The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1911-05-11

yil,o Miss, By mob and hanged.
Herman Winter assistant to the
president ot the Cuuard Steamship
company, arrived in New Orleans and
began an inspection OF the local port
ana railway facilities, with a view to
establishing new ocean route for
that company
Mi Frank DOrmau. OF Bath y. Y.
confessed 10 Coroner Herbert Smith
that she shot her husband Dormans
body Was found with shotgun beside
II, and the coroner decided ne had
Killed himself
Prof Fred Lcmar Charles OF the
University Of Illinois committed sui.
eide by choking himself to death by
means Of book strap.
l"o annual meeting of the SuperIn
tonIrats and Principals Association
Of Northern Illinois ended at the nor.
mai school at De Ealb The two days
program was devoted wholly to dis.
GUESSING IAN attempt to approach the
practical, everyday problems Of the
child in a scientific way"
Held without bail, John Poole, at
Fowler. Ind, confessed slayer Of 10.
scph kemper farm hand, whose
body he dismpmbercd and buried on
his farm, is without lawyers to de-
lcnd him Both attorneys withdrew
from the case and it Is reported tha,
Poole has taken the stand that il b.
must hang, there is Lo use spending
his $4,000 estate through the hriug
OF lawyers.
Nearly score out of 100 miners In
The Hartford mine Of the Republic
Iron and steel company at Negaunce,
Mioh. were cut OF from escape when
the timberins OF the mine took fire,
ana at least seven men are dead
Members Of the Grand Army Of he
Republic say they object to being
made "the tail end Of a horse show
ON Decoration day. Washington post.
G. \. r. (Chicagol. has taken tho
matter up and other posts are cx
prcIcd to follow suit
Chicago bomb outrugo# were trans.
i"rrcd To Gary, and, as n result, two
m"a were killed and a score injured
when unknown persons dvnamitcd
Two box cars standing In the Kirk rail.
ad yards. in which a number OF
Italian labOr"rs. employees of the
American Bridge company, were
sleeping
Reports that have reached the
White House and the state depart
m"ul on the Mexican situation within
the last IS hours are far moro discour.
aging than any since the dispatchinE
Of the American troops to the border
II is asserted from Galveston that
l. lI!to. a Japanese, who served as
steward on several of the naval YES.
sells OF the United States, was an oni
Ger IN the Japanese navy with rank
about equal to commander in the
American navy,
Announcement Is made that the
Mexican armistiCe has been extended
for five days more. It IS insisted that
Judge Carabaial has full power to
act for the government in the peace
negotiations and that the doubts OK
pressed by Madero are without basis
The jury In the trial OF 4. j. Bass
at Springfield. Mo, returned a verdict
OF murder in the first degree. Bass
will have to serve 90 years In the
state penitentiary for killing his wife
unless an appeal Is taken and the case
beaten In the higher court. lie is al.
legged to have slain his wife the morn.
ing OF January IA and to have burned
the home to destroy evidence of the
crime.
An order was issued by Judge Farm-
or OF the supreme court OF Illinois
staying the execution of the Judgment
of the court in the case OF DR.. Hal
dane Cleminson OF Chicago, sentenced
to life Imprisonment for the murder
OF his wife by poisoning.
Edward Tilden appeared in the
court Of Judge Adelor J. Petit at Chi
cago to support the writ OF habeas
corpus by which 1t is hoped to pre-.
vent further investigation by the
Helm committee of his alleged con.
nection with 100000 Lorimer cor.
ruption fund.
Developments indicate that a great
bribery scandal Is to be exposed In
the Ohio legislature by the Franklin
county grand jury, which began an
Burns detectives, who
have been conducting secret investlga.
ton, declare at least twenty members
OF the legislature are already in.
yolyed In the boodling.
State Senator George X. Cetone, /.
Il. Huffman and l.. r. Andrews, Rep
resentatives A. C. Lowry and George
b. Nye and Senate Ssrgeant.at.Arms
Rodney ]. Liegel (ohio), under indlct-
ment for soliciting brides. were ar
ralgned before Judge Kinkead in the
court and pleaded not guilty.
Conditions IN Mexico far worse thar
reported at any timo previously were
revealed In dispatches received at the
state department More than a dozen
important cities and towns were re-
ported about to fall into the hands Of
the reyolutionists.