The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1913-08-21
NEWS OF THE WEEK
HAPPENINGS OF THE SEVEN
PAST DAYS ARE BRIEFLY
PRESENTED.
FROM AROUND THE PLANET
Dispatches From Our Own and For.
elan Countries Are Here Given
In Short Meter for
Busy Readers.

The union of the Presby terrain
Church In the United States Of Amer
lea and the Cumberland Presbyterian
church effected in 1906, was upheld
by Judge A. s Van Valkenburg In the
United States district court at Kansas
City.
Mrs. Emmelne Pankhurst. the Eng
lish militant suffragette leader, ar
rived In Trouvll!e, France from Lon.
don by way of IIavre to join her
daughter Christabel, who has been
staying AT the seaside resort.
Twenty.seyen men arrested in the
rioting in Minot, n. d., were trieh, one
being freed under his declaration Of
Willingness to leave town. The other
2G were convicted aud sentenced 10 10
days hard labor on the chain gang.
Nine men are dead and one fatally
injured as the result of an accident at
Nllt \ VI DlAdhp iiliiN h'hi N''A'N''t 80 ''+f
when two heavily laden ore cars car
rying 10 miners dashed down steep
grade for distance of $500 feet.
The Constantinople Bible House re.
ceivcd telegram repC ding that Rev,
Charles " Holbrook, missionary,
had been shot and killed at Souchier,
a small village so miles east of Siyas,
town Of Asiatic Turkey.
An attack on DR. William Bayard
Hale, confidential investigator In Mex
leo for President Wilson, was the
means used by Senator Penrose for
criticism OF the administration stand
on Mexican affairs.
The worst electrical storm that has
visited the vicinity of Winnipeg for
years. accompanied by 60inile gale,
swept across Manitoba from Brandon
10 the eastern boundary. Hundreds
Of thousands of dollars damhge was
done to buildings in Winnipeg and all
the towns In the province.
The New York capital was startled
when the amazing report, partially
verified, was circulated through the
senate and assembly chambers that
Mrs William Sulzer stands ready to
come forward and assume full respon-
sibility for the governors checking
accounts, which are the basis for the
impeachment charges connecting the
campaign funds with Wall street spec.
ulation.
A zebra horse has been produced by
the department of agriculture. which
is said to be an ideal work animal. II
is the first cross OF It's kind known,
A bill increasing the vice-presi.
dents salary from Sl2,5O0 10 $4,000
vas introduced by Senator Salisbury
OF Delaware.
At Sidney, o., Eddie Korn, aviator,
fell 200 feet with his brother Milton,
il miles northeast OF the city. Both
were painfully injured, but physicians
say they will recover.
Seven OF total OF 20 persons
thrown into the water were drowned
in st. Louis Bay, on the superior side,
when fiimsy top used for seats on
the launch Duplaise gave way.
Expenditure of S20,00O,OO0 in the
immediate future to complete the pro-
posed inland waterway from Boston,
Mass, to Beaufort, n. c., was recon-
monded to congress by the war de-
partment.
JosQuin Mendez. Guatamalan min
lister at Washington, called on Secre-
tary Bryan and said he had received
full instructions from his government
TO sign a general peace treaty, as pro-
posed by Secretary Bryan, with the
United States.
An invitation to all the nayies OF
the world to meet ut Hampton Roads
in January, 1916, and pass through the
Panama canal to the Panama exposi-
tion at San Francisco accompanied
by feet from Che United States
navy, will shortly be issued by Presi-
dent Wilson.
q. J. Duprey, q tailor. who shot and |
killed Henry Gronimus, photog- |
rapher, after Gronimus had been &C.
quilted of the charge of wronging |
Dupreys 14.year-old daughter Stella,
was exonerated by coroner's jury In
Chicago Duprey's defense was the
unvritten law.
After cutting telephone wires lead.
Ing 20 Cricket, a postoffice known
MISC rs Omahn. Ark. yeggmen blew
the safe Of the Bank OF Omaha and
escaped with $1,000 In silver and $500