Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1904-07-14
THE NEWS RESUME
Being a Condensed story Of tho News
Of the Week.

The Japanese are reported closing
in on Port Arthur.
Temperature conditions for the
paEt week are more favorable for
crops.
Receipts Of gold bullion in st. Louis
assay office show great increase over
last year.
william p. Church is found guilty
Of murder in the first degree at War
renton, Mo.
The japanese capture chain OF
forts protecting Port Arthur after an
all days fight.
Two small japanese ships are sunk
at Gen San in a raid by the VladiVoa
stok squadron.
Charles ]. Bell was nominated by
the Republican State Convention fog
Governor Of Vermont.
Forty.three firemen are overcome in
New York at the burning Of a cellu-
loid company's building.
A colony Of red ants from Guate-
mala is to be established in Texas
to fight the cotton-bol weevil.
In his official report Kuropatkin adj
mits evacuating Senu-Chen, Fen-Shui.
Molten Pass and Saim-Atza.
Application was made to the Cir
cult Court at st. Louis for the apoint'
ment Of a receiver for Union track. ,
An unusually severe hailstorm in
Western Missouri and Eastern Kan,
sas does much damage to oats and
corn.
Senator German Of Maryland takes
neutral position in the contest for
the Democratic presidential nomina-
ton.
Charles F. Meyers has been arrest
ed on suspicion Of having something
to do with the slashing of Santoa
Dumont's airship.
Judge Jacob Klein Of st. Louis is
elected one of the vice-presidents OF
the Harvard Alumni Association OF
the law department.
A letter written by General Miles
on June 20 effectually eliminated
him as the presidential nominee OF
tho Prohibition party.
The st. Louis Pure Milk Commits
sion, established for the benefit OF
the babies Of the poor of st. LOUIS,
has opened It's doors.
Tientsin reports a japanese victory
sixteen miles east Of Hai-Cheng, but
this probably Is a belated story Of the
battle reported Tuesday.
The Japanese rout the Russians IN
battle near Siu-Yen, in which the
Russians lost about 100 in killed and
several hundred wounded.
Marcus Graham, the Providence, R..
l., engraver, sentenced to fifteen years.
Imprisonment for counterfeiting, was
taken to the Federal Penitentiary at
Atlanta, Ga.
Ed. Butler is indicted on the charge
Of bribing a witness and causes the
rearrest of Charles F. Kelly and Char
les A. Gutke by Withdrawing from
their bonds.
Another Russian battleship IS re-
ported to have been wrecked on the
mines at Port Arthur. A large vessel
Is said to have been found stranded
on Tiger Rock.
The La Toilette faction in Wlscon-
sin has decided to name independent
Republican tickets in every county
Of the State controlled by the Cover
nor's opponents.
Russia suffers two losses at sea.
A submarine boat sinks at St Peters
burg with twenty-one men, and an
lronelad rams a battleship. with dis
astrous results, at Cronstadt.
Mayor Harrison OF Chicago serves
notice on the secretary OF the Illinois
Democratic Central Committee Of six
contests from that city over delegar
tons to the National Convention.
A Russian torpedo-boat destroyer
arrived at Niuchwang from Port Ar
thur, having run Admiral Togo's
blockade. It is supposed that the
vessel brings dispatches to the army.
General Kuropatkln continues to re-
tire before the japanese. Day after
day in the small sklrmishes in Lower
Manchuria his tanks are turned and
he is obliged to retire to save his
army.
The War Department is delaying
action on the question OF pants for
the Igorrotes and Colonel Edwards
thinks there may be a compromise
on some kind Of a girdls for the dog
eaters.
The Yale freshman crew defeats
the Harvard crew by half a second
in one Of the greatest rowing contests
in the history of intercollegiate row.
ing. The varsity events were post
poned one day on account Of rain.
Booker T. Washington, the we'll
known negro educator. was the prin-