The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1909-08-19

the drawing for the Spokane lands
| recently thrown open to settlers by
the government
In fight during a game OF ball be-
tween Hardin and Flint Springs, KY.
teams Ewcll Pace used a knife on
James Stroud. who in turn crushed
PAGES skull with a baseball bat. kill
ing him.
Fourteen bodies have already been
found in the debris of the late food
at Monterey. Mex. From reports OF
members of families missing It Is be-
licycd the total death list will reach
nifty. Property damage will total $3.50.
900.
Doing his last days work IN the
mines, intending to move TO Gaines.
Vile, Mo, to go into business, Elijah
l}uhannan was killed by falling stab
in the Trinity mine at Webb City. NO.
Hannah Jones, negress, aged llO,
died at Pine Bluffs. Ark She was
mother Of sixteen children, who sur.
yiyc. She was born in Carlton, Ala,
and had lived there many years.
Deputy sherifs, farmers and police
Of Flint, Mich, art searching for Eber
Lambic 80 a Greek. also known as
Mike Stevens, formerly OF St Louis.
charged with shooting to death Frank
L. Lind in fight In Lambnes tent
restaurant.
Mlonlo L. Church, former librarian
Of IN" United States senate, died at
the home Of his son in Newark. y. J.
lie was 81 years old.
a merger of the Riverside Cotton
mills and the Dan River Power and
Manufacturing company. two OF the
largest cotton mill corporations IN the
south has been effected The name
Of the new company will be the River
side and Dan River Cotton mills. which
viii have n paid In capital OF $1,000.
600 In addition to Sl000,0O surplus
Two gend'armes and two robbers
we're Killed and a gcnd arme captain
and lieutenant and a robber were
wounded during fight between the
Grud armes and robbers who were en-.
dcavoring to loot the BaranoyItch
postofnce
Mrs Annie Targosky, charged with
highway robbery, committed suicide
in the Jail at Garfield y. j.. by hang.
ing Friends believe she was limo.
cent OF tho charge against her. aud
that terror caused by Imprisonment
drove her 10 suicide.
Twenty skeletons were un
rarthcdcd near Piedmont, Tex. IN an
excavation made by the Houston K
Texas Central railroad.
The Bankers Deposit Surety com
pauy an organization formed TO In.
sure deposits Of Kansas banks, was
denied permission to do business in
the stat" BY the state superintendent
Of insurance. Charles " Barnes.
l., c. Micgc, an assistant professor
Of French at the University Of Kan.
sas is in jail, charged by the federal
authorities with misuse OF the mails.
He is charged with advertising a fake
teachers agency in Mexican news.
papers, saying he could secure posi-,
tons for teachers of Spanish IN the
United States and requiring n pay.
mrnt Of s. as n pledge of good faith
During the progress of a BAH game !
between Valentine and Norfolk. Nob., |
a terrific wind storm carried of the |
roof Of the grand stand, near which !
players and spectators had taken ref. I.
ugc. Nearly a dozen suffered inju. |
rics.
The United States government
seized n carload Of flour at Musca.
tine, la, under the charge of viola.
ton OF the pure food ana drug act, |
because tho -four was blcachcd. This |
Is TO be a tdst case.
Mrs May spindle. wife Of H. r. !
Spindle, a prominent Louisville (KyD |
lawyer, shot and killed herself In
bedroom Of her home while broodlng |
over her own i'll health and that OF |
her daughter.
The fourstory building of the 7. S.
Bagley Tobacco company. at Detroit,
wa sdamagcd by fire to the extent OF
100000.
Murray Curran, son Of Chief OF Fo-
lice Henry Curran, Of Nashville
Tenn, died from the effects Of n fall
by which his skull was fractured.
Captain W. II. Wood aged GO years,
md a familiar figure on the hurricane
lecks OF river steamboats, all the way
rom PittsburE to New Orleans. fell
rom barge into the Ohio river and
vas drowned.
Glowing reports have been received
If the discovery In the AbrrCOrn dis.
riot Of British Central Africa Of gold
deposits similar TO the Rand forma.
ion which are said to extend over an
urea Of six miles.
4 disastrous fire swept through tho
business section Of Monticello, the
county seat of Sullivan county y. Y
destroying fifty or more stores, the
lostofilcc, a bank the pala'ino and
mansion hotels and driving hundreds
Baron Takahira. Japuncsr umhassa.
Tor, accompanied by Madame Taxa.
ira and their daughter, and by lisa.
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