The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1914-01-16
ITEMS OF CURRENT INTEREST
GATHERED FROM EARTH'S
FOUR CORNERS.
ALL THAT is GOING ON
GiEs Of Weeks News Stripped OF un'
necessary Verblage and Prepared
or Quick Consumption by
Busy People.

A bandit with painted la'' "S'u
up the mail clerks on northbound
Southern Pacific train near Tropico'
Cal. According TO postoffice officials,
the bandit got only tritling amount
John German, 4 miner, was shot and
killed by mll!uaman on sentry duty
nj Walsenburg, Colo when he refused
10 halt at command and crossed tho
sentry line into L military camp,
rho Chinese par.isment, which has
boon practically nonresident Tor ssv-
rr.I months. was definitely dissolved
Is proclamation. The proclamation
says tho parliament would be recon
yoked In due course OF time
King Charles Of Roumania Is seri'
ously ILL., He was born April 49, 1889,
and ascended the throne in 1881,
one million dollars will be sub.
scribed by the Jews OF the United
etates as an endowment fund FOR tho
National Jewish Hospital for Con
sumptives in Denver.
Gene Packard, pitcher for the Gin
cinnau National league club; Ad Bron'
nan and William Killefer, pitcher and
catcher. respectively, for the Philadel.
phia Nationals, and Leonard (kins)
Cole pitcher for the New York Amer
leans. aligned three-year contracts with
the Chicago Federal league club.
At Hamburg, Germany, city 20
liceman killed his three daughters and
then himself after family quarrel.
At Soldau Germany, an cntire ram
fly consisting OF a man and his wife
with their five children were found in
their house with their throats cut and
The gas turned on. Pecuniary diff
culties are supposed to have driven
the parents TO kill the children and
then commit suicide.
Miss Emily Mcconnell, 33 years old,
kindergarten teacher at the Irving
school, Madison, Wis, was shot twice
and instantly killed in the hallway OF
the building by John G. Spooner, "a, a
married man, nephew OF former
United States Senator John c.
spoonsr.
Cardinal Leon Adolph Annette, arch
bishop OF Paris, in an admoniEion
which was published in the churches
OF Paris, forbIds the dancing OF the
tango as sin which must be con-
fessed and requires penance
Cor, George W. Clarke set Feb. 10
rs the date for the special congress
slonal election IN the Second Iowa dis
trict, TO fill the vacancy caused by the
death OF Representative !. s. Pepper.
Charles II. Meyer, president OF the
Western Federation OF Miners, and
Charles Tanner, auditor, told the
grand Jury in Houghton, Mich, their
versions of the deportation episode OF
Dec &c.
Secretary McAdoo asked congress
to appropriate $4,000 for a pellagra
hospital in some southern city.
The first passage OF vessel from
ocean to ocean through the canal was
completed with the crane boat La
Valleys arrival at the Pacific en-
trance.
Four sailors OF the crew of the flag
ship Wyoming OF the Atlantic fleet
were drowned when q big freight sail
ing cutter OF the flagship was
swamped with l6 sailors aboard.
Mrs. Eugene G. Loud is dead and
her husband, who is alleged to have
out her throat at their home in South
Weymouth, Mass., 10 believed to be
DYING from throat cash, self-inflict'
Cd, as a result of family quarrel.
That the social center idea has
come TO stay is indicated in a report
compiled by Clarence Arthur Perry OF
the Russell Sage Foundation, New
York City, according TO q statement is
sued by the United Safes bureau OF
education. Perry shows that the work
Ia getting on q more solid basis.
President Wilson surprised the lit
tie town of Biloxi, 25 miles from the
presidents cottage at Pass Christian,
by dropping in Unexpectedly at the
services of the First Presbyterian
church there.
The general stock of money In the
United States Jan. 2, 1914, amounted
10 s3,775,4 64.096, which is about
ss,000,o0O more than the stock OF the
same article on Dec. /, 1913, according
10 the treasurys statement.
AL ]. Jennings, who was train rob
Der In Oklahoma and the southwest
for several years before he was SEN
fenced in 1897 TO serve five years III
the prison at Columbus. o., has an
nounced that when he returns to Ok.
yobnrua he will seek the Democratic