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Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1909-09-02
NEWS FROM MISSOURI
pr. Cook has ResIaned.

The long drawn out troubles Of the
Northwest State Normal school, which
has disrupted Maryville and torn the
school asunder, were settled when DR..
Homer M. Cook, president Of the In
stitution for the last three years, re-
signed, to take effect September l..
The board of regents voted to con-
tinue DR.. Cook as president until De-
cember 1, 1909. DR.. Henry Kirby Tay-
lor of Winchester, KY, ex-president of
Kentucky Wesleyan university, was
chosen permanent president, begin
ming September 1, 1909, and the con-
tinuing for nine months from that date.
DR.. Cook as acting president and Dr..
Taylor as permanent president, will
ofiiciate Jointly in the administration
of the school for the next three
months.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1909-09-02
BLK REFORM MOVEMENT
Atlantic City Mayor Refused to Re-
ceive Notice From Attorney Gen.
eral-Talk of Arrest.

Atlantic City, N. J.-Interest in the
reform movement in this city was in
creased when Mayor Story officially
refused to receive a notice from At
torney General Williams, ordering
him to close Atlantic City saloons
on Sunday. The mayor said he
knew the contents of the notice,
which gave the names and addresses
of the 3S saloon and hotel proprietors,
who are alleged to have sold liquor
on three Sundays of the present
month, and he refused to accept SER
vice even after the contents Of no
tice and the signatures of the attorney
general had ben read to him. Under
the state law, the refusal to act
within ten days on an order issued
by the attorney general. makes a city
official liable to indictment for
misdemeanor.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1909-09-02
Posse Search for EIend.

Meridian, Miss.-With the aid Of
bloodhounds and with the avowed in
tention of inflicting summary punish
ment, posses are securing the woods
in the vicinity of Meridian in an eff
fort to apprehend an unidentified ne
gro who attempted to assault the 16-
year-old daughter Of Joseph Williams,
farmer, six miles from this city.
Failing in his purpose the negro start
ed fire which destroyed the Williams
farm house.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1909-09-02
Three Ship In Race.

Farman, who is an Englishman. is
flying in machine of his own design.
He went into the air at 4:21:SO o'clock
in the afternoon and had until 1880
to fly. The existing record for time in
the air is Oh. 53m. 24s., made by Paul
han, Aug. 25, when he covered 1907
miles.
During the early laps of Farman's
flight there was an exciting race, in
which three machines completed. Roger
Sommer was the first to start, getting
away at one minute past o'clock. He
was followed by Hubert Latham at 81
minutes past 4, in his No. 10, the ma
chine in which he made 70 kilometers
Thursday. Farman went up immedi-
ately after Latham. Latham completed
his first round in the fast time Of SIN.
81 Abs. At the end of Sommer's Sc
cond round his time was 21m. "a 2-5s.
His first round was completed in ION.
"a lbs. The wind was blowing less
than meters a second.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1909-09-02
LAND SUITS KNOCKED OUT
Demurrers in Eastern Oklahoma Title
Cases Started by United States
Are Sustained.

Muskogee. Okla.-Judge Ralph
Campbell has sustained the demurrers
in the suits brought by the United
States to set aside various deeds and
leases made by citizen allottees in
the five civilized tribes in eastern Ok
lahoma, and thus settled a legal con-
troversy that has been the cause of
considerable concern in that part of
the state.
The court reviewed the relation of
the United States to the five tribes
since they became a nation, and found
that no vestige of title to the lands
allotted them now remains in the
United States. The demurrers involved
the question of the citizenship of these
Indians and the court declared them
to be citizens of the United States,
with all the rights, privileges and i'm
munities of citizenship. 1t is held
that the United States can not main
tain these suits on the principle that
it sustains to the individual Indian
a trust relation such guardianship be-
ing incompatible with citizenship, ma
tional and state.
Finally the bills were held bad be-
cause numerous defendants are joined
in each bill who were connected with
many distinct transactions regarding
as many distinct tracts of land.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1909-09-02
A $4,000 Suit Over a Chicken.

