Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1904-10-06
THE NEWS RESUME
seIns a Condemned story Of the News
Of the Week.

Colorado Democrats nominate Alva-
Adams for Governor.
Half the business section Of Menlo;-
a.. is wiped out by ire.
Tsing-Tau reports that cholera has
broken out at Port Arthur.
George Davis. who committed suicide
in London hotel, lived in Topeka,
ISas
General w. p. Chadwick OF Exeter.
N. H., is drowned OF Harbor Heights
while bathing.
Doctor John D. Lawson of Columbia.
was elected president of the Missouri
Bar Association.
w. H. Harroun, the st. Joseph grain
merchant, is indicted on seven counts,-
each alleging forgery.
A continuance IN the Stone-Christ-
man case Is granted by Judge Samuel
Davis at Lexington. Mo.
Indians are gathering on the Nez
Perces Reservation to elect a new,
chief and hold feast and dance.
Indications are very strong that the
Baltic Sea Squadron will sail in time.
to reach Port Arthur by January /.
Thirty-fve Omaha union butchers,
are fined for violating the Federal in
junction during the recent packers
strike.
Rear Admiral Fernando p Gilmore.
is dead from Brights disease at New
York, just after returning from.
Europe.
It is thought that the derailment OF
an Illinois Central passenger train
near Barker's Landing, ILL.,, was caused
by robbers.
chants Bridge case has been changed
by Secretary Taft from September 80
to September 20.
Chinese report that the Russians;
have begun to evacuate Mukden and
are preparing to make a desperate.
stand at Tie Pass.
The English merchantmen Crusader.
bound from Oregon with American.
cargo, is seized by the japanese and,
taken to Hakodate.
The Labor and Populist conventions
in session at Helena, Mont, decide to,
indorse Governor Toole, the Demo
cratic candidate for Governor.
Mrs. L. q. Letter arrives at New
York just in time to catch a steamer
for England, where her daughter, Lady
Curzon of Kedleston, is dangerously
i'll.
President Hill now estimates that
the country's wheat crop will not
amount to more than SIS, 100000 bush.
els, and may fall 100000 bushels short.
of that
The War Department awaits the re-.
commentator of President Francis be-
fore appointing the successor to Colo
mel Kingsbury as Commandant of the
Jefferson Guards.
Six persons are badly injured in a
wreck near Lyons, N. Y, and one Of
them, the wife of a vice president Of
the Pere Marquette Railroad, is dead
from her injuries.
The Russian War Office thinks it.
likely that KuropatlSin will evacuate.
Mukden, and that the long-expectedi
battle will be merely a rear'guard &C
ton Onea large scale.
Judge Psrker's letter of acceptance.
made public at Democratic national
headquarters, deals with the leading
questions of the day in a manner con-
vincingly candid and straightforward.
General Orion, who is said to have
been the cause of General Kuropat-
kin's retreat from Liao-Yang, will be-
changed from his present command
and may even be retired from the
army.
A committee of the Irish Reform AS
sociation suggests that financial
council be established to govern ex--
penditures of the island and that a.
semi-independent Legislative body be-
formed.
National Chairman Taggart is plan
ming a whirlwind tour of Democratic
orators for the last six weeks OF the
campaign.
The State of Tennessee sues the
Standard Oil Company, alleging that
the corporation, by offering induce
ments to merchants to cancel orders
given to other companies, is violating
the antitrust law.
The Archbishop Of Canterbury, adj
dressing 10000 persons at Washington.
calls attention to the great work OF
evangelization which lies ahead for
the English-spealSing people on both
sides of the Atlantic.
Foreign delegates to the Interna-
tional Parliamentary Union have left
Washington for New York, having
practically completed their tour of tho
country, though they are still the
guests of the United States Govern
ment.
Discussion of the names included in
the list prepared Of those eliRihle 10 be.