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Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1916-11-02
BAKER SAYS HE HAS lNFoRMA-
TON ENEMIES OF WILSON
PLAN TO ATTACK.
AMERICAN SOLDIERS WARNED
Secretary Lansing Declares Baker
In Statement Had No lnten-
ton Of Involving Amer
leans.

misunderstanding Baker has
issued a formal statement saying defl-
mite information has been received
by the war department that bandit
attack upon American troops in Mexl-
co or on an American border town
between now and the date of the cleo
ton to create sentiment against the
administration Mexican policy.
1t added that Gems. Funston and
Pershing were forewarned and in all
readiness for such an attack.
The statement follows:
"The war department has received
definite information, confirmed from
other sources that enemies of the .ad-
ministration's Mexican policy, in CO.
operation with Villa or other bandits
in Mexico, have arranged a spectacular
attack to be made either upon some
part of the American forces or upon
some American community on the Dor
der between now and the date of the
election for the purpose of turning the
tide of sentiment against the admin
istration's policy for the protection of
the border.
1T is significant in this connection
that both the state and war depart
ments were advised that the bandit
forces operating at the present time
in Mexico are being paid in silver
coin.
Full particulars have been trans
mitted to Gems. Funston and Pershing
All American forces are, therefore
farewarned and in readiness for such
an attack"
No additional information could be
obtained from Mr.. Baker, who left
the city before the statement was
made public for Martinsburg, w. Va,
to deliver a campaign speech.
Secretary Lansing has authorized
the statement that Secretary Baker
had no intention to intimate that any
American citizens were involved in
the bandit attack plot.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1916-11-02
4 DIE, Is MISSING IN FIRE
$50 ASLEEP IN BUILDING WHEN
BLAZE STARTS.
Fire Dead Are Children-Many Jump
From Windows-Loss
Is $25o,Oo0.

Farnham, Quebec.-SiX adults and
five children, at least, lost their
lives in a fire which destroyed
st. Elizabth's hospital yesterday. Fiji
teen to % persons are reported miss
ing.
Farnham is about 40 miles from
Montreal.
More than $50 persons were asleep
in the hospital when the blaze was
discovered. Unable to make their
way safely to the fire escape, nearly
all of them jumped from windows.
Twenty-Five children who leaped
from the third story were badly in
jured when they landed on the stone
pavement.
The hospital and a laundry were
destroyed and several adjacent build.
ings were damaged by smoke and
water. The fire is believed to have
started in defective chimney.
The institution was managed by the
Grey Nuns and comprised two build
ings, one for hospital patients, the
other for school children.
Up to late hour no bodies had been
found, but the names of four missing
who are believed to have persisted
were known. They were paralytics
Survivors were taken to many Farm
ham homes, making difficult the work
of compiling list of dead. -Four chill
dren injured by jumping from win
dows may die.
The grey nuns displayed great hero
ism. One sister climbed to the thirC
floor and risked her life handing help
less children through the windows
to firemen and citizens who stood or
ladders.
An early estimate placed the prop
erty at about S250,000
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1916-11-02
PROSPERTYNOT DUE TOWAR
WILSON SAYS WE MUST PREPARE
FOR FUTURE.
Calls Women "FeIIow Citizens" In
His Speech at Women's
City Club.

Cincinnati, Ohio. - President Will
son declared here that the present
war is the last war involving the
world that the United States can keep
out of.
He again urged a league Of ma
tons to maintain peace after the war.
He said the United States should be
ready to use its physical force, if it
is necessary, to assist in preventing
war. He said that at times the duties
of neutrals under present conditions
may become very difficult.
Denying that the present prosperity
of the United States is due to the war.
the president said there was no ground
for fear that Europe during the war
is storing up goods to dump upon the
markets in America after the war.
1--WE have a means of defense and
means of offense," said the president.
1--WE are not helpless. We are not
blind"
The president said the United States
should feel sympathy for Europe, not
fear. He spoke of the SILLY magma,
ton" of men who say Europe is pre-.
pairing for an economic war on the
United States.
In his speech before the Women's
City Club, President Wilson, address,
ing the women as fellow citizens,
said he could speak to women on pub
lie questions just as he could speak
to men. He said he approved of city
clubs because they helped to build VI
community opinion and assisted in
making good cities.
After ALL" he said, "the real prob
lem before the nation is to make
a community of it. ] am very GLAD
during this campaign to discuss these
things which have no connection with
! the campaign.
| 81 have been distressed over some
| things some people have said woult
follow the European war. 1t has beer
said that economic wars would follow
this war of arms.
I'm war respect is engendered. L
would be very sad If hatreds were en-
gendered. 1t has been predicted tina
after the war the United States will
be overwhelmed by Europe. This /!
not true"
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1916-11-02
Ne Official Statement SAYS:
ADMITS PLAN TO AID U-BOATS
Max WeiItsch of WiIIehad Confesses
Authorship of Letters Inter-
cepted by British.

