Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1911-08-24
FOREIGN Affairs.

The English government views the
industrial war as so grave that par
lament will continue in session to
meet any emergency.
Thirty army officers were poisoned
at their mess dinner at Torres Novas,
Portugal, from arsenic.
Stanley Rhodes, a nephew Of the
late Cecil Rhodes, is dead Of injuries
sustained in a motor accident near
Brooklands, England.
The condition OF Edmond Rostand,
who was severely injured in an auto
mobile accident in BiarritZ continues
dangerous.
There is little If any abatement of
the strike fever that has spread
through Great britain.
A series of earthquake shocks,
gradually increasing In violence, were
felt in southern Portugal.
Asamh.lama, the volcano on the
Island Of liondo, is in eruption. A
large party OF foreigners assembled the
mountain and narrowly escaped the
fumes from the crater.
o. E. Morrison, one of the aviators
in the circuit Of Great Britain race,
when two miles out from Sandgate
over the English channel. plunged
into the sea A boat rescued him.
Norway is sending ice to lessen the
suffering In Paris. Ice Is Sl2 a ton.
against 81 the normal price.
rhir ~ a. fn,- nca. nf enpctrnEo fnItr
of them fatal, are reported in Berlin.
Personal.
Miss Annie Mastinger a patient at
the 81. Joseph asylum for the insane,
is dead OF ~pellagra.
Ellis Bartholomew. the Toledo
banker and traction promoter. was re
leased from the federal prison at
l.eavenworth, Kan, after serving IA
months on a charge of using the mails
to defraud.
A daughter was born to Mr.. and
Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt, Jr.. at San
Francisco.
Harry y. Atwood, the Boston
aviator who Is flying fro INST. Louis
to New York has just arrived safely
at Toledo.
Charles Walker. i Wabash con,
ductor, was struck by an engine
while checking his train at Moberly.
Mo. and killed.
Arthur Stone. driver OF a mono
plane, narrowly missed death in Lake
Michigan at the international avia,
ton meet in Chicago.
Detective Burns Slready has re.
ceived $4,000 from the city treas
ury of Los Angeles, Cal, and he fig
ures hat S7,740 is still owing him.
Gen. C%incinnatus i.econte was unan
imously elected president of Haiti.
Jack" Harrison, the new United
States marshal for Kansas has arrived
in Topeka to assume his office.
Cherokee county jointists tried tt
buy the evidence gathered by the
states detectives.
b. p. Waggener of Atchison, will b,
compelled to undergo a third opera
ton soon.
Senator LaFollettc has fallen hei
to the late Senator Fryc's seat OF
the Republican side of the senate.
While trying to board a midnigh
train at Bonner Springs, Kan, tw,
boys were seriously injured.
Al the point of a revolver the fores
ranger, Mr.. Decker, recruited men L
fight the forest fire that ~threatene
many invalid guests al Palm Spring.
Cal, resorts.
George II. Shoaf, q Socialist write
and detective who recently came t
Los Angeles TO work on the McNs
mara case is missing and foul pla
, is feared.
Henry Clay Beattie, Jr.. Of Ricl
mon, Va, was indicted and will b
tried for his life as the alleged mu
derer of his young wife July IS.
The resignation of +. b. Hine
superintendent Of construction at tn
p Kansas p~enitentiaFy has been aske
I for.