Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1910-11-10
NEWS OF THE WEEK
Most Important Happenings of the
Past Seven Days.
Interesting Items Gathered from all
Parts of the World Condensed
Into Small Space for the Ben.
eft of Our Readers.
Domestic Items.

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the same footing with the coal lands
OF ALASKA; all of which have been with.
drawn with the exception Of those that
were located prior to 1906.
The frs, sea lion ever killed in the
waters near Atlantic city, y. j., was
slain by a large party In boats headed
by the engineers at the Nentnor City
watorWCr's.
The Dally Graphic balloon. which
left London in an attempt to break the
worlds distance record, has landed at
kcrEho',n, Germany.
Antonio Rodriguez, a Mexican who
confessed that he murdered Mrs. Lem
Henderson. was burned at the stake at
Rock Springs. Tex. He said he killed
her when she would not answer a qucs-
ton.
Postal receipts for the fiscal year
ended June 30 were $224,12 S.G57.G2, an
increase Of 10 per cen over last year.
because of n shortage of water, drill
ing operations in the Oklahoma oil
fields are practically at a %standstill
and thorc will be little doing until a
rain comes to swell streams and wells.
A shed containing A. horses in a
grading camp north OF Fort Leavon-
worth near Kickapoo burned. The fire
started in the hay in the middle of the
shed. only l. horses were saved.
The fa' cattle of the college of agri-
culture Of the University Of Missouri
have won $7fS in prizes this fall.
Three championship prizes were taken
% first prizes. 10 second and II third.
The buildings on the model dairy
farm of Mrs. Scott Durand, the Chi
cago society at Lake Bluff, H.,
have boen destroyed by fire. The loss
on the buildings is about $4,000. Mrs.
Durand applied the profits of the dairy
farm toward the support of several
missions in Chicago.
The Eighth Cavalry will be zen to
the Philippine Islands, sailing Docem.
Der 3, and the seventh Cavalry, sailing
February >, TO replace the Thirteenth
and Twelfth Regiments, which vii! re.
turn to the United States.
The Board o. Foreign Missions Of
the Methodist Episcopal church is
Cclobratiug i'll Now York the twenty.
fifth anniversary of the founding of
its mission in Korea.
President Tart urges a plan TO have
Immigrant ships unload at South At
lan'ic and gulf ports so that immi-
grants may be scattered in the farm
ing sections whore labor is needed
onl toI.p ~ =. r-np, tbn crnvrlnI
cities of the cast.
Twenty acr0plancs at least are need
ed for the United States government
service, says Gen. James Allen. chief
signal officer of the army, in his an
nual report.
At what was said by the auctioncer
to be the highest priced hog sale ever
held in Kansas II. +. Pelphrey of
Humboldt, Kansas, received 500 for
one hog and GGN for ten others.
F~ifty-eight names were added to the
Carnegie hero list in the United
States. The Carnegie Hero Fund COM
mission at its fall meeting made
awards for acts of heroism and to life
AYERS or their families in cases where
death resulted. Cash awards aggre.
eating $4,000 were made in 33 of the
cases.
indictments were returned by the
federal grand jury against nine ranch
men Of Western Nebraska. charging
conspiracy to drive from their claims
homesteaders who took sections OF
semi,arid land under the Kinkaid
homestead law.
With the publication Of the govern,
ments wireless telegraph directory,
Just out, 1920 stations, shore stations
and ships, are listed. These do not
include the warships OF foreign gov
ernments nor the hundreds of stations
operated by amateurs.
The police canvass OF Kansas City
Mo, has developed the fact that there
are the names of about 1900 and posi-
bly, 1000 persons on the poll book.
whose right to vote is open to seriou!
question.
With 20 deaths in one month ant
As seriously III with a virulent form O
smallpox all theaters, schools ant
churches at Saginaw Mich, have bee
closed.
Cotton planters are paying 81 so pc
100 pounds for labor to pick cotton
Thousands Of negroes are making
from $50 to $40 per week In the cotto:
fields. This Is the highest price eve
paid In the south for picking cottoI