The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1913-08-14

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Gov. O'Neal of Alabama as a result
Of conferences with political advisers
stated he has about reached the con
clusion that he has authority to ap
point at once successor to the late
Senator Joseph +. Johnston.
John Lind, President Wilson's per
sonal representative to Mexico, and
Mrs Lind and Or. William Baird Hale
who has been In Mexico for some
time studying conditions on behalf OF
President Wilson, arrived In the Mex.
lean capital from Vera Cruz on a reg.
ular passenger train.
Declaring that the passage by con.
| gresB OF the OwenGlass currency bill
would force all national banks to be-
come state or private banks, north
western bankers, in session in Mime
apolis, adopted resolution disap.
proving the bill.
President Wilson now has no def
mite plan for the settlement of tho
known when the president called into
conference with him at the White
House the members Of the foreign re
Iatiols committee OF the senate.
Senator Joseph F. Johnston of Ala
Z t,fE. a 4.
the upper house, died in Washington.
Senator Johnston was Democrat
and resided at Birmingham. lie was
10 years old His term would have
expired March 3, 1915.
Senior Gil Fortoul, president of the
government council Of Venezuela, IL
acting as president during the absence
from Caracas of President Gomez,
who has placed himself at the head Of
the army advancing to do battle with
Castro.
THE bigger the family the safer
the loan" is the slogan adopted by the
United States Building and Loan asso-
Citations while In convention at Mil.
Uaukee.
Several Germans in Berlin have
started campaign to induce the gov.
eminent to participate IN the Panama,
Pacific exposition at San Francisco In
1915
Senator ShafrOth introduced a bill
limiting senators to $50 Il year in
sending kilograms to their constitu.
snts on official business Recently
it was declared by Senator Brlstow
that Senator Ashurst had used more
than 800 in single day for political
messages to Arizona,
Lightning travelled through nearly a
mile Of tunnel In the Copper Reef
mine, In Arizona. and jumped 300 feet
down wiEzc aud nearly tore one
miners leg of and shocked more than
score O! others
Secretary Bryan has announced the
state department Is drafting a peace
and arbitration treaty with Salvador
on the principles suggested by Bryan
in his proposals for international
peace and arbitration
John Shrank, who shot Theodore
Roosevelt the night of Oct u, 1912,
is bankrupt Six weeks after the
shooting Shrank was committed to
the Northern hospital for insane at
Oshkosh, Wis.
A heavy run of sockeye salmon,
promising big wages, even at the re.
duced prices offered by the canneries,
caused the strike of 5000 fishermen
at the mouth of the Fraser river to
collapse.
DR.. Sun Vat Sen, former provisional
president Of the new China republic,
but now one of the leaders in the
southern revolution, has fled the coun.
try on board Japanese steamer
bound for Formosa.
Peace was concluded between the
Balkan states and the preliminary
treaty was signed by the delegates of
servia, Montenegro, Roumania and
Bulgaria.
Representative Robert Y. Thomas
of Kentucky stabbed David Goodleet
Of Alabama, house doorkeeper, during
all alteration In the new Varnum ho-
tel, Washington. No arrests were
made and the wound is not regarded
as serious.
Complaints from many railroads
against alleged inadequate compensa.
tion for increased weight of mail mat
ter under the parcel post system has
eliminated in a notice to the post.
office department from the Toledo,
st. Louis G. Western Glover Leaf
company that at the end OF go days II
will discontinue the transportation of
mails.
A national organization OF Catholic