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The Farmington times and herald. (Farmington, St. Francois Co., Mo.) 1902-1905, 1904-06-24
PRESIDENT AND EMPEROR
Exchange Of Dispatches Between
Pre- @id"nt Loubct and Emperor
william on the Auto Race.

Paris. June ia significant ex-
change of dispatches has occurred be-
,wccn Emperor William and President
Loub't. following NJ Thcry's winning
h. James Gordon Bennett information
n automobile race nt HumburE The
EMPEROR dispatches say
Il hasten to fclicitatc you, Mir Pres
tdont. on the victory French industry
mas Just won and Of which have had
ihc pleasure of being u witness The
welcome which the public has given the
yictOr proves how success. gained
through intelligence and common pur-
1osc serves to create sentiments free
rom rivalry"
NJ LOubct answered Il am partiCu-
Iarly grateful for your maicsty's amia-
ole telegram and for the sentiments
which have inspired it, The success
II French industry could not be better
appreciated than b, German industry
which was SO worthy Of obtaining sue
ross
IN" exchange of dispatches created
a favorable impression and promises
% alleviate" some Of the lingering Fran
nu-tirruan auimOSilics
The Farmington times and herald. (Farmington, St. Francois Co., Mo.) 1902-1905, 1904-06-24
WILL SET TYPE BY MACHINE
Government EmpIoNcs, However,
Are To Rrtnin Their Positions
In IncIc SANS Print shop.

Washington, June ~. AT last type
setting machine Is to gain place in
the government printing office Pub
lie Printer Palmer has perfected ar
ranE"m"nts whereby twenty five Mcr.
gcHthalcf and twcnty-ciEht Lanston
machines will bc installed In the big
shop, and when congress opcnE again
next December the Congressional Rec
ord for the first time in history will not
be set up b. hand More may be added
Tho hundreds Of printers who draw
good pay at the government printing
office have always looked with fear
upon the idea of typcsettinE machincs
thOrc, hut 1t has been so arranged that
not one OF yhc men employed will no
driven from work The Mergenthalcra
will cost 81 600 each and the Lanstons
s3, $50 each
The Farmington times and herald. (Farmington, St. Francois Co., Mo.) 1902-1905, 1904-06-24
GENERAL NEWS.

A man in Easton, Pa. has a
Bible that is 2GG years old and
which is in excellent condition. not
n single page torn The cover is
of wooden board covered with pig
skin.
Tod Sloan, the jockey who made
n half million dollars by his riding,
has lost nearly oil his fortune, and
is now exercise boy at the Sleeps.
head Bay stables near New York
He was considered the greatest
jockey OF the age, and was barred
from the races for infractiOn of the
rules.
A Kansas City dog driven TO
dispair by the cruel words of his
master M he abandoned him com
mitted suicide by jumping on a fire
escape in the third story of the
Century building and leaping to
the ground. A young woman in
tIlC blllCC WIN WlJnISSCu tiC uCtu
tainted.
A man named Mart Vowel was
hanged at Paragould, Ark. on the
9th for murder. He claimed the
killing was done in self defense.
but he was sentenced to be hanged.
Three hundred kilograms were sent
to Gov. Davis asking for com
mutation of the sentence to impris-
onment for life, but he refused,
and the sentence was carried ont.
The body was taken to Rector,
where it lay in state in the Meth
odist church until time for the flu
neral sermon. 1t was the largest
funeral ever held in the State, there
being over one thousand in atten
dance. During the night an efIigy
of Gov. Davis was hung on tele.
phone pole and afterwards it wal
bnrned.
The Farmington times and herald. (Farmington, St. Francois Co., Mo.) 1902-1905, 1904-06-24
! Volume 81, Number IS.
SOUTHEAST NOTES.

