Morgan County democrat. (Versailles, Mo.) 1900-1906, 1903-07-10

NEWS FROM MISSOURI. ;


state board of arbitration to go to
the Flat river mining district in
southeast Missouri to settle a miners
strike.
Mrs. Jennie Mccoy, wife of "A promi.
nent Moberly citizen, was attempt
ing to drive across the Wabash rail
road track at Moberly when her
horse became unmanageable and the
buggy was struck by to train, Mrs.
Mccoy receiving injuries from which
She died in ten minutes.
More than 5000 teachers, il is said,
ar" now attending the approved sum
mer schools of this state. If the
states people were as much disposed
to pay the teachers good wages as
the teachers are to fit themselves for
good work, Missouri would have
much better public schools.
Prof. Greenwood. principal of the
Kansas City schools. has about de
cidcd that he will not accept the
position offered him by the worlds
fair commissioners to arrange the
state exhibit of the school work. Mr..
Greenwood has been collecting ma
i"rial for II history of Missouri, and
he thinks that by fall he will begin
work upon il.
o Dockcry issued Il proclamation
Offering Il reward of $500 each for the
arrest and conviction of the unknown
murdcrcrs OF Della Johnson, who
was killed in shannon county. and
tor In" arrest and conviction of j.
u. trussWhit", of Monroe county,
who is wanted for the assault Of
Viola White. The rewards hold good
for ON" year.
Bert Nortuni. assistant United
States attorney aud prominent in re-
publican politics in the First district.
advocates the Endorsement of Joseph
W. Folk for governor 10y his party.
"Whv wouldn't II be a good plan"
he sand to several republican leaders,
IF the democrats nominal" Folk for
governor, for the republicans to also
place him at the head of our tickct?"
William Elton Oglc and William
Webbing, of Lebanon, disappeared
May /, and nothing has been heard
from them by friends since. They
were seen last at Cuba. Mrs. Nora
Dgic. wife Of William Oglr. is dis
trcSs"d over her husbands absence,
and requested the authorities to
ind him. Webbing i her brother.
She fears that they were victims Of
the flood and were drowned.
Contractors who are erecting the
I big bridge over the Usage river for
the 81. IouiS-kansas City line Of the
Rock Island are making much better
time than expected and trains will
be crossing the structure within 30
days. When this bridge is completed
the work Of pushing the track on
westward will proceed more rapidly
than ever. and it is claimed that
trains Will he running through from
ST. Louis to Kansas City long before
the opening of the worlds fair.
Because her father opened an en-
>rlnpc containing SOM" returned
verses she had sent to the Ladies'
old, of Oronogo, ran away from home
several DAYS ago. The surrounding
country was searched for her, but
fruiilcsSly. and it was concluded that
she had gone to Utah To join the
MormonN. About this time Il young
man who acted peculiarly went to
work on Il farm near Carthage. lie
wore blue bib oNcrallS, "A jumper, soft
shirt and a Decent hickory hat, and
did as much work as anybody, pick
inc berries and pitching hay, but he
insisted ON sleeping apart in the barn
and his voice was decidedly feminine,
tn" farmer became suspicious, the
"farm hand" was arrested and her
father notified.
The board of regents of the state
normal school at Cape GirardeaI
has awarded the contract for thu
academic hail to he erected on the
college campus This is the building
for which the legislature of Missouri
appropriated $2OO,Oo last winter. II
will be one of q group of four t.
occupy the normal campus. One %
the buildings will he a boiler ant
power house. from which the grouI
of buildings will he lighted, heated
and ventilated. The other two build
inrs are the science hall, Just com
plctcd. and the training hall, nov
Icing erected, and to he completed il
August. each n brautifui stone build
building iONl13 feet, three stories
bull, Of white limestone. Tn
academic hall is to be a building &c
feet front 10y l76 feet deep, with l2
foot basement, and two stories owe
same, reaching "A height of iS feet T.
ewes. and Il central dome rising T.
an altitude of llG feet above tn
mruunl- Ihn rnmpn McCllnics