Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1904-07-28
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Charles ]. Denny and Jere J. Han
nigan entered pleas OF guilty to brib-
cry.
Fire in the Columbia School building
In St. Louis inflicts damage amount
ing to $4,000.
Live stock commission men advise
shippers to forward no more cattle
during the strike.
Six hundred native Porto Rican
teachers are visiting the American
schools in the East.
The Japanese raise their hsg over
the harbOT at Chemulpo, much against
the pleasure of the Koreans.
Charles w. Murtfeldt, former secre-
tary of the State Board Of Agriculture
of Missouri, dies at Kirkwood.
Thomas F. Ryon, a New York mill
llonaire, gave $500 to the Virginia
Commission at the Worlds Fair.
Mayor Wells welcomed the delegates
to the National Association of Colore6
Women in session at st. Louis
The Second Regiment Of the Illinois
National Guard gives a reception In
honor Of Governor and Mrs. Yates.
Admiral Togo makes a torpedo as
sault on Port Arthur, but is repulsed
without severe loss on either side.
Newport society is in turmoil over
an attempt to limit the number of the
persons within the charmed circle" to
200.
Thomas M. Jones, known as the
Golden Rule" Mayor OF Toledo, o.
dies after being unconscious three
days.
The St Louis Board of EducatioH
has arranged to purchase the School
for the Blind property on Morgan
street.
Heavy rains and intense heat have
caused an enormous increase in sick
ness among the soldiers under Gen.
Kuropatkin. z
Speaker Cannon says he has no In
tention of going to Europe this sum-
mer. He will take leading part in
the national campaign.
Santos-Dumont announces finally
that he will not return to the Worlds
Fair, and that hereafter he will limit
his experiments to Paris.
Joseph Chamberlain is elected presi-
dent of the newly reorganized Liberal
Unionist Council. A resolution is
adopted indorsing the new fiscal re,
form.
Cotton has been much damaged in
the South by heavy and continuous
rains. In Kansas and the Southwest
wheat has suffered from the same
cause.
The Oyster Bay barber who elected
a negro preacher from his shop when
the latter asked for a shave is being
congratulated from many Southern To-
! calities.
Edgar 7. Washburn. a wealthy grain
dealer OF Buffalo, N. Y, apparently
without cause, shot and instantly kill
ed his wife and daughter and then
| committed suicide.
Two Japanese armies are moving
steadily nortward in Manchuria, over
| coming every formgpf resistance made
by the Russians and rendering their
new positions secure.
Seventeen hundred wounded soldiers
have been brought into Port Arthur
since Friday. The hospitals already
are overcrowded and the city is said
to be in sore straits.
Toxic discredits the report that 3d.
900 Japanese soldiers were killed in
an assault on Port Arthur. No such
report, according to the general stan.
has reached the capital
Charles H. Stiller and William H.
| Ellis, employees of the Commissions De-
partment of the Fair, are under arrest,
suspected of tampering with cash reg
listers and stealing $500.
Dom Paul Kruger, former president
! OF the Transvaal, dies in Switzerland,
exiled from his own land. Application
will be made to England to permit his
burial In his home land.
The Japanese have allowed the war
correspondents and military attaches
| to go forward with the advance army,
causing the belief that a crisis Is ap-
preaching in the campaign.
A report which reached Ta-Tche-
| Kiao from Port Arthur does not men
ton anything of the loss, but It ia
argued that ii may have been sent be.
| fore the battle was fought
William ]. Bryan has announced
that he would support the Democratic
presidential ticket, but after the cam.
| paign he would renew his old fight rel.
alive to economic conditions.
The Tigers at Missouri State Uni
Versity win begin training several
weeks before the beginning Of the fall
session. a special fund having been
raised to defray the expenses.