Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1912-08-29
Eorelun Alfalfa.

Two Americans were murdered In
the massacre Of the Nicaraguan loyal
troops by the rebels at Leon.
Peace negotiations between China
and Tibet, have been concluded and
| Chinese traders will be permitted to
remain in the country.
An Italian wireless telegraph com.
pany Is to install a wireless station at
the Vatican in Rome.
More than 1000 federal troops now
occupy Juarez, the important port OF
entry evacuated by OroZco's rebel
forces.
Eight men of the crew Of the Amer.
lean line steamer St. Louis were ar.
rested at Southampton, Eng, on a
charge Of assaulting/non-unionists.
Arrangements are completed to
throw a force of 1000 American ma.
rines into Nicaragua within ten days
to protect foreign lives and property.
The Allen line steamer COrsican
which struck an iceberg near New
~foundland, has reached Liverpool safe.
ly.
King Haakon and Queen Maud OF
Norway, gave a banquet at Christiana
in honor Of Capt. Road Amundsen
and companions in the discovery of
the South pole.
Fighting is again in progress at WI
Chang and Hankow, China. Grave ap-
prehension Is felt for the safety Of
foreigners at Hankow.
To check the rapidly falling birth
rate in Germany, a polygamous colony
is to be established at Jena.
The Rev. William Booth command
er.in.chief Of the Salvation army, died
In London. He was borL at Noting.
ham, England, in 1929.
Motion picture targets are being
tested by the French government to
teach the soldiers to shoot at human
forms in action.
A private in Prince Nicolai Tuna
nof's battalion burst into the princes
fiat at WARSAW. Russia, and killed the
prince.
At Montreal four employees of a
railroad are dead from drinking wood
alcohol and severa. others are in a
serious condition.
Chinese pirates landed on British
territory near Hongkong, shot a ser.
geant and two soldiers and robbed a
safe Of $1,000.
Aeroplanes will hereafter be pro,
hibited from flying over Paris, except
at great heights, or from landing
within the city's fortifications.
Persona.
Governor west has started in TO
make Portland a clean city, despite
opposition Of city officials and will use
the militia If necessary to do so.
President Taft sent to the senate
the nomination Of Maj. Beecher b.
Ray to the deputy paymastcr general
with the rank of lieutenant colonel.
F. Augustus IIeinze of Butte and
New York was sued for 500, 900 for
libel by Edward j. Carter Of Spokane.
After two days of delirium with
typhoid fever, and toe weak to make
himself heard, Andrew Nelson was
taken from a box car at Minneapolis,
Mimi.
Mrs. Chris Seifert, a widow, OF
Enid, Ok, was struck by a passenger
train at a street crossing and hurled
20 feet when her team baked on the
track.
Joseph Zimmerman, a f~ouryear.old
Kansas City boy, was murdered by
two older playmates and his body hid,
den in a park, The boy confessed.
Nick Chiles, editor Of the Topeka
~Plaindealer, a negro publication, was
sentenced to six months In jail for
criminal libel by Judge f. ID. Hutch.
ings at Kansas City. Kan.
President Taft sent to the senate
the nomination Of Clinton w. howard
OF B%ellingham, Wash, to be United
States Judge succeeding Cornelius II
Hanford.
DR.. Frank l.. Loveland. of Topeka
now denies that he recently saw 2(
Of Missouri's convicts hanging b,
their wrists with blood streamine
down their backs.
The two daughters OF John G. A
Leishman, the y. s. ambassador tc
Germany, were severely injured in {
motor accident near Ingolstadt, Ba
varia.
. Five attempts at suicide.by hangini
within an hour was the record estab
lished by Emil Oleson, a onelcggeo
shoemaker in Jail at Tacoma, Wash
Thomas Stubblescld, who mystcri
ously disappeared from Pratt, Kan,
A.. In April, 1910, has been found.
Eugene V. Debs, Socialist candIdat,