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Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1909-11-11
NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY
VOTES MEDAL TO COMMANDER
AND BARTLETT.
EXPERTS SEEK COOKS PROOF
Question Of Priority In Attic Discovery
Will Be Investigated Fully at
Earliest Possible Moment by
a Subcommittee.

Washington, D. C.-Commander Rob
ert E. Peary was voted a gold medal
by the National Geographic society
for having reached the north pole.
The board of managers Of the
society at a meeting accepted unani-
mously the report Of its subcommittee
of scientists who he'd examined the
explorers records and proofs and
found them to be corroborative of his
claim that he had reached the pole,
The Society adopted a resolution
that the question of whether or not
any explorer reached the north pole
prior to 1909 shall be referred to a
subcommittee of experts with authori-
ty to send for papers or make jour
nsys to inspect original records. This
indicates that the society proposes
as soon as possible to pass upon the
records of DR.. Frederick A. Cook.
After Cooks Proofs.
OF far-reaching Importance is the
society's decision to follow up vigor-
ously the question of priority. The
scientists will spare no expense to be
convinced. DR.. Cook will be advised
| Immediately e the society's action.
Present at the meeting of the board
OF managers were Is men, all promi-
nent in the scientific world. After the
report Of the subcommittee, there was
a debate lasting more than two hours
but finally the board voted unani.
mously to accept the report of the
three experts, who believed without
question that Commander Peary
reached the north pole April 6, 1909.
In addition to awarding Commander
Peary a special gold medal, 1t was al
so decided that medal be given tc
Capt A. G. Bartlett, who was de
clared to have displayed liable seaman
ship, pertinacious effort and able man
agement" in the Peary arctic expedi
| ton.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1909-11-11
pennsylvania RAILROAD PAS
sENoER TRAIN, AT TERRIFIC
SPEED, HITS ENGINE.
WRECKAGE BURIES SCORES
Locomotive Boiler Explodes, Blowing
Forward Part Of Car Into Fras-
ments-caused by an
Open Switch.

New York City. 49, An inbound
Philadelphia train on the Pennsylva.
MIA railroad, going at a terrific speed,
crashed into an engine on a trestle
near the Jersey City terminal.
Five persons were killed and scores
injured, many of them seriously. Cars
were splintered into stacks of debris.
The smoking car was demolished
and the passengers were tossed about
and buried under the wreckage.
The collision was head-on. The pas
senger train was sweeping across the
trestle at Brunswick street and Rail
road, half a mile from the line, when
an open switch sent 1t on the wrong
track.
The train swung over to the inner
outbound track when a light engine
and tender were but a few yards dis
tant, making good speed in the oppo-
site direction. Before either engineer
could make a move the crash came.
The boiler Of the passenger engine
exploded at the moment Of impact.
The forward part of the first car of
the train was blown to bits. No pas
senger in that car escaped injury Of
some sort.
Within a short time after the col
lision every ambulance in Jersey City
had been rushed to the scene and pa
troll wagons sent from many stations
reinforced them. A force Of wreck
ers was quickly at work searching the
debris for victims.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1909-11-11
INTERRUPTS TRIAL, ADMITS Crime

The newcomer proved to be a man
OF about 81 years. Amid the greatest
excitement he demanded a hearing.
Refusing to reply to the preliminary
inquiries as to his profession and
domicile the young man shouted that
he had been an accomplice in the as
sasination OF Adolphe Steinheil and
Nine. Japy.
AS the audience hushed into silence
in their eagerness to hear what he had
to say, Jean lie Fevre continued:
Il was an accomplice in the assassin
atoms at the home of Nine. Steinheil.
Filled with remorse, l wish now to
confess my part in the crimes. was
disguised as a woman and wore a wig
Of red hair. My accomplices wore long
cloaks. We committed the murders
and then escaped to the forest at
Mount Morency, where we burned our
DISCUSSES"
Left Country After Crime.
The voluntary prisoner said that
after destroying the immediate eviden-
ces of their crime he and his COM
panions escaped from the country, go.
ing abroad. One of his friends had
since died, he said.
Nine. Steinheil confronted LIE
Fevre, but said she was unable to re.
cognize him as one of the murderers
whom she had described. Judge De
Wales ordered that lie Fevre be
placed under arrest and an investiga.
ton of his statement be made At the
same time the court warned the jury
that this dramatic episode might prove
to be another attempt to battle justice
The confession of the new witness
came after Nine. Steinheil had been
subjected to a grilling examination
for a day and a half. During all this
batting by the presiding Judge she
held her own, at times showing that
she was a most consummate actress
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1909-11-11

That Panama earthquake was only
a little one. 1t caused some appre.
hension, but apparently did no dam.
age. The canal at Panama was un
dertaken in the full knowledge that
the region is in the earthquake belt,
but also with the conviction that less
danger is to be apprehended there
than would have threatened had the
United States adhered to the Nicar.
aqua route, for the Nicaragua route
is much longer, and the longer the
route the greater the liability to In.
Jury of the canal by earthquakes.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1909-11-11
She Heads journalism Glass.

