The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1911-12-21
FL EWS
or THE
WEEK


throw It's strength against woman
suffrage as advocated in Wisconsin.
This was decided at u mass meeting
OF GOO men and women representing
Ill German societies, these societies
representing 10000 persons.
The Texas state prison commission
leased 9,g07 acres OF land for Eve
years. All Of 1t will be planted in
sugar cane. making the total acreage
OF that product owned by the state
about $4,000 acres The plantations
are worked by penitentIury conyicts.
The veterans of Cuba's war for in.
dependence met at Havana and adopt
ed resolution requesting President
Taft to take whatever action may be
necessary to have the cOherdam
around the Maine remain whore II Is
after the wreck has been removed.
The veterans propose "a tiI IN the
Cofterdam and erect on top OF II a
marble monument to the victims OF
the Maine.
Denouncing the "ApuloEists" OF the
McNamaras as mere meters to muir.
der and preachers Of applied anar-
chy," former President Theodore
Roosevelt, in an editorial published In
The current issue OF The Outlook, de-
claros The murders committed by
men like the McNamnras, although
nominally in the interest OF organized
labor, differ not whit in moral Cul-
pabillty from those committed by the
Black Hand or by any band Of mere
outthroats, and are fraught with in.
Gnitely heavier meance 10 society"
The correspondent Of the London
Express who is with the Turkish
army, tcegraphed from CharIan De
cember 10. via Tunis. that the Turk
lsh commander at Bengal reports the
defeat Of the Italians, who lost coo in
killed and many wounded. A guam.
tity OF arms and ammunition was cap
tured
Springneld's referendum election
under the commission form OF govern
ment on four ordinances providing for
regulation OF the saloons resulted in
q two-to.one victory for the saloon in.
terests.
The house passed without q roll
call and practically without opposition
the eghthour bill unanimously re-
ported by the committee on labor.
The bill requires that no workingman
shall be required to work more than
eight hours by contractor or subcon-
tractor while employed on govern
mont work.
The flower OF the British army In
india was reviewed by King George.
More than $1,000 British and native
regular troops and native leyies
marched past the royal pavilion.
Forty.two Moro outlaws we're killed
near Lanao, Mindanao. p. l., In an
engagement with a detachment OF
American scouts. There were no ia.
talitiss on the American side.
Five privates of "E" battery Sixth
field artillery, were arrested at Fort
Riley in connection with the recent
dynamite explosions at the fort. which
entailed property losses of half mil.
lion dollars to the government.
Princess Louise Victoria, princess
royal of Great Britain and ireland. and
sister OF King George ". and her
daughters had n thrilling experience
when the Peninsular and Oriental
steamship Delhi, on which they were
voyaging, struck the reefs of Cape
Spartel, the northwest extremity of
Africa.
It is reported at London that the
war office has informed the agent of
an American packer that until the
trial OF the ten millionaire packers IL
concluded in Chicago none OF the
firms involved will be invited to tender
bids for furnishing supplies TO the
British army.
Rev. Charles NJ. Brewer, formerly
a chaplain in the United States army,
now pastor OF Baptist church In
Oldstee, Okla, was accused. In a con-
fesslon of Private Michael Quirk, of
implication in a mysterious series OF
explosions which have baffled mill
tary authorities at Fort Riley, Kas.,
for six months.
Mrs. Gertrude Gibson Patterson has
stolen quietly away from her home in
Handoval, Ill. Where she has gone
is not known. In leaving she did not
purchase q ticket at the depot, but
boarded an east bound Baltimore &
Ohio train.
The name OF Clarence s. Darrow,
chief counsel for the McNamaras. was
brought into the trial by Bert Fl.
Franklin. chief detective for the Nc
Eamars defense, at Los Angeles. on
the charge OF trying to bride a pros
pective juror in the McNaNmara case,
United States Senator Kenyon. who
helped prepare the governments case
against the ten Chicago packers now
on trial Ia Judge George A. Carpen-
ter's court, is in Chicago to aid Dis
Srict Attorney James X. Wilkerson in
the handling of the case.
A Russian detachment Of $50 men
and two guns has arrived in Pekin
60 reinforce the legation guard.
Tang Shao Yi's decision that the
pcace negotiations will be carried on