The Odd Fellows nj Doniphan are
preparing to build a hall.
The Current Local snys that the
fruit crop of Carter county will be per-
ircIIy immense, especially peaches.
The melon crop in Duukln county
is about ten days earlier than usual,
and the prospects are good for an i'm
mcnse crop.
The hotel at Arcadia is now a cor
tainly, as plans and specification are
being drawn up, aud it will surely be
ready by next summer for boarders.
Chas T. Stokes of Kansas City and
Miss Carrie Lee Carter Of Dexter were
married on the 10Th. Both are prom
mont temperance workcrg aud aIe well
known all over the State.
The FrcdcricktOwn Democrat. News
thinks it about time funeral sermons
preached several months after the de-
cease of the person should be relegSted
to the rear as neither appropriate nor
suitable
Two New Madrid county boys. Jim
Walker and Louis Hancock, captured
u O5-pound turtle on the 18th and de
cided to have q ride on ii. 1t was fun
for the boys, but not for tho turtle,
who emphasized his objections by bit
ing one of the boys very severely on
the leg and hand,
Miles Blakely shot and seriously
wounded his sweetheart at Sikcston on
the llth, The girls name was Clf-
ton and she said that while she was Gu
gagged 10 him, she was afraid OF him.
Blakcly also wounded Marshal William
son After unloading his revolver Of
four shots, he turned 1t on himself, in
ilicling a wound which speedily proved
fatal
The Frcdcricktown Democrat. News,
nprupos Of the commencement exer-
ciscs at Marvin Collegiate Institute,
makes the pertinent suggestion that
the young people who attend such oc-
caslons to DO their sparkling aud have
fun be permitted the use of some va
cant room, so that they will not dis
turb those who pay to hear the pro
gram
New Madrid had fire on tho night
Of the 10Th which destroyed several
business houses and dwellings, on
which was very little insurance. The
MiSsourinn, on commenting on the
good work done by the lircmcu, also
mentions the boys who stood around
smoking cigarettes and having good
time with the girls, instead Of helping.
1t also mentions the fact that grocery
stocks were much reduced after they
were saved from the frc
The Farmington times and herald. (Farmington, St. Francois Co., Mo.) 1902-1905, 1904-06-24
PASSENGER TRAIN
IN A COLLISION
Wreck on the Baltimore & OHIO at
Vincennes, Ind.
SIXTEEN PERSONS INJURED
Passenger Train Han Through an
Up"n Suith, toIiidInE Win
frctGht Train Of
Thirty Gnrs.

Nincounos. Ind. June 20 Thunder
! ing down a steep grade Sunday, T. 4 O
q passenger train No /, west bound
ran through an open switch, colliduG
with a freight train OF thirty cars
resulting IN the injury to sixteen per-
sons, three Of whom viii die
seriously Injured.
John Eisenhart, years old
J l. Witucr Of Cincinnati
Edward Ma"on of Coy!nglun Ky
Mis- Maud Stcnhart, burlington,
iowa
Peter Miller. Cincinnati
Crawford Corner Elkhart. Ind.
Mrs W l. Drirr. Pitts,un. PA.
ROY NJ VI Porter Vinccnu"A Ind.
II G. II Humphrey. Gordon. Mo
George W Van Ducsen. Fort Lcav-
enwOrth. Kas
Hugh Cox. Washington, Ind.
c " Brown, Dallas, Tex
Il / philips fireman.
James Eastridrc fireman
James Kenny. engineer
Many others were slightly injured
Engineer Walters OF the passenger
train estimates that his train was run.
InE at N, rate Of drty miles an hour
when he discovered that N" switch was
tgrncd liz says he Immediately ap-
piled the afr and jumped from his
engine
Thr Interior Of the dining car, which
The Farmington times and herald. (Farmington, St. Francois Co., Mo.) 1902-1905, 1904-06-24
WIRELESS LINE TO CHICAGO
station at Springfield to Complete
thr Service From ~. Louis TO
the windy Guy.

Springfield. ILL.,, June 20.-G. II Bar.
bour. executive engineer for the De
Forest Wireless Telegraph company OF
New York has just leased piece OF
ground in Springfield Tor the installa-
ton of n station by this company
MIR Barbour says the station will be
ready for operation within ten days. II
is to h. an intermediate station be
tween st, Louis and Chicago, for the
transaction OF both commercial and
newspaper business.
The Farmington times and herald. (Farmington, St. Francois Co., Mo.) 1902-1905, 1904-06-24
HONOR FOR HORACE PORTER
Our Ambassador to France Given
Grand Cross Legion of Honor
Congressional Consent VIII be Nec-
cssRr1, However,, before Its
Formal Acceptance.

