Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1904-03-17
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Is shipped from Fort Arthur 70 New
York.
Important live-pigeon shooting &C
Monte Carlo attracts sportsmen from
the Riviera.
Five thousand new Russian soldiers
arrive at Yin-KOw. but declare they
win not remain long.
Texas Daughters OF the Confederacy
start a movement to preserve the
Alamo at San Antonio.
Relics of the old Lyceum Theater n
London are sold at public auction for
remarkably low prices.
Student rioting at Prague Is resumed
and the military is called out to sup
press the disturbances.
The monoTail may save Bondon's
traffic problem, several schemes being
now under consideration.
Joseph Chamberlain is the lion OF
Cairo society, dinners and dances In
his honor being given almost every
evening.
Senator Bailey declares emphaticaI-
ly that he will oppose the admission
into the Union OF two Territories as
one State.
The Canal Commission receives sug-
gestions from thousands OF persons.
cranks and otherwise ON the construc-
ton OF the canal.
The Mexican Ambassador has form
ally notified Secretary Hay that HIS
Government has recognized the Re
public Of Panama
The shooting Of Deputy Sheriff y. r.
Casper at HODeHeld, Ark, reveals the
existence Of secret order formed 10
down the whites"
Five negroes are shot to death ard
several others wounded in fights grow
ing out OF craps games in SunhOwer
County, Mississippi.
Gov. Odell abandons his proposed
| trip to Washington and announces that
| he will not accept the Chairmanship OF
the Republican National Committee.
The Standard Oil Company is said to
have in contemplation the erection OF
| a $10,000,000 oil refining plant at Kan
sas City to care for the Kansas pro
duct.
The Combes Ministry Of France is
said to be doomed since the defeat Of
the Premier in the Chamber by M.
Doumer, President OF the Budget Com
mittee.
Englishmen mournfuIly note the
decadence OF oratory in the House OK
Commons and the decadence of that
body's reputation as the best club in
the world.
Reports received at the agricultural
department Of the Missouri State Uni
versity indicate that this years straw
berry crop will be the largest in the
history Of Missouri.
Through telegraphic communication
between st. Petersburg and Mukden.
! 5000 miles distant, has been perfected,
thus forming the longest continuous
telegraph circuit in the world.
Russian troops are marching toward
Koyryong, on the Tumen River, to in
tercept the advance Of the $500
Japanese who are moving on Hunchun.
100 miles west Of Vladivostock.
The carriage Of the Princess Of Wales
collided with a bicyclist, who was not
injured, but his machine was broken.
He received a present OF a splendid
new machine from the Princess.
A committee of Kansas City citizens
Is in Washington urging the apprOpri-
alton by Congress Of $500, 900 to rem
der the two cities immune against
further foods from the XIV River.
The Russians are preparing to eVaeu-
ate Niuchwang, and are preparing to
remove military supplies and excess
railroad rolling stock. The banks and
merchants also are preparing to 70
move.
President Smith Of the Mormon
Church resumed the stand Friday IL
the Smoot inquiry, testifying that Nor
mons still believe In the teaching 81
polygamy, despite the fact it is forbid
den by law.
The kidnapping Of Daniel Cushman -
Del Rio. Tex. last week, it has deveE
oped. was but an incident in a plan
made by Mexican outlaws to attrael
the attention OF officers, that a eattie
raid might be made.
The Department Of Commerce and
Labor has issued = series OF mona
graphs showing that the commerce o.
the United States in the Orient IS on
the increase. with the balance largely
J in favor of America.
Toxic remains quiet and undls-
turbed by the progress OF the war. The
Japanese Government Is moving with
marvellous foresight aad completeness.
to make ready to deliver a crushing
blow to Russia on land.
Isaac T. StOddard. Secretary o.
Arizona, who is under charges cons