Morgan County democrat. (Versailles, Mo.) 1900-1906, 1903-10-09

IN or DeIbTe OclODeT ..
The entire Christian population Of tie
town of Mehomia is said TO have been
massacred by the Turks.
Premier BalfOur, speaking at Shef-
field, announced that LORD Miner can
not accept the colonial secretaryship.
Sir Michael Herbert. British ambas.
sador 10 the United states. died at Da-
vos-Platz, Switzerland. of quick COT.
sumption, at the z Of 46 years.
LATER.
The Illinois state fair, AZ Springfield.
closed on the Sd. The total receipts
for the week were sj2, 600, exceeding
the receipts of 1901. the next best year,
by over $4,000. The attendance was
greater On every Gay than or the cor
responding day of former fairs. This
was a demonstration of unexampled
progress and prosperity in Illinois.
Chicapo's centennial celebration
closed on the night Of the Sd in a blaze
Of fireworks. which illuminated the
largest crowd ever assembled on the
lake front. Estimes Of the number
which Witnessed the greatest fireworks
tIEDIdy -tNH III CHlNu5c - '"S
Worlds fair ranged from 100 900 To
2 5000 persons.
J. G.. Harris, city judge Of Hobart,
Okla, was arraigned, on the Sd, on 16
counts, charging him with receiving
money from gambling houses in pay
ment for allowing them to operate in
vat city. 1t was charged also that
he protected gamblers from arrest for
a financial consideration.
An estimate was made, on b I'd,
that this years cotton crop in Okla
homa and Indian Territory would
amount TO 523,75G bales, based on the
reports made by the variou: railroad
companies traversins that section.
Mrs Jefferson Davis, who has been
Ill in Buffalo, X. Y, was reported, on
the 4th, to be rapidly Receiving from
her illness. Her physicians said She
would lie able TO leave for her winter
home in New York
President i,uoserclt, On the I'd, be-
gan his message to Tie regular session
Of congress-. He VIII prepare two mes
gages-cuc to t-e extra session 10 he
called November 8, and the other TO
the December session.
Broom corn prices were reported On
the jump in the locality OF Paris, H.,
and Q prominent dealer and manIiac-
turer expressed the belief that Sl2' per
ton would he reached in the near
future.
1..c town of St. Charles. in Winona
county, Minnesota was almost ON
plete!y wiped out by "A tornado on the
i,h. Seven persons were Killed aho
q were injured, many OF them seri'
Ously.
The remains of J.. NJ. Wilson, the gov
eminent s'Orckeepcr who was buried
beneath the ruins of Cornings' distil'
lery, on the I'd, at Peoria, Ill, with 81
other men, was recovered on the attn
David Nation, divorced husband OF
Carrie Nation, died. on the 80, at Med
lciue Lodge. kaS.
With the exception Of two shafts
the miners in the eight mines in TIT
Springfield, H., subdistrict. who wen ol
strike, on the Sd, because the operator
had failed to comply with the Law re
curing the building of wash-houscs, re
u II't W with, VI wv JNI. wa
said the men returned to work by direc
ton Of the Illinois executive board o
the United Mine Workers.
Reports from Negaunee, Mich, on tn
9Th, state that the town of Even, Mich.
was struck by "A tornado, and that hal
of IL was laid waste. A number Of mel
working on the roof of a schOolhous
unrn blfu,p nH nnn lninU killIH an
four fatally hurt, beside several VIII,
: sustained lesser hurts. Loss, $500, OOC
1t was announced, on the 9Th. tina
. Mexico, Mo, was to become a termina
> Of the Chicago L. Alton and also tn
Burlington, which is building a ne'
7 line into that city from Old Monroe
The two roads wa. use the track join,
ly, and this will give the Chicago
Alton Il short cut into ST. Louis.
4. The j. G. Fletcher Candy Co,
L Kansas City, Mo, went into bank
" rup'cy. on the 5tn, and a receiver wa
appointed by the United States dis
" trict court. The liabilities were give
at $4,000, and the essets were sal
to be in excess Of that mount.
U Fifteen new indictments were trougf
= In by the supreme court for the Dis
- trict Of Columbia, on the 9th, as III
final result of the Investigation in III
= post once department. Several of thes
% findings were against persons VIII
had already been indicted.
Enoch l.. Ccwart, cashier of Ii
Navesink National bank, of Red Ban
g N. j.. pleaded guilty, on the 9TH, to Nv
Z, charges, one OF them embezzling $40