The Huttig news., 1907-12-14
Carrying full field equipment of Cat

l ling guns and heavy supply of ammu-
 milton, five companies of the Twenty
 second infantry, stationed at Fort Mc- I Dowell, Cal, and four companies of
 the same regiment at Monterey, were
 dispatched to Goldfield, New, by Brig. l Gen. Fred Funston commanding the
 department of California, in compli- | ance with orders from the war de partment. The troops were ordered to
 the big mining camp in Nevada by
 President Roosevelt in response to an
 appeal from Gov. John Sparks of Ne
 vada, who apprehends serious trouble as result of the strike of the miners | and an attempt to open the mines with
 non-union labor. As Nevada has no l federal soldiers.
 i Edward Cohen of Lynn, president Of l the state branch of the American Fed | eration of Labor, died at the Massa- 1 chusetts general hospital from the wound received when John A. Steele, a maniac, tried to reach and kill Gov. Guild in the state house. Dennis A. Driscoll and Arthur M. Huddell of Boston, who were also wounded in the 1 affray will recover
 Three hundred and eighty men were caught in an explosion in mines Nos. 6 and at Monogah, w Va. Of these seven have been brought to the sur face dead and five escaped through air shafts. The latter are in the hos pital, and they may die. Neither en- l try has been opened to the real work ings. This leaves 36S men still i'm prisoned by coal, rock and mine debris l ill the depth of the mines in the hills 1 surrounding this mining town, with the chances all against a single one of them being alive.
 A strong movement has developed
 looking toward prohibition of emigra
 tion of all laborers to America, and l it is understood that number of prominent former members of the cab met and others intend to urge the adoption of such measure.
 The king and queen of Spain, who are returning from a visit to King Edward and Queen Alexandria O. Eng | land. were tossed about so violently on the yach Renown that they Were seasick.
 Disaster to trade. commerce, labor and investment can be effectively pre-
 vented only Ey a reorganization of the national monetary system according to the report made by Secretary of |,
 Senator Cullom introduced bill to free Assistant Treasured Boldenweck of responsibility for the theft of $173,- 900 from the Chicago sub-treasury.
 Directors of the several subsidiary companies, composing the Amalgamat- ed Copper Co.,, decided upon radical measures to meet the unfavorable conditions prevailing in the copper trade. It was decided to suspend op erations entirely at all the producing mines of the Butte Copper Co, with the exception of the Boston and Mon tana mines, where the business of the great copper trust will be concen- trated.
 While the rich men of the country are being pinched by the financial stringency, and are sacrificing gilt edged securities to obtain ready mon- ey, figures indicate clearly that the poorer classes have not suffered ac- cordingly. Particularly do the Christ mas figures bear out the fact that it is a rich mans panic"
 Despite the combined efforts of the w. c. T. U. and the ladies of the So- ciety for the Protection of the Purity of the Home, who had appealed to the mayor, the chief of police, the state attorney at Edwardsville, H., and to all good citizens generally to prevent it, the widely-advertised raffie for baby came off as planned in Granite City. III. But the baby proved to be little pig.
 Chicago, June 16-the former is the place and the latter the time at which the republican national convention for 1908 will be held. Both points were decided by the republican national committee in conference at the Shore ham hotel in Washington. The vote stood 31 for Chicago, IS for Kansas City and for Denver, after which the Chicago choice was declared to be by exclamation.
 Publishers of Philadelphia newspa- pers are expressing deep concern over the prevailing high prices of white print paper, and prediction is made in well-informed quarters that an in- crease of the retail price of at least couple of 1c newspapers to Pc is a possibility of the next few weeks should present conditions continue. According to Thomas w.. Lawson, he is all through reforming the public After Jan. 1 he is going to allow the public to shift for itself, and from then on to be a stock gambler, out and out This is one of the startling statements contained in a letter which l MT Lawson caused to be circulated in | financial circles.
 Dennis Mack, once a well-known 1 baseball player and prominent in