Morgan County democrat. (Versailles, Mo.) 1900-1906, 1903-07-17
Happenings Of the Past Seve1:
Days in Brief.
ROUND ABOUT THE WORLD
Casualties and Fires, Personal and Pc
litical Notes, Business Failures and
Assumptions, Weather Record.
INTELLIGENCE FROM ALL PARTS


Inc DOdy OF EDWARD DeIehanty, IA
baseball player, was found near
Buffalo, N. Y. where he had fallen
through an open drawbridge.
The last link OF the United States gov.
eminent telegraph system connecting
st. Michael with Seattle has been con-
Dccted.
The action of Gov. Durbin in refusing
TO allow the trial of Lee. the colored
murderer of Patrolman Massey, rem
dered the further presence of soldiers at
Evansville. Ind, unnecessary, and they
were Withdrawn.
Five people were killed and four in
jured at a railway crossing heal Red
Comb Junction. o.
A crusade against the aggression Of
labor unions is planned by the National
manufacturers association committee,
backed by a 81 500, 900 fund.
The United Society of Christian En-
has reelected Rev. Francis T..
Clark, ID. d., president.
DR.. John w. Cook. OF DE Kalb, H., has
been elected president of the National
Educational association.
The navy department las taken steps
TO prevent further interference with
American shipping in the Orlnoco river
Oy insurgents or government forces.
The government is determined to
stamp out the peonage system In the
southern states. Special counsel has
been appointed to prosecute cases.
In a railway wreck near Canon City.
Col, three engineers and a fireman were
killed.
The United States government may
not forward the Jewish petition to Rus.
STA. 81. Petersburg is to be asked If il
will be agreeable before the document
10 sent.
The Pacific squadron, composed Of the
flagship New York, the cruiser Marble
head. II the gunboat Bennington. has
sailed from the Puget sound navy ward
Tor the north.
Barney Oldfield established a new
worlds record by driving an automobile
q mile on a half-milc track in Marion.
Ind, in ZIG 2-5.
Postmaster General Payne has re-
snmed his official duties after a sbor
visit in the Catskills.
William Jennings Bryan will 70 To
Europe this fall to study sociology undo,
monarchial forms of government.
To Michael Torlinski. of Nantlcoke
Pa, a Pole, only is years OF age. be-
longs the distinction Of having beer The
first of his nationality % win n cadet
ship in Americas naval academy.
There were 154 business failures IN
the United States during the seven DAYS
ended on the 10th, against 1856 the same
week in 1902.
A great number of heat victims was
reported throughout the country and
mortality was especially high in New
York and eastern cities.
The exchanges at the leading clear
Ing houses in the United States during
the seven days ended on the 10th az.
gregated 81 1874 ,GG4,777. The increase
compared with the corresponding week
OF last year was 10.
C~hicago's present population Is p
23l 600, according to the estimates of
h city directory authorities.
y. V. Collins, editor OF the North.
western Agriculturist, Of Minneapolis,
has been elected president of the Ma
tional Editorial association.
Freight trains cOllided near Amana,
Ia. and Joseph Dusok. George Haynes
and an unknown man were killed.
At the annual meeting In Atlanta. Ga,
OF the Baptist Young Peoples union.
John II. Chapman. of Chicago. was re-
elected president.
The new pier Of the Scandinavian.
American line at Hoboken. \. J. wal
burned. The loss being $500. 900.