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


try.wide prohibition.
Early next February u monument
to the memory of Capt Scott, the IA.
nous explorer, will be unveiled on
tie Col du Lautaret Marseilles. 1t
was in the Alps in this district that
Capt. Scott in company with DR..
Charcot, tested his motor sledges be-
fore leaving for the Antarctic.
Joseph Wegoner, a wealthy Hecla,
s. D.. banker, committed suicide by
blowing off his head with q shotgun
No reason is known for the act.
After the recent revolt OF the Swiss
guard at the Vatican many reports
concerning the sobriety Of the guard
came TO the ears OF the pope, in con.
sequence OF which no dispersed the
contents Of the famous Vatican wine
cellar. With the pope a "teetotaler,"
all the cardinals must be also.
Al tho closing session of the Inter
national Dry Farming congress at
Tulsa, Ok, resolution was passed
asking congress to employ the Pan.
anna canal machinery in the construc.
tion Of great drainage canal from
the headwaters of the Missouri in
Montana to the Gulf OF Mexico.
The senate banking and currency
committee tentatively agreed upon
four regional reserve banks for IN,
proposed new currency system, with
proyiso that after two years the
federal reserve board may add as
many additional banks as 1t deems
necessary, not exceeding H.
The role OF millionaire played by
John c. SChildkneCht, an SlSa-weck
New York bookkeeper In the Wash.
burn.Crosby Flour companys office,
ended waen Schildknecht was sent
to the Tombs prison, charged with
ENLIGHTENMENT Of nearly $4,000.
DR.. Hubert G. Herring Of New York
city was unanimously elected general
secretary Of the National Council Of
Congregational Churches at Kansas
City.
The Rev. c. T. Elmor, pastor Of the
Park Christian church at New Al.
bany, Ind reported to the police that
an attempt was made 10 assassinate
him at the parsonage,
Charles W. Goodlake was sen
fenced to 90 years in the pcnitentiary
for tao murder Of his wife at their
summer home at Cotton Port, Tenn.
Manila, p, J., reports two deaths
there from bubonic plague. one Of
the men being William Crozior, man.
aging editor of the Daily Bulletin.
Congratulations instead OF n $4,000
present should be the wedding gift Of
the house to Miss Jessie Wilson, Rep.
resentatiye Gray OF InNana declared
In the house
Official returns from the general
elections In Italy show the election
OF 24O Liberals, or ministerialIsts, Z
Constitutional Democrats, Moder-
ates. 40 Radicals 80 Intransg gent So
cialsts, 20 Reformist Socialists, IL
Republicans and II Cloricals.
Eight persons were drowned when
the Wilson liner Oslo collIded with a
Russian trawler at Aalesund, Nor
way. The victims were members Of
the trawler's crew.
Stampoding cattle wrecked a Fort
Worth & Denver freight train at
Giles, Tex. when they rushed before
the engine, killing the engineer, L. s.
Hawley, and II. o. Mccormick, the
fireman.
Fifty.four deaths from drowning
were reported In San Salvador from
districts OF tho republic OF Salvador
inundated as sequel to q rainfall OF
severity
Mead Barr, an inmate OF tho Indi-
ana reiormatory, and possessor of a
long criminal record, was named by
Supt David c. Peyton as the man
who confessed numbering Florence
Brown. stenographer, at Dallas, Tex,
July 2S, 1918
A revolutionary plot based on the
assassination OF the president OF the
republic, Adolfo Dlaz, and prominent
cabinet ministers was discovered and
frustrated at Managua, the Nlcarag.
uan capital.
Charles G. Gates, son OF the late
John w. CBet.You.a.Milllon'O Gates,
died in his private car at Cody, Wyo.,
Of apoplexy. His body was sent east
by way of Billings Mont.
Three battles, the hottest fought
since the strike OF coal miners in
southern Colorado began, marked the
first day OF martial law in tho Ber
wind COln dIutrict Ona NINA p,ord