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Mexico Missouri message., 1909-10-07
GEN. GRANT STANDS PAT
Is Willing to Get Out of Army to Ad-
vance Cause Of Temperance,
He Says.

Chicago, I'LL am willing to
get out of the army or make any other
personal sacrifice if thereby l shall be
able to advance the cause Of temper
ance"
Major-General Frederick D. Grant
voiced these sentiments when inter
viewed in regard to the controversy
over his appearance in full uniform at
teh head of the big prohibition parade
last Saturday. General Grant Stands
pat"
Personally, | am teetotaler," he
said. NO one need have any doubt
of my personal feelings upon this sub
iect. The controversy appears to have
been over the use of the Uniform.
Why, my dear sir, that parade repre-
sented the very thing the army stands
for. 1t was a law and order demon
stration and l would feel that l had
been derelict in my duty had l re-
fused to participate. l am in earnest
about this and they may call me
crank if they please"
Asked what effect he thought the
controversy would have on the tenn
perance cause, General Grant said: I
hope it will have the effect Of advanc-
ing the cause"
Mexico Missouri message., 1909-10-07
ENGINE IN TWO COLLISIONS
Runs Wild Miles Through Youngs-
town, o.-Three Are Seriously
Injured.

Youngstown, Ohio.-While enter
ing Youngstown under full steam
passenger train No. 215 on the Penn
sylvania railroad, westbound, was
struck by train Of cars backed out
of a local steel plant, the collision
separating the engine from the tender
and train, Kent Stafford, fireman, was
thrown from the engine and will die,
Engineer B. F. Cummings was also
thrown off and was badly injured. For
two miles the engine ran wild through
the city. Near the upper works of the
Carnegie Steel company, 1t struck
switch engine, knocking it off the
track. Engineer Charles A. Simpson,
of the switch engine was seriously
injured, The passenger train was
stopped by the wreckage of the tender
and it's passengers escaped uninjured.
Mexico Missouri message., 1909-10-07
CHILDREN SHOWED IT
Effect Of Their Warm Drink In the
Morning.

A year ago ! was a wreck from
coffee drinking and was on the point
of giving up my position in the school
room because Of nervousness.
Il was telling friend about 1t and
she said, We drink nothing at meal
time but Postum, and it is such a
comfort to have something we can
enjoy drinking with the children
Il was astonished that she would
allow the children 20 drink any kind Of
coffee, but she said Postum was the
most healthful drink in the world for
children as well as for older ones, and
that the condition of both the children
and adults showed that to be fact.
MY FIRST trial was failure. The
cook boiled It four or 1--WE minutes and
It tasted so fat that l was in despair
but determined to give it one more
trial. This time we followed the direc.
tions and boiled it fifteen minutes aft
er the boiling began. It was decided
success and was completely won by
its rich delicious favour. In a short
time noticed decided Improvement
in my condition and kept growing bet
ter month after month. until now am
perfectly healthy, and do my work
In the school room with ease and pleas
ure. / would not return to the nerve
destroying regular coffee for any
money"
Read the famous little Health Clas-
sic, "The Road to Wellvillc." in pkgs.
There's a Reason"
Ever read the above IetteRe A new
one appenrD from time 20 time, Theg
afe genuine, tEne, An0 1uli 81 hu1naA
Interest.
Mexico Missouri message., 1909-10-07
NIGHT CARNIVAL PARADE
Big Pageant Is Concluding Event Of
children's Day In the Hudson
Fulton Celebration.

New York City.-A night carnival
parade of many novel features was
the concluding event of Children's day
in the Hudson-Fulton celebration. This
pageant was of generally allegorical
and legendary nature. Its bearing
upon the events of the week was the
representation it gave of arts and
ideals that contributed to Americas
present civilization and culture.
In the planning and construction OF
these so floats the German, Austrian
and Swiss societies of the city CO.
operated with the carnival committee
and the Teutonic mythology which the
early colonists brought to this part
of the country was strongly in evil
dence. But the classic legends of
Greece and Rome were not lacking,
and a large number of the floats rep
sented abstract subjects such as
Poetry, Music, Art, War, Humor,
Good Luck, Freedom and Peace. Time
ly interest went with the shivery
scene entitled "The Frost King"
Mexico Missouri message., 1909-10-07
ST. CHARLES coNoNER DRAFTS
SIX FROM PLATFORM TO
RENDER VERDICT.
BODY PLACED IN A BARREL
Dellberators See John Toohey Ground
Under Wheels Of a Freight Train
and Help Gather Pieces
Verdict In is Minutes.