Miss Mary Paxton of Independence,
vas elected president of the senior
class in the School of Journalism of
the University of Missouri. In the
class are seven members and every one
received an office. The others officers
are; Vice-president, R. P. Gould, Albu-
querque, N. M; secretary, D. R. Scott,
Columbia, Mo-; treasurer, G. V. Ken
ton; sergeant-at-arms, R. E. Miller,
Moberly, Mo-; historian, r. F. Leggett,
Carthage, Mo-; social committee, ]. b
Powell
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1909-11-11
CLERK REFUSES LICENSE
Mother Consents to Marriage Of is.
year-OId Daughter to Man Of Three
Score and Ten.

Oroville, Cal.-John Pinkney Ware,
70 years old, and a resident of Orc
vile, appeared before County Clerk
Batchclder and asked for a license TO
wed Cqra May Burns, whose age was
given by her mother as Is years, bit
who did not look more than 10.
The girl was accompanied by her
mother, Mrs. Eliza Ragine, who gave
her consent to the marriage. Despite
this fact, Batchelder refused to grant
the license. The custody OF the girl
may be taken from the mother and
vested in Probation officer ]. A.
Glenn,
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1909-11-11

The national game of baseball is
constantly achieving new triumphs. A
match was played in Berlin recently
for the benefit of the AmeTiCan wo'
mans club, and was dignifed by some
unusual features: The mines were
headed RESPECTIVELY by Count Won
Befnstorff, the German ambassador
to the United States, and Capt Heath
of the British embassy. while the re,
naming players were chosen from the
United States embassy and from the
American colony in the German cap
ital.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1909-11-11
Nevada Fire Loss 100000.

Fire of unknown origin that broke
out at Nevada in the plant of the w.
F. Norman Sheet Metal Manufacturing
company in an hours time did about
100000 damage. The plant covered
about an acre of ground. All the old
part of the building was totally de-
stroyed, along with $4,000 worth of
new material just put in few days
ago and 100 men will be thrown out
of employment. me company did Dusi-
ness in dozen states and many large
orders will be tied up. Much of the
loss is in expensive machinery of spe-
cial pattern, some of which it will
take years to duplicate.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1909-11-11
ratt vIes wien Circus and FaIr.

Jackson, Miss.-President Taft, a
threering circus, gala day at the
state fair, balloon ascension and a
thrilling parachute leap, gave Jackson
a share of honors unique and unpar-
alleled in the history of the old city.
The president visited the state fair
and the state fair gave return checks
to all who wanted TO see the circus
across the street, and in this way a
combination of the three great at
fractions was formed. The balloon
ascension was free for all.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1909-11-11
$4,000 whltla Reward ApportlOned.

Harrisburg, Pennsylvania-In an Of
fetal statement from the executive de-
partment, Attorney General Todd
makes these allotments of the reward
Of $4,000 offered by the state for the
apprehension of the party or parties
who abducted Willie Whitla: Patrick
o'Reilly, Cleveland, $4,000; William H.
Hunley, Cleveland, $4,000; 7. G. Coch-
ran, Mercer, Pa. $500; Q. A. Gordon,
Mercer, Pa, $500; Martin Grain, Sha'
ron, Pa. 800, and pension fund, Cleve-
land police department, $500.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1909-11-11
Shot For Taking Boys Dog.

Henry Sanders, who was shot by
Glen Smith, IL years old, because he
took the lads dog with him on a hunt
ing trip, died at Joplin as the result OF
the wound. After chasing Sanders,
who was riding in a buggy, for three
miles the lad shot him with 22-caliber
tarket rifle. Sanders had previously
released the dog, which met the boy as
he returned home. The boy is held
without bond on charge of murder.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1909-11-11
Back Seat for Roosevelt.

New York City.-Commander Peary
is to get more for a word for the
magazine story of his achievement in
discovering the north pole than ex-
President Roosevelt is getting for his
hunting story. Mr.. Roosevelt's price
is $100, but Commander Peary is to
get $1.20 word for a story of about
$4,000 words that is to run serially in
a magazine for the next eight months.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1909-11-11
M. s. U. Relic in Miniature.

A miniature replica in variegated
marble of the classic columns which
formerly stood In front Of the Academ-
ic building at the University Of Mis-
souri, is on exhibition in window at
Kansas City. It is the property of
Prof. E. D. Phillips, principal of the
Manual Training High school, and is
one of two Professor Phillips had made
in Florence, Italy. The other was sent
to DR.. A. Ross Hill, president Of the
university. The old university col
umns were damaged by fire when the
Academic building was burned in 1898.
They now stand in the quadrangle
about which the university buildings
are grouped.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1909-11-11
Danea Would WORK Alone.

