Mexico Missouri message., 1904-08-25
SHORT NEWS STORIES
Caught from the wires and conssnsad
for Busy Readers.

parked by simplicity.
A bet Of $500 ON Roosevelt TO $3.50
on Parker was made In New York.
Heavy firing at Port Arthur contin1
ued for two days
Speaker whiteeotton is renominated
10 the State Legislature from Monrod
County.
The steamship Dubuque At In
launching win have two sponsors IN
stead Of one.
Germanyls preparing to treat Rus
STA as second-class Power after tia
war is ended.
Turkish soldiers destroy Eve AEmg4
MAN villages, slaughter the men and
outrage the women.
The loss in the FIRE at the American
Refrigerator Company's car shops wan
estimated at $4,000.
The discovery Of a new and danger
Gus ocean current Off Cape Hatteras
puzzles seagoing men.
A Russian ewspaper estimates that
the Japanese have lost $4,000 men
in the siege OF Port Arthur.
A jury declared Henry Menke Of
Ferguson to be of sound mind and ca
psble of handling his estate.
Former Premier waS1eck-Rosseau
dies at his home near Paris following
an operation for liver trouble.
It is now believed that the bodies
Of several victims Of the Eden, Colo-s
1ooN In tho aVin1runnA
In the recent fighting around Port
Arthur Japanese lost heavily by mines
planted by Russians in open fields.
The State Department gets a favor
able reply from Turkey in regard to
the treatment of American citizens.
Twenty thousand acres Of coal lands
in Randolph Co, Mo-, have been leased
by New York and st. Louis capital
lists.
The British steamer Calchas, recent
ly captured by Russians, has arrived
at Vladivostok in charge Of a prize
crew.
Governor Dockery has decided to
appoint no successor to w. H. Marshall
on the Missouri Worlds Fair Commits
sion.
st. Petersburg is much concerned
over the possibility that General Ku-
ropatkin will be compelled to give
battle.
It is probable that Governor La Fol-
lette Of Wisconsin will conduct hiH
campaign for reelection in an auto
mobile.
Oklahoma educational institutions
are engaged in strong fight for APP
preparations using Hobbies to gain
their ends.
A patron of Asbury Park, N. j., de-
clares that he has been barred FROM
all privileges there because he used
one profane word.
The arrival at st. Louis Of the canal
propeller Niagara from Chicago is re-
ported to be a harbinger of a revival
of river canal traffic.
Reports received from the United
States Consul in Berlin show that last
year the United States made more
beer than Germany.
The vanguard Of distinguished for
eign scientists who will attend the in
teruational congress in st. Louis be-
gins to arrive in New York.
Paris dressmakers form a sort OF
fashion trust. in order to forestan the
wholesale copying of high-priced
gowns for second-class trade.
The Board Of Public improvements
of st. Louis has awarded the contract
for the erection Of the Poorhouse Hos
pital to Q. w. Harkett for $47,500.
Six Russian battleships, It is report
ed, accompanied by half the force OF
torpedo boats, have escaped from Port
Arthur and Japanese warships are in
pursuit.
Russia firmly maintains her right to
sink captured merchantmen If the
circumstances, in the judgment Of the
warship's commander. justifes that
course,
Newport fashionables hear that
Prince and Princess Henry OF Prus-
STA may soon visit that place, on their
way to see the Worlds Fair at St
Louis, incognito.
A dispatch from Mukden says thar
the Japanese are using the Shanhai-
kwan Railroad to push troops up north
for an attack on Sinmintun, thirty
miles west Of Mukden.
Joseph Letter denies that he has sold
his interest in the coal mines at 2eigN
Ter, saying that the owners have mere
ly formed a corporation and that there
will be no change In the policy.
Secretary Hay has sent a note to
American consular and diplomatic rep
ressntAtives. stating that the United
States Government does not consider
Russia's definition Of contraband fair.