Boston, Mass.-Max Weitsch, for
merly of the crew of the interned
North German Lloyd steamer Willie
letter intercepted and made public
by British authorities regarding the
Willehad's use to aid German subma-
rine operations off the Atlantic coast.
He refused to say where he obtained
the information he was attempting to
send to his brother in Germany.
The local manager of the Lloyd
line denied that his company had any
knowledge of the part the Willehad
was to play in the submarine opera
lions when she ran down the coast
from Boston to New London.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1916-11-02
BRITISH SHIP is TORPEDOED
Twelve Survivors From Mine-SWeep-
ing Vessel, Admiralty
Reports.

London, ngland.-The British mine
sweeping vessel Genista has been tor
pedoed and sunk, according to an an
nouncment given out by the British
admiralty. All the officers and 70
members of the mine sweeper's crew
were lost. The survivors number
IL.
The official statement says:
zone of our mine sweeping vessels,
II. NJ. S. Genista, Lieutenant Com
mander John White, r. N, was tor
pedoed by an enemy submarine on
Oct % and sunk. All of her officers
and 70 men were lost, and IL were
saved.
when last seen the ship was sink
ing, but was still engaged with the
enemy submarine"
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1916-11-02
one Dead in Car Wreck.

Edwardsville, Ill.-One man was
killed, nineteen others were burned,
cut or bruised, when local Mckinley
passenger car left the rails at Big
Mooney Hollow, two miles east of
Edwardsville, and was destroyed by
fire. Three of the injured men were
ST. Louisans. The accident was due
to spreading rails. Division Superin-
tendent Heine, who was sent to inves-
tigate, announced that about so Of
the spikes holding the rails had been
removed
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1916-11-02
WANT IRISH REBELS REQUIRED
Irish Member of Parliament Asks If
British Government Would
Accede to Request.

London, Eng.-Lourence Ginnell,
Nationalist member of parliament for
Northwest Meath, asked Premier AS
quith, in the house of commons, if
in the interest of reconciliation the
British government would 'accede to
the desire of the Irish people and al
low the bodies of the men executed
last May during the Dublin revolt,
to be removed from the place in which
they now lie and be buried in consc-
Grated ground.
Premier Asquith said the govern
ment was unable to accede to the re-
quest.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1916-11-02
Germans to capture sklppers.

notwithstanding to a wireless
dispatch from Zurich, German ma
val authority announces that the Ger
mans have decided to regard as pris-
oners all captains of merchant YES
sells captured from the French, Rus
SLAMS, English and Italians, alleging
that these captains received instruc-
tons from their governments to car
ry on espionage.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1916-11-02
Nine-Hour Day for Kansas Girls.

Topeka, Kans.-Women and girls
will no longer be allowed to work
longer than nine hours a day as re-
suit of an order issued by the labor
and industrial commission. All Kan
sas laundries also will be required to
provide employees with suitable seats,
heat deflectors, dressing rooms and
cots where the women may rest.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1916-11-02
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
IN BAD CONDITION
kuTolsT SAYS THEY ARE THE
WORST ROADS IN THE
WEST.
EVERY EFFORT MADE TO HELP
Twenty-seven Vehicles Stalled on One
Road, Emphasizes Need Of Con-
tlnuai Care-Has Been Gov.
HadIey's Hobby.
Jefferson City.