A 50-cent chicken was the basis of
$4,000 law suit filed in the circuit court
at Macon. H. D. Bruner of Excello
lived next door to Mrs. Cynthia Lucas
and her 17-year-old granddaughter,
Stella Johnson. Both families kept
chickens. In their petition suing
Bruner for $4,000 for defamation and
false arrest, Mrs. Lucas and Stella
state that Bruner accused them of
having stolen one of his chickens. The
defendants admitted at the trial that
they had chased Burners chicken out
of the yard, but denied stealing it. The
justice found for the defendants.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1909-09-02
HENRY FARMAN MAKES NEW RE-
coRD-FLIEs 11e MILES
NIGHT STOPS HIM.
DISTANCE AND TIME RECORDS
Flies 1923 Miles in 81 Hours 4 Min.
utes Sc. 2.5 Seconds When Timers
ouit--Stops When He Com
petes Ninteenth Lap.

Rheims, France.-Henry Farman
broke all time and distance records
for aeroplanes by covering 1896
miles. This does not include the
curves.
The committee ceased to record Far
mans rounds when the aviator had
gone 110.7S miles in Oh. Am. Sc 2.5s,
the best record. When Farman stopped
he had made his nineteenth lap. 1t was
then almost dark.
Farman is competing for the Grand
PriX De La Champagne, to be awarded
to the areoplane of either the bi-plane
or the monoplane type that covers the
greatest distance without replenishing
its supply of fuel or oil. Louis Paul
hans record was this event was 1907
miles.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1909-09-02
WITH Dou5LE5ARRELED SHOT.
GUN HE WOUNDS TWENTY
NINE MEN.
NEGRO IS SHOT, HUNG, BURNED
At First Shoots at Every White Man
He Saw, and Then at Every OBJ
Ieet Before Him-sought Re.
Vense for Injuries to Race.

Monroe, La.--Angered, 1t is be-
lieved, because two of his friends
had recently been shot by police in
this city, William s. Wade, a negro,
ran amuck on the principal business
street OF Monroe. With double
barreled gun he shot first at every
white man he saw, and then at every
object before him. The fire was re-
turned, and the negro finally fell dead
with a bullet through his heart, but
not before twenty-nine men, three of
them negroes, had been wounded.
Three May Die.
Seriously wounded:
Hugh Bigger, policeman, shot in
abdomen and thigh; may die.
T. H. Grant, deputy sheriff; shot in
neck and breast; may die.
Simon Marks, merchant, Tuskegee,
Ala, shot in breast and face; may die.
George Mccormack, manager of
Ouachita Lumber company, West
Monroe; arm shattered.
Among the slightly wounded are:
DIR. A. A. Forsythe, mayor of Mon
roe, shot in right leg; D. A. Breard,
banker and president of North Louis
lana Single company, shot in face;
Edward Strong, cashier Southern Ex-
press company, shot over right eye;
Joseph Thompson, chief dispatcher on
Iron Mountain railroad, shot in body;
Albert Marx, vice president Southern
Hardware company shot in head; ].
L. Kendall, train master Iron Noun
tain railroad, shot in body; d. G.
Trousdale, secretary and treasurer
Southern Grocery company, shot in
body; ]. w. Merryman, agent Wells
Fargo Express company, shot in hand.
Body Publicly Burned.
Wades' body was publicly burned
after it had been cut down from
pole on which it had been hung for
half an hour or more after he was
killed.
1t was at first reported that Wade
was half crazed from cocaine and
cheap whisky, but an investigation
by the police showed that when he
purchased the shotgun and box Of
shells few minutes before he first
opened fire, there was nothing I'M
usual in his manner. He had not been
drinking nor did he show any evil
dence of having taken cocaine.
Wade came to Monroe recently from
Pine Bluff. Ark. He was accompanied
by several other negroes, and they
began to make trouble for the local
police soon after they arrived. It was
alleged that they were members of a
society in Arkansas, which had as its
object revenge for all injuries done to
negroes.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1909-09-02
TRAIN KILLS 2 BROTHERS
Asleep on Track, They Are Cut to
Bits and Strewn Along Tracks
Near Princeton, Ind.