Texas Junction, Mo.-When Coroner
Arnold of ST. Charles saw a man fall
under the wheels of a moving train at
Texas Junction, Mo, Tuesday night he
Immediately summoned six bystanders
to serve on a coroner's jury.
Before the train was stopped by the
crew, a barrel had been procured for
the purpose of holding the pieces of
the body, and all preparations for the
inquest were complete.
The victim of the accident was John
Toohey, 40 years old, formerly employ
ed as a switchman for the Chicago &
Alton railroad at Alton, ILL., Within a
quarter Of an hour after Toohey was
killed a verdict of accidental death
was returned by the coroner's jury,
the members of which all saw the man
fall to death
Mexico Missouri message., 1909-10-07

NEWS FROM MISSOURI
Iohnaon peeIared Not euIIty.

William A. Johnson Of Buckner was
declared not guilty of an attempt to
kill his wife by jury at Kansas City.
The acquittal of Johnson leaves I'M
solved the mystery surrounding the
attack on Mrs. Johnson. She and her
husband lived in a farmhouse near
Buckner, sleeping in the same room.
At three o'clock the morning of Au-
gust 20, 1908. she was found on the
floor of her room with a fracture OF
the skull, the result Of blow. Her
husband said he was awakened by
hearing her call him. He gave her
temporary aid and then called other
persons sleeping in the house. Ply
sicians said at first that she could not
live. He was arrested soon after
wards, and accused of assault with
intent to kill. The theory of the de-
Tense was that Mrs. Johnson fell,
striking her head, or that a burglar
attacked her.
Mexico Missouri message., 1909-10-07
CURTISS CITED FOR OCT. IA
Wright Brothers Begin Preliminary
Action for Injunction Against
the Aviator.

Buffalo, NJ Y-Wilbur and Or
vile Wright, through their attorney,
H. A. Ton. nson of Springfield, Ohio,
have been granted an order against
Glenn H. Curtiss and Herin-Curtiss
Co. of Hammondsport, N. Y, by Fed
eral Judge Hazel directing the de-
PENDANTS to show cause on or before
October IA why preliminary iniunc-
ton should not be issued restraining
the defnadants from making, using or
selling the so-called Curtiss aeroplane,
which the virgins claim is an in
fringement on their machines.
Mexico Missouri message., 1909-10-07
ours and Theirs.

"a play on names unconsciously per-
petrated by my youngest son was
very funny" said Flatbush man the
other day. 1--WE live next door to a
family named Feitenour, and the other
night while my family was busy read
ing in the library we heard racket
on the back porch. My son went out
to investigate, and on his return my
wife, always inquisitive, asked what
had caused the noise.
"'Nothin' but couple of cats Jim
told her, and then l heard her ask:
Did you see whose they were"
eyes; one was ours and the other
was Feitenour'sl"
Mexico Missouri message., 1909-10-07
When Smallpox is Costly.

In the circuit court at Marshfield
Fred Hendricks of Springfield was
given a judgment for 5000 against j..
M. Butcher, a wealthy realty dealer
of Springfield, for having given him
the smallpox. Mrs. Rebecca Frank
lin was also given judgment for $500
on similar ground. Butcher was sent
to the smallpox hospital here about a
year ago and left the institution be-
fore he was cured of the disease. He
is alleged to have mingled with num-
Der Of people, who contracted the
smallpox. There are four other dam
age suits pending against Butcher on
similar grounds. The cases tried at
Marshfield were sent there on change
of venue.
Mexico Missouri message., 1909-10-07
RIPPER" KILLS A WOMAN
derer Who Has slain and
Robbed Three.

