Morgan County democrat. (Versailles, Mo.) 1900-1906, 1905-02-17

in Chicago, and II the verdict 10 upheld
will have to serve an indeterminate sen.
tence in the penitentiary. The charge
arose from the woman's suit for $50 900
damages against the Chicago City Rail-
way company for personal injury.
Gov. Higgins, OF New York, has com.
muted the sentence Of w. +. Miller,
manager of the FRANKLIN Syndicate
swindle, and he will be released from
prison.
Fire wrecked FIVE OF the principal
business blocks at Oskaloosa, Ia, en-
failing a loss Of Sl5O,OO0.
A union street car man was acquitted
in a trial for alleged intimidation during
the strike of 1909 in Chicago, and won
reinstatement and 5000 back pay from
the Chicago City railway.
The Kansas legislature has started an
inquiry into alleged bribery by the
Standard Oil company to kill the refin-
cry bill.
The Iowa supreme court affirmed the
decision OF the lower court, which SEM
ex-Deputy United States Marshal w. A.
Richards to the peni,entiary for Is
years for completely in the hold-up OF
Peter Sullivan and wife at Hamilton, Ia,
two years age.
A fatal rear-end collision occurred on
the Iowa Contra railroad between New
Sharon and Moore. Two men we're
killed.
Six men are known to be dead, one is
missing, and one fatally injured as the
result OF the dynamite explosion in the
Osceola Consolidated mine at Calumet,
Mich.
Conductor W. II. Marsh was killed, rs
people were injured, eight passenger
cars and All engine piled in the ditch
and a 2O0-foot bridge wrecked as the re-
suit of a broken rail on the Chicago, Mil
waukee & st. Paul railroad near Mel
bourne. la.
The trial of Mrs. Cassie l.. Chadwick
In the United States district court at
Cleveland. o., has been set for Monday,
March 6.
Charles Jean jacques Mazeau. the dis
tinguished French statesman and Judge,
is dead.
The residence Of Carl Hoffman, two
miles from Unity, Wis, was destroyed
by fire Thursday. Mr.. and Mrs. Hoif-
man were crematcd.
Mrs. Mary Borwhk. Of the town OF
Westford, pear Beaver Dam, Wis, is
dead at the sg- Of ia years. She was
born in Poland.
Judge Kersten, in Chicago, quashed
the manslaughter Indictment against
Will j. Davis, owner of the ill-fated IrO-
quols theater. The decision was made
on the ground that the indictment con-
tanned vitally defective flaws.
The Kansas house, by a vote of 65 to
40, passed a bill permitting women to
0 for presidential electors.
The earl Of Kenmare died in London,
aged so years.
J. L. Lewis, head b~ookkeeper of the
Grand Forks Mercantile company, at
Grand Forks, n. d., has been missing
Tor a week, and experts working on his
books have found shortages %aggregat-
ing $35 900.
Johann Hoch, who was brought back
to Chicago from New York, admits mar
rying nine women, three Of whom iden-
lifted him at the police station.
Six state senators of California have
been indicted on charge of boodling.
Deposits of the First national bank OF
Chicago have passed the 500, 0O0. 900
mark, the largest amount in the history
of Chicago banking.
Mrs. Herbert A. Parkyn, wife OF a Chi
ago physician, committed suicide at
LOgansport, Ind.
Representative Frank d.. Comerford,
nois house BY a vote of 121 to - because
of failure to prove the charges of wide
corruption he had made against that
body.
William |. Schell. OF Fond du Lac.
Wis, was instantly killed in a railway
wreck at Stevens Point. Wis.
King Oscar OF Sweden Is i~ndisposed
and unable to transact state business.
At a session OF the council Of state in
Stockholm he handed owe the reins Of
government to Crown Prince Gustaf I'M
til further notice.
Albert Boylan, his wife. Ann Boylan.
and son, Rush Boyland (negroes) were
murdered about two miles west Of Ma
rion, Ark. by an unknown party. Their
heads were severed from their bodies
with an *.
John Learey, one Of the oldest Seattle
pioneers, died at Riverside, Cal, whittier
he had gone in search OF health. II IL
estimated that he left a fortune OF near
ly $4,000. 900.