The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1910-12-08
LATEST EVENTS OF THE WORLD
TERSELY TOLD.
NORTH, EAST, SOUTH AND WEST
Happenings In Foreign Lands and
Throughout the Nation Chron.
iced in Paragraphs.

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destroyed.
The taking Of evidence In the trial
Of Genkyo Milzunga, the Japanese boy
accused Oh numbering Mrs. Katherine
Wilson in her home on Capitol hill,
Denver, Colo. last May, has begun.
The little Japanese, who admits that
he was In the Wilson home when the
murder occurred, but declares white
man was the murderer, was the pic.
ture OF fear as he sat IN the court
room. Many Japanese Of prominence
are attending the trial.
Seven or eight persons are reported
TO have been killed and many injured
In the wreck Of the Missouri Pacific
passenger train No l. bound from
Kansas City TO St Louis, seven miles
west of Lamont, Mo, December 2.
The first iutimation as to the senti.
ment among members OF the Brother
hood Of Locomotive Engineers on
Eixty.one western railroads came when
it was announced the Southern Pacific
engineers ut points on the Pacific
coast had voted to strike
Mammals on fire" the 4.year.old
son Of Mrs Tennie Whitaker, at Mem.
phis, Tenn, told the iiremcn who re
sponded to an alarm from the home.
They found the woman burned to Il
crisp in front OF an open CRATE,
The initial step in adding to the navy
the four submarine torpedo boats au-
thorized at the last session Of con.
Eress will be taken February G, when
proposals for constructing these yes
sells by contract will be opened at the
navy department
The Pullman Sleeping Car Co., In a
hearing at Pullman, Ill, before Inter
state Commerce Commissioners Lane
and Clark, offered substantial reduc.
tons In its present rates for both
lower and upper berths to satisfy the
public demands for lower fares
The population of the United States
and Its possessions. unoficially esti.
mated by the census bureau to be l00,,
100000, may fall 100000 short OF
these figures, according to careful
computations
During a sudden tempest in the Cas-.
plan sea, a landing stage at Astrak-
han, Russia, on which were 800 Per
sian dock workers was dragged from
its mornings and swept out to sea.
The storm was so violent that at.
tempts at rescue were futile. and all
were lost
The conference OF governors in SEES.
sion at Frankfort, KY, has received a
request from the committee on conges.
ton OF population Of New York city
that methods of distributing popula.
ton be taken up for consideration.
Mrs Russell Sage has given Vassar
college $4,000 for the construction
of a new residence hall or dormitory.
1t will be called The Olivia Jasselyn
Hall" after Mrs. Sage's patsrnal
grandmother.
The population OF the state Of Iii.
nois is 5,63S,59l as against 1921, $50
in 1900, according to the enumeration
report issued by the census bureau.
In his annual report to the secre,
tary OF the interior. Walter +. Clark,
governor Of Alaska, handles the coal
land situation In vigorous language.
In view OF the widespread and bitter
discussion OF Alaska coal lands, fol.
lowing the charges of Louis X. CLAWS
resulting in the Balllnger-Pinchot con,
troversy, the opinion and recommen.
dations of Governor Clark are de,
clared timely,
A safe containing $4,000, stolen
from q sub station OF the Wells Fargo
Express company in Muskogee, Okla.
was found under residence porch
All the money was in the safe when
il was opened at police headquarters,
George j. Macklin. saloon keeper
OF Columbus, O., obtained a verdict OF
$500 against Chief OF Police Garter
and six patrolman who wrecked his
saloon In a raid February ~. Macklin
asked for $4,000,
Twenty firemen barely escaped
death In a fire which destroyed the
general merchandise establishment OF
A. Lurie g. Co, at Chicago, with loss
of $4,000.
Almost million dollars damage
was done, and the entire town of Rum
melsberg, Germany was Illuminated
when four huge tanks containing
$500, 900 gallons of gasoline exploded
The entire town was threatened with
destruction.
Because the Western. Union Tele
graph company failed to transmit g
message from Detroit, Mich, to Kan
sas City, Mo-, after accepting II, the
court held the telegraph company liza
BILE for more than 5000 damages. The
company received 40 cents to send