Jefferson city.
Word comes TO the capital city that
an automobile driver has been com
planning of Missouri roads. He says
that q wagons and buggies stalled in
the mud between Holden and Pleasant
Hill, Mo, and tries to give an idea of
the condition of Missouri roads after
heavy rain. William Warwick, the
automobile man Of Seattle, who is
making a trip in 1la-ton truck, un-
der the auspices of the Seattle Cham
Der of Commerce, counted the vehi-
cles on his way from Holden to Pleas
ant Hill.
Warwick went from Seattle to New
York in 81 days with lo'
densed milk. He left New York Oct
4, using the National Old Trails High
way. The worst roads of the return
trip were encountered in Missouri, he
said.
GOV. Major has long made good
roads a hobby, and it is well known
that many thousands of miles of high
ways have been improved under his
guiding hand. Frank Buffum of Han
nibal has also been active in this
propaganda and every effort has been
made to improve their condition.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1916-11-02
Man, Attire, Jumps Into Well.

Astoria, Ore.--Jens Jensen, a fish
erman residing at Blind Slough, was
burned, probably fatally, by the ex-
plosion of coal oil at his home. With
his clothes in flames, Jensen rushed
from the house and jumped in the
well, from which he was rescued but
frightfully burned.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1916-11-02

Oils Brought by Deutschland Stolen.
New York.-Between $5,OO0and $10-
600 worth of oils and chemicals, part
of the cargo brought to Baltimore
by the German merchant submarine
Deutschland, were stolen from the
storehouse of Pfaltz & Bauer. it was
revealed when Joseph Connolly, q
years old, was arrested on IA Z.
of burglary.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1916-11-02
Two German Destroyers Sunk.

Two German Destroyers Sunk.
London.-Two German torpedo-boat
destroyers attempted to raid the Eng
5rish Chanel transport service, but
the attempt failed, says an official
statement issued by the British adj
miralty. Two of he~German destroy
ers were sunk and the others driven
away.
One British torpedo-boat destroyer,
the F1irt, is missing, the British
statement says, and another, Nubian,
was disabled by torpedo and driven
aground.
Nine members of the crew of the
Flirt were saved.
Advancing northward in Dobrudja,
Won Mackensen's troops have reached
a line running from Hirsova, on the
Danube, to Casapkeui, on the Black
Sea coast, from forty to 60 miles
from where they crossed the Constan-'
za-Tchernavoda railroad line.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1916-11-02
Gen. Mann to Succeed Mills.

NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. w.
A, Mann, commanding the army divis-
ion with headquarters at Laredo, Tex,
was selected for chief of the division
for militia affairs in the war depart
ment, made vacant by the death of
Major General Albert j. Mills.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1916-11-02
Held for stealing Duck.

New York.-When Izzy Weisman
told the Judge that he did not steal
the duck found under his coat the
duck said "quack, quack.' And as the
judge felt that way about it, too, lazy
was held for trial.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1916-11-02
Advertisements REFUSED.

Bucharest-Russo-R umanian troops
are engaged in successful fighting all
along the Observation-Disclosures
frontier. Austro-Germans attacks in
the Tulghes and Bicase regions and
in the Trotus valley were repulsed,
while in the Uzul Valley the Ruman-
ian advance is continuing.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1916-11-02
Blind HeIress Leaps to Death.

San Francisco,--Miss Ada Hodgins,
AZ years old, of Winona. Mimi, an
heiress, leaped from the fourth-story
window in her suite at fashionable
hotel here. Miss Hodgins had been
blind for years.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1916-11-02
Paralysis Case at Oklahoma u.

Oklahoma City. Ok,--infantile par
alysis has appeared at the University
Of Oklahoma in Norman, it was re-
ported to the state health department
here. Carl Price, a student, living
in fraternity house, developed the
disease. according to report
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1916-11-02
FORMER Roer Commander Dies.

Philadelphia, Paw. d. Synman.
commandment in the Boer army in
the war with Great Britain. who came
to this country shortly before the war
ended and who later went to Mexico,
is dead here from appendicitus.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1916-11-02
Denies Pope Urges Peace.

