Morgan County democrat. (Versailles, Mo.) 1900-1906, 1903-08-14
Happenings Of the Past Seven
Days in Brief.
ROUND ABOUT THE WORLD
Casualties and Fires. Personal and Pc
Iitical Notes, Business Failures and
Assumptions, Weather Record.
INTELLIGENCE FROM ALL PARTS
DOMESTIC.

Petty officers on the receiving shiL
Columbia at the Brooklyn navy yard re-
fused to mess with a black man.
Elastic OF emergency currency" was
Endorsed by the Wisconsin State Bank
"rs' ASSOCIATION at the Milwaukee cOnven-
ton.
Columbian Celebration company bond.
holders have been ordered by Judge Tu-
ley In Chicago to settle a $500, 900 In
dcDtedness TO the Buda Foundry com
pany. Incurred on worlds fair spectacle.
rum.
President Roosevelt has ordered the
white house grounds TO be opened Satur-
nay afternoons to poor children whose
parents are unable to take them into the
country.
The barge FlOrric war lost between
Barnegat and Fire Island during a
s'tfm ana five persons were drowned.
Mrs Pearl Seaman came from China
10 Chicago to become the bride OF
philip Herbert. formerly IN the United
States navy. who rescued her from
Boxers at Shanghai.
Louise liaby, aged II. who was sold
i" 'hDJI Wv w al IJdkOId TnfrIIlhH
and compelled TO do hard labor all her
life. escaped and reached the home OF
Chicago relatives.
United States senator W. Il. HOY.
burn, of Idaho. a leading lawyer of
mat state, WaS IN route to ponngyI
wanna 10 wed his bOyhood swcc'hnar,
Miss Ghcratinc Y"atman. who has
waited 20 years for him.
II Is estimated that $4,000 600 has
been added in tn" past year TO the wear
IS ~payrOlla Of 80 western railroads. and
tina 10000 men share In the increase.
A shortage Of s22 900 has been dis
covered IN the City National bank Of
Canton, O.. and Teller Albert W. Dicbc,
has been arrested.
An explosion 81 powder In a mine
al Fairmont, " Va fatally injured Gv,
miners.
After n voyage lasting over n year,
owing to severe storms. the French
bark Grand Duchessc Olga arrived at
Portland, Ore, from Antwerp
The exchange at the leading clear.
ing houses in the United States during
N" seven days ended on the 18th aggrc.
gated 81 1872 .439 900. The decrease com.
pared with the corresponding week of
last year was 80
The scnlpturc-crOwncd top Of III,
Worlds Fair festival hail In 81. Loui,
will be 2GO feet high and will be larger
than 81. Peters AT Rome.
Fire destroyed 20 business houses a.
Biers. Cal.
Lieut.. Gen. Nelson A. Miles. com.
manding the army, has retired from ar.
tive service, having reached the agt
limit Of "a years.
Willard S. Allen. Of Boston. treasurer
NJ the Preachers Aid Society Of New
England Me'hodlsts, confessed q short.
apc Of over $4,000.
A department store trust was said t6
bc the object Of a company incorporated
a. Trenton. n. J.. with 81. 900 900 capital
\ special train ran from New York tt
Los Angeles, Cal. In 20 hears and 81
mlnutca, breaking all railwa, records.
At Birmingham, Ala, VIII Hudson
n VIII Jones, negroes, convicted on
charges Of highway robbery. were exe.
cuted Ia the county jail yari.
The law passed by the last Legislature
or Washington making the conducting OF
a gambling resort or game q felony has
been declared constitutional by the state
supreme court.
Trains carrying Wallace Broth ers
circus cOllided at DuraHd. Mich, and %
men were killed and a dozen others In.
fnred, some fatally,
Frank Robertson fcolorsd) was
hanged al Jacksonville, Fla for the
murcer Of Deputy Sheriff Sadler ~
Pablo Beach for: wars ag.