Morgan County democrat. (Versailles, Mo.) 1900-1906, 1904-12-16

NEWS FROM MISSOURI. !


establish . packing plant in Joplin.
Robert Bohon, aged 1s, is dead at
Smithton from excessive cigarette
smoking.
Fire at Ozark destroyed Odd Eel
lows hall and seevral other buildings.
Loss, $25 1000.
Fire broke out at Holden In Meade's
general store. The stock, valued at
10000, was destroyed.
Thomas Norris, who says he is city
attorney at Ozark, was being held at
Shawnee, Ok, for alleged forgery. He
will return to Missouri without requisi-
ton.
James Hicks, aged 81, for G3 years
a resident OF Livingston county, is
dead at Chillicothe. Michael Dono-
hue, aged 70, for 40 years a resident,
also died the same day.
=. II. Grafton, aged IS years, for 10
years superintendent of the public
schools at Plattsburg, is dead. He was
married and leaves a son, who is in
the naval school, and another in Mex"
leo.
william Robbins, a veteran steam
boat pilot on the Mississippi river,
was found dead in the pasture at his
country home, two miles west of Han
nibal. He yer out into the woods to
look owe his hogs and was stricken
before reaching home.
Cyrus p. Walbridge, late republican
candidate for governor, filed his cam
paisn expense account, showing that
he paid The state committee 81 900.
Mr.. Walbridfe did not incur any addi-
'ional expenses, except such as are
excluded under the law.
The statue Of George Rogers Clark,
The" explorer, which stands in the ro-
tInda of the Kentucky state building
at the worlds fair, was presented to
the Missouri Historical society by x.
B. GRAIN, of Louisville, under whose
direction it was made especially for the
Louisiana Purchase exposition.
Preparations are in brisk progress
for the forthcoming reports which are
to be made TO the general assembly.
One Of them as showing the cxpend-
lures Of the state, 50 far as The fig
'''D W. '' nav ~, - oh'" 'Hii VI
the - 1885 600 appropriated by the last
legislature for all purposes there re-
mains uneXpended $73G,00
While her f~Our-ycar-Old son played
by her side Mrs. Maggie Thorpe, wife
Of Coleman Thorpe, "a Frisco railroad
engineer, killed herself by sending a
bullet into her heart at her home, 1896
ElIuft, DVop,,n 81 n,iy h,ntb az,
almost Instantaneous. When neigh
bors arrived in response to the cries
of the son, Darrell Thorpe, they found
life extinct.
The only copy Of the first ncwSpap"~
published west Of st, Louis now in cx.
istence has been purchased by the Mis-
souri, Historical society and is now in
Columbia. On April %, 1919, the first
copy q the "MissOuri Int"lligencer
and Eoon's Lick Advertiser" was is
sucd AT Franklin, Howard county, Mis-
souri, territory, by Nathaniel Patton
and Il. Holiday.
Al the annual meeting of the board
Of managers Of the confederate home
of Missouri in HiHginsville all the Off
''Ib "'It I'-fI''l'u thttDI III. MAT
I%'arIan, surgeon Of the hospital. Dr.
w. G.. webb, of Higgingyille, was elect
ed in his place. The other officers are:
Col. j. l.. Pace, superintendent; Judge
X. II. Benton, assistant supcrintend-
ent; Mrs. Pace, matrOn; Miss Laura
Mitchell, stenOgrapher.
At the recommendation of the prison
al ,Fgi,fap and tEa I,.rI -
Gov. Dockery issued three sick par
dOns, as follows: j. Morgan Maddox,
sent up from Rails county 10 serve %
years for robbery In the first degree,
from September II, 1897; Galen
T.. Bishop, sent up from Buchanan
county. to serve two years for forgery
In the third degree, from September
"a, 1903; Allen i. Orear, sent up from
Boone county, to serve ten years for
murder in the second degree. from
February 20, 1903,
John B Knowles, who was convict
ed of embezzlement In Jasper county
and was released on bond pending his
appeal to the supreme court, appeared
at Jefferson City and surrendered to
j. II. Finks, marshal OF the supreme
court, who took him to the pcniten-
tiary to serve his sentence. lie was
sentenced to W. years In the pcniten-
tiaTy In The lower court and the SUI
prcme court affirmed the sentence re-
Gently. So soon as he could wind up
his business affairs Knowles went to
Jefferson City voluntarily to begin his
term.