Morgan County democrat. (Versailles, Mo.) 1900-1906, 1904-10-14

NEWS FROM MISSOURI.


DaNlu +. ROWlanu, an uncle OF PreSi-
dent ID. II. Francis, of the Louisiana
Purchase exposition, who was former
ly president OF the st. Louis Merchants
exchange, is dead in St. Louis.
Fifty thousand dollars, in addition
to the 1892, 600 already appropriated
by congress, is the sum that is to be
asked from the government to COM
plete the addition to st. Joseph's fed
sral building, in accordance with re-
gised plans and specifications.
9. Jaeger, OF Rich Hill, was awarded
the contract BY the city council for
erecting a new waterworks plant for
the city of Marshall. 1t will cost 500
300. This, in addition to the property
formerly owned by the old corporation,
will make the plant worth 500, 1000.
Group No. 6, of the Missouri State
Bankers association, was in session at
Mexico. They were addressed by Sec
retary Of State Cook, whose talk wal
relative to banking conditions in Mis-
souri, a dinner was given by the To-
al bankers in honor OF the visitors.
Walter Williams, in an address to
students Of the University of Missouri
Oh Why Study the Bible" character
lied the book Of Luke as the best text
book of journalism in existence.
Luke" he said, lis always clear, cour-
teUus, truthful, the first lessons to be
learned by the young Journalist
The body OF Charles Ritter, which
was recovered from under a Montana
snowslide, whore it had been since
1900, was buried at Austin. Mr.. Rit-
ter was in camp in Montana with
friends. He left his friends to walk
through a gulch and an immense snow
bank fell upon him. His body was un-
der $50 feet Of now and ice and it was
impossible to recover it until the snow
melted this summer.
A strange and fatal disease which
physicians pronounce a d~iphtheritic
form Of Hood poisoning has appeared
in the family Of jerome Paris, in the
southern part Of Livingston county.
Mrs. Paris died from its fleets and a
l@-ycar-old daughter cannot recover.
TWO more children are afflicted, but
their recovery is hoped for. The doc
tors say the disease is infectious and
precautions are being taken to prevent
an epidemic.
Six months in the county jail and
a fine of 500 we're assessed against
Kurg Alnutt by a circuit court jury at
Chillicothe, after finding him guilty
OF Killing Tom Pierson at Chula, Liv-
ingston county, July II, 1903. Pierson
and Alnutt had quarrcled over the price
Of two bottles of beer. Gordon KileS
was given two years in the pcniten-
tiary for ~assaultinE his wife with in
tent ia kin, the trial jury fixing the
punishment.
The good roads convention vas held
AZ Bolivar with the rccOrd-breaking at
tendance Of 5000 people. All business
was SUSPENDED ana the schools and
post Office were closed. The town peo-
pie and farmers havc banded together
in a large local organization. Senator
A. S. Mann, Of Florida. spoke. other
speakers were Congressman Lamar, w.
II. Moore, president, ard r. W Rich
ardson, secretary Of the National Good
Roads association. In the evening NJ.
.. EldridGe, assistant director Of the
Office Of public road inquiries al Wash
ington. delivered a s~trrcopticon lecture
on ruad building. Good road associa-
lions were formed in four counties.
According to the deposition given by
w. l.. Webb, partner Of Frank w.
Coover, in the publication Of the Kan
sas City Review, T.. Mont Rely, as
sistant postmaster, was responsible for
some rather severe attacks on the rep
utation of Mayor Neif and Walter 5.
D!ckoy. The political character of the
trouble is evidenced by the fact that
Rely is the republican assistant post
master, while Of the men attacked j.
II. Neh is the republican mayor Of
Kansas City, Dickey is chairman Of the
executive committee of the republican
cate CCMmittc and chairman Of the
republican city committee, while
Homer Il. Mann, who vas also at
taCEed, is speaker Of the lower house
Of the city council and secretary Of the
state committee.
The annual report Of the Missouri
bureau Of labor shows that IN 1902 the
states surplus products, not including
manufactured articles, brought the
producers $lj2, 1851, while those Of
1903 sold for $l73,l46f72, an increase
Of s98,9j95G1. The cereals grown fol
TODD in Tho state. Of which any con-
siderable quantity was shipped, are
"a the order Of their value, wheat, corn
oats, rye, barley and buCkWheat. There
are IS, 997, 1873 acres OF the state, or H.;