Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1904-02-18
THE NEWS RESUME
Being Condensed story Of tire News
Of the Week.

The Ground Hog Club OF St Louis
enjoyed their tenth annual dinner last
week.
Cash wheat reaches the dollar mark
at Chicago and ali the optiona are
higher.
The European fleet has been ordered
from Turkish waters to take part IN
maneuVers.
Sixteen thousand quail and prairie
chicken are coniscated by game war
dens at Enid, Ok.
Doctor Simon Bell Of Rosedale, Kas.,
gives the University OF Kansas $4,000
in Missouri lands. !.
The dead body of man, thought TO be
Lee Adkins, Of Meta, Mo. was found I'm
. Colorado Railroad train.
A tidal wave sweeps the coast OF
Penmarch, Finisterre, France, and
many persons are drowned.
George A. Rose, who embezzled
$1S7, 900 at Cleveland, o., is sentenced
TO ten years imprisonment.
The Russian warships at vladivO-
stok are cleared for action, the harbOr.
IL kept open by Ice breakers.
Two garrisons in German Southwest
Africa, which have been besieged by
rebel Hereros, are relieved after severe,
fighting.
Asa Hatfield objected to Frank VII.
liams, a negro, singing q song on a.
Cunard liner, and as a result has a,
black eye.
Weber and Fields and a company OF
players are crossing the Continent I'm
an unbroken journey to play at San,
Francisco.
Democrats in the Maryland Legis-
lature elect Isidor Raynor 10 the
United States Senate to succeed Sena-
tor McCOmss.
Three men were injured by the e1-
plosion of an oil tank at the shops OF,
the American Car Company In Baden
near st. Louis. (.
Samuel A. Groff testified in the
postal case, and denies any connection
with Machen, other than in q public
test years ago.
The storm in Kentucky wrecked
historic bridge near Lexington. The
structure was the scene of several civil
war sl1irmishes.
The President may inject civilser-
| vice regulations into the Post Office
Department that better rural carriers
may be employed.
The Governor of German Southwest
Africa is safe, having made no effort
to fight his way through the lines OF
the rebel Hereros.
President Palma promises Minister
Squiers that the perpetrators OF the
insult to the United States at CIenIu-
COS shall be punished.
Panama hears that Colombian troops
are already figuring the San las In
dams in Isthmian territory, but the
report is not confirmed.
A New York minister erluclses lady
board members and says girls should
| devote less time to Uaus and more to
their unfortunate sisters.
President Harper Of Chicago Uni
versity says professors may criticlss
John D. Rockefeller II they choose,
| WITHOUT rear OF OlSulSbal
Two suits have been filed against
the st. Louis Transit Company for
damages claimed to have been caused
plumbing by electrolysis.
The trial of the Deweys, charged
with the murder Of three members OF
the Berry family, is called at Norton.
Kas., on a change OF venue.
General lake e. Wright Is tnRugu-
rated as Governor OF the Philippines
and promises to continue the policy
inauguratsd by Governor Taft. !
Senator Hanna suddenly becomes
much worse, and physicians were SUM
moned to Cleveland from New York.
1t is announced that he has typhoid
fever.
VIM. II. Taft of Ohio took the oath
of once Of Secretary of War in the
presence OF several members Of the.
Cabinet, the General Staff and PERSONAL
friends.
Ine St. Louis Court OF Appeals has
handed down many decisions, includ-t
ing one Quashing the Indictment
against Judge HeydOn Of Howell
County.
The rich uncle Of a condemned Mon
tana murderer is going west to try To
postpone or prevent the hanging.
which is to take place at Missoula,
March IS.
Henry Nieolaus hIed a petition IN
the st. Louis Circuit Court asking that
the $1S5,O0O Suburban Doodle fund be
used to pay certain Promissory notes.
long overdue.
II appears that the reverse which the
Urugusyan troops met In an encounter
with rebels was an utter defeat. ~
whien the rebels captured General