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Mexico Missouri message., 1911-02-09
sTATEHoUSE BURNED.
The Old Structure Goes up in
Smoke Last Sunday Night.

jefferson City, Mo-, Feb. g.
The Missouri Capitol was destroy
cd by fire tonight.
\ shaft of lightning which
struck the pinnacle of the cupoll
shortly before 8 o'clock started
the blaze that burned the old pile.
The loss to the building alone is
estimated at 81 100000 The State
mad been unable to induce any
company to insure either the
building or its contents.
Records of incalculable value
were burned. The original land
grants, which it would have been
impossible to replace, were saved.
Other records, including those
pertaining to the corporations Of
the State, are in vaults that may
or may not be fireproof. In the
vault in the Treasurer's office
when the roof crashed in was
10000 in cash, 100000 in school
bonds and 100000 in legislative
script. y time lock prevented
the opening of the inner vault
1t is supposed to be fireproof.
The records of the present
House of Representatives were de-
stroyed. The Senate records were
saved.
Within few minutes after the
discovery of a tiny flame creeping
out of the cupola all Jefferson
City knew that the historic build
ing was in danger. Crowds rush
ed to the Capitol grounds. Most
Of the men were willing to lend a
hand, but they were pOwerleSs.
For half an hour the flames.
unchecked, ate into the big dome
and then crawled around it down
to the roof Of the central, or main.
building. In another fifteen min.
uteS the dome crashed through in.
to the corridor below and com
pletely covered the great seal of
the State inlaid on the main floor
under the dome.
The battle against the flames
was an unequal one from The
start. The cupola on top of the
dome, where the fire had it,
origin, is 13O feet from the
ground, and the water pressure
was insufficient to reach it.
jefferson City has no paid fire
department and does not even
boast of fire eigine. The volun
teers did the best they could witt
the available equipment, but then
efforts were pitifully futile. MeI
cursed, the women wept, as they
saw first the dome consumed by
the flames, then the center Of tn,
building, and, finally, the tw:
wings, which were added to tn,
original building in 1887.
Mexico Missouri message., 1911-02-09
His Leg Broken.

Joseph Lindsey, who is the
father of Mrs. l.. A. Bybee of this
city, sustained a broken leg while
working with gang of bridge
carpenters at Greenwich, III. one
evening last week. lie was hold
ing lantern where the driltwood
had piled up against bridge when
he was struck by the limb Of a
tree.
Mexico Missouri message., 1911-02-09
Mr.. Early Dead.

Bernard Early. brother o!
Mrs. 7, J. Null Of Mexico. died at
his home in Centralia last Friday
from the effects of an attack of tn,
grippe. The wife survives him
Burial with Masonic honors il
Certralia Sunday afternoon.
Mexico Missouri message., 1911-02-09
Mr.. Iazier Dead

Nj. La2ier, formerly of Mexico.
dlHd a. his home in Kansas CITY
last Friday of pneumonia. He
vas ~ wears OF ye. A brother
aud sister. who live in Kansas
tify. survive him. The body was
prodght to Mexico for burial.
Mexico Missouri message., 1911-02-09
Mrs. Glass Dead.

Mrs. Glass, the wife of Dr.
Glass, three miles north of Lad
donia, died last Thursday evening,
at seven o clock. She was an aunt
of +. c. Smith Of Laddonia and
was about so years of age.
Mexico Missouri message., 1911-02-09
Stussy Mills Nuptials.

Mr.. Henry Stussy of st Louis
and Mrs. Hannah Bates, formerlr
of ncal Thompson, this county,
were mm ried few days ago.
They will reside in St. Louis.
Mexico Missouri message., 1911-02-09

Mr.. and Mrs. Jas. Smith auG
Mr.. and Mrs. Roe Sa1l OF
Santa Fe were in MeSico last Fri
day shopping and paid j., f.
Goodlicb(and wife visit.
Mexico Missouri message., 1911-02-09

O. +. House. west of Middle
town. has struck coal at a depth
of y feet on his farm. The vein
is about 30 inches thick. Mr..
House will do some mining if he
can get the hands who underss !
the work.
Mexico Missouri message., 1911-02-09
John Jones remains very i'll.

