Mexico Missouri message., 1904-07-21
SHORT NEWS STORIES
Caught from the wires and cOndsn lod
for BUSY Readers.

Judge Parker receives news of his
nomination while taking his morning
swim at Esopus.
The Japanese desire to capture Niu.
ehwang for the purpose Of establish.
ing new base.
Belle Davis, missing heiress, said
to be entitled to $4,000, is supposed
to be in ST. Louis.
Judge Burgess rallies from paralyt-
ic stroke, and It is thought rest will
restore his health.
Floods in the Kaw and Missouri riv-
ers are receding and the danger is
considered at an end.
Ellis Wainwright Of st. Louis has
purchased fine automobile At Paris
for q tour Of Europe.
About score Of aristocratic young
Egyptians will attend Missouri State
University next term.
A second line Of fortihcations is said
20 have fallen before the Japanese ad-
vance at Port Arthur
Charles A. Mielenz Of Chicago shoots
and MORALLY wounds his wife, whom
he mistakes for a burglar.
Thomas Taggart of Indiana was
recommended as chairman Of the Dem.
ocratic National Committee.
A report to Washington showed that
Worlds Fair receipts from June 16 to
June 80 amounted to $5S2,73o.
The Judge of the Superior Court OF
Chicago holds that the city was not
to blame for the Iroquois FIRE.
The Kaimon, a Japanese gunboat,
struck a mine and was sunk with sew.
eral of her crew OF Talienwan bay.
An extraordinary increase in build
ing activity in the United States has
been noted in the last few months.
Nimrod Byrod Of owingsvllle, Ky,
Is shot to death by his father, Almaza,
whom he was attacking with butcher
knife. "
The strike of walters employed at
the Worlds Fair was Endorsed by the
Central Trades and Labor Union of
st. Louis.
Two masked bandits hold up a
freight train near Mankato, Mimi. and
rob the members of the crew and q
passenger
The Rev. John P. Barry OF Youngs
town, o., was stabbed and probably
fatally wounded by the former sexton
Of his church.
Christopher G. Norbeck, one Of the
first officials of Minneapolis, Mimi,
to be convicted after the Doodle expose,
has been paroled.
At a convention of Catholic educa-
tors in st. Louis Tuesday a. uniform
colleges and universities was arrang.
ed.
Judge Brent of Georgia believes that
the Southern States will be we'll req
resented in the cabinet IL the Dem.
Ocratic candidate for President is
elected.
Miss MCGEE, queen Of the Joplin
carnival,s sues Mrs. Weyland for $4,000
damages as the result Of a personal
encounter, in which the former was
badly battered.
Benjamin p. Connell, chairman of
the Chicago Traffic Association, and
his entire family, are now believed to
have been killed in the train wreck at
Litchheld, III.
Judge Parker's mither, who Is 80
years old. is intensely proud Of the
nomination OF her son for the presi-
dency, but treats the matter quietly
and with dignity.
Charles F. Murphy, the Tammany
leader, and William ]. Bryan are said
to have come near to blows in an ar.
gument at Union Station when the
New Yorker, according to report,
charged the Nebraskan with breach of
trust.
Herbert L. Spencer Of St. Louis filed
suit for divorce from his wife, charg-
Ing that she flirted with other meT
while on the Pike.
The chairman Of the Prohibition
party makes the positive statement
that Swallow will not decline the pres.
idential nomination.
A Creation congregation Of Pitts
burg. Pa, became angry at their priest,
Father H. Bekavac, and chased him
through the streets until he was res
cued by the police
Santos-Dumont sails for Paris with
the silk covering Of his airship, which
he will have repaired abroad, and then
will return TO st. Louis in the autumn
to compete in the Worlds Fair air.
ship contest
Illinois delegates to the Democratic
convention express great confidence in
Judge Parker's election, and assert
that HIS prompt and decided expires.
sion Of opinion on the financial Ques-
ton has brought him friends
PinkertOn detectives have positive
ly Identified the body OF the train rob
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