The Farmington times and herald. (Farmington, St. Francois Co., Mo.) 1902-1905, 1903-04-30
GENERAL NEWS.

II is estimated that $50 900 pco .
pie will attend the dedication ex
ercises of the st. Louis World s
Fair this week
Herman Metz, IL hermit, was
murdered for his money near Ed.
wardsyille, H.. last week, and his
body thrown into hog pen.
Four bandits held up the passen-
gers in running train on the Bur
lington out from Lincoln, Neb.
About 81 900 was procured by the
obbers.
A painter in East st. Louis ac-
cidentally touched two live electric
light wires on the 23rd, and us a
result his tongue and vocal organs
were paralyzed.
The Government mint at San
Francisco has orders to coin S75,-
10000 silver pesos or dollars for
use in the Philippines. They con-
tain full PIG grains of silver and
are equivalent to the Mexican dol
lar.
Robbers blew open the safe in
the post Office at Ferguson, a sub
urban village of st. Louis, on the
25th and secured $3.50. a battle
took place between the robbers and
citizens on the streets of the vii
lagc.
The Russian government has de-
manded that China cede to her the
sovereignty of Manchuria. This
demand may mean war between
Russia ana England, or it may
mean the beginning of the dis
membermcnt of China among the
Powers
\ group Of seven new islands,
lying south Of the Philippine archi-
pclago, have recently been discov-
cred aud will soon bc advertised
for owners. IN case no owners
are found the islands will pass
under the control of the United
States Government.
The steamer China has brought
to port one of the largest ship
mcnts of opium that has ever come
from the Orient. 1t consisted Of
Si5 cases OF 33,4l5 pounds, on
which the duty amounted to
900 400 The commercial value
of the opium is about 1914 $40
An explosion occurred at the
Northwestern Star Oil Company at
Minneapolis on the 23rd, in which
eight men aud two woman We're
killed Five men, working on the
second floor, were blown twenty.
five feet into the air, and they
were the only persons in the build.
ing who escaped death
The free employment agency act
Of the Illinois State Bureau Of
Labor Statistics has been declared
unconstitutional, on. the ground
that it discriminatcS in favor of
organized labor, against employers
seeking to fill the places of strikers
and against laborers seeking to
take the places of strikers.
The Illinois Legislature is also
in the throes of bribery investi.
CATION Speaker Miller made
charges that he had been ap.
preached. 1t is alleged that Chica,
go promoters took $500, 900 to
Springfield to push through legis
lation in which they were inter
csted
AZ Il result of taking official
papers from the private safe in his
Office and refusing to return them
to the government, Assistant At
torney General Tyncr of the Post
Office department has been removed
from office. The indirect cause OF
his removal was the investigation
OF the turf investment company
fraud.
Thousand dollar bills in con
nection with legislative hood
ling at Jefferson City, contiane tc
come to light John G. Roberts
of Mountain Grove, who was il
Jefferson City near the close of tn,
session in the interest of the initia
tive and referendum, saw Il Sen
ator display one of these bill Hi
will be given an opportunity tC
tell all about it before the CRANE
jury.
In the debate between the stu
dents Of the Missouri University
aud the Illinois University last
Friday, the Missouri boys won
The question was, That Congress
should possess and exercise the ex
elusive power of regulating indus
trial corporations, which, by thei,
relative magnitude, are enabled
largely to control the price ant
conditions under which commodi
ties are placed on the market.
The Illinois debaters, taking tn,
negative, were A. W. Shelton, A
b. Darnian and l.. w. hartman
The Missouri debaters were Nelson
Sears of Platte City, Fred kelse.
of Pennington, Iowa, and E A
Green of DeSoto.
There is a prospect of NOR
trouble in China. The Russian
government has made u deman,
for the virtual control of Man
churia, and the British and Japa
nese governments, through thei
representatives at Pekin, have ad
vised Prince Ching, the head @
, the Chinese Foreign Office. not t
. agree to Russia's new demand