The Huttig news., 1907-10-26

charge Of false swearing Tn an aIIl- | davit in Austin. made in order to oo- | tain permit to do business in Tex l as, has written a remarkable letter to Governor Campbell, in which he ap- | peals for executive fairness in the foregoing proceedings.
 Acting under instructions from Judge Cochran, the jury returned a verdict acquitting Frederick Magill and his wife, Faye Graham Magill, of the charge of murdering Mrs. Pet Magill, the first wife of Magill. In his instructions to the jurors the judge said the state had failed to prove the corpus delecti. The verdict was greeted with applause. Mail advices from Manila report that Akasa Tsuka, the Japanese con sul for the Philippines, has recently concluded his first visit to the South ern island. Upon his return to Ma nila the consul said that the great natural wealth of the Southern Phil ippines astonished him, and that he can readily see that the United States will never desire to sell the islands.
 Sensations followed each other in rapid succession in the financial dis trict as the result of the collapse of the projected corner in United Copper and the suspension of permanent brokerage firm. The firm of Otto Heinze & Go. was suspended on the stock exchange. F. Augustus Heinze, the Butte copper magnate, resigned the presidency of the Mercantile Ma tional Bank of New York. The Anal, gamated Copper Co.,, at it's directors meeting, cut it's quarterly dividend from ? per cent to 1 per cent. The di- rectors of the Boston & Montana Cop per Go. declared a quarterly dividend of $6 in place of former dividend of SIP.
 Kaiser Wilhelm has been sum, moned to the witness hcair in a most unsavory case as one of long list of royal and aristocratic personages, on whose testimony Editor Maximil. iian Harden of a Berlin weekly news paper relies to win the libel suit brought against him by Gen Count Guno Moltke.
 Four masked robbers, after binding and gagging c. D. Cash, the night operator at the Missouri Pacific depot at Webb City, Mo-, cracked the safe and escaped with $500 in money and checks.
 Arrivals from the Bear Lake en. campment tell marvellous stories of the presidents hardihood and capacity for roughing it. When he carried his blan- kets with him from the upper camp last Friday and that night and next morning &te only cold bread and meat he had taken in his saddle pock- cts they marveled that a president could be so easily satisfied, but when he jumped into Bear Lake for swim, with the tempsrstnre at 40 degrees their astonishmeat was almost with out bounds.
 The governor of Connecticut is on junket to the Jamestown exposition; the lieutenant governor is on a trip to Europe; Senator Stille Judson Of Stratford, president pro tenn of the state, is on a hunting trip; but Con necticut is not suffering, for woman is seated in the official chair.
 Immediately attired as a minister of the gospel stranger entered the office of the Indiaia state prison at Michigan City, Ind, and declared he was an escaped convict and had come to serve the rest of his sentence. My name is Allen J. Lawrence, ana I es | capped from this prison in September 1906,' he said.
 With a series of flashes that fill d the Marconi station with blnd,ng hglt and of booms that fairly rocked the station, William Marconi launched the first commercial message by wire less across the Atlantic ocean Blame for the shooting in Browns vile, Tex, last year, which resulted in the killing of one man, the maim- | ing of another, and dismissal from the army, without honor, of whole bat talion of colored soldiers, has been placed upon Company B of the Twen ty-fifth infantry, according to the re port of Brig Gen. William Crozier chief of ordnance.
 Fanatical excitement of negroes calling themselves the Council of God,' appears to have been the cause of the riot in New Orleans in which one policeman was killed, sev eral others wounded and a number oi negroes badly injured.
 The first railroad ever built in Low. CT California will be in operation in g. few days under E. E. Calvin, gen eral manager of the Southern Pacific This line was built by E. H. Hartman and runs 37 miles southward from CaleXico as far as Paradones.
 The three leaders of the gang ol
 robbers who recently murdered Geo
 W. Rose, a well-known American min
 ing man of Guanajuato, are to be
 shot for the crime. MT. Rose came to Mexico from Laporte, Ind, a few
 years ago.
 Bishop Canevin has placed the bar
 on Saturday and Sunday marriages O
 Roman Catholics in the Pittsburg dio l ceSe Only hV his permiSsiOn car