The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1910-01-04
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.


back His watch aud tcyolycr were
gone and the key of the jail was brok'
IN of In the door
Judge j. l.. Bcthsharcs, ~ years
old was struck By an automobile dri'.
On by G. Smith a Snowman, at Pa
ducah, KY. and mortally Injured.
Judge Bethsharps formerly was coun.
Is Judge and is one Of paducah 5
wcalthiest men.
Information has reached New ia'
ven that more than $jOo.OuO was be
qdeathcd for use in the medical de-
partmcut OF Yale university by III"
will OF the late Or. Shoemaker o.!
Wilkcsbarrc, Pa.
Guy Mosscr, u farmer, four miles
northeast OF Wondclin, H., was fatal
~ injured In runaway. He was
huskug corn when his team became
frightened He became onlanglod IN
the rcins and was dragged more than
SOC yards
Officials of the controllers office at
Washington believe the snoring" in
the First National Bank Of Mineral
Point. Wis, will be between 100000
and 100000 Receiver Schoiield re-
ports that 1t will be- six weeks or more
before he will be able to ascertain The"
approximate amount, on account OF
the large number of certificates OF de-
post supposed to be outstanding and
which are not on the books OF the
bank
Prof Parker of Columbia university
will not accompany Or Frederick A..
Cook on u second expedition to Mount
Mckinley, because he thinks 1t would
look as If he were indOrsing Che eX.
plorer lie said, however, he would
make the ascent himself next year
in an effort to find the documents Dr
Cook claims to have left at thc top
OF the mountain
Mrs Sadie Martin, widow so years
old, living near Louisville, H., has
been arrested and placed in jail
charged with larceny. Joseph Hults.
hansen, a farmer, had the warrant
issued. charging her with stealing
corn out OF his field
In "A collision between wcstbound
immigrant train and caslbound freight
Il Erie railroad, 80 immigrants, men,
women and children were injured,
some Of them perhaps fatally
Domcnico LUZ, Il philanthropiC
Turin millionaire has just opened the
first of ~ apartment houses for mar
ricd couples of small means with.
many children. Prospective tenants
must have ut least six little ones and
must prove that they are unable to
pay more than 81 rent monthly.
Physicians WAC examined the body
Of Mrs. Henry Joseph, who died at
Tcrrc Haule, Ind, declare her death
was due to poison, which was ah-
sorbed into her system by excessive
application Of belladonna, which she
used as cure for rheuma,,sm,
Brig. Gen John J Coppingcr, l. s
A., retired, soninlaw Of the late
James G. Blaine, is seriously Ill with
pneumonia and, owing to his advanced
age, his friends are alarmed.
In revolver fghtbetween police.
men and two men caught robbing a
house in Indianapolis, one of the bur
glars was shot and the other. Samuel
Caldwell OF Chicago was shot in the
leg and arm. None of the policemen
was hit
Leonard Kohler an electrician, was
cremated In fire that destroyed the
car barns of the Peoria Terminal Rail.
road company. Peoria, Ill. The loss
or the barns was 100000.
An understanding has been reached
between counsel for John r. Walsh of
Chicago and United States District
Attorney Sims that no attempt will
be made to send the convicted banker
to prison until the United States SUI
preme court has taken Jurisdiction OF
his case
Fred Mikel, the man who shot and
killed young Magruder in the Higbee
CMo) Jail last June, pleaded guilty In
the circuit court Monday, 20 murder
in the second degree. He was given
a sentence OF ten years in the peni.
lentiary.
A monument the gift of school
children OF the United States, will be
erected In Lakeyew cemetery at
Cleveland o., TO the memory Of the
1866 children who lost their lives in
the burning OF the Collnwood school
building March 4, 1908.
DR.. Frederick A. Cook closed his
lecture tour in Minneapolis, and from
there will go to Missoula, Mont, to
look into the matter of the Barrill AFT.
dayits relating to the ascent OF Mount
Mckinley.
The supreme court OF Arkansas af-
firmed $4,000 judgment against the
Iron Mountain railroad for the death
of Murray Conan. a brakeman. of
Wagner. Okla. in 1907. The court
held the company negligent for fail
ure to provide n derailing device at
the end o, a switch and for falling
to keep brakes on WORK cars in order