Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1904-06-23
THE NEWS RESUME
Being = Condensed story Of the News
Of the Week.

Mrs. Mack w. Morton Of Marshall
Ill, kills her husband.
Two persons are killed IN rail-
road wreck at Cairo, Ill.
George w. Bundren kills William
Hesterly at West Plains, Mo.
A snowstorm prevails In Colorado
covering the ground four inches deep
at Leadville.
Miles Blakely commits suicide at
sikestOn, Mo-. after fatally woundins
Annie Clifton.
L. H. Gehman, president Of odessa
College, Odessa, Mo-, shoots himself
near the heart.
William w. Alter, insurance agent,
died in Turkish bathroom at the
Planters Hotel.
The French government has boughr
a picture exhibited by Miss Mary Pow
ers. an American.
Two men were killed and one was
severely injured In a cavern in sewer
in Edwardsville, Ill.
Hundreds of automobiles will enter
race to st. Louis July 10 from all sec
lions of the United States.
Senator Depew's niece, Miss Char
iotte Hegeman, is married at Paris to
the Marquis de Pointcarre.
John Alexander Dowie arrives in
Berlin, where he engages a suit OF
rooms at a cost of $40 q day.
Thousands gather for Confederate
Veterans week in Nashville and lay
ing Of memorial corner stone.
Countless plant diseases cause loss
Of millions to all crops and countless
plant enemies rapidly increase. ,
Abner Mckinley, brother Of the late
President, is dead at his homo in Penn
sylvania from Bright's disease. ]
General Kuropatkin, it is rumored at
st. Petersburg, may be personally
leading a force toward the south.
Twenty-one persons, some Of them
C. A. r. veterans, we're injured in an
electric car accident at Mason City,
la.
Marcus Graham, an alleged counter
felter, was arrested at the Delmar
track after he had passed two spuri1
Gus 500 bills.
Mrs. ]. r. Weyland, wife Of q Jop-
lin druggist, found guilty OF assault
ing queen of the carnival and is fined
500. Case appealed.
]. Cornely, the Paris journalist says
that strikes in France are growing
worse and says a sympathetic move
ment in Paris is possible.
Senator Cockrell is not seriously In
convenienced by the wounds he receiv-
ed in Saturdays accident. He receives
} his friends at Washington.
John Alexander Dowie is unable to
find lodgings at a single hotel in Lon
don. and is obliged to procure lodgings
ct the Zionist headquarters
Indian police are driving trespass-
ing cattle out of the Territory an ac-
count OF the damage recently done to
> crops by unauthorized herds.
General Kuropatkin reports that the
bombardment of the western coast OF
, the Liao-Tung Peninsula caused no
damage to the Cars forces.
A girl IL years old, at Norton. Kas..
shoots and kills her father while the
! latter is choking her mother. The
, Coroner exonerates the child.
| British women, sixty In number.
, hold an automobile meet like their
) French acquaintance, passing in re-
, view before Queen Alexandria.
Marcus Graham, charged with pass
ing counterfeit 500 bills, was identk
fed as the proprietor Of an engraving
establishment at Providence, R l.
Admiral Togo reports that a naval
detachment stopped the progress Of .
r Russian military train southwark on
the west coast Of Liao-Tung peninsula.
Russians state that two japanese
battalions, marching toward Hal
, Cheng from FungWSng- Cheng, fell
! into an ambuscade and were annihi'
2 lated.
' A posse OF cowboys surrounds
( three men. supposed TO be the dynA
mitsrs Of the train at Parachute neaI
>. Garfield, Colo, and shoot one OF then
II TO death.
d Russian outposts have been drives
in toward Liao-Yang and japanese
Il have forced the abandonment by thi
p Russians Of a town almost east o
4 Mukden.
d Michael J. Cleary. a Rock Island on
gineer, by his bravery in sticking 4
d his post saved many lives when tn
y tender Of his engine became deFails'
near Clayton.
il Persistent rumors are heard at 81
Il Petersburg that there has been a grea
o naval battle OF Port Arthur In whicl
the japanese lost four and the Rus
a slams two battleships.