Morgan County democrat. (Versailles, Mo.) 1900-1906, 1903-09-25
NEWS FROM MISSOURI. :


NTH masonic ceremonies.
A boom was started among st,
Louis democrats for Walter Williams,
OF Columbia, for lieutenant governor.
Perry Linn, serving a 33-year SEN
tence for murder committed in WASH
ington county, has been pardoned from
state prison by Gov. Dockery. Linn
has consumption.
There is some doubt about the build
ing OF the university gymnasium for
which an appropriation was made by
the last general assembly. The ap.
preparation was made Professionally
and IL is possible that the revenue oe
the state will not be sufficient for its
erection.
Harry Bipgs. a Rock Island brake
man at Trenton. shot ard badly
wounded WOolsey Hubbell, son of the
proprietor of the Trenton opera house.
While Hubbell was on the porch talk
ing, Biggs stepped from behind a rose
bush where he had been in ambush
and fired two shots at him.
The only funeral director
who was elected to and attended the
convention of the National Funeral Dir
rtctors' and Embalmers' association al
Minneapolis, Mimi, was a Missourian,
Miss Emma Kncll, of Carthage. She
was also the second woman that ever
was elected to such a convention.
DR.. Joel y. Hubbard, of Versailles,
who defeated Richard =. Bland for con-
eress In 1894, was recently arrested in
Kansas City for the alleged theft of a
watch from a negress. Hubbard was
Immediately released upon explaining
matters. The n"grcss who caused his
arrest was later fncd $40 in police
court.
Gov. Dockery has asked J. s. Harris,
a member of the board OF trustees
Of the Lincoln institute, a negro state
school at jefferson City, for his resig-
nation. Harris is a w~ell-known demo-
cratic negro politician, who was APP
pointed a member in 1899 By Lon V.
Stephens. II is alleged Harris re-
ceived ~pecuniary benefit from his po-
sition.
Lee Carpenter, a farmer near NiXa,
Christian county, was killed by "A bolt
OF lightning while currying a horse in
the barn. The horse was killed, too,
and the barn set on fire. The body Of
Carpenter was taken Out Of the burn
ing building by %neighbors. Mrs. Lizzie
Asbury, who lives a quarter of IA mile
from the Carpenter place, was shocked
by the same fash Of lightning and lay
unconscious for several minutes.
Ia, k. i-l ! IT,
stefan Of the town, contends that Car
'haSc is one Of the hcalthicst places in
the country. The people there get
sick, he says, as they do elsewhere, but
disease SEXES them with a looscr grip.
There have been only five cases Of
diphtheria among them since 1875 and
only W deaths from scarlet fever.
They nee had an epidemic of small
pOx, in which $50 were sick, but only
n died.
Three Missouri boys broke the rec
ord a yea ago last summer, when, as
H. said, they earned 81 ,l54.52 by plow-
ing cOrn. The boys are som of &. A..
Christian, Of Atchison county. and are
=, 1G and Is years old, respectively.
Mr.. Christian and his sons Dol the
contract to cultivate a 540-acre tract
OF land belonging to David Rankin.
They were to receive IL cents from
Rankin for every bushel of corn they
raised. With the exception Of "A few
days when Mr.. Christian left a hand,
the boys did all the work; and the land
produced "a ,Gyl bushels Of corn or Is
bushels to the acre. The boys sum
mers earnings averaged $l,3S4.G0
apiece.
Miss Norma Bowman. of Columbia,
can stick her head out Of the window
On the side Of her fathers house facing
the house Of their %neiphbOr, Mrs. Beaz-
ley, II time she wants TO. Judge
Bores has 50 ruled. There is bad blood
between the women Of the Beazlcy
and Bowman families. Mrs. Beazley
finally got pretty mad and told Miss
Norma that ii she put her head through
the window mentioned again. she
would get II shot Off" Miss Norma
Immediately went into the house and
stuck her head out. and Mrs. Beazley
AZ promptly got her gun and blazed
away. She missed the mark and was
Immediately arrested. Judge BoPgs
decided hat she fred without due
proyccatlon and fined her $2G.S5.
Frank Anderson and Frank Mullen
who were confined in the county jail at
Columbia, escaped after making a hole
through the sheet steel oor of their
cell, digging through several feet G:
concrete and prying the steel doc Of
the Jail open. They were confined in
the jail awaiting trial for horse steal"
Ing. The hole In the steel floor. which