Paris, June l9.-Presldcnt LOubct has
/ conferred upon the American ambas-
Sador, Horace Porter, the grand cross
Of the Legion OF Honor, which Is the
/ highest grade OF that historic order It
IF an honor rarely bestowed, even on
| chiefs of states aud ambassadors, and
Il In the first time it has ever been Of
| Tered To n representative OF America
AZ under provision Of the cOnstitu-
ion, the acceptance OF any mark of
distinction from foreign country,
eycn from a republic, requires the ap-
proyal of congress, final action IN the
matter will await the authorization OF
that body.
Foreign Minister Dclcnyro called at
the ambassadors residence and . ..nn-
ally presented him with the superb in
sigma of the grand cross This con-
Sists OF wide silk band worn across
the breast. having an enamelcd gold
cross at the hip with an elaborate sill
yer star to be worn on the right breast
NJ. De!cassc accompanied the prcenta-
tion by an earnest expression of tho
high personal esteem which NJ Loubot
and himself felt toward the American
representative.
The grand cross is the highest OF the
Ave grades OF the Legion Of Honor
These consist, first, Of chevalicr; sec
ond. officer, third commander fourth,
grand ONCE. and, fifth. grand cross. The
latter is the grade worn by NJ Louhet,
and has bcnn conferred only a few
times in recent years That the Amer
lean ambassador should have been
singled out for this notable honor IS
considered TO be a personal tribute TO
him and another evidence Of the cor
Hal sentiments Of the French govern
The Farmington times and herald. (Farmington, St. Francois Co., Mo.) 1902-1905, 1904-06-24
WORLDS FAIR DAIRY TEST
The Cows Participating Carefully
wriased In and VIII he Weighed
Out nt the Close.

ST Louis. June i9.-All COWS partici-
patinG in the dairy test were carefully
weighed at the dairy barns. They will
be weighed for five consecutive days
In order to ascertain their correct
weight at the beginning OF the test At
the close Of the test they will be
weighed again. and the difference In
live weight will be credited or deduct
I'd in making up the results for the
final awards
The Farmington times and herald. (Farmington, St. Francois Co., Mo.) 1902-1905, 1904-06-24
MOYEE'S PROSPECT GLOOMY
Has Bccn Turned over to the Cripple
Greek Authorities for Trial on
Scrious Charge.

Telluride. Col, June l9--Sheriff
Rutan delivered Charles II Meyer,
president of the Western Federation of
Miners, TO two deputy sherifs from
Cripple Creek who hold warrant
charging Meyer with having Ecen i'm.
plicated In the Vindicator mine explo-
sion Of November !. 1908, by which two
men we're killed. Meyer had been held
AS a prisoner here nearly three months.
under Gov PcabOdy's orders, without
over to the sheriff Wednesday evening,
The Farmington times and herald. (Farmington, St. Francois Co., Mo.) 1902-1905, 1904-06-24

A son of Col. h. G. Kerens of
st. Louis is being sued for 500. 900
due Patrick Sheedy, well known
New York gambler. The debt is
alleged to have been contracted
during the honey moon trip of
young Kerens in Londonand Paris.
1t is said that bandof organized
sharpers played thethe trick and
fleeced him.
The Farmington times and herald. (Farmington, St. Francois Co., Mo.) 1902-1905, 1904-06-24
RAISULl TO GET RANSOM.
some Fear That lie May Not Tote
Tnir After Getting tn" Money
In Ills ItnndS.

