The Huttig news., 1907-06-01

slaughter in the killing or her huS- band, Joseph Neil, blacksmith and pugilist
 Women at work in the United States is the subject of a report is sued by the census bureau based on the returns in 1900. Exclusive of Alas ka, Hawaii ant other outlying posses sions, the women 16 years old num- bered 23,4S5,559 Those at work num- bered 14,S33, ,630
 After being out more than 94 hours, the jury which has been trying Mrs. Laura Cramer, charged with ordering her son, mere boy, to shoot and kill her husband, Fred Cramer, at Page, N. D., Feb. IA last, disagreed
 Five hundred postal officials of New York attended dinner given to Geo. B. Cortelyou, now secretary of the treasury, but formerly postmaster general, at the Hotel Astor.
 The recommendation of the com mittee on laws of the supreme coun- cil of the Royal Arcanum at Boston, compelling new members to start with sl,500 death benefit, was accepted.
 Milton D. Purdy, of Washington, as sistant attorney general of the United States arrived in St. Paul to assist in the prosecution for the government of the case against the Standard Oil Co.
 A case of yellow fever was discoy cred in Havana, being the second case this year. The patient had recently come to the capital from the interior
 The largest most representative and most harmonious convention which ever assembled in Ireland repudiated the plan for a limited council, which was all the liberal government had to offer in fulfillment of it's campaign promises.
 Thirty persons were injured some seriously, in a collision between three-car electric train bound for New York from Coney Island and trolley car of the Thirty-ninth street line at Bay Nineteenth and Eighty-sixth streets, Bath Beach.
 Bids were opened by the purchasing agency of the Panama canal here for 5000 tons of steel rails for railroad SOiiol u uStiol4 Oli liC Ohly lWo bids were received, one making the price $15S,750 for the rails delivered at Colon and the other $162,250
 Frank w. Berkshire, who has been in charge of the Chinese inspection work in the New York city and Malone (N. Y) districts, was appointed in- spector and chairman on general inn migration on the Mexican border at $4,O00 per annum.
 At Southwest City, a small town in Mcdonald County, Mo, A. A. McGhee shot and killed Geo. Oyler, aged 21 S'sss1s' ,1T t vi n syrum7nr1rr cSereT had been keeping company with Me Ghee's daughter against the fathers wishes.
 Ships of the Pacific squadron have won the highest honors of the United States navy for every class of which it contains vessel.
 The announcement is made that Lieut.. Gen. Joseline Heneage Wode house has been appointed governor of Bermuda in succession to Sir Robert McGregor Stewart, recently resigned
 It is predicted that the first witness testifying to circumstances connected with the crime in the Steun- enberg murder case will take the stand one week hence.
 Former Judge William Lumpkin, a lawyer and wealthy citizen of Eldon, Mo-, was arrainged before United States Commissioner Giesberg on charge of sending obscene matter through the mails.
 At the biennial convention of the Switchmen's Union of America it is probable that a proposal to make a contribution for the defense of Mover, Haywood and Pettibone, at Boise, Ida, will be brought up.
 The secretary of the interior ap- proved the selection of 122,34S acres of land selected by the State of Col orado in lieu of school lands other wise disposed of.
 The French cruiser Chanzy is ashore on one of the Saddle islands in the Chusan group. Her position is danger ous. Assistance is being sent from Shanghai.
 The executive committee of the National Hardware association, in ses- sion in Philadelphia, decided with the jobbers. A plan to do away with the jobbers has been under consideration 1 for some time.
 Refusing to work with material from mills operating with non-union wood workers, nearly 1000 carpenters en- ployed by building contractors in l Denver went on strike.
 Henry Becker, of Manhattan, N. Y., was arrested on suspicion of having murdered Amelia, the 15-year-old daughter of William Staffeldt, farm