Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1904-07-28
THE NEWS RESUME
ssIn0 Condensed story Of the News
Of the Week.

Inc Exposition Company makes Its
100000 payment on the government
loan.
Gen. Rennenkampf, commander OF
the Siberian Cossacks, is shot through
the leg.
The friction between Gen. Kuropat.
kin and Yiceroy Alexiff is said to be be-
coming acute.
The Catholic Education Association
recommended the graded system in
parochial schools.
Sheriff Thompson of Belleville dep
utizes twenty-five men to preserve the
peace in East st. Louis.
A Chefoo report states that Admiral
Togo is dead, but it has not been con.
firmed from any source.
Missouri coal production in the last
ten years has shown remarkable gains,
Macon County leading in tonnage.
Henry G. Davis, Democratci candl-
date for Vice President, announces that
he is in favor of the gold standard.
Miss Helen Gould has telegraphed
her appreciation of the appropriation
of $4,000 for the1Rare Of children at the
Fair.
The condition of the cotton crop in
Texas is promising, and the yield is
estimated at from 100000 to $500, 900
bales.
Elks are gathering at Cincinnati for
their Grand Lodge convention, which
will keep the delegates busy every day
this week.
Cape Colony South Africa, is threat
ened with a race problem owing to the
increasing insolence and Incidence of
the Kaffirs.
DR.. Adams of the Geological Survey
reports that the mineral field of North
ern Arkansas is of increasing economic
Importance.
The French Cabinet won a signal vic.
tory in the controversy arising out of
the charges against Premier Combes
and his son.
A friend Of d. D. McKeon, a promi-
nent New York lawyer, asserts that he
has been kidnapped and is held for
$4,000 ransom.
Suspicion is expressed at Plymouth,
England, that f. Kent Loomis, whose
body was found in the sea near there,
was murdered.
At the annual meeting Of the Chris
tian and Missionary Alliance at Ian.
caster, Pa, $4,000 is contributed for
foreign missions.
Ventilation experiments conducted
FOR various municipal boards of health
are watched with especial interest by
railroad officials.
The attendance at the Worlds Fair
last week, with no holidays nor special
features, was 50O,359, making the total
to date, 4,593,5S5.
Yale and Harvard athletes are pre-
pairing in England for their track
games with representatives of Oxford
and Cambridge.
United States Treasurer Roberts
does not anticipate such a contingency
as dangerous redemption raid to re.
deem silver in gold.
Boards of health of several large
American cities are trying to extend
their control of ventilation in public
buildings and street cars.
A British automobilfst makes several
daring experiments to prove his asser-
tion that there is no danger to the
chauffeur from bursting tires.
London hears that the japanese
were repulsed by the Russians at Port
Arthur, who reoccupied every position
which they had recently lost.
The First Regiment of the National
Guard of Missouri departed Saturday
night for Nevada, Mo-, where it will
go into a school of instruction.
The Missouri River, by cutting a new
channel into the Charlton River, has
left several thousand acres of fine
Missouri farming land on an island.
The Bureau Of Statistics has issued
a table showing the increase in the
productiyeness of the area comprised
in the original Louisiana Purchase.
Mr.. Cook, the government expert,
reports from Texas that the Guate-
malan ant not only destroys the boll
weeVil, but has begun to eat up the boil
worms.
The body OF F. Kent Loomis, brother
OF the Assistant Secretary OF State
LOomls. has been found on the shore
OF Bigbury Bay and identified by the
American Consul.
The German steamship Prinz Helm.
rich and the English steamer Malacca
are overhauled by the volunteer Rus
sian squadron in the Red Sea and their
mail sacks ransacked.
After gaining a victory at Kiaochau,
Gen. Kku followed up the Russians,
and. after a sharp clash, occupied the
village Of Pintzan on the road to TIA
Tche-Kiao. which is thought to be the
next objective point Of the Japanese
Attack