Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1910-12-08
Nest Important happenings Of the
Past Seven Days.
Intereotine Items Gathered from all
Psrts of the World Condensed
Into Small Space for the Ben
eft of Our Readers.
DomestI, Items.

Bank wreckers blew open the safe
in a bank at Garden City, Ia, and
after a free exchange of shots with
aroused citizens escaped with $1,000.
To build a great highway connect.
ing Tulsa, Bartlesville, independence,
Chanutc, lola, Ottawa and Olathe with
Kansas City is the ambitious plan OF
Allen county good roads boosters.
Build the road with rock and oil"
is the slogan of the enthusiasts.
The two new superdreadnoughts
authorized at the last session of con.
gress are to be named the New York
and the Texas.
Several thousand head of cattle
have been sacrificed in western Texas
for want of water and thousands OF
others are being shipped to market
before the drought claims them.
Copper Hill, a town of LOO popula'
ton in the famous Ducktown copper
basin Of Tennessee, was wiped away
by fire. Forty-five frame structures
were destroyed. The loss is in eH
cess of $4,000.
An example has been set by Past.
master J. Frank Smith of ~Pleasanton,
Kan. He has installed a flag over the
postoffiCe and says it will continue
to swing to the breezes there as long
as he is postmaster.
Two battleships, one collier, one
gunboat and one river gunboat, two
sea.going tugs, two submarines, one
submarine tender. Is the naval con.
struction program of the secretary OF
the navy as it appears in his annual
report.
Transcontinental and southern rail.
roads have entered the fight between
San Francisco and New orleans for
the location of the Panama canal eX.
position.
The legislative investigating com.
mittee has secured evidence to show
that more than $500, 600 was spent by
the racing interests in New York to
prevent the passage of the anti-race
track gambling laws.
The population Of the United States
and its possessions, unOfiicially est.
mated by the census bureau TO be 100.
600, 000, may iall 5000, GOO short OF
these figures, according to recent
computations.
General BiNhy's recommendations
for appropriations in the neXt river
and harbor bill have been made pub.
lie, the amounts recommended aggre.
eating S3O,O91 SOS, but not five cents
OF this is for the whole 400 nayigable
miles of the Missouri river. 1t Is the
only large river in the United States
that is thus treated, and If no appro.
priation is made, it will be the first
tim for moro than 30 years that the
Missouri has been left out.
An explosion in the Jumbo mine of
the Choctaw Asphalt company at
Jumbo, Ok, cost the lives of IA min
ers
The Kansas Educational commits
sion authorized by the State Teachers
association is meeting at Topeka to
draft bills and suggest reforms in
Kansas school laws.
The postal reform league at a meet.
ing in New York rooms passed a reso.
luton demanding the enactment of a
Po'NNio poS' law at the Cunning SEES
sion of congress.
A new schedule of prices for rubber
tires, ranging from ID to 90 per cen
lower than that prevailing for several
months, was put into effect by the
Morgan & Wright company.
Representatives of Western rail.
roads who have Deer in conference in
Chicago for several days over the
proposed advance in freight rates to
h pacific Coast are in Washington
TO lay the new schedules before the
Interstate Commerce commission.
In compliance with the recent AL.
orich-Vreeland currency law, a ma.
tional currency association of Kan
sas City and st, Joseph has been or
ganized, not to act, however, unless q
panic necessitates the issuance Of
more currency.
The city council OF Kansas City
Mo, has passed an ordinance forbid
ding the sale or discharge of any kline
of fireworks in the city on the
Fourth of July or any other day, ex
Cept on occasion of public displays
which must be licensed.
It Is stated that within a few day!
the United States Steel corporation
will details of a pension
plan for employees ranging from 60 /,
IN aHactiua Iopuorw I r0tr