The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1914-02-06

cnlld aDanuonment. Brooks ana MS
wife brought their 5-day-old child to
Clinton last August and abandoned II
at midnight In q cemetery o mile from
town.
Two pouches containing more than
$4,000 consigned by the United
States Express company to New York
have disappeared. Four private de-
tectlves arrived In Syracuse, N. Y, to
trace the missing money.
Gen. James Grant Wilson, soldier,
editor and author. who had been III in
st. Luke's hospital in New York sew.
eral weeks, is dead.
The ministry OF commerce made the
official announcement that Japan will
participate In the Panama-Pacific ex-
position at San Francisco.
Capt. Lorenz, tho first officer and
II OF the crew OF the German bark
Hera. from Pisagua, Chile, for Fal
mouth, Eng, were drowned when the
vessel struck rock as 1t had almost
concluded Its voyage.
The Panama canal has reached such
a condition OF completion that large
ocean steamer now could pass
through, according to o statement at
Panama by Col. Goethsls,
After two days OF conferences with
political leaders, Thomas Taggart, In
diana's member of the Democratic ma
tional committee, issued a formal
statement that he would not be can
didate for the United States senate.
Fire destroyed two-thirds Of the ex.
position building at Manila, P. !. Gov.
ernor-General Harrison places the loss
to the building at s17,50O, covered by
insurance, and on exhibits at $4,000,
with probably not more than 5000
insurance.
The Merchants Exchange DulluinB,
the most important business block in
the retail center OF Manchester, N.
H., was burned. The loss will exceed
100000. Two flremen were injured
by falling wall.
II you want fresh egg in Paris
you may get IL for IL cents. Eggs OF
any age from l to 10 years are selling
at IS cents a dozen.
The conclusion caused when a huge
meteor fell to earth In the mountains
% miles east of Albuquerque, n, NJ,
and exploded n magazine containing
dynamite at tho La LUZ mine, accord
ing to the story told by Donald Brown,
mine foreman, and two Mexican
miners.
Winthrop More Daniels of Prince.
ton, N. j., chairman of the New Jer'
sey public utilities commission, and
Henry Clay Hall of Colorado Springs,
president OF the Colorado Bar associ.
alton, were named members OF the in
terstate commerce commission by
President Wilson.
One thousand union coal miners,
employed by the Central Coal and
Coke company OF Kansas City, No,
at Hartford, Huntington and Bonanza,
near Fort Smith, Ark, are on q strike.
Samuel Gompers, president OF the
American Federation of Labor. de.
Tended that organization and Its ex.
ecutive council in speech before the
convention of the United Mine Work
ers of America against the charges
made by Charles II. Meyer, president
OF the Western Federation OF Miners.
The London Times announces that
Sir Lionel Garden, British minister to
Mexico, will shortly return to Eng
land on leave to report to the govern.
ment on the outlook in Mexico.
The capture by Mexican rebels OF
the City Of Conception Deloro, In the
rtate of Zacatecas, together with its
garrison of 400, was reported to rebel
headquarters in Matamoras, Mexico.
J. L. Bristow, United States senator
from Kansas. who last month an
nounced himself aligned with the Re
publican party, is candidate to sue
coed himself In the senate.
The story Of how d persons went
down to death In the chilly waters of
the Atlantic when the liner Nantuck-
ct rammed and sank the steamer Mon
roe was brought to port at Norfolk,
Va, by 90 survivors who were rescued
and brought to shore by the Nan
! tucket.
Shelby Moore Cullom, who for more
than half a century served the people
of Illinois in various public capacities.
80 years OF which we're spent In tho
United States senate. died at his
Washington home. The end was
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