Morgan County democrat. (Versailles, Mo.) 1900-1906, 1903-12-04

NEWS FROM MISSOURI. ;


Jury for selling liquor on Sunday will
fight the indictments in the courts.
A thief threw a stone through a win
dow into the bedroom Of Charles Bru-
baker, cashier of the Farmers bank at
Nevada. and when Mr.. Brubaker rushed
out to find the miscreant, entered the
house and stole the bankers trousers.
The thief was not captured.
At M%Oundville Sunday evening Rev.
Mr.. Hagler had just launched into his
sermon when his son came ~tiptoeing
down the aisle and whispered some
thing in his fathers ear. The preacher
went white, and for a moment was
speeches.. Then in a broken voice
he announced that his daughter had
Just fallen dead with heart disease and
that we must go to her.
Traffic on Broadway, the principal
street Of Columbia, was blocked while
Lewis NJ. Paris and Mary Lee Mahan-
ney were being married. The wedding
took place in the middle of the street,
in the center of a curious throng. The
couple sat in a buggy and Rev. w. T.
Maupin, of Columbia, held the horse
with one hand and the Bible with the
other while he performed the cere-
mony.
A physician at Carthage claims that
place is the healthiest in the United
States. Its mortality record, he says
ranges from 8 to . 10 per 600 annu-
ally, while that of other places ranges
from 10 to 26 per | 900. "In the year
1892" says this physician, there were
lation at 1000, which is conservative,
we find the death rate a shade over 8
in 1000"
The second eviction in the recent
history of Pettis county occurred
Wednesday, when Sheriff billiard and
a force Of deputies removed the house
hold goods. live stock and farm uten-
sils from the old Roe farm, recently
purchased by w. ID. Steele. Joe II. Roe
was in possession and refused to va
cate. His goods were hauled half a
mile from the house and dumped at the
roadside.
J.. r. Pollard, a travelling "optician,"
NISl''u MAIL pINIllt anu SldIIltu lIt
people by distributing a flaming cir
cular which said, THE President Is
Dead" and winding up by telling how
Roosevelt was fitted with a pair OF
eyeglasses by the ~eye-doctor. The
citizens arose in wrath, tore the bills
TO pieces and gave the 'doctor' "a
hours to get out of town under a threat
of tar and feathers.
Col. A. J.. Strang, of Sedalia, pro-
jector of the proposed North g. South
railroad, between Miami and Scdalia,
via Marshall, said that If the towns
on the proposed line would pay what
they agreed, two years ago, the road
will be built. Scdalia has subscribed
5000, Miami has raised $l1 900 and
will sOon raise the remaining $4,000.
No money is to be paid over until the
road is in operation.
While hunting near Columbia. VIII
Johnson fired at a strange bird over
head which was flying southeast. A
beautiful homing pigeon of unusual
size and of peculiar blush color fell
at his feet. Around its neck was a
silver band on which was engraved,
"For you alone; II. l.. f., u, Fort Sci
kirk, 1903" The bird evidently was
from the Klondike region. It was OF
such unusual size that the bird author
at first classify IT,, but reference TO
books clerly identified 1t as a carrier
pigeon of the larger variety.
A miner named LivengoOd, Injured
by an explosion in a mine at Carter
Vile, brought suit for $50, 900. In the
trial court he was awarded a verdict
for $10,0 600. This Is reversed by the
state supreme court, the opinion being
that Livengood assumed the risk OF
being injured II his f~ellow-servants
we're negligent. For such Injuries
there can be no recovery. While the
sympathics of this court are with the
r~iaintif, the law Is so plainly against
him that the court Is reluctantly forced
to reverse the judgment of the trial
court"
Kahoka, Clark county, wal filled
with a crowd of excited people the
ether day when Frank Clark was
hanged for rape and murderous assault
on Miss Ollie Hess. The intense feel
ing eliminated about n O'Clock.
when a crowd of several hundred men
lore down the stOckade which sur
rounded the gallows in the courthouse
ward. The execution was thu made
public, and aside from this there was
no disorder. The trap was sprung az
2:1O, and Clark died without a strue-
gle. He made a spee'a from h al
lows, in which he acknowledged his
crime and expressed regret for II. he