The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1910-09-01
Notes From Foreign Lands, through.
out the Nation and Particularly
the Great Southwest.
RACES FoR THE PENNANTS.
National League.


cub Won Lost ret
Philadelphia .........,. 81 36 .Gol
Boston ............... ~ - s"Ji
Rev OK .....'..'..'.. " ~ 30.
l)eiIult ,,r,.....,...,... 10 % '5"t
Washington ............ 10 D." .i'l
ClcN"Iahd ...,..,....,,. 90 ~ -!
chicago .....,........s. g. ~ 'a''
81, bHuH ..'''.,s''.,''. "7 81 'SV-
The fight u the state Of Illinois
against eNurbitant express rates
reached a climax whru the Illinois
railroad and warehouse commission
issued Express larin 30. 1" cstaD.
fishing s"hrlulc Of maximum rates
and charges for the government and
control Ut AIN the express companies
doing business or operating aif.u
state Sweeping reductions IN exist
in rates ar, made under the com.
MISSIONS schedule, which il IS or.
der,d shall b, put into effect October
- next
According to report received, five
men and one woman either have been
Killed or seriously wounded in duel
about &c miles from Waters, OK.
Mayor William !. Gaynor Of New
York lrft st Marys hospital whor--
he was taken after being shot by
James j Gallagher.
Gov. J. Y. Sanders Of Louisiana IS.
sued = statement that he VIII not
qualify as United States senator, to
which he was recently elected to MI
the uucNpircd term OF Senator Nc
Emery
Ferdinand Lcchncr was killed and
s. Frank Jones probably fatally In.
jured when the roof Of drift at Mcr.
camille mine No. at Webb City, Mo,
caycd in
demand for reparatiOn, estimated
at $l,0O00oO, is being prepared for
presentation to the Interstate Com.
merCe commission by merchants and
manufacturers in the Missouri river
territory, who assert they have been
defrauded by excessive railroad rates
Light frJsts prevailed over western
and northern Nebraska and indica.
lions are for continued frosty weather
In the Black Hills an inch of snow
fell, breaking the record for early
snow All vegetation was killed in
the hills and the temperature dropped
TO % degrees In Northwestern Ne
Draska the temperature went to 3G
degrees, while over the entire west.
ern end OF the state the thermometer
stood at 40 degrees The usual kill
ling frosts have been known as early
as August %.
With the clearing away OF the ruins
OF the wrecked and burned Pullman
sleeping car Nebraska" probably has
disappeared all hopes Of determining
the actual number OF lives lost when
the rear section of the Boston & Mon.
treal express from Chicago crashed
into the foi ward section on the Grand
Trunk railroad, three miles sast of
Durand, Mich. Estimates Of the mum.
her of dead vary from eight or n
dozen TO possibly twenty.
That the action OF delegates to the |
special miners convention in Indian. |
apolis in repudiating what he calls |
the recognized principles of the or
Ranization, viii not disturb the mass |
of the membership at home, is the |
opinion Of President Tom L. Lewis. |
Without the generous Endorsement of |
the convention contained in the spc-
cial committees report, which was
rejected, the international officers |
will attempt to make the strikes sue.
cessful
President Taft and former Pres-
dent Roosevelt are again fellow work.
ers In the same political field. The
threat that they might pull apart has
been forefended by full explanation
on one side and an unreserved accept
ancr on the other. The president
made II plain in letter given out in
New York by Lloyd c. Grlscom. pres.
ident of the New York Republican
county committee. how the misunder.
standing arose. He explained that he
never took any part in n committee
cabal to defeat Col. Roosevelt for ten.
poraryy chairman for the coming Re
publican state convention.
The corn crop In the vicinity OF
LATHE, La, on the Atchfalaya river,
las been ruined by bears.
At Pine Bluff, Ark, heavy rain
ell, flooding the streets. The wind
ore down several awnings. Farmers
Jay the rain was damaging to crops. 4
The end of the coal strike in the
outhwest district is In sight, 1t is
ow believed. With the demands Of
he miners for increase In wages con &
cded and with only one point of ma !
'rial difference existing, It is though: i
settlement can be made In the next q
eek /