Morgan County democrat. (Versailles, Mo.) 1900-1906, 1905-03-10

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a. 200.
The Bryan Cotton Oil company's
plant in Bryan. Tex, was destroyed BY
fire. LOSS IL 800, 900, with $50, 600 in.
surance.
VIII /. Meet, aged %, OF Tulsa, I. r.,
shot and killed his wife and then COM
mitted suicide. They were married last
Sunday in LOngton, Kan, and had Just
returned from their honeymoon trip.
The Kansas senate unanimously
passed Senator Nofzinger's bill to pre-
vent the operation Of trusts within the
state. II provides a fine OF $40, 900 for
each attempt to stine competition In any
business. Provision IS made for the ex-
pulsion from the state OF any firm that
MAJ persist In violating the law.
The CURL house bill prohibiting trade
combinations tending to restrain trade
and control prices, was defeated In the
Indiana senate by a vote OF ~ TO IA.
Apparently without cause, Ernest +.
Dubbcrt, aged 10, killed himself with q
dose Of carbolic acid at Ottumwa, Ia,
less than "a hours after his marriage
to Miss Minerva Fuqua.
The executive committee Of the Hi
nois Press association decided to hold
the next annual meeting of the ~associa-
ton In Chicago on May a.
Six children were killed by an ava
lanchc which overwhelmed the house
Of a peasant near Aus5cr Viligraten,
Austria.
Arnold Bcuthicn, the young cashier
Of the wrecked New Liberty Na.) saw
ings bank, was sentenced at Davenport,
la, to . term of four years in the Fort
Madison pcnitentiary.
The Illinois house passed the primary
election bin by a vote Of lI2 to 20.
William Robyn, 81 years old, the or.
Ranller Of the first symphony orchestra
west Of Pittsburg. and who for many
years had taken Il leading part In all
musical enterprises III St Louis, Is dead.
John S. johnson, accused Of the muir
der Of Patrick J. Doyle in a quarrel over
a dice game August 10 was Convicted at
Milwaukee Of murder in the second de-
gree.
The remains Of the late Elk Senator
WOlcOtt, of Colorado, who died at Monte
Carlo, will be crcmatcd In Paris, and
the ashes forwarded 70 New York.
1t Is alleged that Il hearing in Chicago
shows that the drug trust costs the pco.
pie $40 00, 900 "A year.
DR.. w. S. Christopher, noted for his
ability as a physician among children
and former member OF the board Of edu-
cation. died suddenly at his home.
A Honolulu chemist found GC2 grains
Of ~strychnine IN Il bottle from which
Mrs. Standard took a dose Of bicarbon
ate Of soda.
The Santo Domingo treaty Is likely
10 be amended, and even then may not
be ratified until after long debate In the
senate.
Adolph j. Bloch confessed at Wash
ingtDn, Pa. that he committed murder
for which his brother was hanged Febru.
airy %.
Emu Root, former secretary Of a.
declined President ItOoSevelt's urgent
offer TO become The hundred thousand
dollar man" to take charge Of the con-
struction Of the Panama canal.
The New Orleans carnival paradcs
opened with the pageant OF the Knight
OF MoiniIs, and was followed by Il ball
at the French opera house, in which
Menus crnwned Miss Florence Kells
AS queen.
II. Rider IIaggard arrived in New York
as n commissioner Of the British gov
eminent TO investigate the industrial
and agricultural colony organized in this
country by the Salvation army.
Miss Jennie CTucker. Of San Fran
cisco, has reached The age of IS, and her
estate Of $1,000, 900 has beer turned over
to her,
The state OF Kansas mas filed suit In
the supreme court Of that state asking
that a receiver b" appointed for the
STANDARD OIL cOnipany's branch, allcg-
Ing violation of tn" state laws. The leg
i~slature has passed the anti-discrimina-
ton bill.
Mrs. Jane Lathrop Stanford, widow OF
former United States Senator Stanford,
died In commissions In a Honolulu hotel,
whittier she had gone to escape attempts
upon her life, and physicians suspect she
was poisoned.
In answer TO an inquiry on the subject,
Secretary Hay has formally assured the
Haytien minister here that the United
States government has no Intention
whatever OF acquiring by annexation or
otherwise, possession Of Hayti or San
Domingo, nor OF extending American in
huence In that direction.
President Roosevelt limited to con-
Gressmen that railroad rate question