Morgan County democrat. (Versailles, Mo.) 1900-1906, 1904-02-19

NEWS FROM MISSOURI. :


which blew the stove to pieces.
shouldn't feel bad. Frozen pumpkins
don't make good pies.
James q. Johnson, of Butler. was
attacked by robbers who entered his
home in the night and shot him
through the arm, making a%mputation
necessary. The robbers secured $50.
viii p. vandegrift, who was mar
ried at Moberly last month to Miss
Anna Meth, has been arrested in Ok
lshoma, charged with bigamy. A let
ter has been received from his first
wife, who is in Washington. Officers
have gone to Oklahoma to bring him
lack to- Moberly. -
Lieut.. Gov. Thomas l.. Rubey, actin,
during the absence Of Gov. DOckery in
Washington, issued a proclamation Of
icring a reward of $500 for the arrest
and conviction of Lee DeFord, OF
Daviess county. who absconded with
$50, 900 belonging to the bank at Alta
mont. The reward holds good for one
year.
Small patches Of ground can be made
to pay good profits in gardening If
cultivated properly. John McAniEch,
of Nevada, raised last year. on a lot
S4x13S feet, 1870 bushels of onions. for
which he received Sl2l.20. After the
onions were out of the way he raised
$35 worth of cabbage on half the same
piece of ground.
The Ray county court has ordered
an election for April 30 to vote on &
new courthouse bond proposition. 1t
is suggested to build a new courthouse
at Richmond at a cost of $75, 900. The
present courthouse is a brick and stone
structure of the old colonial pattern
without iire-proof vaults or modern
ronveniences.
Tho little son of John Fleener, ten
miles north of Joplin, placed q stick
of frozen dynamite in the stove oven
to thaw. A jar caused it to explode,
blowing the stove into fragments m
wrccking the house. Mrs. Flcencr was
hurled clear cut of the room and on"
side Of her BODY was torn almOst to
pieces. She died almost instantly.
A crib containing 500 bushels of corn
on the farm Of II. c. Thornton, nine
by an unknown person. Thornton was
one Of the jurors in the case of Frank
DuntOn, the slayer OF Emil Meyer. II
Is said that he was of the jurors
who hell cut for "A verdict of 90 years,
but COMPROMISED On a sentence Of 2S
years.
About 500 young republicans of Mis-
souri, sat down TO "A banquet at the
Midland hotel in Kansas City Friday
night in honor of Abraham L~incoln's
birth. Speeches were made by G. ID.
Morris, Of Trenton; Robert Meyer, Of
St. Louis; Oscar +. Mcyersick, OF
Union; Charles Naele, Of st, Louis;
John A.. Snider, Of Jackson, and /. b.
Kimbrcll, Of Kansas City.
The Cole county court at jefferson
City has issued an order providing for
the election of rOad OvcrScerS at the
April school election, and will no
longer appoint ovcrsecrs. The law
makes the matter of their selection
optional with the court. The court
also ordered that all a%ble-bOdied male
citizens in the road districts having
resided within them one month shall
pay "A poll tax of 81 if between the
eyes of IS and 30.
Fulton Is talking OF the big fee paid
by Ed Batter to David II. Harris,
prosecuting attorney of Galloway
~, who took q leading part in The
Butler defense. II is stated on what
seems TO be reliable authority, that
when Harris was first retained lie
was paid $500 and that before But
ler left Fulton ne gave the young
lawyer IA check for $4,000, making the
total fee $1,000. II Is a very unusual
fee for a young country lawyer, but
the conditions were unusual.
Articles Of incorporation for the
University Park cncampment were APP
FILED for by a number of gentlemen
who have associated themselves to-
Iether for the purpose of building a
city of tents near the worlds fair
grounds. The company already has a
tract of AZ acres on an emincnce lying
west OF the grounds, where 800 tents
will be erected for the accommodation
OF visitors to tn lgIr. Each tent will
rave a board floor, an iron bed. wash
stand, running water, sewer connec-
tons and other convenience. The
tract secured by the company is in st.
Louis county and reaches from the
western limits of the worlds fair
grounds almost to Clayton. 1t fronts
on Pennsylvania avenue, which sepa-
raIcs IL from Tho stadium where the