Born, to Mr.. and Mrs. Richard
Gentry Of this city, on the Bird
inst, a daughter.
Mexico Missouri message., 1911-02-09
Little Child Dead.

The infant child of Mr.. and
Mrs. Benjamin Luebke died last
Sunday.
Mexico Missouri message., 1911-02-09

Mrs. NJ. f. Berry Of st, Louis
visited the family Of her son, S. H..
Robson. here last week.
New-York tribune., 1911-02-12
AVIATION FATALITIES.

1.-TWO more names were added to the
death roll Of the aeroplane The aviators
Noel and Delatorre were killed at Douai.
France, while conducting trial OF mill
tary aeroplane before experts from the War
Department, previous to it's delivery to the
army Noel was the pilot and Delatorre a
passenger. They were planning down from
a height of about 250 feet, when suddenly
the wings folded up and the machine fell
headlong TO the earth This double Ia
tality brought the death roll Of the aero
plane up to forty-two.
Lieutenant Stein, Of the German mill
tary aviation service, was instantly killed
while making a flight over the field at
p0beritz The aeroplane dropped from
height Of sixty-fye feet. The lieutenants
skull was crushed
Carrying an official message from Major
McManus, commander at Fort Tosecrans,
California, to Lieutenant Rubin, COM
manding the United States troops camped
on the American side OF the border at Tia
.Juapa. Harry Harkness, an amateur aero
naut made flight in an Antoinette mono
plane. He delivered the message and re-
turned 10 his hangar, close to Fort Rose
Grams in fifty-six minutes The distance
for the round trip was thirty-two miles.
Harkness flew over the camp OF the United
States soldiers at height of one hundred
feet and dropped tho message, which was
weighted. lie circled above the camp Ions
enough 10 see the massage delivered 10
Lieutenant Rubin and then returned.
New-York tribune., 1911-02-12
This Feature Intended for the Busy Man

: iences were banished from the royai taoi''
over a century and half ago at o'io
when certain adherents OF the young p'o
tender were wont 10 drink the ne"'
the King over the water by passing lno',
wine glasses across the hngeroo"is anu
thereby signifying their adherence 10 ~.
old regime This custom Of doing "itiou'
fingerbowls obtained throughout the reish'
Of Queen Victoria and King Edward
Admiral Lord Charles William dc Id
Poer Beresford attained the age or siH's-
five. and under the age limit clause was
retired from the active list Of the BRUSH
navy
Fire In Constantinople nearly destroyed
the building occupied by the Councii vi
State, the Ministry Of the Interior ana 'he
Prime Minister. Part Of the archives ana
some Of the furniture Of the offices were
saved. The building is known as the Bao-i-
Ali, or Sublime Porte
The government OF President Simon IN
Hayti is dealing vigorously with the revolu-
tionary leaders. General Mllionard, OF the
Department Of Vallieres, who had oeen
much feared by every administration was
summarily executed. General Appoioh'
formerly commandant at Trou, was also
shot TO death by Haytian troops.
Nearly six thousand bodies OF victims
of the plague have been burned or buried
In the outskirts Of Harbin, Manchuria.
Forty-eight hundred OF these came from the
Chinese town and a thousand from the Rus
sian quarter. The mortality among tho
physicians and the hospital attendants Is
high, considering the means taken for their
protection, and doctors. nurses and order
lies are succumbing to the disease.
New-York tribune., 1911-02-12
Constant Reader Tells What
He Missed in Last
Weeks Papers.