Rome, Italy. - The vatican EN-.
phatically denied Swiss rumors that
Pope Benedict was negotiating an
early peace between Austria and Rus
sia
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1916-11-02
Panama Canal Tolls $7,411,es2.

Washington, D. Gin the first
two years of operation the Panama
canal tolls amounted to SAL, 682,
although the waterway was closed
half of year due to repairs. A to-
tai of 2,097 ships passed through the
canal
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1916-11-02
8 Tralnmen Killed in Gibson, Ind.

Tralnmen Killed in Gibson, Ind.
Gibson, Ind.-Three trainmen were
killed when the caboose in which they
were riding was demolished by an
engine of another train which ran in
to it in the trainyard here. The dead:
Frank Wilson, yardmaster; William
Kohl, a conductor, and G. w. Nc
Donald, a switchman.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1916-11-02
Murderer Escapes.

Murderer Escapes.
Arthur Bittner, 26 years old, Of st.
Louis, serving a life sentence in the
penitentiary here for the murder of
his father, escaped when at McClung
Park, where, as member Of the or
chestra, he was playing at the week
ly dance.
Bittner's escape was not noticed
until the orchestra members were b.
ing checked in on their return TO
the penitentiary from McClung Park.
It is supposed he disappeared about
midnight, near the end of the dance.
He was the first violinist. The band
members always have been attired
in white suits with no visible num-
bers.
The dances have been held at Nc
Chung Park since the completion,
about eight months ago, of a large
pavilion. They are attended mostly
by the leading residents of the CAPT
tai
McClung Park Is state property
that has been improved and made in
to a pleasure resort with the aid OF
convict labor and public subscriptions
among jefferson City residents. It
was named after Warden McClung.
Detectives, notified of Blttner's es-
cape, have been watching st. Louis
trains for him.
Bittner murdered his father, Ar
thur Bittner, ST., July %, 1913. At that
time the youth wanted to marry Miss
Myrtle Benhoff, but was without
money, and his father, a North St.
Louis butcher, refused to supply him.
One morning, as his father and his
brother, Edward, were driving down
town in an auto truck, Arthur got up
behind them and shot his father in
the head. Edward later accused
Arthur of the crime.
Edward told the police he had not
heard anything from his brother and
hoped that they would catch him "be.
fore he sees me-"
Miss Benhoff some time after Bit
ner went to prison, married Dun
dell Goodwin, an electrician, who
killed her at her mothers home.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1916-11-02
woman's SLAYER Found Guilty.

Chicago, Ill.-Edgar w, Foster was
found guilty OF the murder of Bertha
Kubeyisz and her 5-year-old son, of
whom he was the father. and his pun
,ishment' was fixed at life imprison-
ment.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1916-11-02
Two Women Killed in Fire.

New York.-Two young women
were killed in a fire which wrecked
factory on East Houston street,
causing property damage estimated at
100000.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1916-11-02
Bio Canal opened in sweden.

Berlin.-The new Trolpastta canal
in Sweden has been opened by King
Gustav. says the Overseas News
Agency. The canal establishes COM
munication between Veneer Lake and
the North Sea.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1916-11-02
Russians Admit Defeat.

etrograd.-Although offering stub
born resistance to the German-Bul-
gar-Turkish forces attacking in Do
brudja, the Russians and Rumanians
are retiring to the north of line be-
tween Hirsova and Caspakeui. This
line is approximately 40 and 60 miles
north of the Tchernevoda-C onstanza
railway line.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1916-11-02
Workers Given 10 Per Cent Increase

Chicago.-To meet the increased
cost of living, the Peoples Gaslight
G. Coke Co. has announced volun-
tary raise of 10 per cent in the wages.
of 300 employes-all of whom are
getting less than 5000 month. The
raise will add $35O,OOO to a payroll of
S3,700,00O
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1916-11-02
Woman Driver in Collision.

London, Eng-Out of 80 COLI
sions on the Cardiff tramway system,
states the manager, ony three of them
were in cases of cars driven by wo-
men.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1916-11-02
KllIs Man for Deer; Arrested.

Bemid1i, Minn.-Haying shot and
killed Eugene Preston, whom he mis-
took for deer, according to adyices
received here, Richard Martin of
Grant Valley, Mimi, is held under a.
charge Of manslaughter
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1916-11-02
AadIey for Rural Credits.


