The Huttig news., 1907-10-12

| times for the railroads. | Judge Swearingen of the Pittsburg criminal court collapsed after sen tencing man to death, which caused the prisoner to break into a loud laugh. The judge was new to the bench, and it was his first death sen tence.
 Nebraska is conducting a crusade against railroads violating the safety l appliance law.
 Leading railroads of South Dakota | commence united action in United States court to enjoin state from putting into effect the 21ac-a-mile pas senger rate.
 The licese of Clarence Nichols, pilot of the steamer Fred Hartwig, which bumped into the steamer on which President Roosevelt made the trip down the Mississippi, was suspended for six months.
 Explosion of shell In Tokio factory kills G3 girls and injures GO more. Victims were sorting condemned am. munition.
 With wireless telegraphy across the, ocean, rates are likely to drop. Mar conf may hit cable companies hard.
 Detroit clinches American League pennant when they defeated St. Louis. J. J. Rosenberg. indicted ct Denver for conspiracy to defraud the govern ment in connection with the opera tions of the Federal Coal and Iron Co.,, was discharged by United States | Commissioner Bloodgood, the govern ment having failed to show his con- nection with the alleged conspiracy.
 A fund of several thousand dollars | is raised to establish Bertha Calaiche l in business, after she Is released from prison, where she is completing sen tence for killing her sweetheart.
 St. Louis druggist uses Osler plan | to get rid of rats after other means l fail
 Frank Rush, the cowboy naturalist, takes charge of the governments herd of buffalo in New York preparatory to taking them to national forest in Oklahoma.
 William Cain, St. LeuIs city en- ploye, lived six months with a broken neck.
 President Moffett of Standard oil Co. of Indiana fails to prove state ment before special grand jury.
 Man convicted of robbery in Chi cago says he was honest until he be came policeman.
 Plan is frustrated to kidnap Prin. cess Munica F la of sSasony.
 Roosevelt demands suspension of pilot of one of the vessels of river fleet for racing.
 Dr. Bell, the inventor of the tele- phone, is interested in balloons and will attend races at Ct Louis.
 Roosevelt ends trip down Missis- sippi at Memphis, delivers speech and leaves for Louisiana to hunt bears
 Juvenile crime in St. Louis has in creased nearly 100 per cent during the 12 months which ended September 1, according to figures compiled from the court records.
 Tyrus Cobb is worlds best batsman. Detroit slugger leads American league with wonderful average. Wagner, of Pittsburg, leads Nationals.
 Leased wire strike order has caused internal strife in telegraphers' union, the New York local president saying he and not Small is running things.
 Bonaparte rules that paying of immi, grants passage by states is violation of immigration laws.
 Government authorizes Maj. Hersey to enter St. Louis aero races with Lahm's balloon.
 Trouble for the Oklahoma canvass ing board, which begins work Tuesday is expected to result from w. H. Mur rays challenge that Secretary Filson is not empowered to preside in the ab sence of Gov. Frantz.
 American and National league cham title Tuesday "Wild Bill' Donovan and Orvie Overall will probably be op. posing slabmen.
 President Delano of the Wabash, ip the annual report to be submitted at Toledo Tuesday, comments upon 2 cent passenger rate laws and electric competition.
 Holding his manacled hands before him, Albert Koestlin of Alton, H., plunged through the closed window of a passenger coach, in which he was being taken to the Chester peniten- tiary. He was caught by the feet by the sheriff, who hauled him back into the car with the aid of one of his deputies.
 Dissatisfied with the way the min ister conducted the funeral of his wife, from whom he had been sep arated, Henry Brecht of Baltimore knocked the minister down.
 James A. Moffett, president of the Standard Oil Go, spent 90 minutes an swering questions before special grand jury in Chicago.
 Tolstoy distributes foreign contribu tioAs sent to him among the people of the neighborhood of his home.
 Inquest over body of 4-year-old boy