Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1904-05-05
THE NEWS RESUME
Being a CONDENSED story Of the News
Of the Week.

A party Of German princes and prip-
cesses arrives in New York.
James Pollard was drowned whiIo
crossing a swollen creek near Odessa.
Mo.
Russia lost large amount of money
when the battleship Petropavlovsk
sank.
The cabinet discusses government
ownership of wireless telegraph sta,
tons.
Despite the rainy day, thousands OF
persons visited the gunboat Nashville
at Cairo. ILL.,, Sunday.
President Loubet visits King Victor
| Emmanuel at Rome, where he is re-
ceived with open arms.
The Empire Furniture Co., at James
town, N. Y, was destroyed by fire, en-
failing a loss of 100000.
DR.. 0. G. Kessler of Ravenwood, No.
is arrested, charged with a murder
done more than a year ago.
All reports of general Russo-Japa-
nese engagement on the Yalu river are
officially declared to be premature.
Senator CoclIrell introduced bill
for the construction of a bridge across
the Missouri river at Lexington, Mo.
The House met on Sunday in a me
mortal session for Senator Hanna and
Representatives Thompson and Styles.
Lord Brooke, heir to the estate Of the
Earl Of Warwick, will go to Hardin to
join Kuropatkin as war correspond
ent.
American marines have been with
drawn from the legation at Seoul.
their presence no longer being neces-
sary.
In a family quarrel Emil, II years
old, fatally wounded his father, Conrad
Ulrich, at 1904 South Third street, St.
Louis.
Senators and Congressman were
obliged to wait at the White House
while the President received the Har-
ward baseball team.
Statistics gathered by the Depart
ment of Commerce and Labor show
that the United States lead in the pro-
duction of petroleum.
The war has already cost Russia
SAG, 100000, and by the end of June
will have made necessary an expendi-
ture of $10OOO0,00O.
Russian troops from Southern Us
siru arrive at a point on the Yalu river
Ito miles north of Ping-Yang, and for
tify a mountain pass.
Russia is proceeding to strengthen
her defenses on the Yalu river. Japan's
army on the opposite bank is strung
out for thirty miles.
An Ohio young woman obtains a
judgment against her father in Chicago
for $25G,OOO, the amount of an estate
J left her by her mother.
The House passes a bill similar to
that already approved by the Senate
providing additional Federal Judges
for the Indian Territory.
In a recent attempt at landing
troops near Taku-Shan, the Japanese
found the land batteries too strong.
and we're compelled to abandon their
plans.
The Russian squadron, which made
an Intellectual attempt to pass Suez
and Port Said in order to join the
, squadron at Port Arthur, has returned
home.
Indictments against st. Louis police
men charged with permitting primary
outrages We're quashed by Judge
: Hiram N. Moore, and the men were re-
| instated.
City Treasurer Franciscus OF St
Louis submitted his annual message
to Mayor Wells, showing $7.423, 1875 on
5 hand to meet public debts and current
l expenses.
There was a brisk debate Friday in
the Senate over the proposition to ap-
! point a committee to investigate the
. American merchant marine, but no ac-
. ton was taken.
/. Viceroy Alexieff has extended the
jurisdiction Of martial law across the
!, Lao river at Yin-Kow, in order to
take in the native quarter and the
railroad terminus.
The Massachusetts, Democratic Con.
5 vention, at a stormy session, instructH
e delegates from that State to vote as a
/. unit for the nomination of Richard OK
/ ney for President.
> The National Congress Of the Daugh'
h ters Of the American Revolution adopts
II a memorial asking that Senator Reed
s. Smoot be debarred from a seat in the
" United States Senate.
Fort Scott, Kan, is experiencing the
worst flood in it's history. Sedalia, Mo-,
. was visited by severe rain Sunday
- A tornado leaves destruction in its path
through Mcpherson, Kan.
"a Prince Pu Lun, Royal Commissioner
:. from China to the Wnrld,s Fair. viewed