Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1912-04-04
FLASHES Of THE Week
JOTTINGS FROM KILOGRAMS
interesting Items Gathered From All
oarts Of the World Condensed
Into Small Space for the Ben.
eft Of Our Readera
Domestic Itene.

a state suffrage rally will be held
In Emporia. Kan, May :, s and 9,
President Taft vetoed the bill pro-
viding for me sale of burnt timber or
lands outside of the national forests.
The Icvce at Bryant's landing. near
Texas Bend, Mo, broke and the water
now covers the big lake region of
Missouri.
one hundred Boston telephone girls
have formed a union. the first Of its
Kind in any New England state.
Plans have been made for the larg.
est exclusive negro town in The world
u miles west OF Muskogec. Ok.
tiUD women OF Savannah, Mo, plan
20 cover every vacant lot with vines
and flowers and otherwise beautlfy
tho town.
Boats arc necessary to transport
people through tho business streets Of
Norfolk. Ncb., and every business
house in own is flooded.
High wa.cr broke a gas pipe line
from the field, cutting of the entire
supply from Guthrie, Ok, and several
OlI'I VNIo'
settlement Of the bituminous coal
miners wage dispute on a basis sat
israc'ory to both sides is announced.
san Francisco voted to Issue $1,000.
oon in bonds to buy its telephone sys.
tenn.
Columbus. Mob. IS inundated and
600 families have been forced % fee
their homes.
The Sherwood 'do'laraday" pen.
sion bill was defeated in tn" senate
BY "A vote of II % 10,
A gas explosion demolished tha
home Of Mrs. Ida Ogden a. lola and
seriously burned the mother and
daughter.
A baby cir, born at Wilkos.Barre,
Pa, weighed IS pounds at birth and
had n tooth.
Fire at Brunswick, N"b., destroyed
three stores. causing a $4,000 loss.
Tn" sans Bo.s coal company, at
McCurtaiu, Or, where s. miners los'
their lives, is in The hand Of re.
C@civcrs.
The Kansas Casualty and Surety
company has been incorporated at To
peka, the frs Of its kind in the state.
Another bank is to open at Atchi-
son, Kan, May -, making four in the
town.
The numerous incendiary fires at
Ficderlcktown, Mo, arc the subject OF
a grand jury Investigation.
Gregory, Mo, is threatened by an
ice jam extending six miles up he
river.
Kansas CITY had a snowfall Of over
% inches in = hours.
The Kansas Development assOcia.
ton held is NTH quarterly session in
Wichita.
A tw~oy"aroli child at Scdalia, Mo,
poured coal oil in a kitchen stove and
was burned to death.
Arkansas city, Kan, has five candi.
dates for mayor at the approaching
city election.
A soft roadbod at Cosby, Mo,
turned over al entire train on the
burlington road, injuring 20 persons,
Al Hill city, Kan, the fuel supply
Is exhausted and farmers are burning
fence posts and trees.
The seventh infantry at FIT. Leaven.
worth. held in readiness TO go to the
Mexican border, has been ordered 10
unpack.
The official death list in the McCur.
tain, Ok. mine disaster is II. Fifty.
five escaped alive,
Twelve men, each having one glass
eye, attended "A dinner served by one
of their number, at Muncie, Ind.
Tho Hutchinson 4 Western Inter.
urban railway will issue $1,000, 900 In
bonds.
Six Ohio dock companies aid four
railroads were fined sl23,O0G for re.
batting,
The Dodge city & Cimarron Valley
railroad has been authorized by the
Kansas utilities commission to issue
$500, 600 in stock,
The Houston Lumber company OF
Wichita has bought the seven yards
OF the Stewart Lumber company ~
Oklahoma and Kansas, for 500, 900.
A Winfield doctor walked six miles
through the snow and his face was
Sunburned to a blister by the reHec.
ton.
Eighty-twO men we're killed by q
o explosion In the Jed Coal and
Coke cOmpanys mine at Jed, w. VI.