Morgan County Democrat from Versailles, Missouri • Page 6

THE DEMOCRAT. rahlltlircl Kvrrr Frldnr Morning. TILLMAN I'ltICK, I'roprtotort. VERSAILLES MISSOUIU. 1903 SEPTEMBER 1903 ttl liK.

Kli. til. TECJt. Till. M.

2 3 4 5 8 To 17 T2 1TT4 15 16T7T8J9 20 27 22 1 23; 24 25,26 27128129137 THE WEEK'S NEWS Happenings of the Past Seven Jmys in Urief. ROCXD AKOLT THE WORLD Caf-ualticH iiinl KirM, Personal ami Political Note's, liiiini'HH Failures and 'jfsiiiiiitioiis Weather Keeoiil. INTEL. LIOE.NCK FROM ALIj l'AUTS Fears of damage to corn jy frost In 1 northern he-It were lessen' (I liy re--ports of rising mpe nil nr Hand cJ arlfiK we atlicr, and the- t-Ituatloit was improved. Secretary of Agriculture Will-on and expe-rts from his ili'partrncnt explained tlic bene fits of Irrigation to the (ingress In session at Ogelcri.

I'tali. I'M Christy, whei was convlrte-ri of mur-d' committed suicide In the county Jail at Wellington, by hanging himself. The Interior department announces that acres of hind in Minnesota, formerly a part of the Chippewa rescrva-tlon, will he opened for settlement. Organlze-d lahor threatens to oppose President Reieihcvelt's political future) If lie docH not recede-from his rictermlnn-tifin to re-Instate- Fore-man A Miller in the gove rnrnent printing olllce. A eounti rfelt tlO note on the I'eople'f National hank of Itoxbury, and five dollar note on the Walt ham National hank of W'altham, Mass have, been Further reports tell of new disasters In the storm that swept New York and the Atlantic coast and plnee the number of the dead at 07 and misting at 74.

At Shamokln, I'a the f'nm ron and Luke I'ldler cerillc-rlis. emplo.wng 2.300 nun and hoys, were cloud Indefinitely tiicbiiMi of tlie dull coal trade. Harry, the ten-year-old con of Mrs lahn, startcel a fire in a gasoline Move while asleep In St. I.oiiIh. and he and his Mother and sister wi re fatally humed The worst flood in earH submerged thousands of aires of farm lands along the river In the vicinity of I.a Crosse.

Wis-, sweeping away stacks of hay and grain and drowning live Mock In field. The eleventh national Irrigation congress came to an end at Ogrie-n, t'tah It reelect! Senator Clark, of Montana pre slele-nt. rii dried to hold the congress of 1004 In Fl Paso, and adopt ri a pint-form which reiiucKted 1 nngre ss lo make, needed modifications of the existing land laws. The commerce of the port of New Or-If arm Is again tied up hy a strike of the longshoremen, which lias been revived. Not a ship Is being loaded.

Hear Admiral HarkeT. e-ommaueler Ir chief eif the North Atlantic fleet, hnf recommended the cfiutprnciit eif all the hat tie ships and large- cruisers of lie rnvy with wireless telegraph apparatus Lnhor unleiriK In more than eloen Mates have sent In cordial Indorse' rnents of the rcHolutloriH of the- Wash ington Central Labor union protesting ncalnst ho ruling of President Hons)' It making the government printing office an "open shop A eleclslon of the United States Steel corporal Ion to send Its licet to docks will have- an effect on .10,000 workmen In various branches of tiiei Inelustry President Roosevelt, at the dinner of the He'awunhaka Yacht dub, gave 0 toast to Sir Thomas Upton and a tele-, gram expressing regret at IiIk alienee and Illness was sent. The colli wavei Is passing, ricclriri rhes In temperature being marked In the entire Mississippi valley. Ught frosts are reported In tho mlririle west 'rn Mates, but no damage to e'rops re tilts. Thomas I.

