Mexico Missouri message., 1904-10-06
sAoRr MEWs sTOMEs
Caught f-om the wires and Condensed
for Busy Readers.

Of the Associated Press.
Senator Davis opens the Democratic
campaign In West Virginia at Wheel
ing.
The official count Of the admissions
on st. Louis Day is 404.45O. Of which
s5S. S0S were pay.
Sir Henry Johnston declares that
Fssnce haa her eye set upon sewing q
porGpn Of the Liberian Republic.
A movement has been started TO pre-,
serve the virginia building at the
Worlds Fair for q Jefferson museum
The twentysecond annual conven-.
ton Of the Missouri Bar Association
meets ut the Federal building. St
Louis.
Many distinguished visitors attend
the sessions Of the st. Louis Confsr~
ence Of tho NJ. e. Church, South, at De-
Soto, Mo.
Captain Van schaick has been exon
Grated by the Board Of Steamboat In.
spectors for responsibility in the Sio-'
cum disaster.
Toxic hears that the japanese atl
Port Arthur have occupied two newt
| heights west Of the city which will BOZ
valuable in weakening the Russian deI
Iense.
Members of the Interparliamentaryl
Union arrive in Washington, and pre-
sent to President Roosevelt the reso-
buttons adopted at the recent st. Louis
convention.
As a result Of the meeting Of the
Missouri County Clerks Association,
the General Assembly probably will be
asked to pass legislation relating to
revenue and roads. !
DR.. Anita MCGEE, in charge Of Red
Cross work with the japanese army,
denies that the Japanese soldiers arei
lhypocriticaI In their kind treatment on
Russian prisoners. L.. -. -.
The Japanese are continuing their
advance upon Mukden, but are going
slowly and using the greatest caution.
The Russians do not expect heavy fight
ing for several days.
As the Coroner's jury failed to hold
any one for killing Frederick e. Schelll
in st. Louis oliver J. Beck, the Re-
publican registration judge, was re-
leased by the police.
An offer is made to bring the Chi
cago Committee on Chicago Day at
the Worlds Fair to st. Louis in sub
marine boat, and take them back to
Chicago on an airship.
The wife Of W. F. Cody (BunaloI
Bill denies that he is making, or has
made, any advances to effect a recon
Citation and stop the divorce proceed
ings recently instituted.
Tim Barrick, a 1O-year-old child,
whose parents live near Robinson, III.
commits suicide because he was not
allowed to accompany his mother on q
grape-picking expedition.
A trolley car runs over box of dy-
namite on the track at Melrose, Mass,
blowing the car into kindling wood
Six persons are killed outright and
nearly a score are injured.
Turkish and Egyptian Students
bound for Missouri to enter the State
University at Columbia, who were ar
rested in Naples, Italy, are released.
and resume their journey.
Illinois University sophomores enter
the home of one of the professors in
search Of freshmen to haze. and drag
a young woman from her bed before
they discover their mistake.
An assassin fred upon Chief Of Police
= Neidgardt at Odessa, Russia, but the
ball missed and his assistant, Prince
Obolensky, knocked the revolver from
the mans hand before he could hrg
again.
A Chinese escaping from Port Ar
thur declares that the Russian squad
ron intends to make a sortie this week
In the effort to escape to the German
port of Tsingchou. on the Shantung
Peninsula.
President Roosevelt probably VIII
have to settle the dispute among Of
ficials in Panama regarding their re-
spective shares in the construction OF
the canal and government Of the canal
zone.
The Russian protest to China against
, the ratification Of the Anglo-ThibetaR
treaty. 1t is believed at st. Petersburg.
Is the cause Of the reported unwilling
ness of China to comply with the Brit
ish demands.
, A special train bearing the Arch
bishop of Canterbury and ]. Pierpont
/ Morgan is wrecked at East BroOkfield.
I Mass. Neither the Archbishop nor Mr..
: Morgan was injured, though both were
= severely shaken up.
An English woman, wife Of a Rus
sian officer, who recently ran the blocks
, ade from Port Arthur, describes the
siege as seen from within the fortress
and declares that she does not believe
It can be captured.
! The question Of changing the d.