The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1913-10-16


States and the way to increase the
supply are discussed by experts IN
! the department OF agriculture in q
special bulletin to the farmers OF the
country.
Militant suffragettes in London at.
tackled and severely maltreated DR..
Francis Edward Forward, deputy gov.
crnor and chief medical officer Of
Holloway jail.
Henry Spencer, the confessed mur.
derer Of Mildred Allison Rexroat. i
tango teacher, and score of others,
was taken to the scene OF his alleged
crimes in Chicago and he re.enacted
three Of them In pantnmime and 30
conyincingly and furnished such cor
roborative evidence that Captain of
Detectives Halpin believes most OF
his story OF his multi.murders is true
Tho Athletics philadelphia Amer.
Cans) won the fourth battle for the
worlds baseball championship, de
feating the Giants by score OF 6 10
8, Chief Bender, the Indian twirleg,
won his second victory OF the series
William Assmann OF st. Louis and
Joseph OKcilly, aid. left San Antonio
Tex, In balloon and landed two
miles north Of Russellyillc Mo.
Adolphus Busch, St. Louis best
known citizen and phllanthropist
died in his castle on the Rhine, In
Germany. The remains will be-
brought to St Louis for burial.
With deep roar and n rumble rc.
sembling heavy artillery firing at
distance $4,000 pounds of dynamite
in 80 charges were exploded in tho
Gamboa dixie, allowing the waters Of
Gatun lake to run through into Guile.
bra cut
Chicago commission merchants
have cut the price of fresh country
butter y cents to 29A cents In OF.
der TO keep It from being crowded
from the market by storage butter.
The currency bill now pending In
congress was denounced as n Social.
istic measure at Boston by the cur.
rency commission OF the American
Bankers association in its annual re.
port.
Fire that spread almost like a flash
through the sixstory main building
OF the Southwestern Milling company,
Kansas City, Kan, destroyed that
structure and the mills power plant
a short distance away. The loss is
estimated at 100000.
Count Taro Katsura, three times
premier OF Japan, is dead. Count Kat
sura took the place of the late Mar
CUTS Ito, and was the most command.
ing figure in Japan,
Two men were killed and l6 in.
jured when exploding boilers sank
the Japanese torpedo boat DESTROYER
lkatusuki near Toxic. Japan. The
survivors were rescued.
movement afoot in China TO re-.
store Confucianism to its old place as
the state religion WAS the subject OF |
report to the state department from
Charge Williams, at Pekin.
President Poincare Of France, the |
guest OF King Alfonso in Madrid,
Spain, failed to attend bull fight
arranged in his honor. frankly saying |
he did not care to sec It.
Provisional President Huerta has
been given to understand in the most
positive manner that the putting to
death OF any OF the members of the
chamber Of deputies, nov In confne.
ment by his orders will be regarded
with extreme disfavor by tho govern.
mont OF the United States and by the
people.
An Improvement in tho condition Of
The corn crop during the last month
TO the extent Of 22.000,000 bushels In
he estimated final production was
The feature Of the department OF ag-
riculture's October crop report.
An October tornado bore its way
through Custer county, Nsb.. striking
Broken Bow, the county seat, a glanc.
ng blow and doing only minor dam
lse there, but wrecking many build.
ngs and injuring q number OF people
n the country districts.
Business men of Philadelphia are
'utting the finishing touches on the
reatest manufactursrs' exhibition
nd celebration" ever held there. The
flair commences Oct "a and contin-
les to Nov. !.
Thirteen thousand dollars have
cen stolen within eight days in
Washington and Montana from reris.