Morgan County democrat. (Versailles, Mo.) 1900-1906, 1904-01-01
Happenings Of the Past Seven
Days in Brief.
ROUND ABOUT THE WORLD
Casualties and Fires, Personal and PO-
litical Notes, Business Failures and
Assumptions, Weather Record.
INTELLIGENCE FROM ALL PARTS
DOMESTIC.

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Burglars blew open a safe in the Tower
Hill nll.) bank and escaped with $4,000
In cash.
James Gillespie Is charged by the
grand jury at Rising Sun. Ind, with the
murder OF his twin sister and three other
members of the family are held as con-
spirators.
The advisory board Of the Amalga-
mated Steel Workers union in Pitts
burg announced that 80 lodges had
voted to accept a wage reduction OF &c
per cent
New gifts t~otaling nearly 5000, 900
were announced by President Harper
at the University OF Chicago cOnvoca-
ton. 81 $4,000 coming from John u.
Rockefeller.
Gov. Bliss, OF Michigan, parOled Franz
G. Andrews, the Detroit bank wrecker,
who has served Is months OF a Is years
sentence.
Livery owners refused to meet drlv-
ers for a conference to settle the strike
In Chicago and the employees declared
for a fight to the bitter end.
The remains OF AZ private soldiers
who lost their lives in the Philippines
were buried with military honors at the
National cemetery at Arlington.
Five officials of Franklin union. No.
4. OF Press Feeders were indicted in Chi
cage as a result Of recent labor troubles,
Ell Hilson. a negro living eight miles
from B~rookhaven. Hiss, was assas.
sinated by whitecaps.
A battery OF seven boilers In the pow
er house OF the St. Louis tMo.) Transit
company exploded. killing five en-
ployes -
Railway building ~ the year 1903 has
added 5,723 miles Of track, bringing the
total up to 2O3. 1876 miles.
Gladys Asch was shot to death in Chi
cago by Albert Altenhofen. formerly a
Milwaukee business man, who deserted
his family for her. The slayer commit
ted suicide.
Andrew Carnegie has set apart 81, O0O,-
600. the interest to form a perpetual fund
10 relieve workmen injured in Carnegie
plants and to aid heirs Of those killed
while at work.
Sixty-three persons were killed ant
scores injured at Laurel Run, Pa, by g
collision Of "A Baltimore and Ohio east.
bound limited train with %protrudina
timbcrs.
Holiday shopping in Chicago this
year exceeds in quantity any prcviOui
year.
Secretary Moody asks congress foi
$2,ooO,ooO Tor armOr and armament foi
the new naval ships now being rushed.
A panic among l.40O stceragc pas
sengcrs on the HamburgAmcr!can
Hnc steamship Bluchcr was stopped
with rcvolvcrs, following a collision
with n tramp steamer in midocean.
Thirteen indictments against union
labor leaders, members OF unions and
sympathizcrs for %rioting at strikes,
were returned by the grand jury IN
Chicago.
All records TO- Christmas business
IN the New York post Office were
broken this yca.. One million pack,
ages passed through the Office In one
day.
The Illinois Steel company mills In
South Chicago were closed without
notice and $500 men were made idle.
Lawrence O Murray. OF Chicago,
has been chosen assistant secretary OF
and labor.
The Missouri supreme court has de.
cided against ticket brokers, and the
railroads viii make reduced rates for
the fair.
Rear Admiral John G Walker has adj
vised the president that II is unnecessary
70 send the army to the isthmus.
The navy department has been advised
that the firs,-class battleship Iowa had
been placed in commission at the Brook
Ign navy yard.
G. NJ. Waters has been appointed sup,
erintendent of the division Of salaries
and allowances for the p~ostofice Depart
ment In Washington.
Charles w. Graves was arrested at Dos
Moines, TO-. for alleged wife murder, the
Information being given by his step.
daughter. q m mber OF the Grau Optra
company.
joseph Phillips. a HOllowvMie IN. "
farmer. murdered his three children and
then hanged himself In a neighborh0od
barn. Phillips had complained lately OF
his poverty. and il Is believed bis mind
became rngGt'led..