Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1904-08-25
THE NEWS RESUME
Being q CONDENSED story Of the News
Of The Week.

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was broken by 65,19e admissions last
week.
A strange disease causes thirteen
deaths In two weeks at Wien. Charlton
county. Mo.
Two captive balloon passengers at
the Worlds Fair drop 500 feet and
escape injury.
Newsboys from Pittsburg and Bos-
ton arrive at st. Louis to see the
Worlds Fair.
In the second series OF elections in
France, the ministerial party makes
substantial gains.
The British destroyer Decoy is sunk
OF the Sicily Islands after collision
with another vessel.
Two Russian cruisers seek refuge at
Kaiochau, a German port. having elud'
ed the japanese feet.
An heir is born to the Russian
throne. causing general rejoicing
throughout the Empire.
Last weeks business at st. Louis
Union Station was greatest since the
opening of the Worlds Fair.
Commander Booth Of the Salvation
Army is making an eYangelistic tour
of England in an automobile.
The Russian destroyer which was
dismantled at Chefoo has been seizej
and towed away by Japanese.
Admiral Kamimura meets and de
feats the Russian VladiVostok squad
ron, sinking the cruiser Rurik.
The thirteenth annual picnic OF the
st. Louis Retail Grocers' Association
was held at the old Fair Grounds.
Three employees at the St Louis
Poorhouse were dismissed from sen
vice by Health Commissioner Simon.
Mrs. Hannah Mclaughlin Desmond,
wife of Chief Of Detectives Desmond
of st, Louis, died Sunday morning.
Henry D. Scott, a Memphis drug
gist visiting the Fair, was mistaken
for a strike-breaker and assaulted.
Turkish officials yielded to Ameri'
can demands regarding protection to
schools only after prolonged debate.
The Federal Grand Jury at st. Louis
returned two indictments against for
mer Land Agent Charles A. M. Schiller
holz.
The Catholic Knights of America
voted to admit liquor dealers to mem.
bership, and adopted new insurance
rates.
Harry B. Halves visits Rosemount
and invites Judge Parker to make
speech in st. Louis during the cam
paign.
Judge Parker spends a night in the
Catskills, miles from telephone and
telegraph, IN order to obtain a COM
plete rest.
Former Comptroller of the Curren.
cy James Eclels is selected as treas
urer of the Illinois State Democratic
Committee.
A train carrying nonunion men into
Zeigler narrowly escapes being wreck
ed at the switch which leads to the
Letter plant
The battleship Czarevitch, almost
shattered by battle, will be disarmed
apd remain at Tsingchou until the
close Of the war.
A member of the British House Of
Commons has demonstrated the value
Of benzol as a fuel for automobiles,
replacing gasoline.
Toxic is greatly reJoiced over the
two recent naval victories, which, 1t
is asserted, restored to Japan the mas
terry of the Eastern seas.
The failure Of the Sultan to respond
to a personal message sent by Presi-
dent Roosevelt precipitated the send
ing of the feet to Smyrna.
The United States government has
issued a warning to financial institu-
tions to be on their guard against q
number of new counterfeit bills.
The Russian cruiser Novik was last
seen between Nagaski and Shanghai,
apparently intending to try to reach
Vladivostok by the outward route.
Mrs. Howard Bryning of Kansas
City procures divorce from her hus-
band because he humored her too
much. She says he had no backbone.
Thomas Taylor, guard Of Chicago
elevated railway, received a reward
OF 800 from the company for turning
in a satchel containing nearly $4,000.
A Texas cotton expert estimates the
crop of that state at 100000 bales.
and insists that the growers should
receive not less than IL cents a pound.
Admirers OF the British aristocracy
will have an opportunity this winter
10 60 on a yachting tour OF the Medit-
erranean in company with real lords.
Russia prepares to make formal pro-
test against the seizure OF the destroy
err Ryeshitelni in the hRrbor OF Che
foo as a violation Of China's neutrali-
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