The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1913-01-16
HAPPENINGS OF THE SEVEN
PAST DAYS ARE BRIEFLY
PRESENTED.
FROM AROUND THE PLANET
Dispatches From Our Own and For
eign Countries Are Here Given
In Short Meter FOR
Busy Readers.

EpIrus. short distance from the
Creek frontier
The marriage Of Miss Helen Miller
Gould and Finley j Shepard will
take place Wednesday, January %, at
J. go o'clock at Miss GuuId's country
place at Tarrytown
An Investigation Of the Information.
al Mercantile Marine, the Sl2oooO,OOO
American corporation controlling nu.
mcrous foreign and American steam.
ship companies. with J rIerpout Nor.
gan as the chief witness. is cOntcm.
plated by the house committee on
merchant marine.
TUr work ~ removing The last rem.
naurs Of the wreck Of the old battle.
ship Maine and the accommodations
chat gathered about the bottom of
Havana harbur have been completed.
An appropriation Of $ll7G7,99u to
cQUuIiZc the grant OF lands to Okla.
homn for common schools and other
purposes is asked in bin introduced
IN tho house by Representative Nor.
gan Of Oklahoma.
s French column commanded by
Col Amcdoc Gucydon de- Dives fought
severe battle with q large body Of
Moor. whom they routed with q loss
OF 500 killed Twelve French soldiers
were Kin and go woublrd.
Representative Langley Republic,
IN, Of Kentucky was stricken ON the
floor OF the house by rush Of blood
Ia his head
Probably for the first time In his.
tory Tn, wives Of three presidents Of
che United States gathered around
thc elmer table at the White House
VIXEN the president and Mrs. Taft had
us their .ucsts Mrs. Grover Cleveland
and Mrs. Benjamin Harrison.
Road Amundsen. discoycrer OF the
Abe liner ST. Paul. for an extended
visit to this country. He was VOL
coined by a committee Of ScanG nav.
iau.Amoricdrs.
Joseph g. Robin, noted nuancicr.
who pleaded lu,Ity TO the theft cl
s2IDDD rom the Washington Savings
bank OF New York. was sentenced Uy
Jusur" So1bury TO serve a ycnr in
the peuitcnlary on BlackwCIl's Island.
The ideal sonIn.law was found in
William Freedman at Chicago. lie
has supported his fathcrin.law and
mothoriu-law for seven years.
The Duchess OF Cuunaught, wife Of
thc goyernolgcnnral OF Canada, is sui,
fcrng from a recurrence of pcritonit.
IS /, has been deemed advisable to
l.moye her to q hospital at Montreal,
W n. Miller formerly president Of
to Christian Science church, was
fodnd dead u uu armchair in room
aulululug the church in London.
Iirdriok Armstrong, 10, sou of the
late Dr William Palmer Armstrong,
formerly "a sporting writer for a Chi
Cagu newspaper. married Mrs, Martha
MaIg4rr. Armstrong, %. his step.
mother, q Roswell y. NJ.
The Italian steamer Speranza col.
lidcd with British vessel in the
straits The captain Of the Speranza,
which put in at Gibraltar after the ac.
Cidrnt, said he did not know the fate
OF the other vessel
Two lives were suuflcd out, two per
sons seriously injured and twelve 9th.
ers hurt when Nandala train No. 90,
Az minutes late. crashed into the rear
coach OF Nauduliu train No. at the
west entrance to the union station
train shed at Tcrre lIaute, Ind.
Congress was asked in specia!
message from the president to appro.
pirate S250,00O for continuing the In
vestigation Of the commission on econ
omy and efficiency into the executive
departments the government.
That there Is a combination of Ger
man and English ship companies, the
qualifications of which extend all ovrr
the world and which discriminates
against America by high rates and
preferential rebates, was the testi
mony of William H. Douglass, presh
dent OF the firm of As,ell & Douglass
New York exporters, before the ship
ping trust" investigating committee.
Lieut.. Wilhelm Filchncr, the Ger
man antarctic explorer, returned with
his expedition to Bucnos Ayres after
an absence Of 10 months in the south.
ern seas.
Gov. Donaghey OF Arkansas par
,doned Rev. j. F. Mcdaniel, a Meth.
odist minister and former cashier of
the Bank Of Cave Springs, who was
sentenced to serve one year in the
state penitentlary on a charge of EN-.
bezzlement.
Conferences to prevent strike Of
rs, 900 locomotive firemen on Eastern
railroads began at the Hotel Manhat.
tan, New York. Judge Martin A.
Knopp OF the United States commerce
court and Federal Labor Commission.
or Charles p. NELL met representa-.
tives OF the managers and employees
Of the 81 railroads involved.