The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1909-06-03

from the effects OF chloroform poison.
ing In he'd and her husband, Dr. Kali
dane Cleminson, q years old, who
discovered her body, and also says ho
is suffering from the effects Of chic
reform, is being held by the police.
Chattanooga representative citi-
Gems gathered at the central station
when Capt. ]. +. Ship and five CO
defendants in the contempt case be-
fore the United States supreme court,
started for Washington, where they
go to receive sentence.
Six passengers and the engineer
were slightly injured when Georgia
Central passenger train No. l was de.
rallied near Martindalc, Ga, thirty
miles east OF Chattanooga.
The bronze medals to commemorate
the centenary OF Abraham Lincoln,
which were authorized by the Grand
Army Of the Republic at the Toledo
oncampmcnt last year have been fin
ished and will be Immediately distrib.
utcd to members Of the organization
and public libraries.
Dr. w. T. Linn, said to be the old.
est citizen in Illinois, celebrated his
Tooth birthday Friday by entertaining
/ 900 persons in q park near his home,
south Of Puua, III. He was a surgeon
In the civil war.
At the municipal election at Water.
loo Ia, the proposition to bond tho
city for $685. 900 to purchase a water
! plant carried by 500 majority. More
than 1900 women voted.
The French chamber Of deputies, by
vote Of 33S to IA, rejected a motion
for the reinstatement Of the postal
employees who were discharged from
their positions because OF their con
ncction with the recent strike.
Kansas Is absolutely dry The new
prohibition law has gone into effect
Under its terms no liquor can be sold
for any purpose by druggists or any
body else.
There is no sign Of peace in the
strike Of the Japanese sugar planta'
ton laborcrs in the Hawaiians. At
tho Kahullu plantation the strikers
were given the back pay due them and
ordered to leave their quarters
Philip T. Hopkins. sailor and
money lender on the cruiser Milwau-
kee now at Puget Sound navy yard,
.,o,.,,,s1 49, ,t,a ,.,Iio, mot no was
robbed of $1,000 cash and diamonds
worth more than 81 900 which he had
concealed an the warship. HOPKINS
had inst made his collections. It being
nay day.
II was reported that contract for
1O5 locomotives had been placed with
the Baldwin Locomotive works by the
Hartman lines
pri,t,,,c II Roy former sneaker Of
the LEGISLATURE Of Quebec ana presl.
dent of tn, Bank OF St. John, was
found guilty Of falsitying returns Oh
the banks condition. Two days ago
Roy attempted suicide by shoouhs'
Give and William Newman, hold.Gp
men. were sentenced at Greenwood
y. c., to twenty years In the p"niten.
tiary Tor having h"Id up anu '""''u
the Great Northern railway agent a.
BridwclI, H. c" last December inc
men committed the Grim" IN co'l'p"n!
with Ben Hart VINO turned k'nE e'f
dencc ana VINO was ul'""'u "'7 INV
dom.
The latest name under consideration
as a possible successor 10 MI ho'N
hill the American minister to emma
is that Of Prof Jeremiah W. jerks
of Cornell university
Senator Rcycridgc of Indiana has
introduced an amendment to the tariff
bill. prohibiting any dealer or man
ufacturer OF tobacco from giving away
commons or devices emitting the pur.
chaser TO a Gift or prize.
poo,swo,r Alexander Hamilton Of
a.. I,,i,aI c,o,os cruiser pcnusyIva.
~. ,,ha n,o. irirrcd while the shI
' a, Iaan,,n, onchor.ot seattlc. suf
,.ao, a,nnr,a,ior NJ hoth legs and
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