The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1909-04-02
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.

'ul aeroHaut whose parachute carried
him into the ocean and who was
drowned March S, was recovered Sun.
day from the outer harbur at san Pc.
dro, Cal His relatives live in San
Antonio, Texas.
Attacks by Arabs on steamers ply,
ing the Tigrs have been so persistent
that the British line has been com
PEELED TO suspend service Sunday, a
government steamer WAS riddlcd with
bullets. several OF the passengers be-
Ing Killed or wounded The steamer
carried a machine gun and had troops
aboard, put the Arab fire was so Sc
we're that the gun was put out OF &C
ton.
Gov. Wilson of Kentucky, Thursday
night announced that a reward Of 800
would be paid for the apprehension
and conviction of each person guilty
OF sowing tobacco plant beds with
bluegrass or weed seed He calls par.
ticular attention to this having been
done in Caldwell and Christian coun.
ties.
After having been kidnapped from
Montreal twenty-five years ago, Mrs
Jason Warner was found by the South
Chicago police Thursday. She said
she had ben stolen when she was five
years old and was taken to a farm
Recently Mrs Warner appealed TO tho
Canadian police. who found her family
in Montreal.
Health conditions on the Panama
canal zone In 1905 were more favor
able than at any time since the Amer
iCan occupation, according to a report
made by Chief Sanitary Officer Gorgas
of the istbmian canal commission.
With 1880 employees, there were but
I'll deaths, or 1901 per thousand. The
black death rate was less than the
white death rate.
Owing to a desire 60 obtain q larger
dirigible balloon than was at first pro
posed the Aerial Navigation Co will
not put a drigiblc In service between
Boston and New York next summer.
1t has been decided to construct n
large ariship. but it will be impossible
TO have 1t ready for service before
1910.
The dispute over the remains of
two men who died In the powder mill |
explosion at Wallace. Idaho, last week, |
has been settled by placing portions |
Of the remains in two Baskets Each |
widow takes one. Mrs. Plneo sends |
her casket TO Seattle for burial and |
Mrs Skalberg sends one to Los An. |
geles.
Just as Theodore Roosevelt sailed |
from New York for Africa Tuesday,
one of his comrades at San Juan Hill, |
Major b. II. Brown. died of apoplexy
at the dinner table at Fort Thomas,
Ky.
Hetty Green's future home will be
In Bellows Falls, VT Hoboken is too
slow for her, she said, and announced
that after q visit TO Washington she
would go to her new home
President Johnson of the Amerl-
can league announced that he has
taken steps to prevent the Detroit
and Washington teams from playing
preseason games In Texas, as It is
contrary to the constitution of the
league Detroit and Washington
have played two games at San An.
tonic.
1t is reported that the Mexican
gunboat Gurrero which has just ar.
rived at the port of Salina Cruz. after
successfully completing the long
Journey from England, will proceed
shortly to Central American waters
Samuel E. Schultz. a broker. for
mer director Of the Open Board of
Trade at Chicago, attempted to com
init suicide Monday night Recent
losses In wheat is given as the cause
OF his dependency.
Count de Lambert and NJ. Tissan-
diere, who were pupils of Wilbur
Wright. won their spurs Wednesday
by gaining the Aero clubs prize,
awarded to every aviator making a
flight of more than $50 metres. at
Pau, france.
Governor Samuel G. Cosgrove of
Washington died at Paso Robes, Cal, |
suddenly Sunday of Brights disease.
resolution has been presented In
the municipal council for adoption of ,
FIRE escapes In the Paris schools sim. I
lar to those In use In the United ,
States. =
After two weeks of hard fighting
with snow and mud and storms an II
automobile party from Denver reached
chicago Wednesday. In the party I
we're G.. w. Smithson and o. S. An.
Ierson of South Bend, ind, and II. b. 7
1ubanks of Denver \
Reaffirming the demands already o
resented to the operators. the anthra-
lite miners Wednesday night voted a
D remain at work after April /. al a
owing the district executive boards h
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