The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1909-01-08
The legality of the presidents

The legality OF the presidents
action in Diminishing the colored
soldiers Of the Twenty.fifth Infantry
for participation In the Brownville
riots Of Aug. 10, 1906, was upheld by
the decision Of the supreme court OF
the United States in the case Of Oscar
w. Reid VS.. the United States.
George Lahanas. an Italian, believed
TO have been rendered insane by the
horror OF the recent earthquake, APP
peared in the office of Chief OF Police
Shippy in Chicago and made wild
threats TO kill him He was overpow.
cred.
Sixty-one indictments charging Re-
publican politicians with perjury and
frauds at the Illinois primaries on
Aug. s at which John ]. Healy was de-
feated for denomination as states at
torney, were thrown out Of court.
This sweeping action was taken with
the consent Of Special States Attorney
Frank ]. Loesch.
A dispatch from q st. Petersburg
correspondent to tho effect that 20
men have been arrested as a result
Of the bomb throwing at the emperors
palace. A vast terrorist plot against
the imperial family was responsible
for the bomb outrage.
The New York collateral inherit.
ance tax law of 1891 was upheld as
constitutional, by decision Of the
supreme court.
Elijah Rarity, "a years old, a negro,
after making repeated denials, broke
down and confessed to numbering his
wife and burning her body In u
furnace in the basement Of SAB Cor
nell avenue Chicago.
Senator Carter of Montana has
written O letter TO Robert Bacon, first
assistant secretary OF state asking
him 20 cable the United States con.
suls In Australia, Argentine and South
mediately information concerning the
cost Of growing wool In those great
olproducing regions OF the world.
His wifes request that he start the
new year by doing something to sup
port his family drove August Bloom, of
No. 307 East Eighty-third street, New
York. to swallow muriatic acid. He
was taken TO the Presbyterian
hospital. but will recover.
Beach Hargis, charged with the
murder Of his father, Judge James
Hargis. was admitted TO $4,000 bail.
Great anxiety is being felt by the
Inhabitants OF Greenbank, In West
Virginia, over the steadily increasing
activity of burning crater OF seem
ingly volcanic nature on the side of
n neighboring mountain within half
mile of that place. flames being dis
tinctly visible al intervals, accom-
panied by low, rumbling noise. while
the air is strong with sulphur fumes.
New Years Day was marked by
battle, In which one man was killed,
another fatally shot and two women
wounded. The battle started In Belle.
yue, KY, and ended in Dayton, KY,
and only the prompt action OF the
mayors OF the two towns across the
river from Cincinnati prevented
mob from lynching the men who did
most Of the shooting.
Abraham Ruef, former political
boss Of San Francisco. was sentenced
TO IA years In the state penitentiary
at San Quentin prison. Sentence was
pronounced by Judge William p. Law.
Tor whopreslded over Ruef's trial on
the charge Of bribing members of the
Schmitz board of supervisors in the
award OF an overhead trolley franchise
to the United Railways.
1t will be several weeks before the
report of the board of engineers which
made a survey of the proposed lakes
to the gulf deep waterway reaches
congress. The report may not be in the
hands of Chairman Burton OF the
rivers and harbors committee before
the end OF the present session.
Walter Scott who ia better known
to the public as "Scotty the Million
aire" filed in Chicago his application
for enlistment in the United States
novy. Scotty, who attracted con
siderable interest about two years ago
when he travelled by special train
from the West to Chicago, and tried
to break the speed record, says he has
spent enough Of his one time APP
parently unlimited fortune.
President Roosevelt, it was officially
announced has invited the following
engineers to accompany President.
elect Taft on his alp to Panama, the
last Of january; Arthur V. Davis, chief
engineer. reclamation service, Wash
ington; John K. Freeman, Providence,
r. l.; Allen Hazen, New York; Isham
Randolph. Chicago; James d. Schuy-
Ter, Les Angeles; Fred d. stearns.
Boston.
President.elect Taft will have an op-
portunity to deliver a message to the
entire South while he Is In Atlanta,
na n. l.