Morgan County democrat. (Versailles, Mo.) 1900-1906, 1904-08-26
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Leaks IN the ROOF or me Palac OF
Manufactures at the Worlds fair in st.
Louis caused damage estimated at
5000, 900 to the Partisan gowns and
lingerie on exhibit in the French Sec
ton during the severe storm on the
18th. Thirty gowns in all were ruined
by the water.
The great mystery which for 30 years
and more has surrounded the murder
of John ". Gates brother, Gilbert
Gates, has been cleared, and Alexander
Jester, the accused, has confessed to
the murder, according to information
received in Carbonate, ILL.,, on the 21st.
An artillery engagement has been
fought between the San Jocimino bait
terry of the Paraeuyan army and a
body Of r~evolutionists, in which the lat
ter succeeded in dislodging the guns
of the government forces. The losses
on either side are not stated,
Three eagles in tinney county, kas.,
attacked and killed a cow, on the 10th,
belonging to Aaron Whitson. The eagles
blinded the animal. and she succumbed
to worry and heat. They also picked
up dIA i'i ub'''l ~ S"l'o q uco
that weighed 80 pounds.
Roy Critics, aged "a, was shot and
killed at Main and Francis streets, st.
Joseph. Mo, and his pal, G. w, alias
Indian" Hudson, perhaps wounded. in
a battle with Geriah Collins, watch
man, who had been assaulted by the
pair, on the 21st.
Tho Ianaupga IN +ln ODD yWpDt
the Russians from Pigeon bay and cap
tured the northermOst fort of the west
ern line Of inner deienscs at Port Ar
thur. The Russian artillery prevents
the japanese from occupying the fort
on Pigeon bay.
Francis Wilson, of Platte City, Mo,
was nominated for congressman, on the
Goth, by the democratic convention OF
the Fourth district at St. Joseph, on
the ten hundred and thirty-first ballot.
The convention had been in a deadlock
since July 2G.
a tornado ten miles northeast OF
Hector, Mimi, OF the Goth, caused
damage estimated in the thousands,
Lightning struck many houses, burn
ing ten TO the ground.
Sixteen persons were killed and a
half million dollars worth of property
was destroyed by a tornado which
swept over St. Paul, MINI, on the 10Th.
Miss Ottingrr. of Chicago, while bath
ing with friends in the river above
ort Madison, la, on the DIST, got into
deep water and was drowned.
Mrs. Cordelia Botkin was sentenced.
On the 22d, by Superior Judge Carroll
Cook. OF San Francisco, 10 lie impris-
Onmcnt in the state prison at San
Quentin, Cal, for the murder Of Mrs.
John =. Dunning, in Dover, Del, by
means of poisoned candy.
An order went into effect, on the
ODD, on the Lackawanna railroad.
whereby one Of the three brakemen is
dropped from every freight and coal
train on the road. The order will
throw several hundred brakemen out
of work.
The British gunboat Columbine. one
Of the vessels of the squadron patrol
ling the New Foundland fisheries,
struck on a rock, on the 22d, in
Shocks Arm, Green bay, n. f., and it
Is feared that she will become a total
wreck.
, Acting Gov. Cunningham of Ala
bama, on the I'D, offered rewards for
members of the mob who have partici-
, pated in three recent %lynchihgs in that
state, $3.50 for the first conviction in
each case, and 800 for the mex two.
Jim Glover, a negro, was shot 10
} death at Cedartown, Ga, on the 22d,
near the home of the white girl he had
I assaulted, and his body dragged a dis
I lance of about a mile into that city,
= and burned on the public square
t An aerolite fell in the yard of w. d
Miller, at Engleheld, ind, or the 2lst,
The stone is in the shape Of a cube, is
brownish in color, and has a large
t black stripe around It, When picked
up it vas hot.
The completion of the Galveston
? (Tex) sea wall. the greatest structure
= OF its kind in the world. was cclebrat.
t ed, on the 22d, by running excursions
: from different part OF the state tC
Galveston.
The Chicago packers, on the 22d
asked for an injunction preventing the
. city Of Chicago from interfering with
their housing OF employees in theiI
:, plants during the continuance OF thu
strike.
Albert Constable, a ~well-knOwn law
yer OF Elkton, Md, who was shot and
robbed by a highwayman neal hi
. home, died, on the 22d. at the Unior