Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1904-05-12
THE NEWS RESUME
Being q Condensed story Of ths News
Of the Week.

Charles johnson Is elected president
Of the American Theosophical Society.
The new cruiser California is launch
ed at Union Iron Works, San Fran
cisco.
The river at st. Louis began TO fall
slowly Saturday, having reached q
stage Of 33h feet.
Many dervlshes we're killed in the
storming of Illig, somaliland, by Brit
ish bluejackets.
Frank Boring reports that he has
found gold in paying quantities on his
farm near Odin, Ill.
WilkesbarTe, Pa, woman employs
her divorced husband on the farm and
sues her present husband for non-sup-
port.
Trade improvement begins in the
| Northwest. Better weather conditions
prompts activity in all lines Of bust
ness.
Secretary Of the Treasury Shaw, I'm
IN address at Syracuse, says the Unit
ed States shoG!d rule the Pacific ocean
trade.
Seven cub wolves are captured In
Johnson County, Mo-, where many
sheep we're killed by wolves during the
winter
The Free Protestant Evangelical
Congregation of the Holy Ghost cele-
brated its SEVENTEEN anniversary in
st. Louis.
The Treasury Department draws y
draft for the first payment on the Pan
ANA canal, s1,OOO,OOO, to the Republic
Of Panama.
The late secretary Of Don Jaime Is
sentenced to prison for pawning a,
necklace which once belonged to Marie
Antoinette.
An assassin fired two bullets into the
District Governor of Echmidedzin.
Russia. The motive is said to have
been political.
The Dominican cruiser Presidents
attempts to lombard the rebel strong
hold at Monte Christi, but is driven
away by the forts.
Thomas c. Dawson Of Iowa, secreta-
ry of the United States legation at Rio
Janeiro, has been appointed minister
to Santo Domingo.
The payment of the $4O,OOO,OOO to the
Panama Canal Company will be made
through ]. Pierpont Morgan, who will
finance the whole deal.
A moving locomotive explodes while
crossing a street in a suburb Of Pitts
burg, fatally injuring three men and
wrecking five buildings.
Japanese official reports of the OPP
erations of a gunboat and some torpedo
boats in the Yalu river show that they
we're entirely successful. ,
Igorrote head.hunters entertained
members of Senate and House commit
tees to Worlds Fair, and their wives,
at Philippine reservation.
Japan is the first nation in the world
to put into active practice the elab-
crate rules of war formulated by The
Hague Peace Conference.
A report from st. Petersburg, via
Paris, says a Russian submarine boat
has destroyed a Japanese transport, all
of its 600 men being lost.
The court refuses to set aside the In
terlocutory decree granted Mrs. Glenn
ence Dodge Morse on the application Of
her second husband, Morse.
The marriage of Capt Sartoris and
Mile. Nouffiard takes place at Paris,
President Roosevelt sending his photo
graph with his Fluctuations.
The Japanese government has an
nounced that no more applications for
permission to accompany the army as
correspondents will be granted.
The Methodist Missionary Society Of
New York refuses to accept a bequeat
Of $4,000, made by the late William
Cooper, who was killed in the IrOquois
fire.
The German forces in Southwest Al
. RIGA have suffered losses by death.
r wounds and sickness to the extent OF
So per cent of the officers and IS per
cent Of the men.
It is stated the Pope's orders as to
the introduction of Gregorian music
: into Catholic Churches and the eXclu-
sion of women from choirs, will be car
: ried out gradually.
+ It is reported that the Gar is highly
indignant at Admiral Yeszen for sink-
ing Japanese soldiers on board their
transport. and may call him home 20
, face a court martial.