Hlrirlrige, aged 22, a son or Postmaster I. Fldrlelge, of North Springfield. Pa Miss Minnie Rulmiri aged 20, wire killed by the cars. lMwarel Kllleitt, a clnmmer at Clinton, found a pearl weighing 12C grains anel valued at 120,000 In the Mississippi, The Association of Marble Dealers decided to lock out its unlein employes nml to run open shops In tin future Forty planta In all sections Uolttd States are Six maEkrd ncn robbed the bank at Douglass, of It. 0.

Dun It review of general Irado the only ellseiulet for the week was due; lo fear of frost, but the (lurry was only temporary and prices remained Mahle. Fewer troubles are as an encouraging feature. The Dally Newa anel the livening Press at St. Joseph, have consolidated. Dispatches say President Kejotevclt has declared he will not be dictated to or Intlmldate-el by the labor unions In the case eif liookblniler Miller, now at work In the government printing office.

The steamship Texan has Marled on a weirlel's re'ceirel voyage eif 11,000 mllei without a slop, balling from Tacorna to Philadelphia. Myrtle Hell, of Hancock, overcome with shamo because, eif tier arrest for drunkenness, hanged herself In Jail. The repeirt of On, MacArthur shows that nearly one-fifth of the entire force in the department of California deserleel, Cyrus I. Stark was de clared champion plowman of Ame rica In a plowing contest hi'lil In Wheatland township, Will 111. Negroes overpowered the sheriff at I.uxora, teieik out a negro riameil Hellcn and hanged him for criminally lRfianlllng two little negrei girls.

The- percentages of the basball clulm In the Amerlean league feir the week ended on the 20th were-: Moslem, Cleveland, Philadelphia, New York, Detroit, St. l.emls, Chicago, Washington, Harry Tnrior, a three' weeks' old baby, was christened In a den of 27 lions at Ceini'y Island. Y. The pere-e ntagcH (f the baseball clubs the- National league- feir the week enel-eelonlhi'20th wi-re: Pittsburg, Ne York, Chicago, Cincinnati, Huston, Philadelphia, St I.ouis, Illfl. The frost injury over Die northern ceirn belt did not prove as si rloiis as ex-pe-cti d.

The' fifflce-rs and crew of the battleship Indiana claim tei have surpassed tl.e -ee eird eif tin- battle ship Alabama In practle'e. pfti.iTtr L. Maryland ele-mocrats have nornlnatnl IMwin Warlii'ld, eif llowarel county, for geivernor, ami the platform declares 'that the political ilestlnles eif Maryland should be- shape-el and eonlreilled by the white; people of the state." Iti'pnhllcnns in state' emve ntlon In Ilaltlmore, Mil nominated Stevenson A. Williams, ol ile-lalr, feir governor, anel Indorsed the- administration of President Koose-vclt. Tho Pennsylvania Fourth ellstrlct republicans have nominated Iteiiben O.

Meion, a prominent Philadelphia lawyer, to siitceeel the late Congressman Fnerdercr Massachusetts prohiblllonl.itH have nornlnatid OIImt Cobb, of Fast Hampton, feir governor. The board of dire, tors of the Assei-clated pre'ss has elect e-d Frank li. Noyes, of the' Chicago He leralel, ire slele-nt. Seeeind Unit. Cnspulo Patajo, eif the Philippine seeiuts, the first eif the native, of Kiion to wear the uniform of the I'nlted States arm) In San Francisco em the- transport Sherman.

Preside nt Hoosi'Vi lt arrived at Oyster Hay from the Antinam battlefield. L. Whitman, of San Francisco, com pleted an automobile' trip from that edty to New York. Dr Kgbert Oue'rnsey, an eminent homeopathic physician of New Yeirk, died at the age of JiO years, roiir.n;'. Fmperor Francis Joseph has issued a posllhe order against the use eif the Hungarian language' in tho army.