Washington, June IA cdblcgram
received at the state department from
United States Consul Gummcrc at Tan
ricr, in confirming the press rcpDrl
that he sultan had agreed TO all OF
Raisui's terms, adds that h, money
ransom, s55 o1, was To h. paid over
saturday Mr. Gummcre expressed
grave doubt rs to the advisahillty OF
making this payment before Pcrdlcaris
and VarIcy were actually released and
safely returned TO TanGicr Based on
past experience, II Is feared that
Rai.uli is not to be depended on, and
that Dncc he has the money In hand
and 5till controls tho prisoners ne will
make fresh demands However, moth
ing more can be done At this stage
according to Mir Gummcre, and the
state department will await the con
clusion of this last attempt to tree the
prisoners
The Farmington times and herald. (Farmington, St. Francois Co., Mo.) 1902-1905, 1904-06-24
IN THE MEDICAL FIELD.

The cure Of infantIc palsy by spite
ing the nerves In Il cEild's leg haa been
accomplished by Philadelphia sur
geOn.
1t is Il mistake to suppose that night
air In towns Is unhealthy In mos,
cases 1t is purCr between ten at night
and siX in the morning than at any
other part of the "a hours
scientist says 1t Is not true tina,
intellectual work is relief from phys.
teal work, or vice versa Fatigue. OF
whatever nature 1t is, accumuIaiCs dur
ing any kind OF labor and disappear q
only on complete repose
PracticinE on the piano is rcspOn-
siblc for many cases OF nervous dis
ease, says a leading medical statiati
clan In 6or out of II total Of i.0On
cases of nervous troubles the direct
cauEc Of the affection was traced To
playing on the piano Practicing late
at night is especially harmful
Climatic conditions IN Colorado
Ahtbp WIZ nv ii' AlAbs1N thNbi hii'
to health. at all seasons OF the year
nf any section of the United States
The death rate for February. 1904 "a
announced by the state board Of health
was li33 per 10000 Subtracting the
number OF deaths caused by imported
consumption, the rate falls 10 between
eight and ton per 10 900
According 10 recent Investigations
it appears probable that hypnotism
can stop the action Of u persona heart
and thus cause death A JnuTnct. a
Frenchman, reports that he has in
creased and diminished the number OF
pulse beats. at will and rs far as no
could venture with safety II Is said
to be also proved that circulation s
seriously affected. even II It is not
certain that the heart can be silcnccd
The Farmington times and herald. (Farmington, St. Francois Co., Mo.) 1902-1905, 1904-06-24

Souvenir collectors are get
ting in their work at the Worlds
Fair. Much valuable lace and
jewelry has disappeared and when
the collectors are caught name
not quite so nice will be applied to
them. and they will probably visit
jefferson City institution that is
prepared for such people.
The Farmington times and herald. (Farmington, St. Francois Co., Mo.) 1902-1905, 1904-06-24
NORTHERN PACIFIC ROBBERS
Officers of the Northern Paciac Con-
hdent Tint They VIII Get the
bear Mouth bandits,

ST. Paul, MINI, June l9-At the gen.
eral Offices Of the Northern Pacific II
was said that they expected before long
to have the men who neld up the
Northern Pacific coast train near Bear.
mouth Mont, as the officers who are
pursuing them had good line" oD
tie robbers
The Farmington times and herald. (Farmington, St. Francois Co., Mo.) 1902-1905, 1904-06-24

The Daughters of the Confeder-
acy have scored victory in Kan
sas City in the fact that they have
had McMaster's History of the
United States dropped from the
list of school books because it gave
a wrong idea of slavery and was
partial to the North in its account
of the Civil War.
The Farmington times and herald. (Farmington, St. Francois Co., Mo.) 1902-1905, 1904-06-24

Chicago. June l9-Justice r. c.
Hamhurgher, for many years a magis.
trate on the north side is dead of heart
disease Justice llamhurgher served on
the ssoop Constellation from 1856 to the
close Of the civil war, being retired as
lieutenant
The Farmington times and herald. (Farmington, St. Francois Co., Mo.) 1902-1905, 1904-06-24

Shanghai. June 20.--The British tor
pedO-boat destroyer Sparrow Hawk
struck an unchartered rock of Saddle
islands near Hang Chow bay Saturday
and is total loss. The guns from the
vessel were saved, and no lives were
lost in the disaster
The Farmington times and herald. (Farmington, St. Francois Co., Mo.) 1902-1905, 1904-06-24
- s-77- -7-7 a-a' s7--H'a-
Killed His nrOihcr.

