Morgan County democrat. (Versailles, Mo.) 1900-1906, 1903-07-31
Happenings of the Past Seven
Days in Brief.
ROUND ABOUT THE WORLD
Casualties and Fires, Personal and 20
litical Notes, Business Failures and
Assumptions, Weather Record.
INTELLIGENCE FROM ALL PARTS
DOMESTIC

The elks in national convention IL
Baltimore marched in a parade abou'
1000 strong.
Mrs. Adelaide Hawley, a prominent
resident of New Milford, Pa. was in.
stantly killed by the upsctting Of hci
automobile.
II Is announced that in spite Of the
hot winds in central Kansas, corn is
not damaged to any great extent.
Capt. Robert DOdd, the oldest raft
pilot, and one Of the Oldest steamboat
pilots on the Mississippi river, was
found dead in his bed at his home in
ST. Louis, from heart failure.
At beaumont, Tex. Policeman Wal
ter Skensbury was shot and fatally
wounded by Mooney Allen, a negro,
who was pursued by a crowd Of citi-
2ens and shot TO death shortly after
wards.
julius Wiltrax took the witncss
stand In Judge Kerstcn's court, Chicago,
and accused his parents Of the murder
Of Paul P~aszkowski last April.
Two Missouri Pacific passenger trains
coilldcd near Sedalia Mo, injuring six
passengers, julius IIcnkcl, Of Holland.
Ia, seriously.
Henry f. Krusc. a prominent business
man Of Lafayette, Ind, was drowned In
The Wabash river after heroicaIiy reg
culnR his daughter and the son Of a
friend.
William G. buchanan, bnnklecpor 81
the Williamson-Gunning Advertising
company Of St. Louis, has disappeared.
He was given $4,000 In notes 10 have
discounted and has not been seen
since.
Lightning practically destroyed the
10000 Floyd monument at Sioux city
erected to the memory Of Sergeant
Charles Floyd, member of III" Lewis
and Clark expedition. II was intended
to send the monument to the ST. Louis
exposition.
A l,O00-acre tract on the west bank
Of the Hudson. near West Point has
been bought by leading New York
Bap'istS for an educational summer
resort similar to Chautauqua ana
Ocean Grove.
The safe in the post Office al Maysyile
N. y, was blown open. Seventeen thou
sand two-cent stamps, 10000 on.-c,ni
stamps and 1000 oight-cent stamps were
secured by the burglars.
Eleven more bodies Of victims Of N,
Union Pacific mine explosion In W,om
Ing recently have been recovered.
DR.. a. A. Ames, former mayor Of Mir.
heapolis, Mimi, now under indictme.J
for bribery, has made application 70,
pension on account Of disabilities IL.
CURED during the civil war.
County rural free delivery In Mclean
county, H.. has been ordered to com
mence September 10. The service will
be the most extensive of any one county
In the United States. There will be 7.
separate routes.
A rag pickers' union has been or,
canized in New York.
Harvey w Scott, owner Of the Oregon.
ian, Portland, Ore, has been chosen pres.
ident or the Lewis and Clark exposition
The treaty between the United State
and Denmark for purchase Of the Dan,
ish West Indies has expired, and it Is
not probable that a new one will be IN.
tered into.
Talbot J., Taylor e. Co. and w. !.
Stow e. Co, big Wall street brokorar'
firms, were forced to suspend owing t,
the constant decline In stocks. Tn,
head OF Taylor house is a sOn-iL-lav
Of James X. Keene. Millions OF dollar
are involved In the failures.
Trade reviews report unusually pooc
business In nearly every section Of III,
country, collections are better thar
usual In midsummer, and trade and Ia
'h"r troubles are being settled.