Mexico Missouri message., 1904-09-29
THE NEWS RESUME
Being = CONDENSED story Of the News
Of the Week.

and 1000 men thrown out Of work.
The Japanese are constructing new
railroads in Korea as strategic meas
lres.
Freshmen students Of Illinois Uni
versity are hazed by the sophomore
class.
The injunction is denied and a ju.
ry acqults the st. Louis County bull
fighters.
All exposure at Berlin shows a traf
&c in foreign titles with a regular
scale OF prices.
General Miles and q party Of capt.
tali5ts inspect Texas rice lands and
shipping facilities.
An outbreak against the Jews takes
place at Sosnowice, near the borders
Of Russia and Poland.
Government authorities forcibly ex-
pei the Bsrnabite monks from their
establishment at Paris.
1t is estimated that the Russian
losses at LiaoYang were, altogether,
somewhat less than 1900.
Three bullhghters were acquitted Of
batting and fighting bulls by a jury
in the Clayton Circuit Court.
Russians believe that a month will
elapse before the beginning Of severe
fighting around Mukden or Telling.
The winter session of Missouri
State University opens. 1t is expect
ed that the attendance will approach
1908.
John NJ. Glover former Congress-
man from Missouri, seeks a duel with
a candidate for Sheriff at Cripple
Greek, Colo.
Rear Admiral Walker says that ex-
cavatIon on the Panama Canal is pro-
crossing twice as fast as under the
French regime.
Citizens of Warsaw, o., shoot and
at work preparing to blow the safe of
the local bank.
The Southern Baptist Convention
will spend $4,000 this year in an eff
fort to develop the moral faculties Of
the negro race.
Fred Strube Of Havana, ILL.,, pleads
guilty to numbering Alice Henninger
and is sentenced to the Illinois Peni-
Tertiary for life.
Rations are growing short at Port
Arthur, but the soldiers, inspired by
the example of General Stoessel, have
not lost courage.
The Russian auxiliary cruiser Lena
is taken under United States escort
to Mare Island Naval Station, where
she is disarmed.
Russians at Port Arthur complain
that the Japanese refuse to allow the
burial of their own dead and violate
the Red Cross flag.
Governor Dockery issues a procla-
nation making October 18th Missouri
Day at the Worlds Fair, legal holi-
day throughout the State.
A fire man at Kansas City while CIV
ing an exhibition before members OF
the nterparliamentary Union, falls
from a tower and is killed.
A British sailing vessel, probably
blockade runner, is sunk by strils-
ing a mine off Port Arthur, and only
one of those on board is saved.
An engineer and an unidentified man
are killed in a wreck near Lawton,
New. One of the trains was carrying
party Of returning Knights Templars.
The Japanese are again turning
their attention to Port Arthur, while
tho army at Liao-Yang recuperates
and prepares for the advance toward
Mukden.
Judge Parker. it is announced, has
definitely given up the idea of q
speechmaking tour, and will speak
publicly only from the veranda at
Rousemount.
Two independent telephone compa-
mics are merged at Kansas City. 1t is
thought this union may pave the way
for consultations which may be ma,
tional in extent.
Charles Deneen, Republican candl.
date for Governor of Illinois, breaks
down at Centralia, cancels his speak.
ing dates for the week and goes to his
home in Chicago.
DeHOSiatS mahS GAINS III OoIh
branches of the Maine legislature and
cut down the Republican plurality
about 5000 in comparison with 1900
and $4,000 in 1896.
United States Consul MacWade,
stationed at Canton, China, is dismiss
ed from the diplomatic service, the re.
suit of an investigation into charges
of unbecoming conduct.
The Government report shows that
Sso.414 bales OF cotton have been gin.
ned up to September ! this year, in
comparison With 1887 in the CORE
spending period last year.
Italian soldiers attack two unarmed
native soldiers of China at Pekin, and
when they fee to avoid brutal punish