Cameron, Tex. June l9.-Will and
Tom Jones, l3 and II years old. en-
gagged in a sham fight near here with
shotgun and pistol, which they
thought were unlonded VIII got his
head shot ncorly uf dvinf in,flalv
The Farmington times and herald. (Farmington, St. Francois Co., Mo.) 1902-1905, 1904-06-24

AS the Pope will not grant dis
pensation to King Alfonso Of Spain
to marry his cousin, an effort will
be made to secure Princess Victor.
ia. a niece of King Edward, as a
wife for him.
The Farmington times and herald. (Farmington, St. Francois Co., Mo.) 1902-1905, 1904-06-24

Paducah. Ky, June 20.-Ike Cope
land, rs years old. died Saturday at Ed
dyville, Ky. He was said TO have tho
only negro confederate living In the
state He lived in home given by
Gen II II Lyons
The Farmington times and herald. (Farmington, St. Francois Co., Mo.) 1902-1905, 1904-06-24

John Bradley of Stanford, Conn,
died in the Soldiers Home at the
age of 1876 years. He claimed to
be the oldest man in America
He smoked constantly and drank
all the whiskey he could get.
The Farmington times and herald. (Farmington, St. Francois Co., Mo.) 1902-1905, 1904-06-24
Large Graduating Glass.

ST. Louis, juno l9.-The June class
Of the Central high schol. which grad
uated Friday, was the largest in the
history OF that institution. The mem
bcrship was li3-9l girls and So boys.
The Farmington times and herald. (Farmington, St. Francois Co., Mo.) 1902-1905, 1904-06-24
FROM SCIENTIFIC SOURCES.

Specimens OF pitchblende when
have been exposed in the museum at
Vienna for 100 years, show sadio activ-
ity.
A new theory Of the Martian "ca-
nails" is that Mars has solid crust
and an clastl, nucleus Of higher tenn
perature The rrrst In cooling ncces.
sarily contracted. and the pressure
upon the mass within caused assures
to be formed In the surface.
Valuable deposits of uranium and
vanadium oxide. or carnotite have re-
Gently been discovered near Boulder
Col These are the ores SO eagerly
sought, at present, by scientists en-.
gagged in experimenting with sub
stances possessing radioactive proper
ties.
French scientists in the Pasteur in
stitute have found q new and success
mice. II Is by the use Of food infected
with microbes, whose action Ia fatal To
rodents The government is To fur
nish the solution at cost OF three
cents an acre
Tho conception of the magnitude of
the star Canopus. which is regarded as
the greatest body in the universe, Is
difficult indeed, even when .dr. Gore,
of the Royal Astronomical society,
furnishes the sun as a step by which
the Imagination may raise itself One
has some appreciation Of tho size OF
the earth with its circumference OF
25, 900 miles. The sun is more than q
million times as large as the earth.
The mass Of Canopus has been
weighed astronomicaily and found tn
be one million times greater than tina;
of the sun.
The Farmington times and herald. (Farmington, St. Francois Co., Mo.) 1902-1905, 1904-06-24

The Louisiana Purchase Exposi
sion has paid back $l95, ,057 ga of
the $4 600, 600 it owes the govern
ment. 1t is expected that the
next payment will be very much
larger.
Bunker Hill day was celebrated
in Boston last week, with the re-
suit that 300 persons are under
treatment for wounds made by fire
crackers, toy pistols and other ex-
plosives.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1904-05-24

iii all the town WAS to have cost, when
finished, S25.000,000 and more. aud i
large share Of this amount had already
been expended when war broke out.
Curiously enough, although Dalny
was made d free port, Russia was Hn-
able to force commerce 10 come to the
new city, 50 that with all Its magniti
cence tn the way Of the Imperial docks
and In the lavish attention that WAS
paid to tie comfort Of the residents
1t was commercial failure
With half the houses empty, build
ing proceeded without interruption
and Ii IS estimated that the Russians
have spent more than S2000o,00u on
the city from which they expected 50
much Cireat docks were added % BY
the building of still greater ones.
Custom houses. government build
lngs, hospitals, churches aRd barracks
were built 90 plan attempted ID few
towns even ID European Russia. and
nalny was expected % eclipse any Flu
ropean settlement HI the east, but even
with tile imperial support II was sim
PLY developed to be wiped ont hit the
first blow III war
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1904-05-24
slREs AND SONS

