Morgan County democrat. (Versailles, Mo.) 1900-1906, 1904-08-26

: NEWS FROM MISSOURI. ;

ment Of William L. Culver. of Gray
son, to be presiding judge of the coun-
ty court of Clinton county, to fill the
vacancy o%ccasioned by the death of
Onslow NJ. Young.
Chauncey |. Filley, OF st. Louis, for
many years chairman of the republican
state committee and a former member
of the national committee, has bolted
the nomination of Walbridge for gov
ernor and announced his intention of
supporting Folk.
A reception and banquet was given
In st. Louis to DR.. John ID. Vincil,
grand secretary Of the A. +. and A.
M. of Missouri, in celebration If the
fftieth anniversary Of the day on which
he was made a master mason. Gov.
Dockery and others made addresses.
Willard Palmer, Of Centralia, filed
suit against the G. & A. Railroad com.
pany for $4,000 damages in the Au-
drain county circuit court for personal
injuries which he alleged he sustained
by being thrown from and run over by
a hand a last May, while in the en-
ploy OF the company.
J. c. Smith, editor Of the Pierce City
Democrat, brought a suit in the circuit
court against d. S. Flowers, ex-mayor
OF Pierce City, for $4,000 damages.
The basis of the suit is an alleged as
sault on Smith by Flowers, with q
horsewhip. for criticising Flowers ad-
ministration IN his paper.
DR.. A. w. McAlester, of Columbia,
president of the Missouri state board
of health, was in Macon returning
from Wien, a small town between New
Cambria and Bucklin. DR.. McAlester
had made his visit with an object Of
examining into a disease similar TO
Asiatic cholera, which prevails there.
DR.. McAlester pronounced the sitSation
very grave, and expects to make fur
thcr examinations.
At a meeting Of the Smithville Horse
Show association the date Of the
fourth annual show was changed from
September IS and 30 to September q
and % This action was taken to give
horsemen from Kansas City, st. Jo-
seph and other outside towns in the
state an opportunity to show their
stock at S~mithville. This years show
promises to be the best ever held there.
More than 81 600 in premiums will be
given.
Thirty thousand pen points, dipped
into 10000 ink wells during the ten
months in the year. manage to convey,
drop by drop, about GOO gallons Of ink
TO paper upon which the liquid is
spread out in thin lines. This con
sumption Of writing fluid is achieved
Kansas City. The board OF education
let the contract for furnishing ink
during the coming school year. II
will buy 600 gallons at 90 cents a gal
Ion.
The Frisco was wrecked three miles
west Of Rich Hill. The train was run
ming about ten miles an hour. The en-
CINE got over the trestlc near the
tank, bat The tender and coach went
down with the bridge. which gave
way because of the swift running wa
ter passing under. The coach was
hanging suspended across the bridge,
while the tender lay in the ditch. The
escape of the passengers and crew
was miraculous, as they escaped with
bruises only.
Reports received by S. A. Hughes,
general immigration agent Of the
Frisco system. relative to the peach
crop in the Ozarks, indicate a better
crop than was expected. About LOO
cars will be shipped from points along
the Friaco system. Van Buren,, Ark,
shipped $50 cars and KoshkOnong, Mo-,
shipped 300 cars. Reports of the straw
berry crop raised in tho O2arks have
Just been finished and furnished Mr..
Hughes. The Ozark strawberry fields
produced about 800 carloads and 200
carloads were destroyed by rain.
A reward of $50 was offered by Gov.
Dockery for the arrest and conviction
OF +. G. Norvell. who attacked Zera
Rayburn, an officer at the state peni-
Tertiary in 1896, and afterward es-
capped from jail. Norvell was released
from the penitentiary after serving n
sentence from Lawrence county. In.
stead of leaving the city, as all eX-
convicts are required 10 do, Norvell
secured IA shotgun and attempted to
Kill Rayburn, but was arrested. He
broke Jail and has been a fugitive since
that time. The reward Is good for one
year from this date.
The news was made known at Rich
Hill that Mrs. Clela NJ. Jackson, until
ten days ago Miss Clela Ayers, daugh-
ter of the best known ranch man of