Morgan County democrat. (Versailles, Mo.) 1900-1906, 1904-12-23

Ind.
A great meeting var held at Carnegie
hall, New York, in the interests of in
ternational arbitration. Archbishop
ireland and Oscar s. Straus were the
principal speakers.
A Minneapolis mar shot his fiancee
dead and killed himself. Illness Is sup
posed TO have unbalanced his mind.
Weekly trade reviews show that hol-
iday sales have reached an unusually
large volume. Railroad traffic in
creases and collections are good. The
number of unemployed men is grow
ing less and fewer labor disputes ex-
list.
Robert II. Patton. newly elected ma
tional chairman Of the prohibition par
ty, refuses the place. O. w. Stewart,
the depOsed leader, declines to call an.
other meeting.
owen Kelly, a wealthy Philadelphia,
prominent in Irish societies and once
a Clan-na-Gael leader, has been miss
ing since October %. Violence is sug.
gested as a clue to the mystery.
Henry Wellington Wack, who says
he suffered in the recent slump of
Amalgamatcd copper, ASKS the district
attorney of New York to indict Thomas
w. Lawson.
Burlington a. Quincy railway was
wrecked near Bristol, III. One person
was killed outright. two fatally in.
jured and a number of mail clerks
bruised. The wreck was caused by q
spreading of the rails.
The contract for the sale of the prop.
erty offered by the worlds lair com.
pany to a Chicago wrecking company
for $3.50 900, has been signed in st.
Louis and the first payment of 500, OOO
made.
August Belmont has bcen elected
president OF the National Civic FEEDER.
alton to succeed the late Senator Mar.
Gus A. Hanna.
Fire III Goshen, Ind. destroyed
Hawks hardware store, Hawks Elec-
trio company. Collins saloon and the
Globe Milling company. The loss Is
about 100000.
Wireless telegraph messages were
sent from Kansas City to Cleveland.
i25 miles, without relaying. This is
said. to he the longest distance over
land ever covered.
Three men lost their ives and four
others were terribly sCaIded BY Il rush
OF steam Il boiling water in the fire
room Of the Dattlcship Massachusetts,
lying at the League Island navy yard,
Philadelphia.
Philip Woinseimcr, former president
of the New YORK. Building Trades al
lance, who has been in the Tombs
since October IL last under sentence 10
Sing Sing for cX'ortion, was released
in $4,000 cash bail.
Horace WO.cott Robbins, lawyer and
well hnOwn landscape artist, is dead at
his home in New York. He was a ma.
tive Oi Mobile. Ala, where he was born
in 1872.
a loss OF between $4,000 and $780,
900 was caused ia Cincinnati by q fire
which destroyed the Ohio Seat com
I"'y . b'h'N Va AiC iluiDIpI DLIlc
Anchor tanucry.
Disease OF the spine, attributed to an
injury received in II football game, has
caused the death at Lakewood. y. j..
of Augustus +. Holly. Jr., a former
member OF the Princeton team.
Acting presumably for the bondhold,
ers. Henry Jayne purchased the Musca
tine North d. South railroad at receiv-
er's sale in Muscatine. la. The price
paid was $lOl 900.
RoOsevclt's plurality in the state of
New York was 1852, as shown by the
official returns. That of Higgins for
governor was so. $50. Parker is shown
to have run nearly $4,000 behind Her
rick.
The prohlbitionist national executive
committee practically asked for the res
ignation OF oliver w. Stewart, national
chairman, though freeing him from all
charge of Misrepresentation Of funds.
A postal clerk in New York found pa
pers worth $4,000 In a trunk he bought
for four dollars at auction.
In a conference of New York repub-
lican leaders TO discuss the United States
s~enatorship II voted in favor of former
Coy, Black for the toga, only seven ia
vorlng Senator Depew.
a treaty of arbitration between Italy
and the United States has been signed.
A lone highwayman held up the hank
Of Chisholm. MINI, during business
hours and secured 81. 200. He forced
Cashier Grciser into the vault at the
muzzle of "A revolver.
In an article on violence In Labor
Conflicts" SlasOn Thompson says tina,
during the 81 months from January ],