Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1904-10-13
THE NEWS RESUME
Being a Condensed story Of the MorpI
important News Of the Week.

illness.
w. H. Harroun goes to Kansas CITY
gives bond and then returns to g.
Joseph.
Mrs. Mary B. Hardin, widow Of 4
former Governor of Missouri, dies at
Mexico, Mo.
Japan's new plan Of CONSUMPTION win
increase the fighting force Of the En-
pire by 100000 men.
A cousin Of William A. Simerly, who
was murdered near Fillmore, Mo-, IL
accused of the crime.
Anthony Gallagher, survivor Of the
Gasconade diaster, was killed by q
street car in st. Louis.
Russians at Chefoo assert that the
Japanese losses at Port Arthur, Sep
TENDER 10, were 1000.
The author and for long time fa4
nous singer Of "Old Black joe" dies
in New York asylum.
Field Marshal oyama is advancing
slowly northward, his armies covering
front Of sixty miles.
President Roosevelt defeats the Car
Of Russia for honor of calling the next
Hague peace conference.
The new United States battleship
Connecticut is successfully launched at
the Brooklyn Navy Yard.
Street Commissioner Varrelmann
suggests to the st. Louis House Of
Delegates plans to remove grade cross
ings.
st. Petersburg is becoming restless
at the continued lack Of definite news
from Port Arthur, and the worst is
feared.
In a train wreck near EImwood, ILL.,,
one person is killed, three are fatally
injured and more than a score receive
lesser hurts.
General Kuropatkin is apparently,
Withdrawing his forces into the level
country and may later decide to give
battle there.
General Stoessers friends declare
that his refusal to surrender is ire
vocable, regardless Of any orders he
may receive.
The Marseilles strikers reject the
decision Of the arbitrator in their dis
pute, but 1t is expected that they will
return to work.
Judge Foster sustains the city OF
st. Louis in the suit to beautify Lndell
boulevard between Grand avenue and
Kings highway.
Italy may undertake, in company
with England, to propose terms Of
peace to Russia in order to end the
war with Japan.
The armies in Manchuria are still
in close touch, and the increased &C
tivity indicates a general aggressive
action very soon.
The death of a prominent London
man while under treatment by Chris
tian Scientists causes much agitation
among his friends.
Adolph ]. Lichstern Of Chicago, the
unknown bull" has retired from the
wheat market clearing about 100000
on two big deals.
1t is reported from Mukden that
Japanese have crossed the Hun River
fifty miles northeast of that town. The
report has been denied.
Negotiations are practically COM
| pleted for the United States Railways
Company to take charge Of the st.
Louis Transit Company's property.
Pupils Of a Chicago school. thinking
that their teacher was a negro, form q
union and station pickets to prevent
other children from attending their
classes.
Colonel D. G. Colson Of Kentucky u
dying from q wound received in q
pistol duel with Lieutenant Ethelbert
Scott in the Capitol Hotel at Frank
fort, in 1900.
With the election of officers and
transaction OF routine business the
twenty-seventh session Of the Ameri-
can Bar Association closed its sessions
in st. Louis.
The Treasury Department decides in
favor OF the independent manufacture
ers in the tobacco label case, placing
the imported stamps upon the bottom
Of cigar boxes.
William ziegler, the baking powder
magnate, under indictment in Mis-
souri,. is thrown from his carriage ana
seriously injured at his summer home
near New York.
Field Marshal Oyama's forces In
Manchuria continue elusive, the Rus
sian scouts trying in vain 10 lOcatG
the main body. Skirmishes between
Outposts occur daily.
The Tsai Yuma, a new antiforeign
society, is being formed in three Chi
nese Provinces. alons the lines Of tho
Boxer movement. and an uprising -
| planned for October II.
The former coachman Of David Wall
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