81 am much interested" said Busy Man
as he met Constant Reader last evening
Gin Mr.. Taft's plan for reciprocity with
Canada How Is II coming along?"
1.-THE campaign for reciprocity" was the
reply received lot of stimulus when the
British House of Commons, by a majority
OF 1O2. reaffirmed its adherence 10 the pol
icy of free trade and practically indorsea
tic reciprocity agreement between the
United states and Canada
% In the Canadian Parliament a motion
20 delay consideration of the reciprocity
agreement was defeated by straight gov
ernment majority of twenty-five, and the
Minister Of Finance, W. S. Fielding, an
nounced that the agreement would be rati-
ned subject to favorable action by the
United States.
President Taft left Washington for Co.
Iumbus. Ohio. and Springfield. Ill. to speak
for reciprocity
Secretary Wilson. I'm a letter 10 the Ma
tsoni Grange. declared that reciprocity
would benefit American farmers.
''The first speech in support Of the agree
Inent with Canada was made in the Senate
by Mr.. Beveridge.
Before starting West the President sent
fol- Senators Carter and Crane and talked
10 them about his legislative programme
with an earnestness which led them to
predict that IL both the Canadian reciproc-
4ty resolution and the Tariff Board bill are
not passed at this session. Congress will be
called in special session Immediately after
March 20 deal with these subjects. The
President himself refrained from making
this threat He did make It very clear.
however. that he has no patience whatever
with the assertion that II is an impossi-
b;lity 10 pass both measures at this session.
House Democrats in caucus decided to
support the reciprocity agreement negou-
ated by President Taft"
what else have they been doing in
Washlngton2' asked BUSY Man.
New-York tribune., 1911-02-12
WHITE SLAYER" SENTENCED.

Samuel Rubin. the first man convicted
under the so-called white slave law, was
sentenced IN General Sessions by Judge
Malone to not less than ten nor more than
seventeen years in state prison. Previous
to the passage Of the law, as the result OF
revelations by the Rockefeller grand jury,
men Of Rubin's type who lived on the earn
tugs Of women. could not be punished by
more than a year In prison.
The first prison sentence ever imposed
in this country on a woman accused or
smuggling as a passenger on a steamship
fell OH Mrs. Roberta MenSes Corwin Hill,
who was sent 10 the Tombs prison from
Friday until Monday and sentenced to a
fine OF 5000 by Judge Martin In the Crimi-
nal Branch OF the United States Circuit
Court.
Before Benjamin Greene and John T.
Gaynor are freed from the federal prison
in Georgia, where they have completed
their term of four years they will have 10
ray part OF the $4,000 fine imposed
upon them. or convince the United States
government that they haven't the money.
AS a usual thing a prisoner is permitted at
the expiration of thirty days to swear on
his fine. The government, however, Is said
to lie convinced that these two prisoners
have a large part of the money gained in
New-York tribune., 1911-02-12

inations of Walter c. Burton, of Brooklyn,
Democrat. and Elek John Ludvigh, Of New
York Republican, as state Civil Service
Commissioners. The Burton nomination
was Immediately confirmed
"Abram ]. Elkus, of New York. lawyer
prominent in his profession and we'll known
by reason of his activities in benevolent
and educational work, was nominated by
the Democratic caucus at Albany for Re-
gent of the State University TO succeed Ed
ward Lauterbach, whose term expires on
April /.
Governor Dix sent 10 the Senate the
nomination Of Francis X Pendleton, of
New York, as Justice of the Supreme
Court, First Department, to succeed the
late Edward Il. Whitney.
Forty million dollars, in addition TO the
$50, 900, 900 already authorized, will be
needed to complete the New York State
and county systems of improved highways,
according TO the report OF the State High
way Commission presented to the Legis-
lature.
THE Secretary Of State at Albany. Mr.
Lazansky, appointed Max Slender. of New
York as confidential clark, at salary of
s2.20O. State Engineer Bensel named John
V. Hogan, Of Medina, as resident engineer
for the Western Division, at an annual SAL
ary Of $3.50. George $. McGarlin, of
Watertown, was appointed by the State
Controller as transfer tax attorney for JEFF
fcrson County. Daniel E. Donovan. Of
Rome, was named as a resident engineer
at Rome by the state Engineer. az q salary
Of s2,750.
Controller Prendergast. of this city, out.
lined "a plan which he said he had been
working on for several months for chang
ing the present system Of tax collection.
His plan is to advance the time of collection
four months and have serni-annual collec-
tions made. The present plan allows for the
collection on October /, and Controller Prem
dergasts view is that the city would be
greatly benefited If collections were made
on May 1 and November l."
Anything Of significance develop in the
world of commerce." asked Busy Man.
New-York tribune., 1911-02-12
MoNTAUK IMPROVEMENTS.

