Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1912-06-20
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.

the flfEt ENdllOUtl Dduh dI Iluulofii'ty
Ark, and escaped with $12, 200.
Petitions signed by 1859 persons
fayoring votes for women were pre-
sentcd by Representative Victor Ber-
ger in the house.
A tornado in Gage county, Neb.,
1urcd her daughter. Many homes were
wrecked.
Suit was brought in Kansas City to
foreclOsc a mortgage and force sale
Of the property of the Metropolitan
Street Railway company.
All cats hereafter found running at
large in Washington, d. c., will be
%impoundcd and put to death, the au-
thoritics fearing the spread of rabies.
A cloudburst near R~ocheport, Mo,
caused a washout on the VI. X. & T.
railway and st. Louis trains were sent
over the Alton tracks.
No more Japanese women will be
admitted to the U. 8. on the strength
of photos held by their alleged hus-
bands.
Two I. W. W. members arrested at
Los Angeles. Cal, were heavily armed
and each carried a bottle OF prussic
acid.
Louisiana sugar planters are giving
up the fight against Mississippi foods
and moving all their property as fast
as possible,
At the end OF a week OF constant
ornrk nVnr tho Hnnfagtad lnInpafinnS
President Taft has a total of 159
delegates and Col. Roosevelt 10.
The house directed a s%ub-commit-
tee to go to Seattle, Wash, and other
places to investigate charges against
Judge Hanford.
Between 1000 and 1000 graduates
OF Harvard attended the annual meet.
Ing of the Associated Harvard clubs
In New York.
Deputy shcrifs and strikers OF the
American Smelling and Refining com
pany at Perth AmbOy, n. j., clashed
and several on both sides were
wounded.
The Hatfield. Mccoy fcud, one of the
oldest and bloodicst in the history of
the West Virginia Kentucky borough
has ended.
The German cruisers Moltke and
S'o'tin have left New York for Kiel.
Tn" bremen will remain for a while
longer in America waters.
Methodist farmers in the rich to.
haCcO lands of Canada have been for
hidden by the church to grow the
weed.
Nearly 400 graduates received de.
gr"cs at the University OF Iowa com
mcnCcment at Iowa city.
More than 5000 applications have
been made for positions as assistant
scrgeant.at.arms, door keepers. pages
ana ushers at the Democratic conyen-
ton.
Mr.. Underwood, announced the
house would take only "A three days
recess during the Democratic national
convention.
A Pittsburg, Kan, mine supertcnd.
ent was fined for violating tho law
requiring mining companies to fur
nish baths for employees.
Two persons were killed and more
than so injured when a Western L.
Atlantic excursion train was wrecked
near Dalton, Ga.
Pipe lines transporting oil in inter-
state m were held to be COM
MOI carriers by the interstate COM
merce commission.
Missouri custer proceedings against
packing companies were postponed
until June q.
San Angelo, Tex, got a two-inch
rain after 1000 pounds of dynamite
were used I'm the clouds.
Two hundred boy scouts OF central
Kansas are in camp for 10 lays near
Salina.
Wives of prominent politicians were
discovered In a game of poker In a
Chicago hotel, for high stakes.
st, Joseph, Mo-. Is preparing TO bar
natural gas from the city because OF
the uncertainty of supply in cold
weather.
Trouble with her stepmother caused
~1I-year.old Matte Fisher to kill her.
self by setting fire to her clothing at
Walnut Grove. Mo.
A forest fire starting near Carson,
New, Is beyond control and thousands
OF acres OF second growth timber has
been burned,
One nan was drowned and prop.
Srty valued al 100000 DESTROYED NJ
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