Princeton, Ind.-Two men, sup
posed to be Webster Mitchell and
James G. Mitchell, brothers, of Eek
erly, Ind, about 35 or 40 years old,
were struck by Southern passenger
train at Knight Crossing, near here,
and ground to bits. 1t is believed
they were asleep on the track. The
bodies were strewn along the rails
for several hundred yards. The only
means Of identlneauon were the
names in a small notebook. The hat
of one bore Jonesboro, Ark. mark
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1909-09-02

A breeze came lazily along
And TO the toiler sang its song:
1.-THE little brook still leaps and filings
It's foam upon the swallows wings;
The willows shade, still deep and cool
Spreads as of old across the pool.
And down the hill the meadow blooms
Still loose their wonderful perfumes
And every nOdding clover head
Is lush with honey, and as red
AS IL was when you used to tease
The demonstrating bumble-bees.
1.-THE willows shade, still deep and cool,
The old well chain is brown with rust,
The orchard knows the drowsy tune
OF insects in the afternoon;
They have not changed-feld, bird and
tree
Are all back where you used to be-
1.-THE old place still remains unchanged,
From none of its old ways estranged;
The lazy fence still loafs behind
The vines with which it is entwined,
And o, the little path still goes
Down through the thicket of wild rose
"And all of them send word to you
The shade, the brook, the orchard, too
That you who felt that you must rsam
Turn from it all, and journey home"
1t may have been such words as these
Were whispered by the vagrant breeze.
Or did the toiler, all day long,
Sing to himself this Turing song?
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1909-09-02

The Jews who suffered during the
recent uprisings at Kisheneff and 9TH
er places in Russia will not have died
in vain If the appeal of the Russian
ministry, signed by Premier Stolypin,
for an amelioration Of the condition of
the Jews brings from the car a modi.
1ication OF the restrictions now i'm.
posed upon a prosecuted and abused
people. The day is not distant in
Russia when such occurrences as re.
Gently blackened the history of that
nation will be regarded with horror.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1909-09-02

Confidence in the immediate future
is revealed by the fact that big ship
building company has received an or.
der for the construction of a steel
freighter 624 feet long, with a carry.
ing capacity OF 5000 tons. Many cost.
ly steamers of this description have
been lying idle this year, on the
Great Lakes, but investors know that
when business brightens there will
be brisk demand for all the tonnage
.afloat, and that others will be trying
to place rush orders" for new boats.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1909-09-02

The convention Of cattle breeders Of
the United States which has been
called to meet at Denver next Janu,
airy will have for its chief topic the
rising price of beef. There is said to
he danger that meat will go to pro,
hibitiYe prices. and this the cattle
men are anxious 70 avoid. Effort will
ibe made to reawaken interest in the
ranchinE industry, which has fallen
on Of late. The effort will be viewed
with favor by all who relish that diet
which is referred TO in the Scriptures
as food for strong men.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1909-09-02
train ais Auto; one killed.

Peoria, Ill.-rF. Fay t. Edwards,
aged "a years, was instantly killed
and his father, DR.. ]. E. Edwards,
aged 20. was fatally injured when a
fast Chicago & Northwestern passen-
ger train struck their automobile on
crossing near Toulon, thirty miles
north of here. The aged physician
suffers internal injuries and is not
expected to live.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1909-09-02
A Ray County Landmark Gone.

Fire destroyed the farm residence
and household goods of c. II. Bran
ham, liz miles northwest of Orrick.
The fire was caused by the explosion
of coal oil stove. This building was
one of the old landmarks of Ray
county and was built in the early '4Os
by the late w. R. Blythe, who settled
on the old homestead in 1926. The
loss was total, no insurance on either
building or contents.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1909-09-02

Has anybody found a missing bal.
loon? If not, the government is out"
An airship of this style broke from
the mOorings at Mount Weather. Va,
the signal service observation station,
floated on at a height of a mile or
more and has not been seen since.
Wandering balloons are not of much
value in themselves, but any one who
catches this one is asked to return to
the owner, as It may then be "hitehed"
again and made Of use for meteoro-
logical purposes
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1909-09-02
A Bio AppIe Crop in slaht.

