Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1911-10-19
FLASHES Of THE WEEK
JOTTINGS FROM KILOGRAMS
Interesting Items Gathered From All
Parts Of the World Condensed
Into Small Space for the Ben
eft Of Our Readers.
Domestic Items.

Richardson, Kan, was struck by
lightning and destroyed.
Two sophomores were dismissed
from the University Of Illinois at
Champaign, for hazing freshmen.
A fire at Sidney, Neb., destroyed
the L. p. ~roundhouse and eight large
passenger and freight engines. The
loss is placed at 100000.
The corner stone of the new $45..
900 high school at Clinton, Mo, has
just been laid.
Seth Brainerd, 81 years old, sever
years a mailing clerk in the Atchison,
Kan, postofice, was arrested for pill
fering letters and confessed.
The corner stone of the 10000
Missouri state poultry experimental
station was laid at Mountain Grove,
Mo.
The NJ, X. & 7. railway has bought
the Wichita Falls & Northwestern
and the Wichita Falls & Southern
railway, having about 4i0 miles of
track.
Two big Missouri fruit shows will
be held this winter; one at Hannibal.
Nov. II, and the other at Columbia,
Jan. . to -.
The NJ, X. & r. railway has re-
fused TO acrede to the demands Of the
1.oJO car men on the system who
have been on a strike since Septem.
Der IS.
The Missouri state capitol commits |
sion has called four real estate ex-
perts to pass upon options in the
block and a half of land which the
state is to acquire for additional
grounds.
The federal court at Baltimore, has
decided against the plumbing trust in
the government suit for dissolution.
Swanson county. Ok, has dropped
its fight for existence, arr its sheriff
and deputies have surrendered.
Gov. Stubs will undertake to
model the University Of Kansas
course after that of Wisconsin.
DR.. A. NJ. Winters, formerly Of To-
years and a half in the federal prison
and a fine Of $500 for sending i'm
proper letters through the mail.
Two 1S-ycaroid boys were arrested
at Omaha charged with shooting a
motorman, while attempting to hold
up a street car. The youthful robbers
obtained 50.
Two "blaCk hand hidnapers of five
year-old Angelo Marcno at Chicago, |
were sentenced to life Imprisonment
and a third, a woman with a two. |
months-old baby, to seven years in
the penitentiary.
The public is warned by the secret
service department against a new
counterfeit l0-dollar bill on the Crock
er National bank OF San Francisco,
Cal, Of the series OF l902-l90S.
A. b. Rich and Hiram Picketts, two
negroes, were shot to death by a mob
ut Charlottesville, Mo-, and their
bodies pitched into the Mississippi
river.
Girl students at Missouri's state
university have just organized for the
purpose of assisting each other when
sick.
The supreme court of the United
States has re assigned all the state
railroad rate cases for hearing Janu-
airy s. next.
The corner stone Of the new $4,000
p~ostofice building in Warrensburg,
Mo-, was laid under the auspices of
the Masonic lodge.
Gov. Stubs is to be asked to parole
+. II. Tillotson, the convicted kid
naper OF the incubator baby. The Sill.
premc court held that he must serve
a term in prison.
Nearly 500 members of the Farm.
ers' League met at Winfield, Kan, Ia
protest against the building of the
W~innipeg-Gulf road through Cowley
county.
Nearly all of Lawrence Joined In 8
chase and captured Oscar Simpson, /;
negro, at Lakeview, Kan. Simpson
was arrested for stealing a shotgun
but had escaped.
The Wright brothers are plannin,
a new machine which Is expected t,
make aviation safe by making tn
aviator practically independent OF tn
engine for motive power.
The attorney general CT Kansa
made a second raid in ~Leavenwort
and got rs cases OF beer in one plac,
The frontier post at Fort Sill, Ok
has been abandoned by artillery an
turned into . school.