Mexico Missouri message., 1904-12-01
SHORT NEWS STORIES
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subscribers to recover S9,700.
Twenty persons are slightly injured
in wreck near De Soto, Mo.
Masked bandits hold up a circus
at Tarboro, N. c., escaping with 500
900 in booty.
The Sixteenth United States Infan-
try has arrived to guard the Worij's
Fair grounds.
Mrs. DamTosch, the mother Of Wal
ter Damrosch, the famous musician
dies in New York.
The Atlantic liner SIcillan Prince.
with 600 passengers on board, was
grounded OF Long Island.
Nelson A. Niles may be appointed
Adiutant General of Massachusetts on
Governor Douglass staff.
oyama begins an enveloping move
ment, which IS interpreted to mean
an advance to occupy Mukden.
\ Attendance at the Worlds Fair last
weeks was 552,019, an increase OF
$3.50 over the previous week.
Prince Fushimi of Japan arrives at
the Worlds Fair. American soldiers
saluted the Mikado's representative
Daily sklrmishes continue along
the Shakhe. Toxic hears that all OF
Kuropatkin's feints have been repuls-
ed.
1t is thought that the rioting at RID
Janeiro, Brazil. has been suppressed.
HnN 4e ftVr-A ~
outbreaks. =
Twelve Italians we're suffocated in
tenement fire in New York while
trying to reach the fire escape on the
third floor.
General StoesseI, in a message to
the Gar, says the garrison at Port
Arthur will be able to hold out for
many months.
Thomas Mean, who has painted the
black eyes Of thousands of persons in
the New York Tenderloin, is found
dead in his room.
George Theis, a millionaire ranch
man of Ashland, Kas, weds for the
fourth time. His bride is a school
teacher, 20 years old.
Bishop Whitehead of Pittsburg I'M
dorses Bishop Potter's subway tavern
and recommends establishment of sys-
tenn Of taverns in Pittsburg.
In the suit of William Regain against
the st. Louis Transit Company, the
former having gained a verdict, the
Transit Company took an appeal.
Chinese at Chefoo report that the
Japanese are landing re-enforcements
and siege guns at Dalny for general
assault on Port Arthur November a.
Plans for the great revival of the
iousting tournaments of mediaeval
days are about completed at London,
King Edward takes an active interest,
General Balsihoff of the Russian
Red Cross Society in Port Arthur
complains that the Japanese have
fired at the hospital ships in the har-
Dor.
Police believe the murder of VIII
liam Bate, who was found dead in an
automobile at Lamont, near Chicago,
was committed to shield another
killing.
The japanese continue to lombard
Port Arthur. A Japanese she'll ezplod-
ed on the roof of powder magazine
near the arsenal, blowing the maya
zine up.
The treatment of General Andre by
Premier Combes is arousing sympathy
for the former aged Minister Of War.
who is not believed guilty of misusing
his office.
A petition signed by 1900 farmers
of Oklahoma is presented to the IrTi-
CATION Congress, in which they agree
to accept the terms offered by the
Government in irrigating Oklahoma
land.
The papers of Christopher Column
bus are discovered to be in the pos
session of the Duke of Able in Paris,
and a plan may be formed whereby
the relics will be purchased by Anne
ricans.
Julius I. Brown. son Of Georgia's
secession Governor, in a public letter
advises Presidential Electors in the
Southern States to cast their votes for
President Roosevelt and thus make his
election unanimous.
Senator Francis Marion CockrelE
has been rendered an appointment on
either the Isthmian Canal Commits
sion or on the Interstate Commerce
Commission by President Roosevelt.
Senator COckrell refuses to affirm or
deny the appointment, and says that
no action win be taken in the matter
until he reaches Washington. NOVem-
Der %. There is a vacancy on the
Canal Commission, but none on the
Interstate Commerce Commission. al.
though it is understood that there
will be one the first of the year. The