The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1910-05-05
NORTH, EAST, SOUTH AND WEST
Notes From Foreign Lands, Through
out the Nation and Particularly
the Great Southwest.
NatLonaI Leaau. standInn.
American League Standing

rtC,i in9s, Won lost Pct
: II: /: :. !.
l''iiyll .,...........t.r, OK
N"W YORK .r...,.....,.. sos
Ll"N"ihud .......t...,., ,bt
Bo-tou ........... 20,
Chicago ............... r .pI
Washington ..,......... o 80 .g3.
st Louis ............... Fl.
Lieutenant Hotrichtcr. an officer In
one Of the crack Austrian regiments
has confessed he sent poisoned can
dy and poisoned medicines to superior
officers. more than score in mum
Der. in the hope that by their death
he would be promoted. IIofrIrhtor
probably will face n firing squad
II. Clay Pierce Of st. Louis has pur.
chased the Borda Gardens at Cuerna
yaca, Mexico, the favorIte retreat for
Poor Charlotta' wife Of the Inflated
Emperor Maximilian. The price is
said to have been $4,000
Rioting. similar to that which led
to the antiforeign war in Hu Nan and
the burning Of missions, has broken
out in two OF the most popuous prov.
inces in Chi Kiang on the Eastern
sea. Disorders are also being re.
newcd in Hu Nan, according to ad.
vices received at Shanghai.
The house by a vote Of 1907.
adopted Representative Maddcn's
amendment to the railroad bill pro.
vidIng for physical valuation Of
railroads. The amendment author.
Ives the interstate commerce commits
sion TO ascertain the value OF all the
property OF every common carrier in
the United States.
At Bucharest. Roumauia, the Dimin-
catzu prints dispatches from Kien,
stating that hundreds OF Jews were
massacred there by the Russian peas.
antry. Hundreds of peasants from
surrounding towns gathered in Kien
according to the dispatches. and in
vaded the ghetto. where they com
mitted the most terrible atrocities.
Just as the law Is about to knock
on the shackes Of the second soul.
mate ENHANCEMENT, the news comes
from Paris that Ferdinand Pinncy
Earle has found n fourth affinity The
first one divorced him, for the second
a decree annulling their marriage Is
imminent; the third east him aside
before they could reach the marriage
stage.
Refusal by John W. Kern either to
affirm or deny the report that he will
accept the nomination for United
States senator from Indiana, gives
strength to the suggestion of the Tag.
CART machine politicians that their
leader had outwitted the progresslves
OF his party in Thursdays conyen.
ton.
With about half the cars in opera
ton in Columbus, o. the street car
strike which has been hanging fire
for the past two weeks, broke Friday
agreement reached By arbitration has
been violated by the company.
Down In the vault OF the Jefferson
bank at Forsyth and Canal streets,
New York, George w. Rose. assistant
receiving teller OF the bank, took his
own life by cutting his throat with
an ink eraser.
Albert w. Wolter, convicted Of the
murder Of Ruth Wheeler IS years old,
was sentenced to die in the electric
chair at Sing Sing prison the week
beginning June G. He displayed only
a languid interest In the court pro-
ceedlngs.
II became apparent. much to the
surprise Of treasury officials, the re-
turns from the corporation law will
fall 100000 short of the original es
innate of s3o,0O0OOO.
Police are endeavorlng 20 clear up
the seventeenth black hand murder In
Chicago within the year and the sec.
ond within three days. Gaetano Dis.
saliva, well-to-do Italian, was found
dead on the sidewalk in front OF
house In the Italian quarter, with bul.
let holes and three knife wounds In
his breast.
The intelligence department of the
British foreign office, the most mys.
FERROUS secret bureau in the world, has
been detailed to guard Theodore
Roosevelt during his stay In England.
The Panama canal will be open ear
ly In 1914. This is an unofficial state
ment from the highest official source.
There is possibility even that the big
ditch will be completed and ready for
The passage OF ships slightly before
hat time.
Plans for q golden peace jubilee to
DO celebrated by union and confeder-
Ito veterans OF the civil war In New |
orleans in 1915 were proposed to Dixie
at Mobile, Ala. by the Lou
siana delegation. The idea has met
With instant favor among veterans at
iobile.