The Huttig news., 1907-11-02
THE LATEST EVENTS OF THE
 WORLD BRIEFLY TOLD.
NORTH, EAST WEST, SOUTH
Foreign Lands, Throughout the Ma ton and Particularly From the
 Great Southwest.

practically assured. Adolphus Busch, the millionaire brewer, will furnish the prize, which will be an elaborate gold cup valued at $1,000.
 For the killing of his father, George Cain, Carroll Cain, prize fighter, of St Louis, was assessed three months in jail and fine of $100 by jury in the court of Judge Hugo Mueneh.
 Cholera is raging throughout south eastern Russia and people are dying like flies. Mortality is greatest in the cities. At Kieff alone the death list averages 100 daily
 Latest reports indicate that the dis aster caused by earthquake shocks in Sicily and Calebria is even greater than at first reported. The dead will possibly be as many as 1,000 while the property loss is tremendous.
 One of the boldest attempts at rob- bery in Philadelphia in a long time occurred when two men tried to get away with $5,000, which they had seized from bank runner in the United States subtreasury.
 After executing his will and telling his son where to look the following day for his body Ransom Goodwin aged 76, of Johnston county, Ohio, went into the woods and shot himself through the heart. Ransom had made two previous attempts to kill him. self
 Eighteen thousand dollars in gold and currency, supposed to have been shipped by a Chicago bank to bank in Oshkosh Wis, was stolen from the office of the express company in the union station in Milwaukee.
 Jack the Stabber" seems to be at large in Louisville Ky. During the last two weeks two prominent young women have been his victims while walking along the street.
 Three armed men held up a freight train within five miles of Los An geles, wounded one of the train crew. robbed them of $250 and two watches and made their escape.
 President Roosevelt praises J. Pier pont Morgan and John D. Rockefeller who hitherto have been objects of White House denunciation in a letter to George B. Cortelyou, secretary of the treasury. The letter was made public in response to urgent demands from many sources for statement on the financial situation.
 The railroad conductors on all the lines running into Pottsville, as well as the ticket agents, report that it is simply impossible to keep enough pen nies on hand to make change, owing to the new 2-cent fare law One ticket agefa at Pottsville, Pa, supplied him. self with 5000 pennies, and yet did not have enough to last him through the day.
 Earthquake shocks were felt throug. out Italy. The severest shocks were experienced in Sicily and Caiabria where the panic-stricken people are now camping in the open air Two hundred bodies have been taken from the ruins at Ferruzzano. Many in- jured persons have also been removed. 1t is estimated that the total number of killed is 500. Members of the Red Cross, soldiers and volunteers are busily searching for the dead and rescuing the injured throughout the affected area.
 'Dr. Walter R. Gillette of New York, who was connected with the Mutual Life Insurance Go. for 36 years, and who was vice-president when he re a surance disclosures was convicted of perjury for having sworn falsely be- fore the grand jury. The jury was out an hour and half The trial lasted four days.
 President Roosevelt proposes to ask congress to appropriate money enough to bring the battIeship fleet back from the Pacific oceon. or else pass the whole question of it's return up to con gress.
 The tribe of Ute Indians which more than year ago wandered away from their reservation in Utah and created trouble in Colorado and Wyo- ming by threatening to take the war path and raid ranches is reported to have again broken out on the Chey- enne River reservation in South Da kota, where the trible was given tenn. porary quarters.
 President Roosevelt reached the White House from his southern triI exactly on schedule. To those wbC met the president it was noticeable that he had added several shades to the bronze Of countenance acquired during the summer months at Oyster Bay.
 The supreme council of Scottish Rite masons, in biennial session called on President Roosevelt at the White House. They received hearty greeting from the chief executive, whs Incidentally related his experience while taking the blue-lodgs degree.