Copenhagen, Dennark.-The council
Of the University or Copenhagen has
refused to allow the National Geo
graphical Society OF Washington 70 be
present when the official examination
Of DR.. Frederick A. Cooks polar expe-
dition records Is made. The uniyer.
sity, In answer 10 the request Of the
American society. cabled;
''The university council cannot &C
ceps your offered assistance. taking II
for granted. after our examination. the
Aaih ana reeords WIN Be placed q ne
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1909-11-11

An expert in the difficult art of ex.
terminating mosquitoes claims at last
TO have found an easy way. AS their
breeding places are in swampy lands
or in stagnant water and the season
for their breeding is in April and
May, permanganate of potash scat
tered over these places will be an eff
fective destroyer, He claims that
two applications will do the work. II
Is a little late for the present sea
son, but there ought to be a demand
for the mosquito exterminator In New
Jersey next spring.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1909-11-11
land 10 liIs Nenro servant.

After four years OF litigation, Har-
riet McQuitty, negro, received judg
ment in the Boone county circuit court
for forty acres OF land, valued at $4,000
against the estate of w, r. white, a
wealthy white farmer OF Boone coun-
". who died in 1905. The negro wO-
man was his servant forty-five years.
He promised her home II she would
remain With him until he died. BY q
compromise their two cAildren re-
eeIyed ga.s0o from the estate two years
ago
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1909-11-11
School Book Agent Is Freed.

The Indictment against Samuel Bur
nett, an agent for CHM & Co., school
book publishers, charging him with
attempting to bride John l.. Anderson,
ex-superintendent of the Daviess
county schools, with 5000 to use his in
fiuence to have CHM & Co.'S books
adopted in Daviess county, was
quashed in the circuit court at Chilli
Gothic on the ground that it was in
sufficient to prove an offense. Bur-
netts home is in Illinois,
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1909-11-11

A recruit in New York who openly
cursed the army and the American
flag and who asserted he had entered
the United States service merely for
money and graft, was court-martialed
and sent TO prison for several years.
The country has no more use for trail
tors in these days than in the times
of Benedict Arnold, and such an Of
Tense is severely punished because it
strikes at the very root of our nation
al life
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1909-11-11

There is an impression among many
people that Americans are not a law
abiding nation. But We observe that
whenever the 18th Of September
comes along straw hats are removed
from the urban population as If by
magic. 1t makes little difference
whether the weather is hot or not,
says the New York Post. The 18th OF
September may be hotter than the
18th Of August, but public opinion,
which IL the basis Of morality and OF
law, ordains that on this particular
day the straw hat must go.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1909-11-11
Harvard HonOrs JopIIn Youth.

Boston, Mass.-W. A. Hurwitz, OF
Joplin, Mo-, a third-year student in
the graduate school of art and science
at Harvard, has been awarded the
Harris fellowship for this year, carry
ing a stipend of $780, Young Mr.. Hur'
WITT is making special study Of
mathematics. He is a graduate of the
University of Missouri and Harvard.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1909-11-11
TO Arrest Harvey w. Salmon.

Information has been sworn to by
c. A. Crome and James Paul, deposit
tors of the Salmon & Salmon bank at
Clinton, which failed in June, 1905,
lor nearly $1,OOO,OOO, charging Harvey
w. Salmon with receiving deposits
when the bank was in failing condi-
ton,
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1909-11-11

American torpedo boats and torpe'
do-boat destroyers are showing a ca.
pacity for speed that is not likely to
be excelled anywhere. The torpedo
boat destroyer Flusser recently made
something like SO knots an hour, and
now another new craft, the Reid, re-
ports having made 34.54S knots. These
little hornets of the sea" show they
can fly swiftly as well as sting sharply.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1909-11-11
Alabama Mob seeks slayers.

shubuta, Miss.-Word was received
here that a mob was forming at
Sila, Ala, a small town near here
to lynch Brooks and Bud Coger and
two other white men named Kenner
and Phelps, charged with robbing and
killing william Doggett.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1909-11-11

No hurry about that smoked glass.
Halley's comet will not be visible to
the naked eye till next spring. Query
Can an eye clothed in sooty glass be
called "naked?"
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1909-11-11
To See Newspaper school.

