The Huttig news., 1907-11-02

reservation in South Dakota to use his influence with the troublesome Ute Indians, with view to suppressing the outbreak.
 President Roosevevlt, in the annual Thanksgiving proclamation, warns the American people against falling into love of ease and luxury" He sets apart November 2S as a day when all shall give praise and thanks to God for the prosperity the countr yensoys. Engineer Charles Jones was killed and six persons were injured in the wreck of Wabash passenger train No. | 20 near Thompson, Mo.
 EPITOME-
 Paris already is charmed with the possession of women lawyers, physi- clans and cab drivcI5, and women l sandwich men. It is now soon to have a woman jockey. The name of 1 the young woman who is expected to enter on this new career for women is said to be Miss Mary Money, who now is guest of the Countess de Mo- 1 lima, at Chantilly She is an Amsi- can girl.
 Greater than tSalome, in a musical sense," one hears of Richard Strausss new opera, Electra" which will have it's first performance soon after Christ mas. The story of the opera follows that elaboration of the myth seen in Hoffmanstahfs drama. The composer keeps as strictly to this authors ter rible text as he did to Oscar Wilde's in the case of Salome.
 Timely action on the part of men of wealth and influence has served as oil on the troubled waters of finance, and New York. which has been the center of a money storm for several days, in which many in- terests have been sorely buffeted, has begun business again under conditions of the most optimistic nature.
 The Canadian Pacific Railway Co.'S crack oriental liner Empress of China sank Wednesday evening alongside her docks in Portland, Ore Her sea- cocks must have been opened, but how, no one seems able to ascertain.
 With the completion of the dirigiEle race and awarding of prizes to the winners Wednesday afternoon the great balloon tournament, conceded to have been the greatest in the his. tory of aeronautics, came to an end at St. Louis amid the plaudits of over 10000 people and the strains of mar tial music.
 It is announced that Don Enrique c. Greet will soon retire as ambassa- dor to the United States from Mexico.
 The great international balloon con. test for the James Gordon Bennett cup ended Wednesday with the Ger. mans, the Pommern, and the French, Isle de France cars, two out of the nine starters, so equally divided for 1onors that it will be necessary to await a decision from the war depart ment at Washington tell who wins.
 The discovery of Mile. Lusson, 65 years old dead in her bed, her head cut off and twenty-seven stab wounds in her body, adds another atrocity to long list that has recently ap- palled Paris.
 After writing to his wife "Tm tired of you, Leo Antone of Charleston, w. Va sat down on IA sticks of dyna- mite and fired a fuse attached to one | of them. Fellow workmen had tried to | get him away, but failed, and had to flee. Antone was literally blown to atoms.
 Seven thousand photographs of the planet Mars, taken in Chilli, promise to reveal remarkable discoveries re- garding the proofs of life on the planet.
 Thirty bandits are still disturbing the peace of the Sancti Spiritus dis triet, Santa Clara province, and tho authorities are endeavoring to effect the capture of the leaders.
 William Lepper, for 30 years resi- dent of Laramie, Wyo., shot Judge Charles w. Brammell three times in the law office of the latter, then turn | ing the revolver upon himself, blew out his brains.
 The ceremonies marking the formal completion of the Hennepin canal | between Lake Michigan ana the MIS- sisissippi river were attended by many thousands of people, all sections oE Illinois being represented.
 The Aero Club of St. Louis awarded $2,500 cash prizes to the winners of the dirigible balloon race in Forest l Park, at the close of the aeronautic carnival, which will go down in his tory as one of the greatest ever held
 An unknown man, who was found dead in standing posture in a slough off of Macoupin creek north of Alton, H., is believed to have be- come mired in the quicksand of the creek and succumbed to starvation or l exhaustion and exposure. His clothes were found 200 yards away. He had apparently been dead for several days. President Roosevelt has issued his | Thanksgiving proclamation, through the secretary of state, naming the last 1 Thursday in November, the 18th.