Morgan County democrat. (Versailles, Mo.) 1900-1906, 1903-08-21
Happenings Of the Past Seven
Days in Brief.
ROUND ABOUT THE WORLD
,,asualties and Fires, Personal and 70
Iitical Notes. Business Failures ana
Assumptions, Weather Record.
INTELLIGENCE FROM ALL PARTS
DONEkTIC.

mtnI lot HllPpfI DDhldi IIduuh, ~ Nv
olared a fugitive from justice.
A new worlds mark for one mile ano
100 wards was set at the Harlem ract
track in Chicago by Grand Opera, who
ran the distance in l:i43-5.
Two additional victims of the acciden'
vi the National league baseball park IL
Philadelphia are dead, making the tota.
number Of deaths II.
+ f. Johnson, ~bOokkeepcr for the
Commercial Banking company in Dn-
luth. MINI, confessed to cmbezzlina
H5, 900, and The bank was compelled tt
.lOse.
The grand jury investigating the +"
cert lynching al Danville, H., indicted
ls persons.
Sleeping car pOrters employed by
the Pullman company seek the aboli-
ton of tips and an increase in ages
The senate subcommittee conferred
with President Roosevelt at Sycamore
Hi on currency bill which will be
introduced at the coming extra session
ri congress.
The battle ship Massachusetts struck
Io'f H'dI bdT ildTD'I, N'.i anu sew
tral plates were cracked.
Thousands Of negroes in Georgia
have been robbed by a northern Negro
named Mitchell under promise Of Sc.
curing pensions for them.
The American fishing tug Silver
Spray Of Erie was fired on and dam.
aged in Lake Erie by the Canadian
ysynptn gt,t,.r D.trnt yyLi1. "a .l.b,t
able water near the boundary line.
The legislature Of Georgia ha.
passed a resolution forbidding the
whipping Of female convicts.
Secretary Shaw removed Henry
Ives Cobb. architect in charge Of the
Chicago federal building.
burglars secured 81 800 from the posi-
office al sherman, S. -.
Special session OF congress may ht
Fallcd for October instead Of November
AZ a result Of tho finance cOmmittcc't
conference with President Roosevelt.
Reports from 1904 bankers In q
western and southern states show guoc
conditions there for financing crops.
Blu Grass, la. was swept by flames
The Town hall, opera house and scyera
residences and barns being destroyed.
BY request the worlds air manage
mcnt a. 81. Louis has fixed October 7
1904, for an'l-cigarctte day.
Six firemen on the steamship Fastlant
mu,inied because they were not piveI
mashed potatoes for dinner. The strik.
ers were arrested and placed In jail al
South Haven. Mich. charged with mu.
tiny on hoard ship while at sea.
President ROOse welt viii be asked b,
China and Russia to arbltrate the Man.
chnrian dispute.
Damage s.its against labor unions ant
mbar OF unions aggrcgating $l3l coo
have been fled In Chicago courts.
Gilbert Twigg. an insane man, fret
into n crowd OF people at Winfield, Kan.
Billing three. and then killed himself.
In a trnin wreck near Melrose, N. G.
Engineer J. ~. Averill, Jr.. Fireman
William Hair and Brakeman W. y
Sheriff. were killed.
During the month Of July, the frs
month Of the present fiscal year, al.
most 5000 new rural mail routes have
been established.
Frank Neil won the worlds bantam
weight championship by knocking on
Harry Forbes Of Chicago in the secont
round at San Francisco.
The percentages Of The baseball clubs
in the National league for the weel
ended on the 18th were: Pittsburg
.St7; Now York. .Gl2; Chico go, .5oS
Cincinnati. .53G; Brooklyn, .485, Bos
ton, .42C; ST. Louis. $40; Philadelphia
1897.
George Is Evans killed his wife an,
himself in Kansas City. Mo.
a couple who registered as 4. Smitl
aud wife committed suicide In a note
ut New Haven. Conn, by turning OF
inc gas.
Great damage was done by a tor
nado which swept the farming countr
southwest OF Norfolk, Neb.
B%oycotting Of bachelors and employ
ment only OF married men. In urged b.
Mayor Knots. Of Hammond, Ind.
The percentages of the hasebal! club
IN the American league for the wee
ended IN the 10th were: Boston, .Gi3
Philadelphia, ,5G1; Cleveland, .5i5
New Ynrk, BOB; Detroit, sos, 81
Louis, 400; Chicago. i5J. Washing
tea. .3lG.