St. Petersburg, Russia-The police
are securing the city for Jack, the
Ripper" who has already killed and
robbed three women of this city.
That the murders have all been COM
mitted by the same man is shown by
the fact that each killing was a case
Of stabbing and each victim had a
note pinned to her dress saying that
the murderer took her money as his
fee for freeing the earth OF woman
kind" 1t is believed that the muir
derer is insane.
Mexico Missouri message., 1909-10-07
Women,s Federation Elect.

The eighth meeting of the Fifth
District of the Missouri Federation Of
Women's Clubs was held at Sedalia.
The addresses of welcome by Mayor
J. L. Babcock was responded to in
behalf of the federation by Mrs. G. S,
Martin of Marshall. At the conclu.
sion of the business session the fol-
lowing officers were elected and in
stalled: President, Mrs. Anna Lurck,
Boonville; first Vice-president, Mrs.
Herman Kuellman, Clinton; second
vice-president, Mrs. o. M. Barnett,
Sedalia; secretary, Mrs. Kraus, Eldon.
The next meeting will be at Clinton,
when a two days session will be
held.
Mexico Missouri message., 1909-10-07
Come Home. Mother.

Mother, dear mother, come home
from the club, and rustic some sup
per for me; It's time you were here
working over the grub and getting
things ready for tea. The tables not
set nor the teakettle boiled, the vege-
tables are not prepared; no wonder
my temper and feelings are rolled,
though It's doubtful, indeed, if you
cared. Come home, come home, come
ho-ho-home! Yes, cut your symposium
down a wee bit, dear mother, and
hustle right home!-Los Angeles Elk.
press.
Mexico Missouri message., 1909-10-07
SUFFRAGETTE IS COMING
IS GOING TO TELL OUR WOMEN
HOW TO REMOVE YokE.
Wants to Tour West, Where, She
Says, She Hears There Are
Energetic Women.

London, Eng.-American women
who desire the ballot are to De
coached in the ways OF the militant
suffragettes whose demonstrations
have been a pest of embarrassment to
the government for several years, by
Mrs. Julia Pankhurst, president of the
National Women's Social and Political
Union, who sails for America October
10. Mrs. Pankhurst has led innumer-
able demonstrations and has served
two prison terms for the cause.
81 want it distinctly understood"
said Mrs. Pankhurst, that l will be
the first member of the social and po-
litical union to visit the United States
in the interest Of woman suffrage. i
know that one or two English women
have lectured in America; still they
did not represent the suffragettes.
Il know that on taking their leave,
they criticized the American women
as weak and willing slaves Of men and
not wanting TO vote. ! am optimistic
OF my coming visit to the United
States. have had warm, earnest let
ters from hundreds of American
women declaring their interest in the
movement and pressing upon me their
hospitality should | decide to visit
their cities
Mrs. Pankhurst probably will not
know her itinerary until she arrives in
New York on the Oceanic, as it is be-
ing arranged for her by a bureau
She only knows her first appearance
will be in Boston, October %, and that
she will lecture in Hartford, Spring
field and Worcester, October 26, q
and 2S, respectively, and that on some
later date she will address the League
of Self-Supporting Women in Carnegie
Hall, New York
Mrs. Pankhurst expresses a particu-
lar wish to tour the West.
II have been told" she says that
the farther West you go, the more en-
ergetic and original you find the
women"
Mexico Missouri message., 1909-10-07
Poker Finance.

Nose Coonley Ia winner)-Guess III
cash in, boys.
Abe Mokeby (also to the good) -
Guess I'll do de same.
Jefferson Yallerby-Me too!
Bill Bingy (the banker, big loser)
Well, guess yo' each done got an,
uddeh guess a-comin', gentlemen!
Ownin' to dis heah attempted an un'
called-fo' run on de bank, de instertoo-
ton am now suspended an won't re-
sumo operations till de panicky feel
in hab fully subsidized an de foolish
depositahs continues dom business as
fohmahly. And it's youah deal, Nose
Coonley!"- illustrated Sunday Maya
zine.
Mexico Missouri message., 1909-10-07
Adair County Raising Goats.