Colonel Daniel Stevens of Bristol.
Conn. has the largest collection of
buttons il the world
Or John / King. the only living sur
Yivor of the massacre of THE White
river Of Oct a.. 1895, IL III present IT'LL
siding at Martel q.
Postmaster Emerson az TTieves4nd
wore III the funeral of Senator Ianna
d piece JIG Grape that had been worn
Ill tile funerals OF Lincoln, Grant Gar
field and Logan.
Nilliam Nelson Cromwell. head &c
the New York firm which had much ID
DO ID procuring the ratification of tile
Panama canal treaty Is saia q Save
received d fee of s20D0O00
Walter i. Raymond. whose name II
part &c tie history OF the travelling
excursion business Ii the United
States. has retired from that field and
viii make Pasadena. Cal. his nerma
nent home
When Senator spooner Il speaking
to his colleagues he wants room He
uses. all the space around hts desk and
in the adjoining aisle Now and then
he almost inmps across the center aisle
and then recoils
General KuropatlSin the command
er In chief Of file Russian army, won
the Legion IT Honor IL Paris ID 1874
for assisting III reorganizing the French
cavalry. being the ilrst Russian officer
to gain that prize,
John Il. Wakefield, chief 81 the con
eesslons department of the ST Louis
worlds fair, Will also BE- director of
ihe same department of the Lewis and
ClarlS Centennial exposition at Port
land, Ore. III 1905
John II Shepard. son Of d Mefho-
dist minister at Ludlow. KY has just
been admitted to the Kentucky bar.
he Is but twenty-five years 81 age and
il the youngest qualified attorney ii
the Blue Grass State,
Deputy Sheriff David Dean 81 Taun-
ton. Mass, has pair of handouts
with a history They were presented
to him BY Major Jones til 1873. when
the latter was al the head Of the state
police. Since that time, the sherlff
says, they have been On the wrists Dc
every man on trial for murder 81 mans
slaughter IN Plymouth county
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1904-05-24
FOUNDER or RED CROSS.

Battle Of Buti Hum Induced Miss
Clara Barton 70 start society.
Miss Clara Barton. who has resigned
the presidency Of the American Red
Cross society. is iii ber seventy fourth
year and was d clerk ia the pension
bureau ri washington at tile outbreak
Of the evil war. says the New York
Herald After the disastrous tight at
Bull Run, iD which the sixth Massas
ehnsetts regiment from her own
state and III which She had many
friends met with severe losses, Miss
Barton hurried to the field oil battle
ana aided iii the care OF che wounded.
Realizing that an organization of
some Kind or other to nurse the wound.
ell soldiers was becoming daily mora
and more necessary. she organized d
band of resolute women. whose names
have gone down fl history for their
fortitude and courage during the four
long years Of the war
Inspired bg her work Cor the wound
ed soldiers and aided by the provisions
Of the Geneva conference in 1864. Miss
Barton at the close If tie war directed
All her efforts to the organization Of
tile Red Cross society aud was elected
It'll first president In 1881.
Since that time she has been actively
engaged at the head Of the members
Of her society, which has spread to the
farthest corners cit the globe. In the
care Of the dead and wounded ia war
famine and disasters of every descrip
ton.
III 1898 she added to her Eaurels and
made the lot of the American soldier ia
Cuba 4 more bearable one, and Il Is
said that many Of those who We're
wounded or taken sick during the
Cuban campaign owed their lives To-
the careful nursing Of Miss Clara Bar
tons Red Cross band Of nurses. who
accompanied the army.