The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1909-09-02

: on IN" city chaln gang AT SpartauS'
| burg, s. C.. shot and killed Mrs. Docin
! Better. Is years Of age. wifi" Of
! farmer. and seriously wounded with
stray bullet May Coz, ! years old.
Lewis Johnson. OF Elliott county,
| Ky, was found dead in the highway
near his home by his wife. FIe had
been shot from ambush.
Cheering for I player who had just
knocked home run in prairie game
on the West Side. Chicago. caused the
death of Robert Myers, CO years old.
Myers, syUpathios were with the
team which proh'od by the homo run,
and he ch"urod so much and 80 long
that heart disease caused his death.
Laurent Crosse driver OF the
, &,oarus car, who was injured IN the
t"rutyfour hour automobile race at
'hn brighton Beach motordromc Fri.
day night is dead Leonard Cole his
w',hauicIau, was Instantly killed IN
the accident
The mail boat Nord, running from
Calais TO Dover went ashor" al the
mouth Of tl. Calais harhor I'm 4 mick
fog About zoo passengers most Of
whom were on ,hcir way to Rheims,
were landed in life boats.
The forest fire which started IN the
Yosemite National park is cuupI.,Iy
beyond control and was sweeping up
,nr canyon toward the famous lI,.,,d
grove Of biz trees The flames nj the
las. r.por, were within three miles
Of tho grove
As the result Of an automobile acct.
dent on a prominent downtown corner
of Omahn Niss Hammer lias in n hos.
ptal fatally injured and George GIL.
more. tho driver of the car bar.iy
csrapcd rougb huudlinr at IN. hands
Of an excited crowd of onlookors
Fire almost vincd ort m, .,Ir,r.
of tr1bfa Ind nh. dup,oco lie ..l,n,
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IN si&ht OF his wife and baby, Earl
lindncr a wrestler, from Minnrapo
U.s. Mimi, was swept from his feet in
the. surf near the GIN House, san
Francisco. and drowned. A mounted
pawolmdn rode his horse far out into
tn" surf and sought to lasso Lindurr
but IN vain.
President Taft will have spcclal
agents iuyrstigate the facts in tbr
Piuchot-Ballingcr controversy. He
wants to know on his own arcouu,.
aud from unbiased sources lust what
tho facts are.
on bet that his first horn wopId
be how George Ward fl Cbicaoo
nowsuaper solicitor won rido of
eight miles throurb thc businoss diq.
trict of Cbtcago in a wbnolharrow
Charles NIlalnr. the loser of tho wager
held tho handles Of the vehicle ana
furnished the mower.
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In Iowa and Michigan charged with
operating confidence games, was ar.
rested in Chicago The policc declare
that he has cleared more than 5000
through his real estate operations dur.
INK the last year. He egrap,d from
custody in Muskcgon county. Mich.
In january.
Henry G. Mckenzie. an undertaken,
shot himself TO death in his establish.
mont in INDIANAPOLIS after having
written 4 note designating the coffin
he wished to be buried in He added
that worry over business had driven
him insane
The long drouth in Oklahoma. Ark.
ansas and parts of southern Missouri
was broken by n heavy rnin. The
heat which has been excessive since
July IS. was checked Satisfactory
Yields of corn and cotton are assured
Rrports from Fort Smith Ark and
Mugkogcc. okla say the rain was
general and that the crops had been
immensely hclpcd