"In order TO enable his company 20 meet
| transatlantic ships at the eastern end Of
Long Island Ralph Peters, president OF tho
Long Island Railroad Company, executed
contract for the purchase of one hundred
acres Of land, thereby acquiring for the
railroad more than a mile Of waterfront on
Fort Pond Bay, Montauk. Accompanying
the contract were drawings made by the
Long Island Railroad engineers calling for
| fve piers, each l 900 feet long, 125 feet
wide and 500 feet apart. The space be-
tween these piers will be great enough TO
permit two Of the largest liners 10 dock at
opposite piers at once. thing impossible
at the Chelsea piers in Manhattan because
Of the wide beam of the Cunard and White
star ships. Besides saving nearly twenty
four hours in the delivery of foreign bank
| ing mail to Wall Street and ordinary mail
to the entire city, the proposed Montauk
docks would enable the Grand Trunk Rail-
road Of Canada by means Of its Central
Vermont outlet at New London, Conn. TO
chip northern and western freight and
mails across Long Island Sound, a distance
OF twenty-five miles. Through the Cape
Cod Canal which is now being constructed.
passengers and fast mail from Boston will
be enabled to leave that city in the evening
and ship for European ports the following
morning.
| "a suit for the forfeiture of eighty nine
modern paintings formerly the property OF
julius Oehme, Of No. 467 Fifth avenue. a
we'll known art dealer. was filed In the
United States District Court by c. f. Whit
ney, Assistant United States District At
torney. These paintings, the government
charged, were undervalued at the time OF
their importation.
"The National Park Bank took over the
business of Wells, Fargo g. Co.'S bank. OF
New York, which will be placed In lquida-
tion. 1t is chartered under the banking
| law OF this state and has depositors all over
/ the country. conducting a business similar
TO that Of other state banks. Wells. Fargo
g. Co, the express company owns $50 OF
its 1000 sha.e es Of stock. par value 800
Richard Delafeld, president Of the National
Park Bank, is a director OF Wells Fargo
& Co.
Fresh impetus was given 10 the discus
sion I'm magazine circles as to whether the
purchase of the American Magazine by
the Crowell Publishing Company meant
| that the interests were bent on swallow
Ing up the 'muckrakers' by the disclosure
that Thomas W. Lamont is a heavy stock
holder IN the publishing concern and has
been a director since Its organization, five
or six years ago. Mr.. Lamont is one of
the new partners In the firm OF j. p. Nor
gan & Co. having been taken in at the
beginning of this year
Henry NJ. ,rilford resigned as a direc-
tor of the Standard Oil Company, and L. ].
Drake. who mas been with the corpora.i ton
for many years and is the head OF its
marketing department, was elected 10 sue
ceed him on the board.
"The United States Tobacco Journal
published a compilation OF the cigar and
cigarette output in ths United states for
New-York tribune., 1911-02-12
SOME PERSONAL ITEMS.

