Mexico Missouri message., 1904-06-16
SHORT NEWS STORIES
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for Busy Readers.

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Twenty-six thousand two hundred
persons visited Shaw's Garden Sun
day.
Secretary Taft speaks at the Kan
sas semi-centennial celebration in To
peka.
America may withdraw part OF naval
force at Tangier. Spain sends war
vessels.
Senator Quay is buried beside his
children with simple ceremony at Bea
yer, Pa.
Iron and steel imports for the last
fiscal year decreased, while exports
increased.
Sixteen persons are injured and ons
! is killed by runaway street car in Bur
lington, Ia
The American Medico-Psycholog
Association opened its annual conven'
ton in st. Louis.
Seymour Thomas, the American ar
list now visiting the St. Louis Worlds
Fair, is honored with medal at Pa.
ris.
Signor Mazzara, addressing the TIA,
liam Chamber of Deputies, declares
that the Papal note was an insult to
| France,
The steamer Tallahassee collides
with a barge off Vineyard Sound Light
ship. Mass, and captain of the barge
Is drowned.
A 12-year-old girl disappears at Sc
Ia l.. al
convict, and much alarm is felt for
her safety.
Miss Alice Roosevelt has returned
to Washington. The Presidents
daughter says she enjoyed her visit
in st. Louis.
American warships reach Tangier,
and squadron may send force against
bandits who hold American captive for
ransom.
Four persons were injured at St
Louis in rear-end collision between
Wabash Shuttle" train and Colorado
freight train.
Union painters at Paterson, N. j.
refuse to paint house as the owner
wants 1t because they do not like the
color scheme.
Western railroad traffic is democrat
ICED by continuous downpour of rain
hundreds are rendered homeless and
crops are ruined.
The North st. Louis Citizens Asso
citation asked that the shrubbery be
removed and more lights turned on in
the public parks.
Miss MCGEE, who was bruised and
beaten by Mrs. Weyland at Joplin, Mo-,
Notwithstanding her injuries, acts az
queen Of the carnival.
Mrs. James A. Garfield, widow Of the
martyr President, becomes i'll at her
home in Pasadena, Cal, and is remoV.
cd to Carpenterla, Cal.
Northampton, Mass, celebrates it's
two hundred and fiftieth anniversary
by religious services in sixteen church.
es, Northampton, England, represent
ed.
The attendance at the Worlds Fair
last week numbered 37S,146, making
a gain of 1856 over the previous
week. The total in FIVE weeks is
1,257,S9O.
Health Board representatives, in
session at Washington, ask that legis-
lation be enacted looking toward the
determination Of the disease-carrylng
mosquito.
In a fit Of melancholia, Mrs Eugene
Bribach, wife of the attending ply
slcian at st. Mary's Inhrmary, COM
mitted suicide by shooting at her home
in st. Louis.
Doctor Charles B. Cooper, Health
Commissioner of Hawaii, thinks an
nexation to the United States has
proven a disappointment to the people
of the islands.
Heavy rains in the Black Hills
cause much damage in South Dakota
cities and loss of life. Kansas flood
is subsiding, Rain continues to fau in
the Indian Territory.
The French Ministry OF War causes
the arrest Of an officer in the French
Army on the charge that he paid
money to secure the conviction Of
Dreyfus at his courtmartial.
General Kuropatkin and Admiral
Alexief confer, 1t is reported that
Kuropatkin has been persuaded to
march to the relief of Port Arthur
against his own belief that it means
disaster
In dispatch from Rome It was
stRtsd that the Japanese had occu-
pied the outer line OF the defenses OF
Port Arthur after a feeble resist
ance." 1t was stated that four divi-
sions OF Japanese troops had taken up
a position on KWan!Tung Heights, on
which they had placed heavy artillery,
entirely dominating the town. From
other places also came reports of a
battle near the beleaguered town. but
there was no official dispatch from