Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1910-11-03
NEWS OF THE WEEK
Mos, Important Happenings of the
Past Seven DAYS.
Interesting Items Gathered from all
Parts Of the World Condensed
Into SmAlI Space for the 8en-
eft Of Our Readers.

b'fs ''N' -
back taxes tentatively placed at $780,
100000, was defeated in a preliminary
of the case by decision Of the supreme
court. The effect 81 the decision is to
send tn case back to the circuit court
of La sale county for hearing on it's
merits.
Disclosures Of attempts to thwart
the Indictment of the beef packers and
o,c0malg}riuc moOnshinors have led
to a denomination by President Taft
and Attorney General Wickersham to
]reorpaniz" the governments secret
service force in Chicago.
4 quarantine Of all the dogs In
Donlphan counties has been ordered
by the Kansas state board of health,
and the county commissioners of these
counties are expected to hold special
sessions at the earliest possible date
and get the quarantine order out.
Having found the use of phono-
graphs in the schools of the city a
decided success, President Edwell of
the Minneapolis board of education
is arranging for the installing of NOV
ing picture machines in all school
buildings having halls Of sufficient
size.
Information has leaked out that
government officials are seriously con.
sidering closing all of the minis OF
the country, including the one in Dem
yer. Over coinage is given as the rea-
son for the contemplated action.
The Oklahoma supreme court by a
three to two vote decided that there
can be appeal from the decision Of
the state election board and that it
is not subject to certiorari and similar
writs.
At the concluding session Of the
American Purity congress at New
Orleans resolutions were passed de-
claring that lin their present immoral
conditions, both San Francisco and
New orleans wholly are unfit to enter.
tain the Panama exposition"
within the next two or three years
! firmly believe acroplanos will not
only be common a passenger carriers
but will be the safest and most COM
Portable means Of getting from one
place to another This opinion vas
expressed at Belmont Park by
Augustus NJ. Herring formerly asso-
ciatcd with Glenn Curtiss and him
self the inventor of several types Of
heavier then air machines.
Chicago faces the probability of the
worst coal famine in her history ac-
cording to Francis Peabody, of the
City Fuel company.
Messages have been received from
llaWlcy and Post the men who sailed
from 81. Louis October II in the bal
loon America II in the Information
long distance ace stating that they
landed in the wilds of northern Que
bee october 10 about 100 miles be-
yond the point reached by the Ger
mania. 1t is presumed the men we're
n week working themselves out Of
the thick woods.
The treasury department has an.
nounccd that a new issue of 81 bills
amounting to more than SOS, 900 900
would be made commencing at once,
but gradually.
Since the supply of lemons from
Naples has been cut off because of
cholera the price of California lemons
in New York has gone soaring.
A meeting of the executive commit
tee of the Oklahoma b.. and Gas Pro
ducers' association, which in its mem,
hprghin n,hpacnc oil Of tho lon-,
producers in the state, was held al
Tulsa, Ok. The object OF the meet
Ing was to secure better price for oil
There will be no sympathy strike or
the Missouri Pacific by the members
of the brotherhood Of Railway Train
men. This statement was made by
George l.. Yeager, secretary Of the
Brotherhood Of Railway Trainmen o
Sedalia. Mo.
f. A. Van V~alkenberg, editor Of tn,
Philadelphia North American, hal
been arrested because of an accuse
ton that he had printed against Johl
X. Tener, Republican candidate 70,
governor of Pennsylvania.
The forested lands in the Choctav
nation ag%gregating approximately l.
5000 acres, will be offered for sal,
soon, a new appraisement being neces
sary.
Census Director Durand after listen
ing to protests made by a committe
representing Tacoma. Wash. agains
the bureaus population figures TO
that city, said "he would not be su,
prised II a recount was ordered"