The Taney County republican. (Forsyth, Mo.) 1895-1992, 1905-10-05
FORSYTH, MISSOURI, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 5, n
Happenings Here and There.

II
Second" is i'll in Texas.
Many lives and much property were
destroyed BY a typhoon in the Philip.
rshe Islands last week.
Included in the Grow indian reserva-
tion soon to be opened to settlement is
the famous Custer battlefield.
An agreement has been reached by
Sweden and Norway in pursuance of
which Norway will become an indeperd-
ent state without opposition.
Secretary OF War Taft and party ar
rived in San Francisco Wednesday OF
last week from their visit to the Phil
iippiues and elsewhere In the far east.
President Roosevelt is the recipient
OF gift Of valuable collection Of en-
cravings illustrative Of the life OF Fred
erick the Great from the German en-
peRor.
sslr. Rockefeller says: "Turn your
thoughts 10 the higher things of lie, "
and to show his willingness to aid peo-
people in acting upon his advice adds
abother cent to tho price OF OIL.
Chief Rain.in-the- Face just before his
death q short time ago confessed that
he killed General Custer, June %, 1876,
saying: 81 killed him. Twas so close
| could see the powder that blackened
his face"
| 4 farmer near Evansville, Indiana,
recovered a meteor which he saw fall
al 'tiwill turn it over to the Smithson.
iaa' Institute at Washington. The ce'
lestial visitor weighs about five pounds
and shines In the darkness like u jewel.
| The wreck OF steamer with her car.
| 60 Of 90 tons Of dynamite was blown up
In the Suez canal near Port Said last
week 70 clear the channel. Portions Of
wrcckage were blown 1000 feet into the
air and in falling destroyed GOO feet ol
the canal embankment.
| Rev. d. Sayers Redfeld has resigned
| his pastorate Of an Episcopal church al
Burlington, Kansas, 70 60 on the stage
| for a year, when he will resume hi
studies In a theological seminary. Yo,
can't tell what man may do'who cut
such capers with his name as d. Sayer
Redfeld.
| The Mikado desires that the United
States restrict Japanese immigration
This seems like peculiar request
but the ruler Of the brown men has
good reason for making it, being desir
Gus that his people shall fill up Man
churia, thus adding to the strength o
Japan's position at home.
In an operation for appendicitis th
other day sharpened lead pencil h
had swallowed two years before wa
taken from the appendix Of a Chicag
man named Hammers. And that's wha
was the matter with Hammers. He wi
recover, and hereafter make specia
. ty Of wearing his pencil in his pocke
A young clerk secured $3.50, 900 wort
/, OF securities from the National Cit
, bank Of New York few days ago o
, forged paper, as he says on wager
}, "show how easily 1t could be done.
The securities have been returned
= Leonard, the clerk, will probably fin
that he has accomplished only the eas
est part Of the undertaking.
Judge Elmers, Of Dakota City, NJ
. braska, near which place most Of tt
: Indians in Nebraska live, has determine
!, TO put stop to the practice OF polyg
! my, which is quite common anon
them. One OF the Indians to fall und'
the ban Of Judge Elmers is George d
!, cora, brother to the famous Angel d
: cora, the Indian illustrator for Harp'
and Brothers, New York. These Ind
. ans are Omahas and Winnebagoes, u
brothers Decora being Of the latt'
!. tribe,