Morgan County democrat. (Versailles, Mo.) 1900-1906, 1903-10-02
happenings Of the Past Seven
Days in Brief.
ROUND ABOUT THE WORLD
Cesualties and Fires. Personal and 70
Iitical Notes. Business Failures ana
Resumptions, Weather Record.
INTELLIGENCE FROM ALL PAhIs
DOMESTIC.

Fourteen Hour mills at Minneapolis
we're closed because Of a strike oil
employees.
In Kansas City, Mo, the convention OF
tho International Association OF Bridge
and Structural Iron workers voted in
favor OF seating Sam Parks and the 9TH
er delegates from local union No. 2, o.
New York.
At Mount Vernon, Ind. while resist
Ing arrest, William Wilkerson shot and
killed City Marshal Schwake. Chased
by q posse the murderer took his WI
life before he could be captured.
Judge DeIIaven. of the United States
district court in San Francisco, sent
enccd W. II. billiard. former internal
revenue employe. to five years in the
penitentiary for the forging Of Chinese
certificates.
Robert Allen, Jr., aged 70 years, 9
prominent lawyer Of Red Bank, n. ].
was found dead in a wagon house at hin
home with a bullet wound in his head
He IS supposed to have committed suicide
because Of business troubles.
Three men were killed by 2 col
lision Of trains a, Marion, Ind.
officials of the Burlington Railway
company and the Adams Express com.
pany have offered a reward Of 81 600 for
the arrest and conviction OF the men who
held up a train nea st. Joseph, Mo
Coy. Dockery has offered a reward o
$500 for each rObbcr.
At the Empire City track, near New
York, Prince Alert went against the
worlds pacing record of 1:59 held by
Dan Patch and beat 1t most decisivcly
going the distance in 1877.
Orders for a restriction of the anthra.
cite coal output have affected nearly
all OF the collerics in the W~ilkesbarre
Pa. region. over AZ, 900, 900 tons Of
coal have been mined since January !
An itinerary Of ,s3G miles and trav.
ersing ten states and two Canadian
provinces. for the coming trip of the
Ancient and Honorable Artillery com
pany of Boston, with the guests, tho
Honorable Artillery company Of Lon
don, has been completed.
A grand jury returned two indicct.
ments against George H.. and p. n
Ford, the bankers Of Burton, o.. who
severa! months ago failed with liabil
tiles aggregating 81 ,125, 600. They are
said TO have accepted deposits afteI
knowing the bank was insolvent.
The cotton crop of this season fol
Georgia Is l,076, 900 bales. against I,
10000 last year.
At the Milwaukee convention G. II
Hohengarten, OF st. Louis. was chosel
president of the United Master Baker
OF America.
The state bank OF Roberts, Wis, wa
robbed and more han $1,000 was &c
cured from the safe by the robbers.
Ernest Spitzel was instantly kille
md Joseph DOODLE was probably fataI
ly injured by a Chicago, Cincinnati
Louisville train at Converse, Ind.
Yale university has entered upon II
two hundred and third year.
The big Armour packing plar
which was destroyed by fire at Siou
City, la, last winter. 10 to be rebui
at once.
The general executive board Of II
Knights Of Labor, meeting In Washing
ton adopted a resolution opposing Il
proposed war OF union labor on Pres
dcrAs,oosevclt and attributes the host
ity to politicians who would disrupt d
ranks of labor.
At the Empire City track. ne;
Yonkers, N. Y. Major Delmar trOtt'
a mile in two minutes, equalling Il
record OF Lou Dillon.
A proposition to admit TO membe
chip persons Of mixed blood. to 10
the order. was defeated by the 80
ereign Grand lodge of the lndepende
Order of Odd Fellows.
Joseph Munzer. a theatrical manag
IN Cincinnati. tried TO Kill members
Marked for Life company by shoot
nj them. He wounded three, none
riOnsly.
Fire destroyed an entire block
business houses at South Haven .Ka
causing a loss estimated at SIS 900.
A review of the weeks trade by d
and Bradstreet's agencies shows ca
'inued gains In railroad earnings; nu
her Of idle men diminished. jobbi
trade good. demand for steel r~estrict'
Both the plague end cholera are RI
Ing i. Pei-Tang. n seaport 80 miles e'
Of Tientsin. north China, where e.
deaths have occurred curing the 81
quo months.