The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1910-01-20
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


The Western Union Telegraph CON.
pany has won, In the United States
supreme court, the case involving the
proposed BUSTING Of that company
from the state Of Kansas for alleged
failure 10 comply with the tax laws OF
the state
After repeating the Lords prayer in
the Christian church At Fairhury. ILL.,,
Mrs. LorInda Anderson, pioneer of
that vicinity. aged g. dropped dead
in her pew.
Joaquin Nabuco. ambassador Of the
republic Of Brazil to the United
States. died ut his home in Washing
ton shortly before noon Monday.
one woman died from shock, an.
other is said TO be fatally injured and
several persons are reported buried in
the ruins Of the Hollinfsworih apart.
monr house, nve.story building In
Philadelphia, which was destroyed by
FIRE
Four hundred and sixty supcrin-
toudouts and forcmou G : Of the
largest manufacturing concerns Of
Cleveland, o.. have pledged them.
selves to aid in a general boycott on
meat for 80 days.
Several hundred persons were made
homeless and property valued AT
about $4,000 was destroyed wncn an
ice gorge in White river broke al
Decker, Ind. The river rose feet,
aloaoly approaching the record high.
water mark Of % feet reached in 1875.
Tho miners both union and non.
union employed at the No 3, South
Wilkcsharro, Pa. colirry. Of the lie.
high and Nilkosbarrc company unani-
mously declared strike because the
officials Of the company are said TO
have refused 10 permit them to place
at the colliory a chcckdoCklng boss
Five hundred foreigners employed
at the Standard steel car works at
hammond, Ind, have demanded high.
rr wages
There is a lunatic with pistol
running loose on Washing ton Heights
and In the Bronx He killed one little
boy Thursday and morally shot
another, and Is believed to be the
same man who on Saturday night put
four bullets into a man he never saw
before
As a sarcastic protest against the
placing of a statute OF Robert j.. Ice
In statuary hall in the national
capitol Chcnoa Post, G. 4. r., Of
bloomington, H.. has passed "a rusulu-
ton petitloning the president to have
Il statue of Benedict Arnold placed Ia
the hall.
The Illinois senate committees
direct primary bill failed to pass the
upper house Thursday morning The
vote was: Yeas, 81. nay, L. present,
not voting, lG: necessary TO pass, &c,
Mrs. Charles W Morse has entered
Wall street with the purpose of re.
building the shattered fortunes Of her
husband and obtaining a pardon for
him She has opened an office and is
in entire charge OF the convicted
financier's involved business affairs.
The tail OF Hallcys comet has beer
found. II is straight tail and slen.
der. according TO dispatch received
at the Harvard observatory from Prof
l.. 3. Forst OF the YerkcR observatory,
Cambridge, Mass.
As the result of collision in the
freight yards at Shreveport. La. be.
tween a switch engine and Texas &
Pacific train No 50 passenger, four
persons were killed and twenty In.
jured The dead are. Bartly Church.
Ophelus, La: John Cornwell, conduc.
tor passenger train, Miss Evans.
passenger: John Brandon, a Pullman
porter. probably fatally crushed.
Frank and Harold George, brothers
and their friend. W r. Garner. three
young men of Atlanta, Ga. were killed
when a touring ear In which they
were speeding ont Peach Tree road
was hit by trolley car.
A tack eaten in cocoanut bun has
brought i2.year-od Florence Meredith
S25 damages The defendant in the
suit was Third avenue. New York.
confoctiCner The child sued for $500.
Married at the age of II and dis
satisfied after a year Of married life,
Mrs Reatha Ragan, wife Of Peter
Ragan, committed suicide by shooting
with n shotgun at Bloomington, Ind
Impressive funeral services were
held at the Church of st. John Lat.
eran. Rome, for the late Cardinal Sa.
TOLL. who died Saturday morning
Charles A. Houts will be the next |
United States Attorney for the east
ern district Of Missouri
At St Louis Lige Solartield, q |
motorman. tried TO speed street car
across Finney avenue In front OF
Page avenue car, which had the right
of way Thursday morning. In the
crash which resulted Solarfleld was in-
iured seriously and nine passengers
were hurt.