Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1904-03-10
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TO buy bulletproof waistcoats for po-
licemen.
Edwin Franklin Abel. president e
the company which publishes the Balti
more Sun, is dead.
Christian SchlopD, a railway clerk o.
Bloomington, ILL.,, is the victim Of 3
mysterious assault.
Fourteen lives were lost from fra
and storm aboard the steamer oueon
on the North Pacific coast
The London Daily Mall hears that
the Japanese have blockaded Yladiyo
stok as well as Port Arthur.
Frank Smith, an 1s-year-Old boy iiv-
ing near Louisville, Ill, rather than
submit to arrest, killed himself
The Mayor Of New Orleans refused
to invite President Roosevelt to the
Southern Good Roads convention.
The president OF the Dressmaksrss
Protective Association declares Amer
lean women do not sit properly.
Missouri State University has chosen
its debaters for the annual debate with
Representatives OF Kansas University.
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Seven persons were painfully in-
jured, several perhaps fatally, in coli
lision Of electric cars near Upton, Ind.
P. Cunningham Of Terrell, Tex, who
survived the Galveston food and tha
Chicago fire, died from the effects OF q
fall. Il
President Roosevelt has intfmated
that he will not allow the French suit
to hinder the digging Of the Panama
canal.
The st. Petersburg government IL
said to have decided not to attempt to
take her Baltic feet to the far East
until June.
Mrs. Langtry inspected the ruins Of
the Iroquois Theater with a view OF
making improvements in her new Lon
don theater.
The Car issues a formal announces
ment Of the rules Of war by which he
will be governed in the present strug-
gle with japan.
Ten thousand Chinese troops are
marching by night toward the north
eastern frontier to Pechili. Russia
fears these troops may be allied with
Japan.
The Nationalist Of France are busy
circulating alarming war rumoFs, cal
culated to destroy confidence in the
government and make trouble for the
ministry.
w. s. Daniels, a well.knOWn news
paper correspondent In Washington, Is
found dead, asphyxiated, in his office.
The coroner returned verdict Of acct.
dental death.
Representatives Of great steamship
companies declare the advance book
ings indicate an unprecedented influx
Of Europeans to this country during
the Worlds Fair.
The fee railroad across Lake Bail1ai
was completed Sunday and the trans
portation Of troops from Russia across
Siberia to Manchuria will now pro-
coed more rapidly.
A scheme to connect the Ohio and
James river and make possible unin-
terrupted river traffic from the Mis-
sissippi to the Chesapeake bay is being
promoted at Richmond.
1t is reported that two Japanese war
ships were so seriously damaged In the
recent Port Arthur engagements that
they were compelled to put back to the
sasebo docks for repairs.
The concentration of Russian troops
on the west bank of the Yalu Is re-
ported to be progressing great deal
more rapidly than the world imagines.
Heavy land fighting is expected soon.
An English expert declares radium
has been proved a disappointment in
the treatment Of cancer, and says it
may as we'll be dismissed from consfd-
GRAFTON as a possible cure for this dis
ease.
The fee gorge in the Kaw River ae
Kansas City threatened to carry out the
temporary bridges erected following
last years great flood. ALI day Sun
day men dynamited the ice to break up
the gorge.
Bills have been passed to establish q
Petrifed Forest National Park in ARR
IONA. and authorizing the construction
Of bridges across the Missouri a.
Yankton. S. D., and across the Canta
liza river in Alaska
President Roosevelt Issues the for
NAL proclamation which puts the Pam
anna treaty into effect Negotiations
are nov over and All that remains .
the settlement Of two legal prObIenn
before the canal can be dag.
1t is considered probable that Cam
eron Forbes viii accept the appoint.
ment to the Philippine Commission. as
Gov Wright has cabled that the affairs
Of the commission are such that Mr..
Forbes can delay his coming.