Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1912-03-14
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.

Chanute, kas., will vote on a propo.
sition TO issue $4,000 in bonds for a
high school building. April >.
Two white men and a negro were
arrested at Chanute, kas,, for barn
burning.
Zinc prices at Joplin suddenly Isl
10 within $3.50 a ton of the highest
price ever paid there.
Governor Gilchrist OF Florida pro-
tested against the investigation Of the
Everglades reclamation project.
The Kentucky senate has adopted
the blue grass as the state flower.
Because James Moret;o killed the
wrong man by mistake, as his rival.
a jury at Price, Utah, acquitted him
OF murder.
Fiy2 men were killed and four in.
jurcd In a snowslide on the Rio
Grandc Southern railway near Tellu.
ride. Col.
The Rock Island track between
Beatrice. Neb, and Horton, Kan, is
again blockaded with snow.
e. L. Bramlette, sheriff OF Chero.
kce county, Kan, Is reported as
planning to resign.
The Home Telephone company has
merged with the Bell company at
L~eavcuWOrth.
Every wireless station in the
world has been listed BY the navy
department, with names and call
letters.
Th!Ity cases OF Smallpox devel-
orcd at Mt. Hope. Kan, Immediately
following a box lunch party.
\ number of Mennonite farmers in
Kansas and Oklahoma We're swim.
died by a fraudulent colonization
scheme.
Texas attorney general is invests.
gazing the report that Waters.Pierce
OIL company is sin operating in that
state, with a view 10 prosecution.
A r1eiyer has been appointed for
the Kansas City, Mexico q Orient
railroad.
The Michigan house of representa-
bill. to become effective at once.
Seattle, Wash, voted sS,725,OO0 in
municipal and port improvement
bonds.
The militia was again called out to
suppress the strike riots "a Lawrence,
Mass.
Mexico, Mo, viii vote on a tax for
maintaining a Carnegie library on
April =.
A Wabash fast train went down
an so foot cmbankmolt near West
Lebanon, Ind, killing five people and
injuring oyc ~ others.
The Masonic lodge at Clay Center.
Kan, will build a 10000 temple.
Trains endangered by a landslide
near S.. Adams, Mo, were saved by
the prompt action of a track foreman.
A movement has been started
among Methodists to cmove the ban
of the church from thcatcr going.
Grain dealers from all over the
country are in consultation at Wash.
ington over recent rulings of the de-
partment of agriculture on sulphur
ing oats,
The first death from meningitis at
Cherryvale, Kan, has occurred. There
are no other cases there.
The New York.Chicago 1S.hour
Pennsylvania limited train was
wrecked near Bucyrus, Ohio.
At a special election at Lamonte,
Mo, a proposition to issue bonds for
s. ZOO for building a city hall was car
ried. by a vote OF 1926 to "A.
Neighbors of j. NJ. Hot, five miles
east of Qui;man, Mo, cleared a road
into town that the body Of Mrs. Holt
might be buried.
The show people arrested for Civ.
ing a Sunday performance at Scam.
mon, Kan, were discharged by Judge
Sapp.
The agricultural college good roads
train through southern Kansas Is at.
tracing crowds Of farmers at every
town.
A temporary writ was issued pro
hlbiting the Galloway county court
from issuing saloon licenses at Full,
ton, Mo.
Ottoman Zar.Adusht Hanish, high
priest OF the sun cult, was arrested
by federal officers following a raid on
his temple in Chicago.
A cl%airvoyant at Salina got 5000
from a contractor there, but was
caught just al he boarded n train tc
leave.
The negro who robbed q Winfield
Mo. jewe!er recently was convicted
and sent to the ~penltentiary.