Ii Sum Ling, a noted Chinese jour
nalist, probably will visit the Univers-
ity of Missouri during the winter. He
has notified Hin Wong, a Chinese stu
dent in journalism at the university,
he probably will come to Missouri and
speak here while on his present visit
in this country. He is now in Wash
ington, d. G.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1909-11-11

OF the imported bathtubs Of Chill
during 1908 Germany supplied As per
cent, England Ss per cent and the
United States only IS per cent. II
would seem that by little trade dill
eenee Che cleanllness Of our South
Amsriesn brethren might Be brought
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1909-11-11
az Altnn Ennlneer ples.

bloomington, Ill.-Peter Rafferty,,
for forty years a locomotive engineer
on the Alton, running between Bloom
ington and ST. Louis and one of the
best known runners in the west, died
here, aged &C.,
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1909-11-11
stage Robbers Seize Mail Sack.

Vancouver, B. C.-Two masked
highwaymen held up the Cariboo
stage at 15O-Mile House in Cariboo,
and stole several sacks of registered
mail. 1t Is believed they obtained
four or flve thousand dollars.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1909-11-11
AnnldentalIv klIln Wlfe.

Nashville, Ark.-Mrs. @. o. Baugh-
man Of Nashville was accidentally
shot and killed by her husband
while out hunting In Little river bot
tom. near White Clif. Wednesday
morning. News Of the tragedy was
phoned TO Nashville and a special
train was sent to bring her body
home.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1909-11-11

The head of a woman's college in
Massachusetts holds the theory that a
womans beauty should be developed
before her brains It is a sensible re-
version to old principles to begin any
building by a sound foundation to
make the edifice all the stronger at
the top.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1909-11-11

With food prices still soaring, the
housekeeper now has problems to
solve Of Just as great importance as
those statesmen are called on to
wrestle with.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1909-11-11
Farmer In Wagon Killed BY Train.

Fairfield, Ill.-Thomas Blaekford,
farmer living nine miles south, was
instantly killed by freight train on
the Baltimore 6 Ohio Southwestern
at Mil Shoals. as he was nrossing
the track with wagon load Of thing.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1909-11-11

The arrest and timing of Chicago
chauffeur for letting the engine of his
car run" for an hour while he waited
for patron calls attention to noise
nuisance with which the authorities
have been allow 20 deal.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1909-11-11

Los Angeles, Cal.--The city council
has Endorsed the plan of holding
a series OF international aviation
contests here next December. A prize
of 100000 is to be raised by means
OF selling 81 shares Of stock.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1909-11-11

Americans invented the steamship,
the telegraph, the telephone, the cleo
trio light and the reaper. Then an
American spoiled It all by inventing
the phonograph.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1909-11-11

The japanese have added a course
of courtship to tie curriculum of the
girls schools in Japan. They might
as well establish an institution of in
struction teaching ducks how to swim.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1909-11-11

Terrific and fatal storms on land
and sea prove that man has not yet
made complete conquest Of the forces
Of nature.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1909-11-11
.Ierons % Resunne 1 AZ Practice.

New York City. - District Attor-
new William Travers Jerome has form
I'd 4 partnership with William Rand,
Jr., one Of his former assistants and
VIII resume the practice q Law after
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1909-11-11
MOI oulltY of RIaekmaII.

Lille Vessel, who was once tried
and convicted for attempting to black
mail DR.. c. L, Lavender Of Marthas-
vile, was acquitted at the conclusion
of her second trial at Harrington.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1909-11-11

The GLACIERS in New York have or
ganized a union. But that is one
which will probably be easy to
break up.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1909-11-11

When aeronauts come down to
earth they find that the laws have not
changed since they scared aloft
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1909-11-11
Two Killed at WeddInu FrolIIe

Gonzales, Tex.-In a duel following
a wedding frolie In the Mexican
quarter on the Henry CRrewell farm.
two miles north OF Wrightsboro, two
men were killed.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1909-11-11

Thanksgiving isn't so far ahead but
you can smell mince pie and Gran.
berry sauce coming down the pike.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1909-11-11

Thanks are due to Columbus for
discovering us.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1909-11-11
HOW BLOCK SIGNALS WORK
Operation Of Ingenious system That
Insures the Safety Of Railroad
Passengers,

Comparatively few people know
just what is meant by block signals
when they read that railroad has es-
tablished the system on IT'S lines.
The block is a length Of track which,
on double track roads, has at its en-
trance a post and movable arm, and
on single track lines one at each end.
To say that a line has every inch
protected by this system means that
the entire line is divided into consec-
utive blocks. Only one line from Chi
cago to New York is thus protected,
and of the total in the United Statesy
one-third is on the Union and South
ern Pacific.
The operation of the block system
is simple but absolute. In a few
words, it means that a train cannot
move from one block into the next
until the latter block is empty. AS a
train moves forward, the signal arm
is set to show that the block just left
may be entered by the next train
following. When a train enters a
block it so affects the en-
ergy that is a part of sig
q mailing that the sema-
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1909-11-11

Antwerp, Belgium. IN Rougier, the
French aefoplaniat. IN . nlght attained
belehA ~ $50 feet