Adair county is one of the big goat
producing counties of Missouri. The
goats are not raised for mutton alone,
but also for the purpose of clearing
up underbrusb, They will go through
a thicket like rife bullet and eat it
to the ground, peeling saplings and
stumps so that they will never sprout
again. The goats get as fat as butter
balls on such forage. They then are
shipped to market and sold to city
folk for the choicest mutton.
Mexico Missouri message., 1909-10-07
IS cItlsn petition peneen.

Peoria, nl.--Delegates from If
teen cities OF the state, represent
ing the promotion OF commission
form OF government assembled In con-
yention IN the Coliseum here. The
principal object Of the convention was
the adopting OF resolutions urging
Governor Deneen to incorporate in
bis call for & special session OF the
legislature, the consideration Of an
enabling act. providing that cities may
adopt the commission plan Of govern
ment by popular vote II they 80 desire.
Mexico Missouri message., 1909-10-07
Girl Shot From Ambush.

While crossing the yard of her home
near New Point, Miss Jessie Kunkel,
20 years old, was shot from ambush
and dangerously injured. She
crawled to the house after being
wounded and summoned neighbors by
telephone. Bloodhounds picked up the
trail of the would-be assassin and ran
1t down, but became confused and led
the officers to the home of a young
man who proved an alibi.
Mexico Missouri message., 1909-10-07

The charge is made that the phono-
graph and the automatic piano are
lowering public taste. That is one
way Of looking at the situation. These
new inventions are taking music into
homes where 1t never was before and
never would be but for them. They
are doing for music what the inven-
tion Of printing did for the art of
reading. There is still literature-and
some Of the beautiful creations In lit
erature come from those who under old
conditions would never have learned
TO read. There may be hope for mu-
&c.
Mexico Missouri message., 1909-10-07
Immediately Picks Jury.

Several men were on the station
platform and Coroner Arnold i'm
mediately picked jury. Toohey's
body was dismembered and the jury,
assisted by the train crew, gathered
up the pieces and placed them in a
barrel. Doyle identified the body.
Coroner Arnold returned to St.
Charles at midnight with the body 1t
will be buried by the county. Toohey
was not married, and his relatives
have not been found.
Mexico Missouri message., 1909-10-07
Darkness Ends Iona FIiaht.

Johannisthal, Germany,-Rougier,
completing for the distance and
Michelin prizes, covered 100 rounds of
the course in fine and steady style and
finally had to descend on account Of
darkness. The distance traversed was
SOC miles and the time hours Al
minutes so seconds. His height during
the flight was from 100 to lao feet.
Mexico Missouri message., 1909-10-07

The state department at Washing
ton has been notified of the estab-
lishment of steamship service between
Acajutla, Salvador and Salina Cruz,
Mexico, the Pacific terminus of the
Tehuantepec railroad, that win re-
duce the time of the mails from New
York to Salvador from Is to 8 days.
This Will facilitate business, and dem
onetrate that improvements In the
mails and in shipping will increase
trade between North and South Amer
lea.
Mexico Missouri message., 1909-10-07

The Occultation OF Mars by the
moon the other night was a spectacle
interesting to astronomers, but not i'm
portant in revealing anything not pre-
viously known. Figuratiye significance
It had none whatever, more's the pity.
Ap population Of Mars that would
mean the end of wars on earth would
call for a special assembling OF the In
ternatonal Peace Congress at The
Hague to adopt resolutions of congrat-
ulauOn.
Mexico Missouri message., 1909-10-07
Cooke elected supreme Justlee.

