The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1912-05-23
HAPPENINGS OF THE SEVEN
PAST DAYG ARE BRIEFLY
PRESENTED.
ALL AROUND THE PLANET
Dispatches From Our Own and For
eian Countries Are Here Given
in Short Meter for
Busy Readers.

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ment entered into by subcommittee
representing the miners and opera.
tors. The new agreement will be
signed al once
Fire which started in the business
district OF Houston, Tex, destroyed
about 100000 worth of property be.
fore IL was brought under control No
lives were lost
At Milwaukee a rumor Is circulated
TO the effect that the SchIitz bro wing
interests win be taken over by an
English syndicate. The Schlit2 prop.
critics are rated as worth from 500,
100000 to s3O,OOO,OOO.
The Michigan Central railroad and
Chaplin & Co.. OF Milwaukee. a stock
food manufacturing concern, were In.
dcted by the federal grand jury at
Indianapolis for giving and accepting
concessions on shipments in violation
of the Sherman law.
The senate has passed the agricul.
tural appropriation bill, 1t carries
sl70o0,000 to meet the expenses OF
the department OF agriculture for tn"
next fiscal year The senate made
an increase OF about $1,000, 600 over
the amount carried by the house bill
Out OF PA candidates. one man was
elected bishop by the general confer
ence OF the Methodist Episcopal
church. Homer c. Stuntz, assistant
corresponding secretary of the board
of foreign missions. New York, was
the first OF the eight TO be elected
Surrogate Fowler appointed Lang
don 7. Marvin, a lawyer as special
guardian for Vincent Aston son Of
the late Col. John Jacob Astor, and at
the same time named Henry A. Gil
derslecve as special guardian for Mrs
Madeline Talmage Force Aston, the
young widow.
Seven men were burned 10 death
and six square miles " timber with
two camps OF the English Logging
company near Hamilton. was de.
Ftroyed by a iorcs, IRE that swept
SEaGit county. Wash.
4 crcvasse IN the levee on the west
hanks OF the Mississippi at lymclia,
La. which threatens $4,000 000 dam
age and affects 10000 persons, nc.
Cured, according to war department
dispatch from. Capt Charles, United
Gtates engineer
The troubles In San Diego and other
Pacific coast cities as the result OF
the free speech" agitation by the In.
dustrial Workers OF the World took a
new turn when 1t became known that
the United States district attorney il
planning to prosecute the leaders OF
the Industrial Workers for sedtion.
DR. Edward +. Speitzka, a brain ex
pert OF Philadelphia, says women have
smaller brains than men and will
therefore never be the equal of the
latter.
Judge James Longstreet was buried
AT Grenada. Miss Judge Lonpstreet
was one OF the most distinguished law
yers In Mississippi and district at.
torney for the Illinois Central rail.
road in Mississippi
While her niece slept undisturbed in
the next room, Mrs Minnie Mack, the
wife OF n young farmer near Secaucus,
y. J., was stranplcl to death by rob
hers. After killing the woman. the
thieves went to the ncce's room.
opened suit case beside her bed and
took 81, all they found,
Ex.Gov. NJ X. Patterson. whose par.
don two years ago OF Col. Duncan Il.
Cooper following the conviction of the
latter for the murder OF United States
Senator f. NJ. Carmack, furnished one
of the greatest political sensations
that has disturbed Tennessee has re.
entered the field Of politics by an
Tyrannical methods, alleged 20 have
been practlced BY The American Tin
Plate company, an adjunct of the
United States Steel corporation, were
revealed ut the hearing in the govern.
ment dissolution suit against the 80.
called steel trust before Examiner
Henry T. Brown IN the customs house
at New York.
A favorable report on the plan TO
fix the term OF the President OF the |
United States at six years and pro. |
hibit reelection apparently was as
snred at a meeting OF the senate jr'
dietary committee.
Four wall paper manufacturers ard
four wall paper jobbers, charged with
conspiracy In restraint of trade. un.
der the criminal clause Of the Sher
man antitrust law, were placed on
trial in the United States district
court at Cleveland, o.
A voluntary increase OF from to
percen in wages is announced by the
Farr Alpaca Company which employs
1000 operatives at Holyoke, Mass.
Iuuncing for the United States senate.
Mics Eva Booth. commander OF the
Salvation Army In America, departed
from London for New York. /