Judge Henry Lamm, Republican
candidate for governor, who in his
campaign speeches attacks the Gard
ner land bank bill and rural credits
generally, is not in accord on this
subject with former Gov. Herbert S.
Hadley, whom Judge Lamm also in
his campaign speeches processes TO
believe is the greatest statesman that
Missouri has ever had since the days
of Thomas Hart Benton.
Hadley believed so strongly in the
farm credits" idea that in his fare
well message to the forty-seventh
general assembly, at the close of his
term of office as governor in January,
1913, he made a strong recommends
ton in favor of the system.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1916-11-02
Sues to Save Tax.

w. r. Orthwein of st. Louis, at
torney for the Kinloch Telephone Co.,
has filed application in the state su-
preme court for a writ of mandamus
against Secretary Of State Roach to
compel him to allow the company to
extend its charter 20 years without
paying the corporation tax of $4,000.
Orthwein holds that the incorpora-
ton law which provides that in or
iginal incorporation applications in
which no period of time is specified,
the period shall be understood to be
20 years, which gives the company the
privilege Of renewing at will without
paying the original incorporation fee.
Roach holds that the tax should be
paid.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1916-11-02
poultry Show.

Poultry Show.
The Poultry Show at St. Louis
Thanksgiving week will have many
new features never before seen in
Missouri, For instance. there will be
an immense exhibit of all varietis of
pet stock, such as rabbits weighing 15
to Is pounds each, CAVES in multi
plicity of eoIors, squirrels. foxes.
skunks and every imaginable kind of
animal that can be Gagged.
In addition there win be quite a
collie show, and the st. Louis branch
of the National Aquarium Society will
have On exhibit of many rare fishes.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1916-11-02
Live Stock Man Speaks.

Rudolph NJ. Patterson, member
Of the state board of live stock COM
mission from Chicago Heights, Cook
county, addressed the Monroe County
Farmers Institute. Patterson's sub
iect was "the Prevention of Foot-and-
Mouth Disease, Hog Cholera and other
Animal Diseases"
The difference between farming
now and 25 years ago when Patterson
bought his first farm in Illinois is
pointed out by the speaker. Patter-
son said that every year brough i'm
provements both in method of farm
ing and in the comforts for the fam
lily
High-grade stock at a slightly in
creased cost was Patterson's recon-
mendation over cheap stock at low
price. He said that this was particu,
larry true in dairying. Patterson told
the members OF the institute that
sanitation was one Of the greatest
problems OF the farmer today.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1916-11-02
"Turn clock Forward Movement.

New Neutrality-suspicious. for ma
tional MISUNDERSTANDING
convention in this city in December
were discussed at ameeting here.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1916-11-02

Berlin.-At least IL outpost steam
ers and two or three torpedo boats or
torpedo boat destroyers were sunk or
damaged by German torpedo-boat
destroyer squadron in the English
Chanel, according to an official COM
munication issued here.
The German torpedo flotilla re-
turned safely to it's base without any
loss
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1916-11-02
Blind Amendment.

Many voters apparently have be-
come so confused as to the exact
meaning of the proposed amendment
to the Missouri constitution, which
would permit the legislature to pro-
vide pensions for worthy blind per
sons, that those who are working in
behalf of the amendment are concen-
trating their Efforts to clear away
Observation-Disclosures
Edward F. Endicott, a blind law
student and chairman of the ways and
means committee Of the United Work
ers for the Blind, said that there
seems to be widespread impression
that the adoption of the amendment
would automatically create a pen,
sion fund, which is a false impress
sion.
The proposed amendment simply
empowers the legislature, whenever
it sees fit, to pass laws to grant
whatever subsidies to blind individ
uals it may deem advisable. The con
stitution as it stands makes any such
legislation impossible, however de
sirable the law-making authorities
might find it.
If the amendment is adopted, Endi
colt explained, it would then be nee
essary to convince the legislature
not only that desired relief should
be given as a matter of public policy
but also that any relief prayed fol
was actually needed and that any
money appropriated would be prop
erly spent.