The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1911-02-09


parliament in London. No detail tina,
would add TO the splendor OF the oc
casion was omitted, and 1t was the
most important social and political
event preceding the coronation.
The Evansville G. TeTe Haute rail.
road shops closed in Evansville Ind,
throwing 200 skilled mechanics out
of employment No announcement is
made about reopening.
Three hundred and twenty-one per.
sons were killed and 3,s92 injured in
railway train accidents during the
months OF July, August and Septem-
Der, according to bulletin issued by
the Interstate commerce commits
sion. Accidents of other kinds, such
as persons being run over by trains,
brings the roll up to 3,9iS killed and
1898 injured, for the same period.
Prussia now has a population Of
40,151573, a gain OF 5,GS5 0G4 In the
past ten years, according to the cen.
sus report.
C. S. Beattic. United States attor.
ney at New Orleans, seems to have
gotten the best OF his controversy
with Attorney General Wickersham in
some New Orleans cases. Beattie re-
fused to resign. Mr.. Wickersham
backed down from his position After
a long conference between Mr. Beat.
tie and Wickersham at the depart.
ment Of justice It was announced that
no change would be made in Beatties
office
The Missouri capitol at Jefferson
CITY was destroyed by fire. the cause
of which is declared to have been a
lightning stroke. The total loss will
reach S2.500.0O0 The greatest loss
was to state records, which never can
be replaced. The old building itself
cost 100000 Nothing but the walls
remain.
That there is no yellow fever aboard
the gunboat Marietta was asserted
positively by Joseph Y. Porter, super
intendent Of the state board OF health
and port quarantine officer at Key
West Fla, who visited the ship and
made a careful diagnosis OF the sus-
pected cases.
The Memphis special between New
York and Memphis. on the Southern.
was wrecked at Lime Rock, Ala, Kill.
ing BENJAMIN Jenkins of Chattanooga
and William Billings OF New York
Fifteen others were injured, one ia.
tally. Officials OF the road believe
the train was wrecked by persons who
wanted to rob the express and mail
cars.
Jaurez was proclaimed the proyi.
slonal capital OF the Mexican revolu.
tlary government in resolutions adopt
I'd before It's actual capture
In Evansville, Ind, Charles Messed
II years old. confessed that he de.
liberately killed his ll.year-old sister
because she had told story impli.
eating him and his father.
The commission recently appointed
by County Judge Cantine to deter
mine the sanity of Ewing Watterson.
son of Col. Henry Watterson of Louis
Vile. Ky, finds Watterson was in
sane on July / last, when he shot
Michael J, Martin at Saugerties n.
Y, and is stlll insane
Tho scientists at Mount Wilson oh.
scryatory, Los Angeles, Cal, have Just
.aken photograph OF celestial
body nearly six billion miles AWAY.
According to their estimates the body
Is 5,SG5, G9G,000 miles from the earth
The wonder Of II Is that the body
pictured is new world being born.
thrown off from spiral nebula OF
100000, 100000 miles in diameter.
In his charge to the federal grand |
Jury In Muskogec Ok, Federal Dis
.rict Judge Campbell held that the
grandfather clause" election law OF |
oklahoma is void.
In an opinion rendered by Judge
Pattison of the Annapolis court OF .
appeals, the law passed by the last ,
session of the Maryland legislature,
making the giving of trading stamps |
Illegal, was declared unconstitutional |
Forty tons of dynamite exploded on .
he Jersey City water front in the |
midst of 100000 people. Seven are
Snown to have been killed. seven 9TH
'rs are missing, hundreds wounded |
md varying reports leave from Is to
20 more unaccounted for The prop
'rty loss is widespread and hardly will
all below $4,000 Two bodies, be.
ieyed to be those of members of the
rev of the Catherine W., the barge
N which the dynamite was being load.
ID, have been recovered.
Charles II. Millman. former men,
'er OF the Missouri legislature and
. well known politician. was shot
nd seriously wounded in his office
II Kansas City, Millman said his
Charles Hayden, shot
I've times at him. Three bullets took
fleet. Hayden has not been arrest.
ID. Millman was executor OF the es.
ate of Haydens father.
Charles Boston, the wealthy New
'ork Chinese who disappeared before