Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1912-04-18
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NeEe Empire, was nominated tN Nan
Shi Kai, president OF the Chinese re-
public, to represent the new govern.
ment in the United States
At least a score OF persons are be.
lieved to have persisted in an c&p'o.
sion and fire in NillarIi, Portugal
Ignition Of explosives caused the con.
nagration which destroyed twelve
buildings.
Three thousand students Of Naipa.
raise university riotcd In the streets,
driving the police and fire depart.
ment before them, smashing wa.
dows, firing revolvers and causing
general havoc.
y private dispatch, said to have
been sent by an official OF the war
department at Washington, was re-
ceived at Fort D. =. Russell, dcclar-
ing that Frederick Funston, senior
brigadier general, would succeed Maj.
Gen. Frederick d. Grant.
The indignation of state department
officials over the execution OF Thomas
Fountain, the American gunner, who
vas captured by the rebels at Parrai,
IS believed to he certain 10 prejudice
any attempt on the part of the Mex.
lean rebels to secure any recognition
Of belligerent rights, SO necessary to
a successful conduct OF their cam
paign.
Negotiations for the dissolution OF
the harvester trust have been virtu
ally completed and Edgar 4. Bancroft;
and John p Wilson, attorneys s)r the
International Harvester company, left
Washington with the details OF Tht
plan.
New York state Republicans went
On record as fayorins the renomina
ton Of President Taft. but absolutely
declined to instruct its delegates te
Chicago to that effect, contentng it
self with requesting the delegates K
wsrk toward that end.
An American newspaper man who
returned firm Parral with American
refugees from the battle-svept district
brought news of the execution OF
Thomas Fountain Of Las Cruces, n.
N. by the rebels.
Town elections held throughout Cal.
ifornia, with prohibition as the main
issue, and with women voting for the
frst time In most OF the townships,
apparently resulted in q victory for
the VETS" although the margin will
be small.
Thousands Of persons have been
killed and whole Indian villages swept
away by the eruption Of Chiriqui peak
in Panama, according TO the state
ment of Capt. Olsvey Of the United
States Fruit steamer Fort Morgan,
which arrived at Mobile, Ala.
Ninety persons, making up the pas
sengers and crew OF the steamship On
tario OF the Merchants and Miners
line, bound from Norfolk, Va, TO Bos-
ton, had a narrow escape from death
In a fire which burned the ship TO the
waters edge.
The creation Of a federal admins
trative Office TO supervise interstate
Industrial corporations is strongly
urged by Herbert Knox Smith, com.
missioner OF corporations. in his an
nual report
The supreme court Of the United
States denied a rehearing 70 the IA
nous patent monopoly" cases. de-
cided recently, and refused permissi on
for the attorney general TO intervene
In the matter
John Walsh, U. S. A, retired, 81
years old, claims the record of l76
days for the walking round trip from
San Francisco 10 New York, having
arrived at the Preside. The previoes
record, held by Edward Payson Wes-
ton, was Is days longer.
Lewis F. Elosser, 81 years old, died
at Cumberland, Mr., from grief caused
Grace, who was found dead with her
fance in the parlor of the Blosser
home December 81, 1910.
Representative S. A Roddenbery of
George, who exhausted himself two
weeks ago in useless fight against a
pension bill reported by the Demo
cratic committee on invalid pensions,
is said to have since suffered nerv.
Gus collapse.
Henry Perman was rescued from
the Manitou mine, twenty miles from
Globe, Ariz., after having been en-
tombed by a cavern for ninety.seven
hours.
Taking present flood conditions in
the South as an example Senator
Newlands Of Nevada addressed the
waterway conference of theSSouthern
Commercial Congress, asking that the
organization 90 on record in demand
.ng 100000, 900 from congress in the
next ten years for river Improvement.
Every six minutes day and night a
railroad employe is killed or injured,
and every two hours one is killed.
This was the calculation made by Sen
Rtor Chamberlain OF Oregon IN ad-
dressing the senate in behalf Of the
new employers liability bill
Word wac sent by President and
Ers. Taft accepting an Initiation 10
attend the Cincinnati May festival.
May Z