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

TO- WIS h'Ht'I''N ~ utdlu ny Juubt
Crow IN the circuit court at Belle.
Vile Friday, February is. was fixed
as the day of execution
Representatives Henry T. Rainey OF
Illinois and Ollie James of Kentucky
are the choice OF the Democrats III
the house as the minority members Of
the committee which will make the
investigation into the merits of the
Ballingcr PInchot controversy.
Representative Dawson Of Iowa has
announced through the chairman Of
his district committee that he will not
seek reelection
Dr. Oscar r. Bullard, the st. Louis
physician who escaped from the work
house there Tuesday. was shot at
twice Saturday on crowded streets in
Chicago when he aCcosted Miss Re.
gina Loisseau, the ls.year.old gihl for
whom he deserted his wife and four
children and risked his life to join.
Charles II Heikc, secretary Of the
American Sugar Refining company,
who was Indicted by the federal grand
jury In New York for conspiracy to
dcfraud the United States, Is the
man higher up" whom the govern
mcnt has been after for a long time,
according 10 Collector William Loeb,
Jr
j Edward Boeck. serving sentence
Of seven years in Sing Sing for a jew
clry swindlc in 1907 is perhaps the
only heir to more than a million dol.
lars, left 10y his uncle, J. c. Lounsber.
ry Of ST Paul, who died there Janu.
AIRY L amid sQualid surroundings
George Parmly Day of New York
CITY class of 1897. has been chosen
treasurer OF Yale university. The
vacancy in this office came about by
III" resignation Of Leo McChng now
United States treasurer.
Charged with an alleged murder
committed in Carterylle. H., almost
ten years ago, Otis Maynard, 30 years
old, WAS arrested In Herrin by Deputy
Shortfl Dave Tippy and taken to
Marion, whore he was placed In Jail.
In New York the federal grand Jury
Friday afternoon returned Indictments
against Charles l.. HIeike. secretary Of
the American Sugar Refining Co. G.
Worbracht, J. r. Bcndcrnagel, Henry
W. Walker. Jean NJ. Voelkcr and
James F Halligan, employees. They
are charged with conspiracy.
Fifty thousand elk in the Jackson
Hole country are starving because
they are unable TO get food, through
the deepest and most Crusted snow
in years, according to reports received
at Cheyenne. Wyo
A gift Of $4,000 from ] p. Morgan
for ihc establishment of the William
VI. Lnifan profcssorship of AS.
syrlology and Babylonian literature
has been made to Yale university as
memorial to Mr.. Laffan, publisher Of
the New York Sun, who recently died.
Three West Point cadets have been
found guilty Of hazlng, It il reported
at Washington, and their dismissal
will follow the approval Of che sen.
tence by the secretary of war who
is allowed no dissertation I, tho matter
From 40 to 80 per cent of the
natives of the Samoan Islands are in.
fected with hookworm This "a tho
statement of Past Assistant Surqeop
X. S. Rooster T. = n senior medical
officer Of the naval station NJ Tptuila
Jack Gleason. who with Toy
Richard. has the contract for tho
Icffcrson.Johnson fight said that tho
biz hattie would no hold I'm Gan Frar.
cisco or the immediate vicinity II no
is denied the permit to fight AZ rounds
in this city. the bcayvweigbt struggle
will :ako Mace at Ocean View aev.
cpty miles across the hav from San
Francisco.
A bride of only three davs Mrs
Vera B. Dewey. wife of Glen NJ Dawoy
fl wealthy rapchcr of RurIav Idaho
swallowed n large nuontitv of car.
bolic acid. which she mistook for n
headache medicine. and died soon
after in great agony at tho homo NJ
her brother. George A. Johnson. at
Council Bluffs.
More than S0OO soldiers will mar.