Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1912-04-18
A negro man. his wife and their

more than two score negroes IN IcNas
and Louisiana in the last 60 days BY
the so.called lax ,1an."
Engineers OF fifty eastern railroads
have voted overwhelmingly for a
strike OF the 25.7oO engineers who
responded to the referendum vote on
the question of strike. 93l per cent
voted in favor of the walk
The political situation in the repub-
lie of Panama is again critical. BE.
cause OF the fear of trouble, 1t was
suggested by leaders Of both factions
that the United States undertake the
supervision of coming elections.
Ten thousand Iowa women, mem.
berg OF 400 womeu's clubs in half as
many cities and towns, viii demand
suffrage the first time OF the Legis.
laturo AT winter.
Experiments to abolish corns from
he feet Of Uncle Sans soldiers are
being made by direction OF Secretary
If War Sumson. a new type Of shoe
or the military service is being de-
soloppd
Pope Plus X. is not dead. as was
umorod in all parts OF the civilized
Sorld Instead. his holiness is en-.
Dying lis usual heal h ard continues
ii- daily audiences.
Newell Sanders, who has been ap.
pointed senator from Tennessee to MI
vacancy caused By the death Of
senator Robert l.. Taylor took the
,ath OF office. Sanders was appoint
ID by Gov Hooper and viii serve un-
81 the legislature meets aid elects.
The most unique washing In the
world hung on q line in a sunny room
II the engraving bureau in Washing
on. II consisted Of hundreds Of
thousands OF paper bills. This was
he first wash day" OF Uncle Sans
lew machine to rehabiEtate currency.
n. G. Wynne. former president Of
he defupct Night and Day bank,
ghich failed In Little, Rock, Ark, last
DINNER, was committed 10 Jail after
temporary hearing before Circuit
Judge Lea.
Miss Clara Barton, founder Of the
National Red Cross Society, died 1t
her home near Glen Echo, Md. She
had been in poor health for months.
A serious situation for Americans
was created at Chihuahua, Mex.. when
Zen. Pascual OroZco. commander in
chief OF the Liberal forces, announced
he would no longer recognize Ma, ION
LetcheT as American consul
Gen. Frederick Dent Grant, who
died suddenly in New York city, will
have a full military funeral in New
York and will be buried at West Point,
where military services will be held.
Another division of the supreme
court with the new justice, Mahlon
Pitney, holding the deciding vote, is
rumored. The "intermountain rate"
case is the rock upon which the court
is said to have split.
The rebel forces were routed from
he city of Jojutla, More,os, an impor-
tant commercial center, and 500 of
heir number were killed in the bat
lie. according to dispatches.
Newell Sanders, a wealthy manufac.
turer of Chattanooga and chairman OF
he Tennessee Republican state execu-
tive committee, was appointed United
States senator to fill out the unexpired
term OF the late Robert l.. Taylor.
An interstate commerce commission
ruling makes it possible for a pas
senger to get off the train before
reaching the destination printed on
bis ticket and to collect the price OF
the unused part OF his ticket.
Canada is TO have the largest dry
dock in the world. The dock is to be
built on the St Charles river, the
BEAUFORT Flats OF az St Joseph de
Lewis. II will be 1850 feet long, 1877
feet wide and 81 feet deep.
At Logansport, Ind, because she Ie-
fused 10 marry him, Otto eileen Brown,
ls, on OF a farmer near Macy, Ind,
went TO the home OF l.. X. Moore, shot
Leona Ehlinger, aged Is, then shot
himself through the heart and died
instantly.
Taft carried all but one of the con.
tested wards in St Louis primary
election TO elect delegates TO the Re.
publican state convention and the con
gressional conventions IT. the Tenth,
eleventh and Twelfth districts.
In a speech at Peru, Ind, Col
Roosevelt said: III, ater hearing me,
you decide against me. very well, III
try il again another time and try to
get you"
Eight revolutionary cannon we're
discovered in Battery park, New York,
by labOrers making an excavation.
The guns were buried from eight to
ten feet deep.
Roy Day and Joseph Hubbard were
'ound guilty by a jury at Watseka, ILL.,,
IF the murder OF Melvin Bradick.
Their punishment. WAS fixed at four
cen years each.
The British miners federation &C.
,epted the recommendation of the ex-
scutive committee that the men should
.esume work as the result of the re-
cent ballot, and the miners were or
1ered 10 return TO the pits forthwith
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