Morgan County democrat. (Versailles, Mo.) 1900-1906, 1903-11-27

: NEWS FROM MISSOURI. ;
is building a $25, 900 sewer.

Fulton is building a $25 900 sewer.
age system.
Matthew Van Dyke, SS years old
dice at his home in Saline county.
He had lived there so years.
A deputy United States marshal ar.
rested Lewis Smith, colored, near Ar.
row Rock. on a charge of selling wills.
ky illegally. Smith is 81 years old ant
has lived for many years in a hut or
the bluffs of the Missouri river neal
Arrow Rock.
December 18 Is the date fixed for the
trial OF Senator Buell. Matthews, of St
Louis county, who is charged with
bribery in having accepted 81 900 foi
his vote on the bill to repeal the Law
prohibiting the use of alum in the
manufacture of baking powders.
In honor of his golden jubilee ir
free masonry, the st. Louis masonic
bodies gave a testimonial Sarauet re.
Gently to Martin Collins. Besides
holding the distinction of having beer
"a mason of so years, Mr.. Collins has
for A consecutive years been president
of the masonic board of relief OF s..
Louis.
Burglars broke into the Missouri
Kansas d Texas railroad freight house
at Boonville and carried off q case OF
fine shoes and a barrel of whisky
They also stole from the city magazine
some fuse and dynamite. Sheriff
George notified banks Of Boonville ana
n~eighboring towns to be on their
guard.
Twelve women of he East Broadway
Christian church, of Scdalia, were
gathering cor on the farm of c. b
Warren, fOur miles west of town, the
other day. Mr.. Warren is an officer
of the church and offered the women
Il wagon load of corn if they would &c
into the field and husk it without the
help Of Il man.
one OF the oldest men ever sentenced
to the peDitentiary in Missouri is
James Davis, who was given two years
at Carthage for horse stealing. The
old man is feeble and childish, but hi:
fOndness for other peoples good hos;
flesh seems 10 increase with age. This
is the third time he has bccn Sent &c
the pcnitcntiary for similar Offcnses.
Ralph A. Carroll Is suing Charles L.
Dale for $40, 600 in the circuit court at
Independence. The suit was taken
there on a change Of venue from Ray
county. Carroll alleges that in 1901
Dale persuaded his wife to leave him
Influenced her to secure a divorce and
then married her. lie asks for $1,000
actual damages and for $1,000 punitive
damages.
Richard Phillips, 10 years old, OF
Rich Hin, was killed by a Missouri Pa.
cific freight three miles south of Rich
Hill. With six other young men he
started south for Nevada on a freight
train and it was upon returning that
he was killed. His comrades saw him
fall but were SO frightened that hone
Of them told of The accident until after
his body was found. His neck was
broken and both arms severed.
The religious feeling now manifested
In Joplin Is unprecedented in its his
tory and the city Is in a fair way tc
mend its wicked ways. Revival meet
inEG have been in progress at four of
the largest churches in the city the
past month and something like 1,250
conversions have. been made. The
Christian church made a record in that
organization. having had 5S5 cOnver-
eions during the present revival.
Judge Hugh Dabbs, of the circuit
court of Jasper county, severely re.
primanded Sheriff James owen in
cOurt for allowing Samuel Mitchell to
go about the county uneuarded. Mitch
ell is charged with being the leader
Of the mob that hanged the negro, Tom
Gilyard, in Joplin last spring. He was
tried and sentenced TO the penitcntiary,
but got a new trial and was remanded
to jail waiting trial. Sheriff owen
protested that he had never allowed
Mitchell to run at large.
The worlds fair officials received a
letter from the Missouri university au-
thositieS stating that 1t Is desired to
have a University of Missouri day at
the fair, on which ii Is proposed to
bring to the city all of the university
students, cadet corps and band the
whole university community. The
CADET corps of the pittsburg academy
Is also DESTROYS Of coming to the fair
10 encamp during the latter part OF
June and the first week OF July. The
secretary Of the ceremonies commit
tee has written to the academy hat the
late Is acceptable.
At the annual meeting Of the State
Dairy association at Clinton. December
3, 8 and 10, Prof. G. II. Echles, secre-