The Hazeltine orchard, comprising
1000 acres west of Springfield, is ex-
pected to yield between $4,000 and 3d..
600 barrels of apples valued at more
than $4,000. Much of the output Of
this orchard goes to England and Ger.
many.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1909-09-02

Two infant joyriders in a borrowed
auto killed their man in New York.
Stiff though some sentences have been
it may be necessary to make them
yet more severe to discourage joy
riding.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1909-09-02

Gen. Brun, the French minister of
war. has a sharp eye on recent devel-
Opments affecting military science. He
declares belief in the efficiency of the
aeroplane and the submarine as war
instruments in the future, Thus he
atirms confidence that the principal
fighting hereafter will be in the air
or under the water. There is much
OF late occurrence TO warrant such
an opinion.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1909-09-02
He Was Not Ready.

South of Warsaw is a sign which
reads: -Four Miles to Warsaw" Be
meath this lettering a jealous col
porteur has poster this text: prepare
to Meet Thy God" 1t is narrated that
a man travelling northward observed
this sign and his conscience being
pricked he turned into the east road.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1909-09-02
jerome Wants Another Term

New York City.--District Attor.
ney William Travers Jerome an
nounced that he will be a candidate
for reelection this fall, running indie
pendently In a brief statement is
sued, he says lie has decided to seek
aeain nomination by petition.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1909-09-02
Anderson Gets Lie sentence.

For the unprovoked murder of Aug
ust Wagner, his friend, Luther Ander-
son, must spend the rest of his life in
the Missouri penitentiary. That was
the verdict returned in the case at
Mexico. The jury taking advantage of
the alternative allowed it under the
new Missouri law, found Anderson
guilty of first degree murder and fixed
his punishment at life Imprisonment
instead of hanging.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1909-09-02
Missouri Writer Dies.

Jefferson City, Mo.-samuel Keller,
a widely known newspaper corre-
spondent and politician, died here,
aged 81 years. A widow, who is a
sister Of Senator Charles ]. Hughes,
of Colorado, and a son, survive him.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1909-09-02
FIoater h IdentINed.

Cincinnati. ohio.--The body Of the
woman found in the Ohio river
near here was identified as that of
Mrs. Laura Yarbor, wife Of Ernest
Yarbor, an elevator man. Relatives
said she had often expressed deter.
mination to die.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1909-09-02
Panic EolIowa ErpIoslon.

Waverly, Ia.-In a panic in the
Kelly Canning company to escape
from the second floor, where a
gasoline tank exploded and thrown
fire over the room, George McRoberts
was killed, three persons were pro-
badly fatally injured and score Of
others were severely hurt.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1909-09-02
Asks Pay for a Wounded Heart.

Attorneys for Bessie Kenney of st.
Joseph filed suit for breach of prom
Use in the circuit court at Platte City.
Miss Kenney is plaintiff and Benjamin
B. Layton, young Platte county farm
er, is defendant. The amount asked is
$4,000.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1909-09-02
shoots eIrl and kIIIa LiImseIf.

Milwaukee, Wis.-Bert Mahron, %
years of age, shot his cousin, Mabel
Brooks, 10 years of age, and then
killed himself. The~girl will recover.
The shooting followed a courtship on
Mahron's part which was discouraged
by the girl and her parents because
of the girls youth.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1909-09-02
Five Killed In Feud Fluht.

Ell Paso, Tex.-In a feud fight Sun
day between the laborers employed
on the farms at Juriquilla and those
of Santa Rosa, nearby village, five
men were killed and one fatally and
ten seriously injured.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1909-09-02

A New Jersey man claims to have
a dog that hatched out and is rear.
ing a brood OF bantam chickens. The
fishermen haven't It all their own way
in the nature.faking class.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1909-09-02
RaIIroad soId AZ At,ctlon

Jackson, Miss.-rhe Mobile. jack
son & Kansas City railroad was sold
under foreclosure at Decatur, the Dur.
chase price being S3,2OO.OO0, and Neil
A. weathers the bidder.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1909-09-02

Fire Makes 1000 Families Homeless.
Krementchug. Russia,-A thousand
families in this district have been
rendered homeless by a fre that
started In local lumber min and
ragged throughout the night.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1909-09-02
RubonIc PLAQUE on Hawaii Island.

