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

he had made balloon ascension.
! Loorifcd went up about 5000 feet
I from which he made parachute
jump. When within fifty feet Of the
earth his parachute struck an arm
on telegraph pole.
Tarec men were killed Saturday
night In train wreck west Of Bran.
| don, Manitoba, The regular coast
limited train Of the Canadian Pacific
railway west bound took the wrong
track at point near Kemnay, Oh
which was freight. east bound. The
cngineman, brakeman and fireman Of
| the passenger train were killed.
In anticipation OF possible out.
break OF cholera IN Russia this sum.
mer and its extension to western BIZ
rope instructions have uecn issued to
insure purity Of water and ample sup.
ply Of disinfectants.
General William Booth, commander.
in.chicf Of the Salvation army. is at
present In 81. Petersburg and is ne.
gutiatiuE for permission to establish Il
branch Of the Salvation army in Rus.
STA.
The American Sugar Refining Co
Friday posted an advance In rates for
all grades of sugar amounting to 10
points The rise. officials says, is
due to the steady advance in the price
Of raw sugar, especially In the Sudan
and Porto Rican product.
Clara RcnnIng an lS.ycar.old girl
who ran away it is alleged from
her home in Minneapolis because OF
her failure to pass college cxamina-
ton, was taken into custody as she
alightcd from train at Oakland, Cal
Kenneth Archibald a Dartmouth
graduate, son Of Rev. Dr. Andrew W.
Archibald Of BrocktOn. Mass. has
been declared legally dead by the
probate court and the division of his
estate Of about $4,000 ordered. The
young man went west in 1907 ana
later while with a hunting party in
the California mountains disappeared.
Wiley Gil, youth, shot and killed
Melville MiCkle Thursday night In
front Of his home at Clarksvllle, Tenn.
The killing was caused by a letter
Mickle wrote to Gill's l5.year.od sis.
ter in which Mickc expressed his
low" for her
The federal grand jury which has
been conducting an Investigation at
Chicago into the beef industry during
the last three months completed the
taking OF evidence Friday and ad
journcd until April G. when it is ex.
pcctca to make its final report.
The First Nationl bank Of Fort Glib
son, Okla, closed It's doors Friday. 1t
is capitalized at $4,000 All the de.
posits have been transferred to the
Citizens State bank Depositors will
be paid in full,
The recent earthquake cracked the
walls of the cemetery and exposed the
bodies Of many victims Of the cholera
epidemic Of 1851, at OXaca Mex. The
discovery Thursday caused much con.
sternation. In 1851 deaths from
cholera were so numerous that II was
found impossible TO bury all, many
bodies were sealed up in the inches
In the walls.
The president announced Tuesday
that he will nominate Henry A. Wise
as United States district attorney for
the Southern district Of New York to
succeed Henry ], Stlmson.
A substitute resolution offered by
the senate committee on federal re.
latlons, asking congress TO enact
general Asiatic exclusion law Qnclud |
ing Japanese) was favorably reported |
In the California assembly Tuesday. |
Grove l.. Johnson, author Of the Jap. |
anese school segregation BILL which
aroused opposition from President |
Roosevelt, moved the adoption of the |
report.
Sergeant Cortes, the leader OF the
insurrectionlsts, and his whole band
Thursday night to the
civil authorities of Remedies, In Santa
Clara province.
The Arkansas house Monday adopt.
I'd joint resolution providing for an
amendment to the constitution that
he boundary line of Arkansas shall
be so changed that they shall take IN
The "Choctaw strip" celebrated
strip of land near Fort Smith, over
which Oklahoma and Arkansas have
lad long standing controversy and
which figured prominently in much
litigation.
The first bequest made TO the de.
,artment for the blind of the library
II congress since that department was
opened seven years ago is one of
y 900 contained in the will of the
ate Capt. Napoleon ]. Smith OF Wash.
ngton, d. C.
Monsignor Falconlo, the papal del.
gate TO the United States. II present
lans are carried out, will leave this
ountry about the middle OF May for
rome. where he probably will make
prolonged sojourn. Primarily, he
vii make the trip to attend the |