Morgan County republican., 1912-01-11
FLASHES 0F THE WEEK
JOTTINCS FROM TELECRAMS
Interesting Items Gathered From Al
Parts Of the World Condensed
into Small Space for the Ben.
eft Of Our Readers.
Domestic Items.

~ years III lHe penllenllary.
Four persons were injured when a
motor car turned over and went down
o 1j.foot cmbankment near Joplin.
The bachelor girls of Great Bend,
Kan met and organized club for
the leap year campaign. Committees
were appointed and a dance given.
MaryviIlc, Mo-, went wet by a ma.
jority OF - in a total vote Of 1857.
-Four years ago the vets carried the
election by 199.
The Kansas Natural Gas company
ordered the pressure reduced at
Olathe, Kan. but an injunction gave
the town all the gas 1t could use
eight hours later.
Southern women are sending their
Jewels to the foreign missionary board
of the Presbyterian church to wipe
out a 100000 debt.
A mail car on the Southern Pacific
was robbed of registered mail by an
unmaskci man near Reddingti, Cal.
The Transit house at the Union
stock yards in Chicago was damaged
By fire and one life lost.
The Security Life association OF
Sa.ina, Kan. and The Farmers and
rarkc"s life In-urance company Ct
Wichita have consolidated
81. Josephs mayor and police COM
missioners refused to cooperate with
the ministerial alliance in appointing
q vice commission for St. Joseph.
ia 90 tn hn a hi iS y pH nn
the new extension Of the Midland Val.
ley railroad between Wichita and
Arkansas City, January 22.
Fire at Columbia, S. c., destroyed
six factories, causing loss of over
100000.
A man at Wichita threw oil OF mus
tsrd in a school boys face seriously
burning him.
Witnesses in the trial OF the pack.
ers at Chicago are threatened with
prosecution for perjury.
A Burlington train was derailed
near Rushyille, Mo. injuring several
passengers and tranmen.
Two young women nccced Kan ans
and Missourians out OF $4,000 to
$4,000 by the sale of stock in fake
brick plant.
Missouri, Kansas Il Texas carmen
on strike at Seddlia, Mo, since OCto-
Der 23, are returning to work. 1IJ
have returned.
Boyd Woolet, Il li.yeal-Old Sedalia,
Mo, boy, shot his father with shot
gun. causing death almos, instantly.
One death every e hours was the
toll taken on life in New York City
in 1911 by the criminal element.
Twenty-Five masked men warned
the Katy railroad strikebrcakers at
McAlester, Ok. to leave town at once.
A prisoner in til" Louisville, Ky,
Jail died OF starvation after refusing
all food for II days.
A deputy found slungshot con.
cealed in the cell OF the man under
arrest at Olathe for the robbery OF
seven stores there last week.
Nine persons We're severely injured
In the wreck of c. &. w. passenger
train at Marshalltown, la.
Fifteen people were injure. and the
depot burned at ST. Peters, Mo-
when Wabash train jumpeI the
track and was wrecked. No one was
killed.
st. Francis Xayier's Catholic
church at Warwick, Md, a historic
landmark 225 years Old was destroyed
by fire.
The Winnipeg, Salina G. Gulf rail
road will issue s29.997 900 bonds tc
start construction work of the new
line at Salina, Kan.
An Emporia firm has secured q con
tract for Santa Fc ballast which viii
employ 200 men for three or fou
years.
Members of the Leavenworth. Kan.
Merchants league wore overcoats a
their annual dinner at the Nationa
hotel because of poor gas pressure.
ST. Peters Cathedral at Belleville
H.. one of the oldest Catholic edifice
IN Illinois, was destroyed by fire. TIL,
loss was $l50,o0o.
Two men We're slightly injure,
when Central branch passenge
train was derailed and upset east Q
Lenexa, Kan.
A big acetylene plant at Joliet, III
burned causing a loss OF $4,000 an
threatening many lives by frequen
gas explosions.
Five trainmen and three passenger
were injured In Wabash wrec
near Brooklyn, a st. Louis suburb.