The Farmington times and herald. (Farmington, St. Francois Co., Mo.) 1902-1905, 1904-02-12
GENERAL NEWS.

Phelps county will elect its dele.
gates to the State Convention by
primary.
The exports of the United States
for 1908 amounted to more than
half II billion dollars
The peach crop in Arkansas is
said to have been damaged from
- to 10 per cent 10y the recent
blizzard.
\ tidal w1ivc swept the coast of
Penmarch, Finislcrcc, France, on
the third, and many persons were
drowned.
VIM. c. Whitney, former see.
retary of the Navy under MIR.
Cleveland, died in New York on
the ID inst
George Collins, the bank robbcr
and murderer of Detective Schu.
macher, is TO be hanged at Duion,
Mo-, Oh March llth.
\ bill has been introduced in the
Maryland Legislature to amend the
State constitution which will vir-
tually disfranchlsr the negroes of
that State.
Two masked men bound, gagged
and robbed farmer near Give,
lown, on the jth inst, left him I'M.
conscious in the snow, aud he
came near freezing to death.
On the 1th inst. three men were
killed and several wounded in a
fight at Coal Greek, forty miles
northwest Of knoxsvlllc, Tenn. in
II disturbance growing out OF the
coal miners strike at that place.
At the joint conference of the
bltumlnOus mine operators and
miners, at indianapolis on the
ID, they disagreed over the wage
scale for the coming year, and
talk of general suspension after
April LIST is heard.
\ st. Louis rmbcz2ler named
Lawrence, serving time in the
pcnltentinry, speculated i'll cotton
through j + Wright of Kansas
City and cleared $40 600 in the re-.
cent speculative rise of that staple
How he managed to keep tab on
the market and do it nobody but
himself and agent knows, and they
won't tell.
An American sailor named John
{. Johnson, Of the American war
vessel Yankee, is said to have
been deliberately murdered by San
Domingo insurgents, aud the
United States may land marines to
avenge the murder. The insur-
gents are said to have fired dcliber-
ately on a launch of the cruiser
Yankee at the city wharf, killing
Johnson
Lucius Salisbury, the founder of
Salisbury, Mo, died at Canton,
Ohio, last week, and his body was
takeuto Salisbury for burial. He was
born in Vermont and came to this
State i'll lS45, and bought the
land where the town bearing his
name now stands. He was prom
inent in politics, representing
Charlton county four times besides
filling many positions of honor and
trust Several years ago he re-
moved to Canton, 0.
The dwelling house of David
Luckett of Lincoln County, Mo.
was burned on the Sd inst, aud
with it his mother and II year old
daughter perished. The mother
was an invalid who was bed ridden,
and n constant smoker. She and
the girl were alone at the time. II
is supposed that the bed was set on
fire by her pipe, and while frantl
cally trying to get up she caught
and held the girl until both per
ished in the flames
A story is prevalent at Jefferson
City that II proceeding would bt
instituted in a few days in the Su
preme Court by the Attorney Gen
eral III the nature of m Oustel
against the Royal Baking Powde
Company of New York to bar j
from doing business in Missouri
on account of violation of tn,
State statutes pertaining to trust
and monopolies, and likewise ol
account of a violation of the Stat
criminal statutes respecting tn
bribing of public officials.