"St Rartholonew's Church was the seems
of the largest wedding OF the season SAen
Lieutenant Colonel Lord Decies was mar
ried 10 Miss Helen Viyien Gould.
George :. Griscom, jr., the first msh
whom the Arnold family traced AFTER u'
dsappearance of Dorothy ii. c. Arnold On
December 10. arrived here on the Nor'
German Lloyd steamer Berlin, anh an
neunced that he had come to aid the fanny
in the search.
Mrs. Mary Giuffre, whose marriage
Rufus Gaynor, the son OF Mayor 1a3n0,'
was annulled, was married again 10 Ne',
sor Gammous. Of Portland. Ore, Nho 81"
re was a Harvard sophomore.
Harry X Thaw's appeal from the ov
cision of the Appellate Division adverse "
his contention that he is being illegally ee'
talred in the State Hospital for the lnsan'
at Matteawan was dismissed by the ,Vt.'
of Appeals This practically sweeps "N''
his last hope for release.
alfred Hurrell. counsel 10 the state "
partment OF Insurance. who assisted io'.
mer Judge NJ. Linn Bruce in the leslsiau''
graft investigation, resigned from Tue ~
surance Department TO accept the posi.O'
Of attorney 10 tile Association OF LIe ~
s,lrance Presidents. Mr.. HurreHs sa'a.'
was 81. 900 q year in the Insurance pep"'
ment His new place will bring III o.
least $12 900. II was said -,
winthrop Alnes and Lee Shuoer vs."
einice the resignation OF John Coroin VA.
had executive charge OF The New Ine~"., :,
RESIGNED their connection with the hou'o :.
letters sent 20 the founders mon'h rs
This became known from source aosO's
~ trustworthy, despite the denials Oh sO.
action by Mr. Ames So far as Is Aio"-
no action has yet been taken on the ieu''s
"Anthony j. Drexel jr.. son OF anu".''
T. rrtxel. the Philadelphia banker an' a,
scn-in-Iaw OF George j. Gould. wen.
work IS a messenger for the Ne" -
Slock Exchange firm OF Edmund Chs's,
! Randolph. OF No. Ill Broadway one VI
leading brokerage houses In the street
General Hippolyte Langiois' sens" [.
from Meurthe-et- -Moselle. and heh''
Regnier. the poet. were elected me"i~ !,
of the French Academy In successlou
Costa de Beauregard and Vicomte de 'os'~
deceased. ,,,.,s,s,
Count Albert Apponyi. former Mih'ss
Of Education. leader of the lndepehas..s
party. and for the last quarter OF GEMS.
the best known statesman In Hunsas' ~.
rived tere on the joint invitation Oh -
civic Forum and the New York Peace
cletv to deliver addresses before peace
cleties and at universities.
"pr. Henry $. Tanner the adVosas
n-oIonged fasting as cure for disess
cc1ebrated al Los Angeles his eigbty'mnm
birthday by beginning a fast wnicn ny
cniearor not - break for eighty oo''''
tive days" n.ue.
''B, that tine let us hope me IA
cratic Legislature at Albany VIII nav. -
cided whom ehey want for United e""
Senator" grunted Eusy Man. =
New-York tribune., 1911-02-12
WITH THE SCIENTISTS.