Springfield, III. George A.
Cooke was formally declared elected
as justice of the supreme court from
the Fourth judicial district by Gov.
Deneen. Cooke defeated Milton Nc
Clure Of Beardstown by 22Ol majority.
]. H. Hanley. the Socialist candidate,
polled 1881 votes in the district.
Mexico Missouri message., 1909-10-07
The Minority Position,

saw Peleg down to the public IL
brary yistiddy. He wuz reading all
the old newspapers he could find"
Yes; he can't remember for sure
whether the Panama canal is to be
sea level or lock, and whichever 1t Is
he's agin it."
Mexico Missouri message., 1909-10-07
cononer Is a Witness.

Coroner Arnold was returning from
Old Monroe, Mo, where he held an in
quest over the body of an unidentified
man found in the woods. He was
standing on the depot platform at s p.
m, waiting for his train when a
freight train passed
Toohey and Walter Doyle had left
Alton, ILL.,. to go to Kansas City and
were beating their way on the freight
train. The men were riding on a fiat
car loaded with telegraph poles, and as
the train passed Coroner Arnold,
Toohey fell under the wheels.
Mexico Missouri message., 1909-10-07

If the proposed oiling of roadways
in the parks affords relief from the
dust in these pleasure spots. why
would it not give comfort on resi-
dence streets which have the nature
of boulevards? The cost of the oil
and the application of it might be Off
set to large extent by a reduction
in the cost of sprinkling service due
to the absence of dust on the oiled
streets.
Mexico Missouri message., 1909-10-07

The speed nuisance has become so
bad in Chicago that it IS seriously pro
posed to equip the street crossings
with bumps" TO jar the autoists into
some recognition Of the life, safety
and right to the streets of others. The
remedy is drastic, but a triae print
tive. a few speed maniacs serving
workhouse sentences would doubtless
dispose of the nuisance.
Mexico Missouri message., 1909-10-07

That the barnacle is a bothefsome
beast has been in evidence before and
since Dickens used it as an illustra-
ton Of certain human qualities. The
big battleship South Dakota was dry.
docked at Mare Island navy yard re-
Gently and 500 tons of barnacles were
scraped from the bottom. 1t is such
accumulations that hinder the speed
of many Of the swiftest warships.
Mexico Missouri message., 1909-10-07
6av Ened 910 for emokIno

The FIRST arrest at st, Joseph under
the anti-cigarette law was made BY
Harvey Nash, public school truant OF.
ncer. Nash saw Gerald Stacey IL
years old, a special delivery mes
ssnger u the postofiice. smoking =
cigarette. The boy was fined $40.
Mexico Missouri message., 1909-10-07
Flotilla TO Visit Port Arthur, Tex.

Washington, Tex.-Presidenf Taft's
naval escore, the second division OF
the Atlantic torpedo fleet now in st.
Louis will visit Port Arthur, Texas,
after It shall convey the executive
down the Mississippi river. Orders
T. that effect were issued by the navy
department.
Mexico Missouri message., 1909-10-07

Mexico is now getting more than its
share of earthquakes and tidal waves.
The losses of life there have been
very large and the destruction of
property tremendous. Italy is again
going through the same experience
and the people of both countries live
I'm fear that the worst has not yet hap
Dened.
Mexico Missouri message., 1909-10-07
Missouri pemoorats 70 Meet.

A conference Of Missouri Democrats
to be held in Kansas City November
10, was decided on by the Democratic
state committee, which met in execu.
tive session In st. Louis.
Mexico Missouri message., 1909-10-07
waterway Commission in England

London, England The American
waterway commission of which
Senator Burton is chairman arrived
here and win spend fortnight in
England. The commissioners win visit
Manchester and inspect the ship canal.
Liverpool and other harbors.
Mexico Missouri message., 1909-10-07
oonas to Give Warning Of Fire.

Chicago, nl.-Gongs on patrol
boxes in the downtown district that
will sound an alarm when engines
are rushing to FIRE win in the fu-
ture warn policemen to clear the
streets. This win greatly accelerate
the movement Of fire apparatus, H.
Mexico Missouri message., 1909-10-07
A sedalIa stockman Dead.

Maj. John G. Ruckle, 70 years old, q
native OF Virginia, who served in the
Confederate arm died at sedalia, He
had lived there or more than 80 years
and was widely known as a stockman.
Mexico Missouri message., 1909-10-07
Honolulu Looks for Taft.

