Morgan County democrat. (Versailles, Mo.) 1900-1906, 1904-04-08
NEWS FROM MISSOURI.


damage suits before the proceedings
are through with.
Ola %Stringer, aged II, shot and killed
his cousin, Clinton Dodd, aged u, in
The public road q half mile east OF
OrOnoga. The dead nan had brass
knucks on his hand when found ten
minutes after the shooting, and the
murderer escaped.
John G. Miller, Of ChillIco'he, wh0
disappeared from home last January
and was said to have been killed in OK.
IahOma. returned last week. lie en-
phatically denies that he was killed
and many Of his friends, knowing his
reputation for ycracity, are inclined
o believe him.-Kansas City Star.
Robert Bisc, an Audrain county
farmer, brought habcas corpus pro-
ccedingS AT Mexico to obtain pOsses-
sion Of his two-yrar-old son, Sherman,
whom he alleges is being held by Mrs.
James Spencer and others. Mrs. Spcn-
Ger says Bise owes her for the board
Of the baby and Is holding the child
Tor payment.
The l5-ycar-old daughter Of A. II.
Barnes, of Liberal. who a bitten By
a cat in five places on her left hand
was taken TO Nevada TO have the mad.
tone applied. II adhered five hours.
The cat also attacked the son of +. f..
Crab'rce and bit him severely. It then
attacked a cow belonging to Gen. Nc
Williams. The cat had hydrOphObia.
II was killed before it released itg
bold on the cow.
Shooting geese by electric lights has
been a popular form Of amusement at
paris lately. About IA month & sew
eral were killed with the aid Of this
Kind Of light The other night a bic
mock nying north was attracted and
bcwildcrcd by the electric lights and
began flying lhck and forth over the
town. Before the geese finally got
lad killed one apiece and another had
killed two.
Two wives Of Leonard Porter, VIII,
was burned 10 death in his home re.
a. iIAIliitDiIs dJ' 'IhIlIIIIh iIt
insurance Of 500 which wa. carried
by Porter ON his life. wife No. ! was
iivor'cd from Porter "A short time be-
fore he died and the other woman,
while never legally married TO Porter,
that she Is his common law wife
and viii take the matter to court 10
establish the fact. Porter only made
Application for the policy four days
before he persisted in the flames and
II ruinrr Of foul play in circulation is
Icing Investigated by an agent Of the
insurance company.
A complaint was received by COS.
Doch"iy TO which "A large number Of
signatures were attached. charging that
had been pcrp"tratrd upon o
criminal in st. Clair, Frank
lin county, in which peace officers par
'Icipatcd rather than gave protection
10 IA" suspect. The governor has
oscar r.. Meycrsicck, prosecute
attorney Of the county, charpine
hlm 10 make a full and searching in
'~rs'ifaIinn into the matter, "A copy Of
letter making the COMPLAINT, to-
rc'hcr win The names of the signcrf
thereto, being made "A part Of the in.
Strnc'iIns sent to Mr.. Mryeraicck.
A decision was handed down in the
81. Louis court Of appeals which VIII
prevent physicians, who are druggists
rom ming their Own prescriptions
when the principal ingredient of the
prescription Is whisky. The case was
hat Of rs. Manning, Of Audrain cOun-
y, who was found guilty of violating
he drug dramshOp law and Was fined
300. He appealed on the ground that
ma had a right 70 prescribe whisky as
l physician and I'll the prescription
is a pharmacist. The court holds that
he requirement Of "a prescription il
Intended as "A check on the pharmacist.
that n the same man IL permitted
o write and I'll "A prescription calling
or whisky the check * virtually re
moved, and therefore the judgment Of
he lower court Is sustained
u Is believed that Rev. John !. Gay,
Who died In the hospital at st. i.oais
asst week, was the oldest Episcopal
in the world. Rev. Mr.. Gay
"as born in IrOdcll county. n. C., Sep.
cnbci Il, 1903. In his twelfth year he
vent to school there TO Peter Sluar;
ley, whom he believed To the last oil
iis days vas Marshal Ncy. Napoleon.
amOus general. History tells that
Sey was executed by the BourbOns
'fter N%hpOleOn's defeat at Waterloo,
n his ninety nth year the venerable
minister published n book In which he