Morgan County democrat. (Versailles, Mo.) 1900-1906, 1904-07-01

: NEWS FROM MISSOURI. :


80 ''lDDJhlI lulI VIII Dt l'Iu
at Sedalia August - TO 10.
tn" annual convention Of the Chris
tian church was held at Carrollton the
past week.
A young son of William V. Clark,
OF S~hackleford, was kicked on the head
by a mule and killed.
Edward I~ussin, a young farm hand,
was killed while trying to board a Bur
linston train at Moody.
The stable of the X. J. Boyd Con-
structiOn company at Kansas City was
burned together with IS mules.
Don w. Nichols and wife have re-
turned to Louisiana after years spent
as Methodist missionaries In CHINA.
The Hannibal street car line will be
extended 10 Palmyra and Taylor,
through a rich agricultural community.
At joplin, June 90, was held the
state democratic convention to select
SO delegates to the national democratic
convention.
J. S. Campbell, of Monet, was
robbed Of $40 in a rooming house on
North Main street, Kansas City, by a
stranger who was his roommate.
A joint council Of Methodist Prot
estant, United Brethren and ConPrega-
tional churches was held at Brook
field, Chancellor stephens, of Kansas
City, making an address.
The Chillicotho Athletics challenge
any baseball club in that part of the
country 10 come 10 Chiliicuthc and win
two games for 500. The Kansas City
Blues and the Fort Scott team of the
Missouri VALLEY league are preferred.
a livery horse. the property of Carl
ton d Amcnt, at ChiIlicothc, was in a
runaway with another horse and broke
through a wire fonc" and upset four
bee hives. Tho bees settled ON the
horse, singing him until he died with
in an hour and a half in great agony.
The city council Of Columbia granted
a fran"hiS" to the Missouri Central
Electric Railway company, allowing il
to construct a lin" and operate cars
through Walnut street. This line, as
projected, viii run from Kansas City
to ST. Louis, passing through the prin-
cipal towns of Ia" route to St. Louis.
The six votes for Walter S. Dickcy
for republican national committeeman
were cast by o.. /. Iiouts. of Warrrns-
burg; Louis + Aloe, Of 81. Louis; Tom
Is. N"idiinphalg, of St. Louis; John
II. R"ppcy. Of iiilisburo; George c. r.
Wagner, OF 81. Louis, and We of the
Kansas City halt votes, j. A. Mc!.anc
and A. G. Kinneard.
over COO delegates were attending
the annual convention Of the state
Christian EndaavOr society AT St.
Louis. Wang Ching Chun. Of the Pc
Kin industrial institute, was one of
the speakers. Every Protestant
church except the Methodist (Which
has the EpwOrth lraguc) was repre-
scented in the conycntion.
Harry QuintOn and wife were arrest
ed a. Bedford on the charge Of killing
IN" formers son, the lattcr'S strpson,
~t"n-y"ar-uld Johnnie Quinton. Who was
found with a rifle ball in his forehead
at his nom" near Bedford. The arrest
was Ordered by Prosecuting Attorney
Miller On a statement of a Scvon-ycar-
old brother Of Johnnie Quin,Gn, who
said their ~stcpmothcr fired the shot.
Lille Dean, aged IS. Of 3li East
Ninth street, Kansas City, swallowed
a pin As she was making her toilet,
but no serious results are expected
from the accident. Miss Dean had
tire" pins in her mouth at the time,
bat only one or them gliuuCd down her
throa,. She suffered no pain, but
could feel the pin in her throat and
was afraid to eat. so sh" wen to the
police station and the surgeon gave her
an "mejic, with the desired effect.
Original experiments by the a%gricul-
tural department Of III" University Of
Missouri have proven that many in
scc'S in Missouri. as well as in other
parts Of the United States, have the
tobacco habit and are as much slaves
to tho weed as are men. They may be
said to be more addicted to tn" habit
for, 10 some Of them, tobacco Is their
only fGod. Others feed on tomato or
pot ITO plants until the tobacco arrive
at "A stage which suits their particular
fancy, when the other foods ar" at
once abandoned for it, OF all these in
sccts non does more damage to the
market product than the tobacco flea
bectl' ~ flea bug"
a comparison Of authorities by the
University OF Missouri shows that the
people of the United States pass out
annually. through their back doors,