Berlin newspapers announced the end
OF the radium famine. They said that Pro-
fessor Otto Hahn, OF Berlin University,
had obtained an effective substitute, and
that in a few months the Academy of Sci
ence would be in possession of $50 mlli-
grams, which 1t will lend TO Investigators
The new radioactive matter is a by-prod-
uct of tho manufacture of thorium gas man
ties and IL has been named by its discover
er mesathorium.
"Rejuvenatins qualities in radlum We're
discovered by Professor Gabriel Petit, Of
TIE Veterinary School at Abort France
He injected two miligrams twice in the
tugular vein Of a very old horse with sur
prsing effects. The animal put on flesh.
considerable traces OF sulphate OF radium
appeared in its blood, and the red globules
increased in number. Tne injections, Dr.
Petit says, produced lasting radio-actiyity
Of the system. lie thinks IL highly proba-
bic that radioactive serum may be OBJ
tanned in this manner which will arrest TO
certain extent the advance Of physical
decay I'm human beings.
What IS considered to be a great
achievement in the application Of hypno-
tism by scientists in d case OF smnesia
was accomplished in Poughkeepsie in the
case Of & young New York girl who was
picked up on the street suffering from loss
Of memory BY hypnotic treatment her
memory was restored, and she recalled her
name and address.
Governor Chase 6. Osborne OF Michigan
announced at tho dinner Of the alumni Of
the University Of Michigan. in this city,
that he had decided TO sign a bill appropri-
atjnS $4,000 900 by the state for its uni
versity.
"The negro segregation ordinance Of
Baltimore was thrown out Of court The
| order brands as null and void the entire
ordinance and puts a stop TO all prosecu-
| tons that have been undertaken under 1t.
IN "A thunderstorm which broke over
jefferson City, Mo, lightning struck the
state Capitol setting it on fire. The flames
spread throughout the structure rapidly,
and within short time it was IN ruins.
"Man@uvres of an interesting nature took
place on the Berlin parade grounds, at
which a recent invention in the form of
rife bullets, which throw brilliant light
W hen fred into the air, was thoroughly
tested.
New-York tribune., 1911-02-12

321,490.
The directors OF the Brooklyn Rapid
Transit Company elected T. S. Williams,
formerly vice-president of the company,
president to succeed Edwin w. Winter, re-
signed
"William r. Montgomery. former presi-
dent of the Hamilton Bank, which closed
on October %, 1907. and was reopened later
end consolidated with Joseph G.. Robin s
Northern Bank, since closed. was found
guilty of grand larceny In the first degree
in General Sessions.
The per capita wealth OF tho United
States as based upon the new census fig
ures Is SCI 49, According to the latest esti-
mate the total amount OF money now in
circulation IS $3,21l,55o, ,f6S'
New-York tribune., 1911-02-12
THE DEATH ROLL.

ANY persons Of Importance die?" asked
Busy Man.
"The Right Rev. Thomas Bonacum. for
twenty-three years Roman Catholic Bishop
of Lincoln, Neb, died at his home there.
The Right Rev. OH William Whitaker,
Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Diocese
of Pennsylvania died at his home in Phila-
delpha. Frederick Archibald Vaughan
Campbell, third Earl Cawdor. died in Ion
don. Rear Admiral silas w. Terry. L. s.
n. (retired), died in Washington Of pneu-
monia. George Lee Peabody. member of
prominent Boston family, died at the
Johns Hopkins Hospital IN Baltimore fol-
lowing n series OF three operations. Last
spring he fell from his horse while hunting
a foreign growth within the skull resulting.
His fiancee. Miss Edythe Deacon. visited
him. General Piet a. Cronje the well
known Boer leader In the war with Eng
land. died in the Transvaai
"Sani-ed d-Dowleh. Persia's Minister OF
Finance, while returning home from at
tending a meeting OF the Mejliss. or
Parliament I'm Teheran was shot
dead on the street by two assassins
who were Armenians. George Grey, a
brother OF Sir Edward Grey the British
Minister Of Foreign Affairs, died at the
hospital In Nairobi, British East Africa,
from wounds received in an encounter with
lion. The death Of Lieutenant Hugo
Francis Engels. who was official interpreter
during the negotiations leading to the
treaty OF Portsmouth between the japanese
and Russian ENJOYS, was announced at the
Massachusetts General Hospital In Boston
owen Kildare, author of My Mamie Rose
and The Regeneration, died from paresis
at the Manhattan State Hospital on Wards
Island. where he had been patient for
more than two years. Mrs. Marie Nevins
Bull. wife OF the late Or. William T. Bull
Of New York, died at her home in Newport
from nervous exhaustion. Or. Bull was
her second husband, her fret having been