oyama is Strengthening his fort
ifcations in the center with a view OF
making a fanking movement around
KurOpatllin.
The Kansas Supreme Court affrms
the sentence Of +. T. Appleton Of La
crosse, who was convicted for the
murder of City Marshal w. ]. Talbot.
Appleton will be sent to the Penitsn-
tiary for life.
Nothing Of importance has develop.
ed on the Shakhe River. where both
sides seem to hesitate to assume tho
offensive, although the Japanese are
the more active in the matter of at
tacks upon Russian positions.
The CorOner's inquest over the body
Of Miss Rosa Butts, who was found IN