The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1913-11-06

arrested on a charge of forging a
check for So which he tried 10 cash
al the bank OF Poplar Bluff, Mo.
Three are dead and IL persons in.
jured more or less seriously as re-
suit OF automobile and motorcycle &c
cidents in and near st, Louis during
one day
Tae funeral Of Charles G, Gates
was held at the Madison Avenue
Methodist church, New York City,
with many men prominent in finan-
eial and railroad circles In attend
anoe,
White slavery was given as one Of
the causes OF mllitancy by Mrs, En-
incline /, lkhurst in a lecture to an
audience largely composed Of women
IN a downtown theater in Chicago.
The Turkish government completed
arrangements for the employment OF
German military mission, headed
by one OF the younger German gen
erals, for the reorganization Of the
Ottoman army.
twenty-five OF the % men in the
crew OF the French bark Patrie were
rescued in mid.occan by tde Ham
burg.American liner Kronprnzessin
Cecilia The liner found the Patrie
burning and disabled.
The steamer Rcayer, WITH go pas
Eengers, was rammed by the Naconi-
can, a lumber schooner, q miles
south Of Point Arena, during heavy
fog. The Beaver was unable to con.
unue her voyage.
At Minneapolis MINI, four per
sons, a father, mother and two sons,
asphyxiatcd by gas, were found In
their home Helmer Hanson, g. years
old and his son Harry, %, were dead,
while Mrs. Hanson and another son,
Clarence, 1G, were unconscious, and
are said by physicians TO be dying
Gas was escaping from a coal stove.
Percy Lambert, holder Of the
worlds automobile speed record, was
killed in an automobile accident a.
the BrOoklands, Eng, acrodrome. His
car was travelling 120 miles an hour
when 1t swerved and turned over.
Seven United States senators, nine
congressman and several Pittsburg
business men were given q severe Jolt
when a fast special train on tAe Fort
Wayne railroad between Pittsburg
and Haysyille, Pa, was stopped auto
matlcally while attempting to pass q
block set against It. The trip was
made to test the safety device.
A suit to test, and perhaps set
aside the impeachment OF Gov. Sulzer
by tho legislature at Albany, N. Y,
was filed In the United States court
in New York City. w. II. Moore was
named as plaintiff.
William Travers Jerome, Harry X.
Thaw's nemesis, said in Boston, in
discussing Evelyn Nesbit Thaw, that
she never had q chance" and that,
as she must make living some way,
she is justified, in his opinion, in go
ing on the stage,
Doctor" Ernest Muret," friend OF
"Fsther" Hans Schmidt, was sen.
fenced In New York to seven and a
half years Imprisonment in the fed
eral peuItentiary at Atlanta, Ga, for |
counterieiting.
Tho millions accumulated by John |
W. Gates and the fortune OF his son,
Charles G. Gates, who died suddenly |
in Cody, Wyo.. will 60 to their two |
widows.
On application OF the Old Colony |
Trust company Of Boston, Federal !
Judge Chatfield OF New York appoint
ed receivers for the Seal Shipped Oys-
ter company commonly known as the |
"oyster trust"
Fifty former members Of the crew |
of the famous old battleshp Oregon
have petItioned to the secretary OF
the navy for permission TO enlist for
60 to 30 days, to serve on the ship
when It is sent through the Panama
canal In 1915.
Col. Roosevelt crossed the Andes
by automobile from Argentine to
Chile instead OF making use of the
Transandean railroad.
Mrs. Minnie Weyer, a widow, won
the postmastership at Corning. Kan,
over five men opponenS. A final
count OF votes cast in an election
showed Mrs. Weyer LOG ahead of her
closest competitor.
Charles ]. Warmer. former treas.
urer of the Big Four railroad, con
victed OF embezzlcment and sen.