Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1912-08-22
FLASHES Of THE WEEK
JOTTINCS FROM KILOGRAMS
Interesting terms Gathered From All
parte Of the World CONDENSED
into Small Space for the Ben
eft OF Cur Readers.
Domestic Items.

Philadelphia for the dissolution OF the
Motion Picture Patents company ana
the General Film company.
Gold deposits in a vein four feet
wide. were uncovered by a ~clOudburst
In northern Mexico near the Colorado
line.
Fifteen or 90 tramps were burned
TO death In a fire which destroyed the
old "panorama' building in Chicago.
The FAX man" who has terrorized
Louisiana and Texas for months, has
rcappcared at San Antonio, Tex, Kill
ing two persons there.
A bandit boarded a Southern ex-
press car at Fillmore, \. c.. tying the
messenger in a box and taking $4,000.
Chickasha, Ok, farmers and fruit
growers are offering fine Elberta
peaches at H. cents a bushel. Much
fruit is being fed to hogs.
During a switchboard fire at Mem
phis, Tenn, all the operators refused
to leave their boards until ordered
out, thereby avcr,ing a panic.
II Is reasonably certain that no
further protest will be made by Great
Britain on behalf Of English mer-
camille interests against the Panama
canal bill.
4 big washout Is reported between
Cimarron and Syracuse, Kan, similar
to that two weeks ago at the same
place. All %eastbound Santa Fe trains
are stopped.
Ten thousand gallons Of wine were
shipped in two tank cars from a
Placer county. cal, winery because
OF the high price Of cooperage.
A 100000 bond issue for water
works extension carried at Tonkawa,
Ok, by a vote Of 9 to /. Work will
be commenced as o as contracts
a be let.
Final action abolishing the pension
agency at Topeka and other agencies
throughout the country was taken by
the house.
The house Indian affairs committee
favorably reported bill prohibiting
the removal Of Huron cemetery, an
Indian burying ground in Kansas City,
hhllHdS
Fifty-hve thousand freight cars
have been assembled in the wheat,
growing territory Of the Northwest
FOR the first shipment of crops.
Nineteen negro miners were killed
by IN explosion near Abernant, Ala.
The state department wired Min
lister Weitzel to assum" control of the
American troops in Nicaragua. for the
protection of foreigners.
The new town Of Wilhroads has
just been plated in Ford county, Kan,
Four women are candidates fol-
county Offices in Chas" county, Kan.
without a word Of debate the senate
adopted the Bournc.BristOw parcels
post plan as a substitute for the house
plan.
The Aldrich mine at Joplin. Mo.
burned. Two men imprisoned 92 feet
underground were rescued through tn,
blazing shaft.
A farm hand found $4,000 in"Mexi
can gold In an old house in Howard
county, Mo-, in which Bin Anderson
Ine nOteu outlaw ulcu,
Frisco employees found and stoppe,
y shipment OF s155 ve,gallon kegs O
whisky consigned to Oklahoma town
and labeled 'lime."
A daylight mob at Columbus, Ga
overpowered officers and captured
young negro murderer, who wa
promptly shot. The mob were nc
masked.
Millions of grasshoppers swarme
In AtchIson breaking up a band col
cert In progress at a park.
A tornado struck the fair in pro;
ress at Pratt. Kan. wrecking tn
grandstand and all concessions. Man
people we're injured.
Five persons were killed in an G,
plOsion OF fireworks in the home +,
Raphael Cheche at Auburn, N. Y.
Nashville, Tenn, was chosen as Ii
1913 convention city OF the Intern
tional Typographical union by the CO
vention In Cleveland.
A professional marksman In 9
Atchison show, shot his wife throue
the hand while she held 2 crack,
for a target.
Twenty-six workmen were burr,
by the fall OF a Stag bank at an ire
works in Dortmund. Germany.
u. s. soldiers fought with Mexic,
rebel smugglers nea Columbus,
NJ. over IN attempt to pass arr
across the border.