Honolulu, Hawaii.-Three cases of
bubonic plague and one death from
the disease were reported from the
island of Hawaii So far no cases of
plague have been discovered on this
island.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1909-09-02

Wireless telegraphy and flying are
established facts. but the human race
should refrain from Boosting until
lovely woman throws her sausage
Curls and rats into the garbage box.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1909-09-02
Bomb Wounds Several.

London, England.--A dispatch from
Verne les Bains, French watering
place, says a bomb was exploded in a
crowded street in Barcelona, wound
ing several persons. According to the
dispatch, bomb outrages are OF almost
daily occurrence In Barcelona.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1909-09-02
Literally True.

"A widow who knows the world and
has no extrayagant ideals is much
safer matrimonial risk than a young
girl"
Yes, ] believe myself that in the lat
ter case 1t is miss-placed affection"
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1909-09-02
ala EInh catnh-

Beaufort, N. CA catch of mullets
aggregating half a million pounds,
said to be the largest ever known
along the Atlantic coast, was made on
this port by deep sea fishermen.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1909-09-02
Twelve Peaaanta Hann.

Tiflis, Russia.-Twelve peasants
have been court-martialed and hanged
for killing Prince Chavodze. councillor
of the empire, in 1907
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1909-09-02

The fact that a man shot a friend
lately. mistaking the friend for
woodchuck, shows that those critics
are not far wrong who think not
enough time is devoted to nature study
in the schools.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1909-09-02

Man has burrowed in the earth like
q mole, raced like a deer, swan like
n fish, and now wants to fly like
bird. Is the natural accomplish
ment of walking in time to become ex.
tinCt?
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1909-09-02
Nof Alfonather

$50 your wife made sharp retort
when you took her to task. did she?'
Il don't know that you would cali It
a sharp Tetort exactly"
What was it2"
"A datiron."
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1909-09-02

The idea Of young blood in the af'
fairs OF the world is getting a trife
overdone with a boy shah Of Persia
and a baby emperor Of China.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1909-09-02
chIeaao oreat Western FlIes charter.

Jefferson City, Mo,-The Chicago
Great Western railroad filed a copy
Of its charter with the state author.
tiles here and was granted authority
to do business In Missouri.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1909-09-02

The housekeeper would like to
know what effect the Persian revolu
ton will have on the price of genuine
Persian rugs made in this country.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1909-09-02

That New York hen which
scratched up hidden gems should not
forget that at most seasons of the
year western hens lay them.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1909-09-02
eeorae ManvIIIe Eenn ples.

London, Eng.-The death is an
nounced here of George Manville
Fem, the novelist. He was born in
1881.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1909-09-02

The fresh-air funds are more than
ever needed now. Let the prisoners
of poverty be remembered in captiv'
1ty to misfortune rendered worse than
ever by the heat of the midsummer
season.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1909-09-02

With a hundred thousand applica-
tons for 10000 of his farms, Uncle
Sam begins to realize that he isn't
as rich In lands as he was a genera.
ton ago.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1909-09-02

Because Of its protracted drought
China looks like a good market for
man with a shipload of artesian wells
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1909-09-02

international romanees are becom
ing an interesting feature OF this
summer season.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1909-09-02

City folks don't mind little rain
now and then II II makes the farmers
haDpy
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1909-09-02

People only pay taxes cheerfully
when they know their money is well
spent.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1909-09-02

There being no active demand tor
war rumors, Europe has to consume
its own supply.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1909-09-02

Have your timer look over your
crop Of canned tomatoes. The solder
should now be appearing on the lids,
and the labels should soon provide a
bright bit Of color in the garden.