The Huttig news., 1907-10-12
NEWS OF THE WEEK
THE LATEST EVENTS OF THE
 WORLD BRIEFLY TOLD.
NORTH, EAST WEST, SOUTH
Foreign Lands, Throughout the Ma tlon and Particularly From the
 Great Southwest.

The one-eyed statue of George Washington which sits in the plaza facing the east front of the capitol may be removed to the national mu- scum. This is the plan of Elliott Woods. superintendent of the capitol, who is trying to work it through. The statue was designed by the famous sculptor, Horatio Greenough.
 Doctor Osler's theory that all men reach the height of their powers at 40 years received a severe setback when Rabbi Barnett Wolnisky danced with the agility of boy in celebration of his at-granddaughter's marriage and his 10th birthday.
 George Williamson brother of Chas. Williamson of Poplar Bluff, Mo, who was recently exonerated for killing his father-in-law, Judge Hays, was perhaps fatally wounded by an assassin. Will Hanson was feeding his stock after dark, when shot from ambush, his breast being riddled
 Conviction that 14-foot channel is assured prevails in Memphis since ad- journment of the deep waterways con yention. held there. The gathering was fruitful beyond the anticipations of even the most hopeful waterway ad- yocates
 King Edward VII. of England Is growing deaf. Artificial hearing in- struments were shipped to Bucking- ham palace, London, by the American Line steamer New York, for the use of the King and Queen Alexandra, who has long suffered from deafness.
 Mrs. Mary Jane Holmes, the author ess, is dead at her home in Brock port, N. Y, in her 18th year. She was taken i'll in Albany, while on her way from Oak Bluffs, Mass, where she spent the summer.
 An Indiana girl is accused Of at tempting to wreck Lake Erie & Western passenger train so that her {. hal= CT. would be called to the scene of the wreck so she could see him.
 The science of aerial navigation, at least III dbIIuduy, udo iOoSiiNo e pS-- where many of the most prominent in- yestigators are asking themselves ln which direction they shall pursue their experiments.
 Driven back and forth from pillar to post across the Canadian boundary, first into the state of Washington then back into British Columbia, the sev- eral thousand Hindus dumped on this unfriendly shore are objects of pity as they wander about seeking employ ment to earn enough to keep body and soul together
 The effort which President Diaz is making to prevent the indiscriminate imprisonment of American trainmen by Mexican authorities when accidents and train wrecks occur, may be sup plemented by an amendment to the ex- isting laws.
 At the annual meeting of the Last Mans Club" in Wilmington, an organ ization composed of prominent Ma sons, C. T. Toppin, the president, was presented with silver pitcher in hon. or of his 50th birthday. There are p members of the club, and each year members is left vacant and draped in black until there is but one survivor, who will dine in state, surrounded by the 21 empty chairs
 That the government of the United States is tagging far behind the Euro ri in 10 of al navigation is the opinion of Major Henry B. Hersey, chief inspector of the weather bureau. who returned to New York after a year with Walter Wellman In Spitzbergen.
 After having, it is alleged, stolen $500 from laundry and found an other woman whom he told his wife he had married, Frank Hornish shot and killed himself at Madison and Dearborn streets, Chicago, before a large crowd. Several weeks ago, he left his wife and took up with his Miss Fifer" of Knoxville, Wash.
 An explosion, caused by the upset ting of a pot of metal in the No. 1 cupola of the Standard Steel Co.,, at Butler, Pa, caused the death of four men, fatally injuring twenty, and se- riously injuring twenty others
 I.akes-to- -the-Gulf Waterways asso- citation meets in Memphis; notable ad- dresses are mdae.
 Statistics published show that Cook county, Illinois, is the richest county in the United States, with personal property for taxation purposes amounting to s524,O73.473.
 Fish wins over Hartman in skir. mish for proxies of Illinois Central stockholders.
 Mrs. Louisa Fairbanks, wealthy SO ciety leader of Charles City, h., dunn founds friends by marrying negro street laborer.
 It is alleged that s3O0,OOO was given supervisors of San Francisco by the United Railways as bribe.