Morgan County democrat. (Versailles, Mo.) 1900-1906, 1904-03-11
NEWS FROM MISSOURI.


sued at Columbia the past week. This
publication Is edited and conducted
entirely by students of the state agri-
cultural college.
Maj. John l.. Bittinger announced
that he would not permit the use of his
name as a republican candidate for
may Of 81. Joseph. This leaves in
the field w. +. Jameson and ex-Con-
gresham G. G. Crowther.
A piece of glass, triangular in shape.
falling from a second-story window, at
Jefferson City, struck Stokes Griffin on
the throat, inhicting a wound twu
inches wide and severing the subclaviau
vein. His recovery is doubtful.
Sturgeon people, headed by Omar
Gray, have p%etitioned the Wabash to
stop its fast rain there. They say H.
Is no fun at all to go to the depot
when the train goes through at 40
miles an hour.-Kansas City Star.
Seventeen members of the Missouri
| state senate are to be chosen at the
ensuing election. The terms of those
members from the odd-numbered dis
tricts expire. Twelve of these II dis
tricts are at present represented by
democrats.
Judge Samuel Davis, of Marshall, has
had a unique honor conferred upon
him. Every lawyer in his circuit, re-
publican OF democrat. has signed a pc
tition asking him to be a candidate for
reelection. He has accepted. Judge
Davis is a democrat.
Mrs. II. A. Hampton and her daugh-
ter were dangerously injured in an
accident near Smithville. A team they
were driving became frightened at a
Grand Island passenger train, throw
ing them from the carriage. Tn"
wheels of the vehicle passed over them.
Missouri minerals will be shown at
the worlds fair in a motion exhibit,
a contract having been let for the on
struction of five fiat cars, a caboose
and locomotive and tender. The min
erals will be loaded on the cars, which
are to run on an cliiptical track, pass
ing a given point every half minute,
The train will be operated by III cleo
trio motor.
~ h'h'I' oII'pf'Ilo y " "a ''''
streets at Chil.licothc. Gordon Kiles,
AGED 2G, shot his young wife twice in
the head and once in the arm and then
fired two bullets into himself, one en-
| tcring the head and the other the body.
MIS-. kiles will recover but her u
band is not expected to survive Mrs.
Kilns had refused to return TO their
home after a separation.
NJ. f. Doud, of 574G Maple venue
81. Louis, celebrated his eleventh birth
day anniversary February 30. AL
though he was born in 1856, he has
been able to celebrate only ten birth
day anniversaries. Up to 1896 his
BIRTHDAYS came around regularly once
In four years. He was born on Friday,
but only once in his life has the ami
versary fallen on that day.
After a separation of % years, Wal
ter l.. Gregory and Mrs. Bethena Greg
DRY, who were first married "a years
ago. have just been remarked in st.
Louis. Mr.. Gregory was but 20 years
| cid and Mrs. Gregory but II when they
were married, and they quarrcled and
were divorced after three years of mar
ital unhappincss. They say they were
too young then to understand the du-
ties and responsibilities of welded life.
and expect TO get along better now that
they have more years on their heads
and more wisdom in them.
Senator Stone, of Missouri, has been
annoyed by the publication in some
of the Missouri newspapers that he had
"dodgcd' the vote on the Panama cant
treaty. 1t was well known several
weeks before the vote was taken and
repeatedly stated in Wash ington dis
patches that Senator stone would vote
Tor the treaty. He would have done
so had he not been confined at home
by illness on the day the vote was
taken. as he had announced his final
position on the bill. When the day
came for a vote, however, he found
that he could not attend and he there
fore arranged a pair" with Senator
Martin, Of Virginia. Senator Stone IL
still under the physicians care al his
Washington home.
Under the provisions Of an act Of
the last legislature to erect suitable
monuncn's over The graves OF former
state governors, Austin King, G. Graft
Brown and Joseph W. McClurg, at the
expense of the state, the commission
appointed for the purpose of looking
after the matter, consisting Of Gov.
Dockery, Secretary of State Sam r..
Cook and State Auditor Albert q.
Allen, let the contract for three monu-
ments to the Abercrombie Stone CON-