An elee lrle: car ran at the rate of 100 4-5 miles perhoiirnri the ossein military road In Oirmany, said to be the highest speed ever attained Cuba's first year of self-reign was prospereiiiH one', tin revenues amount-Ing to and the expenditures leaving a surplus In the treasury eif 1 The Canaellan Manufae ture rs' association In se-tslon In Toronto emphaslze-d Its expression In condirnriatlon of any at-tempt to ace iimpllsh a re dproclty ngre e-ment with the I'nltee States. Joseph Chamberlain Is busy nt his home in Illrmlngham with preliminaries for his tariff campaign, ami tho unilerstanrilng In Ilrltlsh political circles Is that the former colonial secre tary Is In the fight In the finish. Uncertainty as to the- Panama canal slttiHtlon Is Increased by the absence of elellnlte 111 ws freim Hrigota Tho state elcpartmcnt can do nothing but await a proposition from the Colombian congre'SB Heports from Sofra say the Turks hav destroyed the town of Kastorla, near Monastlr, and massacred the entire population of 10,000. Thei war office has recalled Hulgurlan ofllccrs'stiiriylng In the military schools of Hussla, France, Austria and Italy. Bulgaria In encouraged by Information from Constantinople that CJrent llrltaln, France anil Italy have notified Turkey that slaughter of Meet-rionlans and Unitarians must revise.

The Inauguration of the nt governor at P.v:ima was marie the nrraalou for a great popular ileuioutuatlun in favor of the cul trutgr. Tlie most violent earthquake since oi'currcel at Santiago, Cuba. The Philippine commission has ele-deleil that insular supplies Imported from the United States must pay duty. The London foreign office says war between Turkey and Ilulgnrla Is not regarded as Imminent, as the powers will not let Tttrkiy occupy Bulgarian territory, Lord Ilalfotir. of Hiirlelgh, resigned from the- llrlilsli cabinet and Fluaiiclal Secretary Arthur Klllot also retired.

I.ATUIt, Tire at tho Missouri states fair grounds at Kejdalla, on tho 21st, elestroyeel tho cattlo anel horso barns, the ejmorge-ncy fire; engine house and 17 freight cars. The Kansas fc Texas statlem, the sheep and swine building and the new pemltry house were partly destroyed. The loss was estimated nt 130.000. A conference' of memberst eif tho state central committee and wo'rliers of the people's party was held at Springfield, 111., on the 21st, to ells-cuss plans of a campaign anil to take seime action on the recent agreement entered Into at the recent meeting of the national committee held at Denver, Col. Traffic between llaraboo and Portage, was abandoned on the- 21st.

The roads were covered with from two to six feet of water, anil the elamage to creips am! property by the breaking of the city lee-ve- was estimated at 000. Large; tracts of corn neirtb of Prairies D11 Clile-ri were under water. The Fort Smith Western railroad was complete-d and train service begun, on the; 21st, from Fort Smith to Otithrle, Okla, 21" miles. T. Merrick, D.

Frlck anil Marcus A. Danna are among thi- preirneiteirs. Thomas It. Hancock, editor of the Neogu (111.) News, and it prominent political llguri' in the- county, ellcri on the 21st, age-el HO years, lie was a staunch republican anil a member of the C. A.

H. and masonli: eirrie-rs. IleindholriiTS of the Paris Ught and C'eike eil Paris, 111., on the 21st, made application In the circuit court feir a re-cciver. The; llabllltle's we're: estimated at No were given. Committees In charge eif Chicago's centennial ce-lebratlein, which be'gins on the and lusts until October 1, leported, em the 21st, that the preliminary details were practically com-pleti'.

The Fore Itlve'r Shiii and Knglneer-ing of Quini'y, em the- 21st, ills-charge-el 300 eif Its he-lp. ICvi-ry di'part-rne'iit was affected. No cause- was given for tlie- wholesale discharge1. The convenor of the Koutlii-rri Pacific: elevator, 1,300 fe-e-t long, was elo stroye-d by lire at (lalveMon, Tex on the 21st, together with pail 11I tho wharf; loss, 000. The- exe-cutive council of the American I'l'ili i'iitlein ol Labor began its annual ruee-tiiig, on 21st, at Washington, li.

