The Farmington times and herald. (Farmington, St. Francois Co., Mo.) 1902-1905, 1904-05-27
NEWS FROM MISSOURI.
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Fire destroyed the steam laundry az
Warrcnsburr
W j lryan lccurcd in Fdyettc
Tuesday. May 2i In the interests OF
the athletic association OF Central col
lruc
Students at rarh college al Park
yilIo viii scry" as ualtrr' IN the Chris
liau Eudravor hotel in the ST Louis
worlds fair grounds
Charles cline. a photographer IN jail
at Nevada charged with passing forged
checks n Joplin Monet SchclI CITY
and other places. made an 4msuccess.
ful attempt to commit suicide.
Warroushurp. according Ia reports,
Is lu have a brand new hotel erected
hy Wdrrcnshurg and Kansas city cap
ital ana Mt cost OF S310oo The
huldng Is 10 contain Loo ruums aud
work is lu begin in six weeks.
About 20 Missouri university girls
hay" accepted positions rs Mattresses
aI the worlds fair Each will work
five huW- n day and spend Ave more
hours day in seeing the fair They
viii mostly be- employed in the Log
Cabin"
J. H. Swotman. an aged farmer re-
siding southwest Of Middle Grove. was
loading a muzII"-loadcr shot Gun when
the weapon was discharged, the con
tents OF the barrel going In his face,
blowing on his nose and one eye. and
otherwise disfgurinE him. He died
from these injuries
The legislative committee of the
Catholic union of Missouri was in
structed nt the twelfth annual conven-
ton Of the organization To work FOR
"thc adjustment Of the sanction of
law now given to that certain form OF
concubinaEc known as the common
law marriage and for the repeal OF
the divorce law of Missouri
Prof James a. Ynnts, who died in
South M,Alcster. | T., was born March
%, 1851, nj Marshall lie was gredu-
ntcd from the law department Of the
University of Missouri In 1875 and was
in the law department Of the Univer-
sity of Missouri in 1887 He resigned
his position In June, 1903, and removed
to South McAlcstcr
Joplin Is now Missour's fourth city
in size. the population approXimating
81 600. an increase Of about 25 900 In
ten years Joplin Is in the heart Of
the greatest lead and zinc mining dis
trlct In the world the output for 1903
being more than $4,000 900 worth OF
ore, or more than 1000 for each
working day The finest white lead
plant In the world is at Joplin
James NJ Dunn, the rural free de.
livery carrier at Chlllicothe. who re-
emily saved n Wabash train from wreck
by removing ties from the track and
has been attacked twice since by the
unknown foes, is being further per.
secuted by his enemies. lie reported
were demolished by some unknown
person. who followed him part Of the
way around his route.
George W. Wanamaker, OF Bethany.
Harrison county. was nominated at
Princeton by the republican judicial
convention ms candidate for judge Of
the Third judicial circuit, comprising
the counties of Harrison, Grundy.
Mercer and Putnam His nomination
was reached on the 2O7th ballot His
opponents were: Thomas b Valen-
tine, of unionville; Hugh C. Smith. OF
Trenton. and Millard + Robinson, of
Princeton.
The twenty-third encampment Of the
| G.. A. r., held last week at Leyinr.
ton. met in executive session and
elected the following officers TO serve
| for the ensuing year: Jere 7. Dew,
| department commander. Kansas City;
]. V. Martin. senior vice commander,
Brookheld; John Burris, junior vice
commander. Lexington; Rev. T. J. Fer
rill. department chaplain. Edward
Borke, medical director. The next an
nual encampmcnt Will be held at
| Brook fald
In n wreck on the Iron Noun
tain near Piedmont, on the 10th,
the engineer, kieth, was killed
and three persons were seriously
injured. OF course il is blamed
on the dead engineer.