Morgan County republican., 1912-07-25
FLASHES 0F 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.

Inc new Bdt'lPSHlp NyOmlHS Hduc
22l5 knots, the highest speed ever
made by any vessel in the world carry
ing 12.inch guns.
All wheat threshed in Phillipsburg
county, Kan, is running better than
90 hounds to the bushel.
After a dispute OF more than two
months the senate committee has at
last reached an agreement on the post
Office appropriation bill.
Oil tanks struck and fred by light
ming threatened New Straitsville. o.,
until a temporary dam was build, di-
yerting the flow 10 stream.
More than .eighths OF the ex-
cavation work on the Panama canal
has been completed to date.
The pan TO merge all the tidewater
eawmills and lumber interests OF
Washington and Oregon in a $75,000.-
600 corporation has been abandoned
by the terms OF compromise et-
field. Mo, the Frisco railroad will pay
$1,000 for back taxes Of 1910. The
county sued for s22 1000.
Los Angeles, Calf, plans to close all
saloons At y. m. and to reduce the
number from 200 to 100.
In a fight at Alexander City, La.
one man, believed to be a postoffice
robber, was killed.
Twenty lives were lost in a cloud
burst that washed away the small
town of Seven Troughs, New
Nine pe'scns we're drowned In
obs CreeR. Pa.
Senate leaders reached an agree
ment for vote next week on the
wool, sugar and excise tax bill.
Fifteen freight cars were destroyed,
one man killed and two injured in an
Ok
Lake Contrary, near st. Joseph, is
threatened with destruction by the
Missouri river, which is now within
300 feet OF the lake.
Two hundred and fifty convicts
from the Oklahoma state penitentiary
watched their fellow prisoners play a
game or pail at MCA ester
Two hundred passengers, riding
more than 80 miles an an hour, were
hurled down 12.ioot cmbankment
in Pere Marquette wreck near Ches.
terton. Ind, and only five injured.
Eleven boys escaped from the Mis-
souri, reform school at Boonville, and
one was shot through the eye when
he refused to halt at command Of an
officer.
The Kansas state university has
been asked for chemical ANALYSIS
of the viscera Of Mrs. Adeline Knott
who died suddenly at her home in
Ottawa.
Fire at Akron. o., destroyed the
Schumacher block, causing a loss es
timated at between $500, 900 and $500,
600. Several firemen were injured
An insane man, Just received as a
patient at a Pittsburgh, Pa, asylum,
from Indiana, Pa, had been recently
kept In chains 20 years by his par.
ents.
An unsuccessful attempt was made
to wreck the Missouri Pacific train
No 4, near Holden, Mo
Penny ice for the poor at Schen
ectady, \. Y, has been blocked by in
junction through the efforts OF loca
dealers combine.
A Michigan Central train going &C
miles an hour left the rails and rar
on the ties for nearly a mile neal
Kalamazoo, Mich. One passenger
only was injured.
Thirty-seven second lieutenants ap
pointed recently from private life are
In Fort Leavenworth this week to take
a course of instruction.
New York spectators in lemons los
more than $l.00O,O0O in the last three
months by overbuying the market.
Fire starting In barn at Princeton
Mo. caused loss to business propert,
OF $4,000.
A bill was introduced by Rep, Hui
barring all federal office holders from
being delegate to any district, stat
or national convention.
Mayor Arnold Of Denver now es;i
mates the total damage OF Sunday
flood at $4,OO0,O0O. About 5000 per
sons were made homeless.
The delivery Of liquor from Stillings
Mo. to Leavenworth was declare,
lawful by Judge j. ii. Wendorff In tn,
district court.
Six men were arrested at Coffe,
Vile. Kan. charged with the robber
OF the NJ. X. 4 7 train near ther
last week.