MINOR NEWS ITEMS. drover Cleveland, wife and five children have returneei freim IJuz.ard's Hay, to Prlne eton, N. .1 John Paul Jones, founder of tim Amer-iean navy. Is buried in the tenement quarters of Paris and we'e'ds grow over ills grave. President Koosevelt e'liptureel an un-commeiri species of mouse on his we-stern trip, htuffeel It himself, anel has presented It to the Smithsonian institution.

Hooker T. Washington has jiur-chaseei feU heael of attle In Itockland, N. for slilpmerit ti 'I'uskegee. The- emprecH dowage of China, one of tlie most remarkable women of the- age, Is III, anel tlie doctors say she cannot live a year With the object of aiding In procuring low rates to the world's fair, St. Louis manufacturers have eleclareel war on railway ticket speculators.

Otto Sarony, who for nearly 'i0 years has had an International reputation for his work in portrait photography, elle el In New York city. Harry Smith, 10 years: old, of Jersey f'lty, N. goes barefoot winter and Hummer because his fee-t are so perfect that his parents refuse to mar the'in with shoes. A uniform birth registration law ha been drafted by the eensus bureau, fiovernors of slates are askeel to urge the- passage. Statistics are lrnpeisslble now.

The marriage of May fjoelet to Rox- Iburgbe will transfer to ICngllsh hanelB $10,000,000 American brleles have contributed over J200.000.000 to lorelgn The- death mask of President McK In-Icy, taken a few days ufti-r ills de ath by Prof. William II. Holmes, of the bure au of ethnology, has been placed in the national museum. Orders granting three years' leave of absence to Cornmaneler Peary of the navy, beginning April 1, have been Is-sue'il. He will start on his dash for the north pole July 1.

Postmaster General Payne, In a statement dee luring his policy on fourth- (class postmaste-rshlps. holds that the-y are rce eignleel as political appointment) ami are not subject to civil w-rvice rules. Stokers on the Old Dominion line Meanifr Princess Anne mutinied during gale off the New Jersey count and were forced to work at the pistol's point by NEWS FROM MISSOURI. 4c4t4-4 The cornerstone of the new M. 13.

church, fcotith, nt Columbia, was laid mlth musonlc i.i'remonleH. A boom was started among SU Louis dcrnocrutH for Walter Williams, ol Columbia, feir lieutenant governor. Perry Linn, serving a sentence for mureler committed In Washington county, lias been pardoned from Mate prison by Gov. Mockery. Linn lias consumption.

There is home; douht about the; building eif the university gymnasium for which an appropriation was tnnile by tho last general assembly. Tlie appropriation was made provisionally and it Is possible; that tin; revenue of the state will not be sufllcle-nt for Its rectlorr. Harry Iflggs, a Island brake-man at Trenton, shot and badly wounded Weiolsey Hubbell, son eif the proprietor of the Trenton opera house. While Hubbell was on the porch talking, lilggs from behind a rose--bush where he had been in ambush anil fired I wo shots at him. The only woman funeral ellre-e'tor who was e-lee'te'el te anil the convi-nllein of the National Funeral Dire dors' and Kmbalrners' association at Minneapolis, was a Mlssourian, Miss Kriimn Knell, eif Carthage-.

She was also the second woman that ever W'iiH electeel tei such a convention. Dr. Joel D. Hubbard, of Versailles, who eli'feati Richard P. Miami for con-gre-ss In IfiOl, was recently arre-ste-el In Kansas City ten- the alleged theft of a watch freim a m-gre'ss.

Hubbard was re-leased upon e-xplalnliig matters. The negress who cr.us;ed his arrest wan later llni'd $10 In police court. (ieiv. Docke-ry has asked .1. S.

