Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1911-11-02
FLASHES Of THE Week
JOTTINGS R O KILOGRAMS
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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high prices.
For selling two bottles of beer.
Frank Johnson, a negro porter, was
given a year in Jail and fined $1,000
at Wichita.
At Amarillo, Tex, ground is COW
cred with three inches of snow and
the temperature is down to %.
What threatens to become a typhoid
fever epidemic is prevalent at the
University of Kansas and in Law
renee.
Fifty carloads OF apples already
have been shipped from Charlton
county, Missouri, this season.
The United states Steel corpora
tons first step in the legal battle
with the government for its existence
will be taken Monday, December 4.
Union Pacific trains from the South
arrived in Salina covered with snow.
The state bank at McComb, Ok,
was robbed and several thousand
dollars stolen. All wires leading into
town were cut.
\ resolution asking for a referen-
dunn to make the game laws more
stringent was passed by the Oklahoma
Anti Horse Thief association in ses-
sion a Chl'Eash2.
The l.st land in the Dakota draw
ing will be selected by the state as
Indian school lands before the set
tiers have Il chance to file.
Attorney General Dawson has filed
GO iniuctions against liquor sellers in
Wichita since Oct. IL.
The Santa Fe railway will pay the
state of Kansas a charter fee Of
$4,000 when it issues the 500, 600, 900
worth Of stock just voted.
An amendment to the constitution
repealing statewide prohibition will be
submitted to the voters of Oklahoma
soon.
A special suffrage car amply
equipped and bearing a number of
capable speakers will tour the West
soon.
The books OF III" United States land
Office at Springfield, show that only
1,340 acres OF public lands now remain
for settlement in Missouri.
The travelling men of Wichita are
planning the organization of the One
Hundred club whose object will be
to boost the town.
The biplane of G. p. Rodgers, the
Coast-to-coast aviator, was wrecked
near S%pofford, Tex. Rodgers was un-
injured.
A burglar was frightened from a
home in San Francisco by a dummy
figure, after hitting it with a black
Jack
President Taft has signed the
proclamation declaring the neutrality
of the United states in the war be.
tween Turkey and Italy.
Lee Guthrie, shot Minnie Haynes,
OF Joplin, Mo, III a rooming house at
Pierce City and then suicided. Miss
Haynes had refused to marry him.
Millersburg, Mo, by a vote OF 81
to "a decided to form a special eight.
mile road district.
Buttons will be manufactured from
Neosho river shells at lola, Kan.
About 70 persons will be employed.
Wyandotte county commissioners
began an investigation of the Jail de.
livery in which six prisoners escaped.
Negro robbers in st. Louis bound
and gagged a young girl and left her
In the cellar OF a house they had rob.
bed.
An custer suit prabably will be
brought against the present sheriff of
SedGwick county, Kansas.
Eldorado, Kan, is 10 have a Carne
gle library.
The grand jury at Newark, n. ].
returned an indictment charging vii
son Mcfarland with the murder nj
his wife, who died of cyanide poison
ing.
A petition asking for the dissolu
ton of the United States Steel Cor
poration and some of its subsidiarie,
has Just been filed in the United State,
court In Trenton, n. j.
Gov. Hadley has offered rewards n
$500 each for the murderers of WI
liam p. Gardner in Springfield an,
Oliver Wringle Of Lilburn.
Gov. Hadley will name delegates t
represent Missouri at a conference a
New Orleans to consider the decreas
In the price OF cotton.
Sturgeon. Mo. voted for a new ros
district. the proposition carrying by
vote OF four to one.