Honolulu, H. 1.-The report is pub
lished here in a local paper that
President Taft may visit the
Hawaiian Islands and that ae will
come here on the cruiser st, Louis,
Mexico Missouri message., 1909-10-07

Those who missed the occultation of
Mars recently did not miss much.
II was less exciting than some Of the
things one hears in the airshaft of an
apartment house
Mexico Missouri message., 1909-10-07

A Brooklyn girl has gone through
Hell Gate, an aquatic feat attempted
by many men who have failed in 1t.
The gentler sex is just now decidedly
I'm the swim.
Mexico Missouri message., 1909-10-07
Girl to Take Her Baby to Prison.

Logan, Iowa.-Mrs Anna Lind,
IS, who has been convicted in the dis
trict court here Of donning male at
tire and breaking into a store at
night with burglarious intent, will
take her little baby to prison with her.
Mexico Missouri message., 1909-10-07

While the constitution follows the
flag under most circumstances it may
find difficulty in following the flag to
the pole and camping out permanent
" on moving hummocks Of ice.
Mexico Missouri message., 1909-10-07

One national government is Install
ing an expensive wood-testing bureau
at the University of Wisconsin, evil
IDENTIFY being willing to hope that
there will be wood to test for some
time vet.
Mexico Missouri message., 1909-10-07
Club Women In Columbia.

The Federation of Women's Clubs
of the Fourth District held it's seventh
annual meeting at Columbia. Mrs.
Rosa Ingel delivered the address of
welcome and Mrs. l. G. Dempsey, dis
trict president, responded Mrs q.
NJ Shepard of Springfield, state presi-
dent, also spoke.
Mexico Missouri message., 1909-10-07
Insurance Man a Suicide.

Edwin Fulton, of the insurance firm
Of Baird, Eaton & Fulton, shot and
killed himself in his home, 200 Gar
field avenue, Kansas City. 1t is said
his mind was affected by heat on July
last.
Mexico Missouri message., 1909-10-07
AmerIoan schooner seIred.

Pensacola, Fla Fishing schooner
Caldwell H. Colt Of this port has been
seized by g Mexican grnboat on pro-
greso and her crew CT eight men
thrown in prison.
Mexico Missouri message., 1909-10-07
jerome Files independent Candidacy

New York City.-District Attor-
ney William Travers Jerome filed
the necessary petition with the bureau
OF electors endorsing his candidacy
for reelection. Two thousand names
are necessary for an Independent
nomination petition. but Mr.. Jerome
sent ia 5000.
Mexico Missouri message., 1909-10-07

There seems to be no such thing
in the world as an automatic and in
violable polometer to ring bell when
a man reaches the bOreal climax.
Mexico Missouri message., 1909-10-07
Calhoun Case postponed,

Gan Francisco, Cal.-The trial Of
Patrick Calhoun, on charge Of
having offered brlbe to a super
visor was continued until November is
at the request of the defense.
Mexico Missouri message., 1909-10-07
Minnesota crew Wins Boat Rae.

New York City-The cutter crew
OF the United States ship Minnesota
won the race for the Battenberg cup.
The crew OF the Louisiana was sec
ond and that Of the British cruiser
Drake third.
Mexico Missouri message., 1909-10-07

Peru is sending It's presidents son
90 learn scientific farming in Wiscon'
sin, though llama raising Is but indif.
ferently taught there,
Mexico Missouri message., 1909-10-07

There is many a slip between be
ing talked Of for a federal appoint
meut and the actual seizure of the
Mum
Mexico Missouri message., 1909-10-07
The Farmer Was surprIsed.

A farmer in a Springfield restaurant
ordered doughnuts and black coffee,
and was surprised to hear the waiter
cry: zone in the dark and two run
Der tires"
Mexico Missouri message., 1909-10-07

The pole has claimed its full quota
Of human victims. Now that IT has
been found, aviation is going to take
it's place in the sacrifice Of life to gain
victory.