The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1909-06-03
NEWS Of THE WEEK
LATEST NEWS OF THE WORLD
TERsELY TOLD.
NORTH, EAST, SOUTH AND WEST
Notes From Foreign Lands, Through
out the Nation, and Particularly
The Great Southwest.

The dead body OF Mrs ]. II. Evil
sizer, wife OF a well known business
man OF Junction City Kasn was found
on the banws Of the Republican river
near there. Death was due to shot
fred from a pistol found near the
body. Letters left by the woman in
aicate that she committed suicide, but
the respective positions Of the body
and pistol have induced the coroner
to institute an investigation,
Mrs. Edith Cunningham, wife Of Geo
S. Cunningham, well known civil
engineer long engaged in railroad and
highway building on the lsthmus Of
Panama, was found dead in her homo
IN New York from gas inhalation
she got up while her husband slept
shut herself in a closet and turned
on the gas
chief Justice Fuller has declared
the United States supreme cour. adj
urnnd for the summer, and most Of
q justices lost little time In getting
way Tor their vacations. The court
suspended the docket month ago
and since then has held three sittins5
to announce decisions and hear mo
tiuus,
\ fire which destroyed tapestries
and silk and velvet hangings, said to
be- valued at $4,000. but Of which the
guests were In ignorance until hours
aftcrwGrd, occurred In the banquet
ball on the main floor Of the Hotel
Knckerbocker. New York.
More than half Of Pasadona's 400
telephones were out Of commission
as result Of the cutting Of twelve
fables and S93 wires by the authorl.
ties This action was taken to com
pei the Sunset Telephone company TO
ret a franchise and pay license Of
r. cents per pole The police guarded
the several cables to Illustrate efforts
to repair them
Owing to the continued high price
81 wheat. all the smaller -four mills In
Western Canada shut down this week
and the larger mills have decided to
run on short time.
The trial OF the native trIbesmcn
who murdered William Jones. the
noted anthropologist OF the Field MI
scum of Chicago, in tho Isabella prov
ncc on the Island OF Luzon, last
March. was concluded at Boyonbong
Three Of the natives were sentenced
10 death.
William Wilson, known In many
states as Baseball Wilson" was ar
rested in Seattle, Wash. charged with
being a. fugitive from justice. He Is
wanted for the alleged robbery OF
postoffice station I2S, Chicago, Deem.
Der 90, 1907.
Carving out a vow made several
gears ago, Lieut., Braulio Gutierrez
shot and killed Adalbcrto Reyes while
the wife and children Of the victim
begged for his life. The TWO men
served together in the Mexican army
seven years ago and had n quarrel
when Gutierrez sworc to Kill Reyes.
Married Wednesday morning to An
ma Kaiser, Roland Rich, % years Old
was in the afternoon arraigncd at Bay
City. Mich, on the charge of murder
ing his aged grandmother, Mrs. chris
tine Curyeon. The young man $1,000
mute In court and was committed TO
jall to await examination. He has
always borne an excellent reputation,
The Scranton Flyer on the Central
railroad of New Jersey was wrecked
at Slate Dam, by the breaking OF
brake beam and six cars left the track
Tho smoker turned completely over
dragging the remaining FIVE cars from
the rails and throwing them on their
sides. None Of the passengers was IN
jured officials say.
j. p. Morgan, junior, was elected
director of the United States Steel
corporation and n member OF the
finance committee to succeed the late
Henry II. Rogers.
The body OF Patrick Corrigan. a
wealthy farmer from Custer, Wis, was
dragged from the Spokane river at
Spokane, Wash. His pockets had been
turned inside out, his gold watch, gold
pin and cash had vanished, as well as
$1,000 In drafts and $4,000 in mort
cages he carried when he disappeared.
On cabled instructions from the
United States marshal at Chicago, r.
W. Baker was arrested at Honolulu
on a charge Of blgamy,
Presidential nominations of William
Williams to be commissioner OF
emigration OF the port of New York
and Of Walter L. Clark to to governor
were confirmed by the senate.
Mrs. Alice Chopin, a daughter of a
former Austrian consul to New Or.
leans and connected with the best
families IN that city, died in Mexico
City In poverty at the home of her
aged mother in the leper colony.
senator Depew has introduced
;,nl for the relief OF the civil govern.
r,ent of Porto Rico in the manner sug
rested by President Taft in u special
message sent TO congress.
Clinton C. Hutchinson. known as
che father OF irrigation In the West,