Harris, a mernbi'r ol the board ol trust) c-s eif the Lineeiln Institute, 11 negro slate (school at Jefferson City, for hLs ri-slg-nation. Har ris Is a well-known democratic negro politician, who was appointed a member In by Lon V. Stephens. It is alleged Harris ic-eeivi'd pecuniary be-ne-fit freim his position. Lee- Carpenter, a farmer ne-ar Nlxa, Christian county, was kllleel by a bolt ol lightning while currying a horse in the- barn.

The horse was kllleel, too, and the- bam set on lire. The body ol Carpenter was taken out of the burning building by neighbors. Mrs. Asbury, who lives a eiuarte-r- of a unk from the Carpenter place, was shocke-il by the same- Hash of lightning and lay iinconulous ten- several minutes. Dr.

August Rhodes, an old-lime physician of the town, eeinti'tids that Cartilage is one eil the healthiest place's in the eeiuntiy. Tin- people there get sle'k, he says, as they do edsewhere, but dls'iasi- sed.es thi'in with a loose-r grip. There' have been einly five cases eif rilphthi'rla among them since 1873 ami only two tli'nths Irenn scarle-l leve-r. The-y einee- had an eplile-mie- eil Hmall-pox, in whldi ISO wen' sick, but only one tlle'il. Thrii' Missouri boys broke the rer-ord a ye-ar agei last Hiirnmer, wlii'n, as In said, the-y earned 14,151.32 by plowing corn.

The- boys are- sons of (, A. Christian, of Atchison county, and are Ill and IS years old, respectively. Mr. Christian and ills sons took the contract to cultivate- a 310-acre tract of lariel belonging to David Rankin. The-y were- to receive 12 cents from Rankin for e-ve-ry bushel of corn they raised.

With the exception of fe-w elays when Mr. Christian left a hand, the; hoys did all the work; and I he land produced bushels of corn or 73 bushels to the acre-. The boys' surn-mcr'H earnings nveragi'd apiece, MIhs Ne-rrna Bowman, of Columbia, can stick her heael out of the- window on the- side of her father's house facing the hfiiihi- of their neighbor, Mrs. Ileax-le-y, any time she- wants to. Judge Hoggs has hfi ruled.

There Is bad blood between the women of tlie lle-julcy and Ilowinan lamlllcs. Mrs, He'azle-y finally got pretty mad and told Miss Ni'rnia that If she- put her head through the window mentioned again, she "would get It shot off." Miss Ne-rrna Immediately went Into the house and Muck ln-r hi'iiri out, anil Mrs. Ile-nzlcj ai: promptly got her gun and lilazed away. She missed the mark and was Immediately arretted. Juelge Hoggs decided that she- fired without elue provocation and fined her Frank Anderson and Frank Mullen who we-re coiiflneel In the county Jail at Columbia, escapee! after making a hole through tha sheet ste-el floor of their cell, digging through several feet of concrete anel prying tlie ste'd door of Die Jail open.

Tlu-y were; confined In the Jail awaiting trial for horse stealing. The hole- In the sle-e-1 Moor, which was scarcely large enough to pass a man's beiely, was battered in with pieces of brick and Iron through nhe steel. The- e'oncre'te was then re--move-il, presumably with Jackknlves. A note' to tlie Jailer was left. In which they tlmnkeel him for his kindness to them wlille confined, and apologized for catislim lilrn trouble.

The-y took with them teiweln and soap, for which thev left money. THE CHICAGO CENTENNIAL Details for the Celebration Are Practically Completed. The Mit linger Will Cllvn Itrnro iluetloii nf Hie tin-fit I'lre la IS7I Mlth Oilier IIIailii) a. Chicago, Seqit. 22.

