The Taney County republican. (Forsyth, Mo.) 1895-1992, 1905-10-19

Happenings Here and There.

Ldsb week lTOSt hllleu UuCu CUttOH
around Anadarko, Oklahoma.
w. j. Bryan and family have arrived
at Yokahama and will spend two weeks
in Japan.
Tho territories have planned to send
1000 delegates to Washington to push
the statehood bill.
Cotter, Arkansas, will erect num-
Ter Of concrete buildings in place of the
wooden ones recently burned.
The total attendance at the Lewis
and Clark exposition at Portland,
Oregon, which closed Sunday morning,
was 2,545,5O9.
Material improvement in the yellow
fever situation has followed the frost
of last week, and quarantine orders are
being annullcd in all directions.
Deputy Warden See, of the peniten.
tiary at Jefferson City, is suffering
from sprained back, the result of
scuflle with q refractory prisoner.
Five Chicago iiremen were injured
Sunday by an explosion during fire in
a wholesale paint and paper house in
which the property loss was $4,000.
The two rulers have signed the
treaty of peace arranged at Ports
mouth, and the greatest war since our
own civil war is ended in theory as well
as in fact.
Two prisoners dug out of the county
jail at Newton, Kansas, with a Ratchet
loaned them by the sherir's daughter
with which to cut their kindlings, and
made good their escape.
William Behen, city employc Of
Leavenworth, Kansas, was fatally shot
Tuesday night by Walter Eggleston, a
politician of that place, the result of an
old grudge. Both had been drinking.
Attorney Hemphill has entered
motion in the U. S. supreme court to
advance the hearing of the cases in
volving the tribal rights of outsiders
who have intermarried with Cherokee
Indians.
The business houses and state capitol
at Topeka were closed last Thursday
to give people an opportunity to attend
the closing service of a big revival,
and about two hundred business men
attended the service.
Phipps, u little elephant with car
nival company, was made drunk on nine
quarts Of "joint" booze at Wichita
Kansas, and tried to smash everything
smashable, behaving almost as idiotc-
ally as some men in like condition.
AT Detroit Sunday evening loaded
street car was dcrailed by brick placed
on tho track, crashed into tree, and
thirteen people were hurt. There's
your unlucky number again-but any
higher number would have been more
so.
AT the recent meeting of the directors
OF the Wabash railroad in Toledo,
Ohio, President Ramsey was deposed,
the road passing under Missouri Pacific
control, The road forms vital link in
the plans OF the Gould interests for an
ocean TO ocean line.
William Young Of Mobile, Alabama,
who was shot through the heart sever
al years ago and lived, was ambushed
one night last week and killed Three
times previously he had been shot and
survived. He is thought to have been
the victim OF family feud.
A COW lying on the track near Seaton,
Illinois, Sunday, caused the wreck Of u
double-header freight train on the Iowa
Central railroad, in which both engiD-
GERS, both firemen and brakeman
were killed, and both locomotives and
eleven loaded cars piled in heap be-
side the track.
Statehood sentiment in the terri
tories is raging like a prairie fire;
single statehood II possible, but state
hood OF some kind, at the coming ses-
sion Of congress, is the keynote of all
the speaking and writing on the sub.
ject In the interested territory, and the
argument seems TO be with these ad-
vocates for prompt admission TO the
sisterhood OF states.
Governor Folk has appointed these
men to attend the eighth convention OF
the American Mining congress at Ell
Paso, Texas: E. M. Shepherd, Spring.
field; Elias Catch, st. Louis; L. +. Cot
tey, Edna; Stonewall Pritchett, Webb
City; J. w. Marsteller, jefferson City;
George x. Williams, Pennington; Il.
S. Thomas, Bevier; Walter Ragland,
Aurora; Henry ]. Hamil, Richmond.
The congress will be In session Novem-
Der 14.18.
Col. M. G.. Wetmore OF st. Louis, and