Morgan County democrat. (Versailles, Mo.) 1900-1906, 1903-09-11

: NEWS FROM MISSOURI, :


The Missouri conference of the NJ.
Il. church, south, In session at Mexico,
gave $500 for a home for aged preach
ers. 1t Is proposed to raise s., 900, 900
to establish and endow this home.
The state Y. p. S. c. T.. convention
at Louisiana closed with the election
of the following officers: Rev. w. II.
Jones, of Palmyra, president; A. II.
Corey, of New Cambria, vice presi-
dent; Miss Mary Lane, secretary and
treasurer, end Miss Mamie Willard, OF
Kirksville, Junior superintendent.
Samuel Jacobs. a lineal descendant
of Maj. Andre, of revolutionary fame,
is dead at his home in st. Joseph, aged
So. He was a civil engineer and sur
'eyed the route Of the Chicago, Bur-
lingtOn & Quincy railroad across the
state of Iowa. He wa one OF the pro-
moters of the Kansas City. st. Joseph
e. Council Bluffs railroad from Coun-
ell Bluffs to Kansas City.
Sam B. Cook, secretary OF state, an
nounces the engagement of his eldest
daughter, Miss Frances Cook, to Cas-
sius NJ. Clay, of Bolivar, Miss. The
wedding is TO be held October 7 at the
brides home in Mexico. Mr.. Clay is q
son OF Gen. Green Clay, of Mexico,
representative Of Audrain county in
the last legislature. He Is conducting
q large plantation in Mississippi.
+. Herrick, a Pettis county farmer,
several weeks ago captured an escaped
ron yict md rfpniunJ a rfypnrl nf SOnl
One day last week he thought he had
caught a second convict when he
marched Charles Ross to the PettiB
county jail. Ross had no trouble in
establishing his reputation and free
ing himself. and his first act was TO
hire a lawyer and sue IIcrrick for
1000 damages.
X. y. Williams, state treasurer, filed
his report of the transactions of the
state treasury for the month of August
with Gov. DOckery. II shows the fol-
lowing: Balance July 81, s2,8jO,3SG.5l;
receipts for August, including trans
fer of $l,OiJ, J0J.5i from state revcnuc
fund to state school moneys, $780,
1864; disbursements for August. in
'lt'llIlfs idlloi'ISs yGtf'-,DpD.l Il
nnce August 81, 1857, S35.l7.
Missouri's champion globe trotteT Is
n. W. Flagis, Of Upton (whcn at
Eomc), who has been travelling for an
English firm of needle manufacturers
So years. He has been completely
around the world six times and has
covered in all 1900 900 miles. His
next little jump will be to Russia. Mr..
Flagis cannot tell what becomes of all
the needles, but has reason to know
that they disappear by billions.
a. O. Boyd wcnt TO sleep on the
window sill Of his room on the second
floor Of his roOming house, 30t East
Thirteenth street, Kansas City, the
other night. When he rcpaincd con-
seriousness he lay 90 feet below, in 4
harrow pathway which divides the
Iooming house from the hOus" on the
west. How long he had Ian there he
does not know, but when he tried to
move the pain almost rendered him
unconscious.
Rev. Dr. Thompson, in addressing
the NJ. T.. conference, south, at MeXi-
co. in speaking on the dcsccration Of
the Sabbath, placed England ahead o,
all OF the Sabbath-obscrving coun-
tries. He said that the country which
did not observe the Sabbath could not
survive. He laid especial stress on
the unholincss of the Sunday xcur-
sion and said that the many wrecks
On railroads were directly or Indirect
" the result of the Dissertation of the
Sabbath day.
In an application for divorce from
der of Macon, states that his wife,
Martha A. Hyatt. in 1852, went out
on the streets OF North Benc, Neb.,
and prayed that he would lose every
thing he had in a big st. Louis wheat
deal In which he was then interested.
The petitioner says the prayer of the
wife was granted to the letter, and
that everything he had was swep,
away. He was then compelled 10 seel;
any kind of employment and now he
has nothing but a pepsion, which he
draws regularly from the government
Only five governors of Missouri
have been natives of the state-Fletch-
Ct, McClurg, ~Marmaduke, Stephens
and DoCkcry. Fletcher was born in
Jefferson county. McClurg in st. Louia
county, Marmaduke In Saline county
Stephens in Cooper county and Dock
FRY in Livingston county. All of them
have been governor since the civi
war. Eight Of u governors were
born in ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS, Ed
wards. Brown, WoOdson. Hardin, Crit
tenden, Stone and Francis. Moore
honee was from oh 10 phnlnS from