Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1911-10-12
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.

were flOltl III obC hight liohi '"S
flock of ]. H. saxer, a farmer of Buck
Creek, Kan.
Des Moines street car men are
preparing to strike again owe the
reinstatement of three union men.
The Sedalia Fair was financially q
failure, owing to continued rains.
The Kansas utilities commission
has taken steps to stop telephone
companies from giving free service
to preachers and railroads.
Judge Marley, of the criminal
court at Indianapolis, has refused to
permit the removal of the dynamite
seized at the time of the arrest of j.
J. Mcnamara to Los Angeles as eyi.
dence.
Several st. Joseph, Mo, street car
men and some passengers who fought
conductors in the recent riot were
fined in police court.
Half of the business and part Of
the residence section of Black River
Falls, Wis, has been destroyed by a
flood breaking around a big power
dam.
The division of the Tobacco trust
into three parts is to be fought by
Independent dealers who have COM
birod FOR the purpose.
George Bubbon, Wichita's new chief
of police has ordered that all joints
must be closed at once. lie says
there are fully $50 in Wichita.
The state of Missouri has com
pleted it's testimony in the custer
suit against the lumber trust and the
hearing adjourned to meet in JEFF
ferson City December 4.
Eight indictments against wall
paper manufacturers and jobbers,
charging them with violation of the
Sherman law, were returned by the
federal grand jury at Cleveland, o.
The steamer Chester left Kansas
City for St. Louis with a half cargo.
A full cargo will be collected at points
down the river.
Robert Powell, a bootlegger, was
given sentences amounting to 800
days on the county road at Chicka-
sha,, Ok.
The federal government is prepar-
ing to investigate the coffee corner
and find out why within is months
coffee in the United States has risen
100 per cent.
The granting mill of the Dupont
Powder company neal Pittsburg, Kan,
"a struck by lightning and destroyed.
No lives We're lost.
The bleachers at the race track at
the state fair in Springfield, H., fell.
throwing about $50 spectators to the
ground and injuring many.
The first arrests for robbery follow.
ing the food at Austin. Pa, were made
when two women were caught.
prying open the lid of a trunk.
The Illinois Central road has
posted an open shop" notice within
the stockade at Chicago.
Passenger train No 30 on the NJ, X
& T. railroad was held up by two
bandits near OKesa, Oh, and the mai
and express cars looted.
The constitutlonality OF the new
custer law of Kansas has been at
tackled in court.
Anarchy exists along the Georgia &
Florida railroad owing to the firemen'
strike declared last week.
The veterinary department Of tn
Missouri college of agriculture is ar
able IN SUNNY tho ctat, u;5o d~on
for hog cholera serum.
A special train bearing Missouri
Kansas and Oklahoma people for re,
istration In the Rosebud and Pin
Ridge reservation drawing has reacl
ed Gregory, S. d.
The Missouri board of capitol con
missioners has been completed an
consists OF A. A. Speer, oof Chamois
Theo. Lacaff, Nevada; L. w. Stephen
Columbia, and C, A. Hitler, Glencoe
After inviting his brother to sper
the day with him, Frank Larson,
farmer near Lyons, Neb., took him |
to a room apart from the rest of Il
house and shot him through the heal
Brunswick, Mo, has taken steq
to build q large warehouse and Ian
Ing to take advantage of low,
freight rates offered by river navie
ton.
A wholesale clearing out from
tive service of officers on the retir
list ia noted In the navy.
A black eagle. measuring six IL
seven inches from tip TO tip, "
killed nsar Lexington. No.