Morgan County democrat. (Versailles, Mo.) 1900-1906, 1904-05-13
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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route and Of the property Of the Panama
Canal company. From now on the cana
works will be under the direction Of
Lieut.. Mark Brooke, of the engineer
corps Of the United States army.
Mrs. Paulina L. Stearns died at Lud
ington, Mich. She was "a years old
and the wife Of Justus S. Stearns, a
prominent lumberman and politician
who has been one Of the prominent
candidates for the republican nomina.
ton for governor.
The steel freighter r. W. England
was launched at the Great Lakes En-.
pineering works, situated on the De.
troit river just below Detroit. The
new boat is 37G feet long, has 50 fee
beam and IS feet depth.
The first suicide from the new Wi
liamsburg bridge which spans the
East river a mile above the old Brook
Ign bridge, was recorded when al
unknown woman leaped to her dea;t
in the river 1875 feet below.
The liberty bell will be taken from
Philadelphia 20 st. Louis. 1t will re-
main there throughout the exposition
under a constant guard of Philadel
phia policemen.
Three men were hanged at W.nches
ter, Tenn, and two others al Pitts
burg, Pa. All had been convicted Of
murder.
a compromise on the Amusement
question is proposed by Bishop Foss
in an address TO the Methodist general
conference az Los Angeles.
Fire loss in the United States ana
Canada for April is estimated at sz3.-
G23 600.
Senator NJ S. Quay, OF Pennsylvania
who is seriously i'll, Is deliberately
making preparations for death. which
be feels is not far away,
A lockout OF Chicago stone. lime ard
cement ,eamsters has made 10000 men
in other unions idle and threatens to
stop all building operations.
Michael Trutcius, aged q, boosted
'hat he would climb a l5O-foot tower at
Stegar, H., or break his neck. lie fe,'
while the crowd was cheering and wa
killed.
Caleb Marrette, aged -. OF Dcnnison
Tex, who, in company with his sistCr
50 years old, was on his way 10 Pitts.
burg to visit relatives, fell under the
wheels Of a train at Vinccnnes, Ind
and was killed.
Five miners are cntOmhcG and be.
Viewed TO be dead as a result Of a fierce
fire which is burning in the Locust
Gap colliery Of the Philadelphia &
Reading Coal & Iron company.
The bite Of a pickercl resulted ir
The death of John +. Bcckman, OF,
Amcry, Wis. As he was lauding it the
Iickofel clamped his jaws down upon
Ieckman's fingers, laceratlng one u
them, Complications set in which
caused his death.
Senior Bishop stephen Merrill. of the
NJ T. church, rendered his resignation
to the general conference at Los An
reies. Bishop Merrill is in his evenly
ninth year, and his ministry has ex.
tended over a period Of 80 years.
Extensive damage is being don
'hrouShout. the upper peninsula Of
M!ch!san BY forest fires. Many home
steadcrs have been burned ont of their
homes with loss Of all their posses
sions.
James J. Hin, the railroad president,
Il his wife, have given 81. 5Ot 900 &c
the Roman Catholic church toward
the construction of a $4,000. 90 ca.
thedral at ST. Pau.
Mayor Crolius, Of joliet, Ill.,. two no.
licemen and a former city cmployc have
been indicted on the charge Of criminal
conspiracy at the recent election.
Andrew McNally, head of Rand, Nc.
Nally Il Co, the well-known Chicagc
publishers, died in California of pucu,
munia after TWO days illness.
jubilee exercises of the University @
Wisconsin to be held during the weel
beginning Sunday, June 3. include III,
celebration Of the fitch anniversary q
the graduation Of the first class in 1854
W. A. j. Sparks, former CONGRESSMAN
who for many years was promineI, i,
Missouri and Illinois politics, died in 81
Louis. During President Cleveland
administration Mr. Sparks was commits
sioner Of the general land Office.
Labor Commissioner Wright has is
sued a bulletin showing thatthe averag,
price Of all commodities in the Unite,
States In 1903 was the highest in the las
- years.