Morgan County democrat. (Versailles, Mo.) 1900-1906, 1903-10-09
Happenings Of the Past Seven
Days in Brief.
ROUND ABOUT THE WORLD
Casualties and Fires. Personal and PO-
li!icai Notes, Business Failures anu
Assumptions, Weather Record.
INTELLIGENCE FROM ALL PARTS


Py a collision between q PASSENGER
train and an electric car near the llaw-
thurne track in Chicago six persons
were Killed and nine injured. making
n total Of 80 fatalities in Chicago for
September on steam and street rail
ways.
A mob lynched walter Davis fcol-
crodJ at Marshall, Tex, for the murder
Of Constable Hayes.
The public debt statement issued or
The Let shows that the dob. decreased
sG11lFl2 during The month of Sep
TENDER. Cash in the treasury, S@S9,-
4l7.l94. Total debt, less cash in treas
ury, s~9t7.7525i5.
Willis. Frederick VI. and Burton Van
Wormer NrothersD were put to death
in 1914 minutes in the electric chair
at the prison in Dannemora. \. y,
for the murder Of their uncle, Peter A..
Hallcnhrci. al Grocndale, on Christ
mas eve, 1901.
Mayor Seth Low, OF New York, nd
dressed a civic mass meeting in the Audi
forum in Chicago and expressed the
wish that all the cities Of The lard might
BE- The source Of Inspiration fer the per
petGity Of the republic.
During the month Of September, 1909,
the total coinage OF United States coins
wa s., G2c ri.
N American record Of 1:oTi% for So
furIonps was set b. Niece. Edward Cor
rirar's '~hroe-ytar-old, at the Harlem
race track IL Chicago,
Tn amount Of national bani notes in
circulation September 30 was 500 2G,-
I3j. an increase for the year Of $50 49,
931.
The government receipts in SEPTEMBER
were s44 ,9G9 SIS, and the expenditures
S3s i@0 .5G2. leaving a surplus fer the
mont Of sG.540,d0
At O%furd, O., a deputy sheriff stood
OF a moi AS II was lynchiEg Louis Spivey
ard cat the victim from atre"to which hf
had been strung. The marshal, In at.
ten p'inp to arrest a drunken man, pre-
c.I'tatsd a riot in which four men were
fatally wounded.
Clarence q. schultz, OF Cincinnati, o.
has received the degree OF Goctor on
r!rtcr from the Technical university
Berlin. He Is the first American ~
whom this degree, created by Enpcro
William three years ago, has been cen
fcrred.
Statistics for September show TIN
AZ S.. aliens arrived al Ellis island dur
:lc the month, being al excess over II,
corresponding month last year of 5,5i:
Fifteen Cinnamon, who. II Is allePct
had been smuEgled across the horde
from Canada. were arrested when the
a,,;,,I T., NJ, a., ,,, ~
During the past nine months thsr
were SIG business failures IN IN
United States. with liabilities OF s16l
C,t..s55, against s,G7C failures and ss5
49, $40 liabilities In the first nine month
Ct 1902.
In the extraditiOn ease of Leopold ,
Stern, of Baltimore, wanted In Wasf
inr,on In connection with the post'
frauds. Justice Winchester. OF TorontI
ONT, directed that Stern be delivere
over 20 the United States authorities.
The French jewelry exhibit at 6
Louis already mounts TO 81 1900 GOO al
iLC,uGfs q pearl collar valued at $500, On
A. AnaaGale. Mimi, In a fight brtwet
posse Of citizens and a gang Of SUI
posed robbers n Of the latter ",
Killed, one mCrtally wounded and fol
others seriously wounded.
-Four women were drowned on 10
lake, near Brainerd. MINI, while a
tempting TO ford "the Narrows.'
Elliott w. Shanklin, secretary Of Il
Kentucky Tro,tiEg Horse breeders a
ISOLATION, cropped dead suddenly In b
Office in Louisville, by,
j. Loescr, n retired merchant Of p
Gucah. Ky, was knocked down a
robbed CT 5000 at ~Carhonda!e. III.