Mexico Missouri message., 1904-10-20
SHORT NEWS STORIES
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Seven bridge workmen missing IN
flooded district Of Oklahoma.
In riot in Korea seven Japanese
contractors are killed by a mob.
The new United States battleahi1
Nebraska is launched at Seattle.
The Illinois W. c. T. U. holds its am
nual convention at Murphysboro.
The first troops OF the Imperial,
Guard depart from st. Petersburg for
the front
Twenty-one persons are said to havs
been drowned In the recent foods I'M
New Mexico.
Portentlous charges in the personnel
Of high officials in the Russian Army
are forecast.
Mrs. Grace, A. Leathe sues her mil.
lionaire husband, Samuel H. Leathe.
for a divorce.
Vice President Corral Of Mexico goes
to st. Louis to represent President
Diaz at the Worlds Fair.
Russia has ordered out total Of 40
900 members of the guards regiments
Extraordinary activity is reported at
Mukden, where important events are
expected at any moment.
Seven convicts escape from the Pen.
itentiary at Sioux Falls, s. D. Two are
recaptured and two are shot.
The st. Louis Business Mems League
will send delegates to the National IT.
rigation Congress at FL PasO.
Every indication is that . period Of
intense activity in the vicinity Of Muk-
den and Tie Pass is at hand.
Mont Pelee is reported to be in full
eruption again, emitting dense clouds
Of smoke and huge balls Of fire.
The eruptions Of Mont Pele on the
Island of Martinique are said to have
greatly disturbed the barometer.
Two hundred and fifty members Of
the Indianapolis Commercial Club
come to the Worlds Fair in a body.
Russian revolutionists are again actS
i've and are urging Jews to place no re-
lance in promises of the Government.
The British steamer Eishan, carrying
cattle and -four to Port Arthur, is cap
tured by the Japanese near Niuchwang.
Daniel Shanks of Buffalo, N. Y, a
full.blooded Seneca Indian, was robbed
of $45 by confidence men in st. Louis
County.
Resolutions are adopted at the In
ternational Peace Congress at Boston
calling upon the Powers to reduce their
ornaments.
The Embarrassing proposition is
soon to be considered by Mayor Wells
and the Board of Public Improvements
of St. Louis.
The secretary Of the Missouri State
Board Of Agriculture estimates that the
corn yield Of the State will be 1856, O00.-
900 bushels.
Marshal Oyama is said to be hurry
ing all possible re-enforcements to the
scene, even taking troops away from,
Port Arthur.
Field Farrar Of Fort Worth has iden-
flied the clothing worn by the man MUIR
dered at Creve Couer Lake as that Of
his uncle, Mark Adams.
General StoesseI asserts that the
cent desperate attempts to storm the
fortress which he is defending.
Professor Hart Of Howard Univer-
sity proposes to test the Jim Crow
law in Maryland by carrying 1t to the
United States Supreme Court
W. L. Douglas is nominated by the
Democrats for Governor Of Massachu-
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ernor Bates third nomination.
A report is current in Toxic that one
Russian ship was completely wrecked
and three others badly damaged by the
fire Of the land batteries at Fort Ar
thur.
Professor Metchnikofrs new youth
bacillus" continues to excite half-deris-
i've interest among French scientists,
but the discoverer is Indifferent to this
feeling.
Bishop Tuttle, in an address before
the Episcopal Convention, refers to po-
litical matters, and then, with tears in
his eyes for his transgression OF rules.
apologies.
An automobile plunges over a 25-fOOt
embankment in front Of a running
train at New York, killing three per
sons and injuring six others, one OK
whom will die.
King Leopold of eBlgium is severe
ly arraigned by a British delegate in
the International Peace Congress, DO
ing censured for the cruelties In the
Congo Free State.
Judge Smith of the New York Su-
preme Court denied the injunction TO
prevent the Automobile Association Of
America from conducting its racing