Mexico Missouri message., 1904-07-14
SHORT NEWS STORIES
Caught from the Wires and Condensed
for Busy Readers.

| u. closed at st. Joseph, MO.
The Mad Mullah is on the war
path again with 5000 followers.
ghe Japanese retire from Dalin and
Europatkin reoccuples the place with
out q fight.
Professionalism in college athletics
was the target for speaker at the
educators convention.
The Archbishop of Canterbury will
attend the general convention of the
Episcopal Church in Boston.
President Roosevelt departs for his
summer home in Oyster Bay, where
he will remain until July %.
A boy is dragged into the bay and
drowned by big fish which he caught
on his line at Corpus Christi, Tex.
John II. Schneider, former member
Of the st. Louis House of Delegates,
is expected to plead guilty to bribery.
London society has been enjoying a
dog show, at which Queen Alexandra
was a winner, as well as one American
woman.
The Fidelity Savings Association of
Denver, Colo, goes into a receivers
hands. The liabilities are placed at
81 100000.
The English minister whO declares
| himself the Messiah" is again at
tracting much attention to his peculiar
doctrines
Heavy rains greatly interfere with
the movements of the armies in Man
chuia and may postpone decisive
engagement.
Chefoo learns that a big naval bat
tie is in progress between Chefo and
Port Arthur. The result of the battle
is not known.
Mrs. w. N Mcmillan, a st. Louis
woman. who has explored the Nile, is
expected to sail from England for
America July s.
The volume of business transacted
on the New York Stock Exchange last
week was the smallest of any week of
the last decade.
Senator Depuy de LONE, former
Minister from Spain to the United
States, dies of cerebral hemorrhage
at Paris, France.
The Geological Survey OF the Unit
ed States during this summer will
make researches into the mineral de-
pOsts of Missouri.
Because the French cannot guaran-
tee American-made shoes, Consul
Agent King says the products of this
country suffer UNNECESSARILY.
Robbers raid a gambling-house in
Montana, and when an attempt is
made to arrest them they kill police
Sergeant and wound a Sheriff.
The man accused of stealing $4,000
worth of diamonds in Iowa fails to OBJ
tain a habeas corpus writ in Omaha,
where he is awaiting extradition.
The Agnes Memorial Sanitarium,
built by Laurence Phipps to the mem.
DRY Of his mother, is dedicated at Den
yer for the cure Of cOnsumptives.
The parliamentary inquiry into the
alleged attempt to eXtort bride from
the monks of the Grand Chartreuse
has ended in failure, declares NJ. Cor
nelly.
Mrs. Lillian Erwin. bride of four
months, committed suicide by shoot
ing herself at the home of her par
ents, in st. Louis, while respondent
over i'll health.
Armenian Bishops appeal to the
United States for aid in stopping the
prosecutions of the Turks who are
said to be massacring the Armenians
by the thousand every day.
1t is stated at Lao-Yang that not
single Russian vessel was sunk in
the recent attack of Admiral Togo on
Port Arthur, but that four of the jap
ancse torpedo boats were sunk,
An Indiana physician who has been
experimenting in an effort to deter
mine the origin Of life says that it is
due to vibrations of certain intensity
operating on chemical compounds.
A rich American and his wife, seek
ing to break into exclusive New York
society by the London route, come TO
grief through obtaining an invitation
10 a state ball without first being pre-
scented at court.
Populist leaders begin to arrive at
Springfield, ILL.,, for the National Con-
vention. The sentiment seems to be
tc wait until the action of the Demo
cratic National Convention before max
ing a nomination.
General orders are posted at head
quarters strictly forbidding Jefferson
Guards from flirting with pretty young
women on the Pike, many visitors
having complained that the guards
neglect their duties to ogle the girls
Justice Steele Of the Colorado su,
preme Court renders a minority opin
ion in the Meyer habeas corpus case
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