The Huttig news., 1907-11-16


 has made up his mind that the prac- tice of law is more suited tc his liking than the iutric&cies of international diplomacy
 Five well dressed crachsmen dashed into Florence Ky, in red automobile dynamited the safe in tue Florence Deposit bank, partially wrecked building and firing six shots at citi- Zens who rushed to the bank, gave them the laugh and sped down the pike.
 A boy was burned to death, a wom- an and her 12-hour-old babe probably fatally hurt, and several other persons injured as result of fire which de- stroyed three-stOry tenement at 399 West Fourteenth street, Chicago, in the heart of the congested Ghetto dis trict. Fourteen families were trapped in the building, and the flames spread so rapidly that escape was cut off.
 What promises to be a vigorous at tack in the war of the federal govern ment upon tuberculosis was begun by the department of agriculture, in an order calling for the strict enforcement of the law against the interstate ship ment of tuberculosis cattle and swine
 With 10,000,000 in gold in her strong box and a new transatlantic record written in her log, the Cunard turbiner Lusitania steamed past Sandy Hook light ship at 1: 40 Friday morning. In one grand performance the great yes se1 broke her own worlds record and brought to the relief of the money market in New York $1O,000,00 in gold in unprecedented time. The westbound trip was made approximately in days 10 hours and ten minutes.
 While waiting to have her infant daughter examined by a physician at Edwardsville, H., Mrs. Gus Pellegreen was mortified to see the child die in her arms. The baby had pneumonia, and it is said that the mother had been giving it a cough medicine. Ac- cording to local physician, the medi- cine contained drug which kept the child from crying, and it's mother thought it was getting we'll
 Five thousand persons were killed, and 76,2S6 injured in railroad acei- dents during the fiscal year ended June 30, according to statistics pub lished by the interstate commerce com mission. This was an increase of 775 killed and 9,577 injured over 1906.
 Secretary of War Taft has definitely decided to return home by way of Nladivostok through Siberia and Flu rope. He has received, through the American consul at Vladivostok the assurance of the Russian government that the recent disturbances there will have no effect on his plans.
 A dispatch received from Samarkand says that newspaper man, who was sent to Karatagh, in the Hussar dis trict of Bakhara, which was destroyed by a landslide following the earth quake of Oct. 21, reports that 3,400 persons perished and only 70 escaped.
 The message of Gov. B. B. Conner, sent to the special session of the Ala bama legislature which convened Thursday, was a bitter attack on Pres
 
 vile railroad.
 A motion to dissolve the injunction restraining the directors of the Illinois Central Railroad Go. from allowing 5,o00 shares of stock, held by the Mu tual Life Insurance Co. of New York was filed in the Cook county Qllinois) superior court Thursday afternoon.
 The Tammany ticket in New York county, headed by Thomas F. Foley, was elected by one of the smallest plu- ralities in years. The returns, with several districts missing, give Foley a plurality approximately over Ihim- sen of 1000. The two Bartletts were elected judges of the court of appeals over Lyon and McDonough, Independ- ence league candidates. McCarren was defeated in Brooklyn, the entire re publican ticket, with the exception of district attorney and possibly surro- gate, winning out
 Fire which gutted the five-story brick building on c street, Southwest Washington, occupied by the seed dis tribution division of the department of agriculture, caused damage amount ing to $75,000.
 Forest R. Nichols, secretary of W. H. Andrews, terrorial delegate to con gress from New Mexico, was placed on trial in the United .ates court at Pittsburg, charged with aiding and abetting Cashier T. Lee Clark, who killed himself, in the misapplication of funds from the Enterprise National bank of Allegheny.
 John Harding to whom P T. Bar mum offered $500 a week to exhibit himself, died in the poor house at Nor folk, Conn. Harding's pride would never permit him to place himself on show with the midgets, the giants, and the fat ladies, and so, while he might have amassed a considerable fortune, he died pauper.
 Nine prisoners sawed their way to i liberty from the Madison county jail at Canten, Miss. Six of the number were awaiting trial for alleged mur-