Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1911-11-16
FLASHES Of THE WEEK
JOTTINGS R 0 KILOGRAMS
Interesting Items Gathered From All
Parts Of the World Condensed
Into Small Space for the Ben.
eft Of Our Readers.
Domestic Items.

DppH UOSl lOuCu tuICc WtthS.
The Yellow Dog Mill, machine shop,
and office zeal Webb City, burned
with an estimated loss of 100000 and
insurance Of $4,000.
The hearing of the custer suit
against the city councilmen Of Hume
we'll at Topeka, Kan, was postponed
until February.
Construction on the %interurban line
between Manhattan and Junction City
has been started.
Residents of Excello, Mo, ran down
and captured two robbers who had
broken into the general store and
pos-oftice. The alarm was given by
Mrs. Kennedy wife of the storekeeper.
Ten negro men, all of them heads
of families, with their children and
baggage. left Muskogee, Ok, in a
party for Monrovia, Liberia, to take
up farms,
After a running fight two men who
mad robbed a meat market at Decatur,
Ill. of 500 made their escape.
Clay county, Mo-, will hold a spe-
cial election December 16 to vote
on a direct tax for the construction Of
q new county home.
A fire originating in the leper col
cnv Gt Los Angeles, Cal, threw 80
patients into a state Of panic. None
were injured.
In a shooting ARRAY at Upton, Ok,
r. A. Phillips Of Bonham, Tex, vas
killed and Henry Weaver, town mar.
shall OF that place, was shot twice in
the back.
A heavy rain, accompanied by a
fog, lasting all day, has caused a par
tial tieup Of telegraph wires from the
Mississippi river as far East as Cleve.
land.
The Kansas state Temperance
union has obtained an order from the
~postoffce department that mail CARR.
ers must not solicit orders of any
kind. The carriers were obtaining
commissions on liquor orders.
The annual meeting OF the Missouri
College Union, embracing eleven col
leges and universities of the state,
will be held in Fulton this week.
Right of 5000 Cherokee Indian child
ren in Oklahoma to share in an undis-
tributed allotment OF $500, 900 has
been confirmed by the court of appeals.
Six miners neat Joplin were trap
ped by the collapse of the hopper
over the shaft. All were rescued.
At Yates Center, Kan, the propo-
sition to vote $4,000 in bonds for the
purchase OF the water works vas de-
feated.
The proposition to issue 0 900
in bonds for the completion of the
municipal free bridge at St. Louis
was defeated.
The commission form of govern.
ment was adopted at Manhattan,
Kan, by a vote Of 4l0 TO 1872.
Chanute, Kan, voted to adopt the
commission form Of government by
sos to 500. The proposition carried
in all five precincts.
Sacramento, Cal, has adopted the
commission form of government by a
majority Of 6S.
California women can moi vote in
elections held this year owing to a
state law that registration must close
40 days before election.
The Arkansas City Interurban com
pany Is surveying from Wichita ia
Arkansas City for a line connecting
Wichita with Oklahoma City.
Train No. 6, n%orthbound, on the St
Louis, Iron Mountain 4 Southern rail
road, was wrecked at Arcadia, Mo.
by a broken rail and nine persons in
jured.
An engineer Is dead and seyera
passengers injured in a headon col
lision between trains No. II and Nc
IS, on the Santa Fe. three miles soutl
OF Dougherty, Ok.
Gov. Stubs has directed John S
Dawson, attorney general, to see tina
the mining laws are enforced in Crau
ford county, where accidents hav
been numerous.
A thousand bottles OF beer, 80
jugs n ooU Dottles or whiskey wer
destroyed In the yard of the LeaveI
worth county Jail.
Kansas railroads and millers hay
reached an agreement whereby tn
railroads will allow so cents a c,
for cleaning grain cars.
Two American born Chinese wome
were registered ri voters at Oaklan
CALI.