Morgan County republican., 1912-08-01
FLASHES Of THE Week
JOTTINGS FROM TELECRAMS
Interesting Items Gathered From All
Parts Of the World Condensed
Into Small Space for the Ben.
eft Of Our Readers.
Domestic Items.


ing addressed by Omar r. Garwood,
dcputy district attorney of Denver.
Eight Detroit councilmen are under
arrest for bribery in connection with
O railroad land grant Of city streets.
One has confessed.
Three lives were lost on Cnnneaut
Lake. Pa. when rowboat contain.
ing two women and two men capszed.
Knghshcr, Oh, business men wired
Attorney General Wickersham, pro.
testing against the steel dissolution
suit, fearing its effect on prices.
Philadelphia city officials plan to
establish chain of municipal grocery
stores and markets to combat high
prices.
a two-ycar.old child at saltwater,
OK, fell into a kettle of boiling corn
and was scallcd to death
The dissolution plans of the pack
ing trust were approved by Attorney
General Wickcrsham.
A platform at Wheeling, W. Va,
picture show fen with 200 Masons and
their families, severely injuring 80
The senate passed the income tax
bill by vote OF 81 to Is. It provides
q tax of one Ier cent on amounts Of
5000 or more.
Bandits in the downtown district OF
Minneapolis smashed a big plate
glass window and stole more than
$1,000 worth of motor tires.
The Peoples party is to hold ma
tional convention at st. Louis August
10.
A special train on the Chesapeake
& ohio railroad, carrying officials, was
wrecked near Harbersville, W. Va.
A new $4,000 feet gas well was
struck on the Carlson lease near Erie,
Kan.
Kansas railroads refused low rates
to the national G. 4. r. encampment
at Los Angeles
The police Of McAlcster, Ok, ar.
rested in the railroad yards an IS.
year.old girl dressed in boys clothes.
The thirteenth annual reunion of
Philippine veterans will be held In
Lincoln, Neb., August l2-l4.
Several Macon, Mo, families are
enjoying community life under tents
at the Blecs academy lakes.
The Mayor Of Anna, Kan, destroyed
new cement walk around park
and now faces Il prison sentence.
A race war Is threatened at broken
Bow, Ok, whore backs are employed
In the lumber mills
A Santa Fc train struck a motor
car on a grade crossing near Kansas
City, injuring six.
Two Chicago ircmcn were killed in
n collision between fire engine and
q street car.
Free lunches were formally abol-
ishcd from saloons in Los Angeles by
the city council
The famous old apple tree near Ap-
pomattox courthouse, Virginia, under
which Lee surrendered to Grant is to
be replaced by tree planted by Gov.
Woodrow Wilson.
The contract was let for grading
highways around Fulton, Mo-. to
amount of $2S,S0O.
Macon county. Mo, appealed to
Gov. iladley to break up bootlegging
IN the town, which has local option.
One man was killed, several large
barns were burned and the lives OF
many cattle and horses were lost in a
storm which passed over Vernon
county, Mo.
sixty thousand Chicago workmen
stopped WORK five minutes during the
funeral of skinny" Madden, a for.
her leader.
burglars worked a combination lock
In a savings bank at Newton, Kan.
and got away with $3.50.
A robbcr at Foosland, Ill.,, left be.
hind suitcase marked Geo. A. Kim.
mel, Niles, Mich.
twenty-five persons were injured.
fve dangerously. when trolley car
Jumped the track at Four Mile Creek.
summer resort near Erie, Pa.
Mayors OF Missouri and Kansas
cities were tod by Kansas Natural
Gas representatives. that the supply
would he short this winter unless a
bO-cent rate 10 permitted.
The first death from heat at Leay.
enworth came when +. W. Thayer, a
mechanic, succumbed
Seventy-hve prisoners were trans.
ferred from Sing Sing prison to other
Institutions because OF insubordinS
tion.