Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1911-11-30
FLASHES Of THE WEEK
JOTTINCS FROM KILOGRAMS
Interesting Items Gathered From All
Parts Of the World Condensed
Into Small Space for the Ben.
eft Of Our Readers.
Domestic Items.

liquor on board and gambling.
A negro high school boy at Spring
Hill, Kan, attacked u white girl
schoolmate, and narrowly escaped
lynching by indignant farmers.
Officials at Ellsworth working on
the Snowman family murder now be.
iieve that Charles Marzyck the man
suspected, was not implicated.
E~astbousd and westbound motor
cars on the st. Joseph g. Grand
Island railway collided at Baileyville,
Kan, injuring IL passengers.
The town council of Olathe has de.
cided to accept the offer of Andrew
Carnegie for a library there.
Henry Clay Beattie confessed the
murder Of his wife at Richmond, Va,
and was e~lectrocuted.
Two members of the tar party at
Shady Bend, Kan, were found guilty
and a third was released
Gov. Stubs has named delegates
to represent Kansas at the national
guOu roads congress in Washington,
ID. c.
Road enthusiasts at Joplin have
formed the Western Missouri Good
Roads association and a committee
of 20 is working in Jasper and neigh
boring counties for membership.
The regents of the Kansas III Yer.
sity have let the contract for the con.
struction of the additional plant for
the state fish hatchery at Pratt.
The Iowa hotel at Koshonong, Mo,
burned. Many guests lost their
clothing and several barely escaped
with their lives.
Congress will be asked for an an
rual fund of 81, O0O, 900 for 10 years, TO
be used in Missouri river improvement
work.
The first and only bid received by
the board q fund commissioners so
far upon the Missouri capitol bonds
came from the Bank of Ava, Mo.
While the Rev. Claggett was preach
Ing his regular sermon at st. Joseph,
two suits Of clothes and a lot OF
Jew crly were taken from his residence
nearby.
Charles Sessions, secretary of state,
and the United States Commercial
Travellers have started a campaign
In Kansas to bring about the enact
ment Of a law that will permit travel.
ing men to vote away from home.
A. \. Hayes, freight auditor Of the
San'a Fr railway, died at the COM.
pany hospital in Topeka.
The Rock Island railroad has Con-
structcd a high board fence with
harbod wire on top around its shops
and %roundhouse at C~hickasha. Ok.
fearing strike trouble,
The hog cholera epidemic, so damag.
ing 10 Kansas hogs early in the fall,
is dying out.
Petitions asking for a local option
election at Maryyillc, Mo, have been
circulated.
The balloon Dusseldorf, which arose
from Indianapolis. landed safely at
Monroeville. Mich, 40 miles north
east.
Tour Naught wanted at Olathe,
Kan, for passing worthless checks.
IL held by the police of Denver await
ing the arrival of Sheriff Cave of
johnson county.
Returns from the local option cleo.
ton in kooteuai and Idaho counties,
Idaho, show that prohibition was de-.
feated by a small margin.
Thieves raided the Martin McCor-
mick comUany's wholesale millinery
house at Sioux City, and stole $4,000
worth of plumes.
A Midland Valley passenger train
left the track neal Bixby, Ok, severe
ly injuring about 90 persons.
Twenty men are under arrest in
Chicago, New York and Detroit for
smuggling Chinese across the border
from Canada.
A motor car containing five people
plunged from a l0-foot embankment
near Denver, Col, turned over twice
and injured but one of its occupants.
Fire originating in the building oc-
cupied by the A. !, Root Printing
company at Omaha caused damage to
the amount Of moe than $4,000.
The officers 'of a trolley line at
Newark, \. j., have received q draft
for 500 from a conscience-stricken
e~x-conductor.
The Gulf Pipeline company will
build a Ginch pipeline from Saltillo,
Tea. TO Fort Worth. 1913 miles.