Committees in. charge of Chicago's centennial ccle bratlon, which begins next Saturday anil lasts until tho following Thurseiay, night, reporteel, Monday, that tho preliminary details were practically complete and issiieel a programme for the-six elays. Invitations wenr sent out for the banepiut of mayors which takes place at the Auditorium on Thurseiay night, October 1, More than three thousand Invitations have been Issued for the Daughters of the American Revolution reception, at which many of the members will appear In gowns of a hundred years ago. On Saturelay night, tho centennial managers will give a reproduction ol the burning of the dty In 1871 In a unique display of reel fire. One hundred tons of inflammable material will blaze from the roofs erf several scores of the; tallest buildings in the; downtown district, and for "0 minutes the city will seem to be struggling with a disaster similar to that which resulted In almost total destruction years ago, The; scene', Judging from the tests recently made; on one of the high buildings, will be thrilling in tlie.

extreme, and the; display will surely prove an aweMnsplrlng spectacle. A NEW WARRANT FOR STERN. Oflli-i-rN l-'ruiii WiiftliliiKtmi I'ri-Miiiit ill llcariiiK Willi IHHereiil Wiirntui I'rmii Thill I'ItmI Sirt-il. Toronto, Out, Se-pt. 22.

Leopold Stem, ol Mil wanted in Washington em a charge of conspiracy to di'fraud the I'nlted States govern-mi'nt, appeared In court Mennlay afternoon. Two olllcers from Washington were present with a new warrant certifying; a charge ellffe'rent freim that first anel in eireler tei give; the- prosecution time tei prepare this case on the charge-, an adjournment wan taken until to day. The new warrant in tho case against Ste-rn charges hirn with having wrongfully ohtulued two money warrants irom the I'nlted States peist office department, one tor In December, IftOl, and one' ten- In October, 11102. A deposition marie by Walter J. Meyer, post eifllces inspector, also se-ts forth a number of particulars In the Frittcri State's government ligainst Sli-rn.

The depositions statu that In June of ISiifi a contract was made- by the I'nlti'd State's government postal deiartrneut with Ste-rn for thei supply ol lour elllferi'tit varieties of. li tte-r carriers' satdiela. Some oi these- we-re- tei he equipped with straps, Tlie' allegation is that Stern, afte-r Ins ing supplied at the Iiistatieo of the do partment with these straps by another contractor charged tlu-ir ceist lo tin department which had already paid the either contractor for NOT SUBJECT TO HEAD TAX. Fllllilnii f'iirH-iilvrn llrouulit to 'I'fcia lo I'roimre lUlillill Will hi- Nt-iit lo SI, I.oiiIh. Washington, Sept.

22. Upon re-pre-seutntlons marie by the war depart merit, Monday, tlie Immigration bure au, has wlreel its agents in San Francisco, Tacorna anil Seattle to exercise every facility for ailmlttlng the; Filipino car-pe-ntern brought over on tho transport Sherman to prepare; the Filipino exhibit at the St. Uiuls exposition. Thc-sei people hail been detained on the ground that tlu-y reeiuireel to pay a head tax, and also were likely to become public charges. The; Immigration bureau has decided that no per win coming to the; I'nlted States Ireim any port iir the Philippines is subject to a head tax.

The 32 natives affected will at once lie to St. Umls as will also the 3,000 teins of freight which has arrived in this country, and Die work of preparing the exhibit will spe-eellly be he-gun. APPROVED BY THE KING. Ilrlllnh Cm 1, 1 11 I Aiiiilnliipiln mill I luiiiKrk nll lo lliiw llrt-n li III UK llilwiiri, London, Sept. 22.

King ICilwarel reporte to have approved the appointment of Austen Chamberlain, the post-ruaster-general, to be chancellor of thf. exchequer, in succession to diaries T. Ritchie; Mr. Arnolri-Forsteir, secri'tary to the admiralty, tei be secretary lor war to lie successor to Mr. Uroelrlck; Mr.

Hroiirick, secretary for war, to bo secretary for India, successor of Lorel (ieorge Hamilton, anil Lord Solborne, first lord of the admiralty, to be secretary for the colonies, in succession to Joseph Chamberlain. No otlldal confirmation of tlie appointments has yet been forthcoming, It is kuovii that Lorel Milner, lldtlst high commissioner of South was offered the colonial secretaryal.Jp..