The Huttig news., 1908-02-15


 | 100000 voters. held demonstration in Chicago in protest against the at | tempt to enforce "a blue and obso- | lete law" providing for Sunday clos ing of saloons.
 New York harbor is practically ice bound. Not in years have the bay and rivers been so clogged with ice as at the present time. With con- tinued cold weather, traffic may be stopped, except to all but ocean l liners.
 Brodie l.. Duke, son of million 1 aire tobacco man of New York, came to Pittsburg and in 15 hours is said to have spent $2000 on pleasure. He gave the orchestra leader of a cafe $25 to change his program, scattered | about tips ranging from $5 to $25, 1 and paid a $1,0U0 dinner check for | friends.
 Alvin Newby, at Valley View, Ky, | shot and killed his bridge and then l turned his revolver upon himself fir ing bullet into his head. When neighbors, attracted by the shooting, arrived both were dead, the woman in the yard and Newby in the house. Quiet as Portugal seems to be. the | new government evidently suspects re- publican agitators are still plotting an outbreak. Several leaders of the rad icals are reported under strict suryeil lance.
 IXyi1 onpt c it. fly overhauling and re-arranging it's program for the entertainment of the United States battleship squadron at Callao, the change in the probable date of the vessels arrival having seri- ously upset plans.
 European army officers are keenly interested in the trained hospital dog which is becoming a fixture in the French and German armies. Hun dreds are being trained for the serv ice and their Intelligence i5 surpris- ing.
 Lena Dulitz, 20 years old, who lived with relatives at Williamsburg, N. Y, died suddenly of heart disease after she had been laughing heartily for several moments.
 Cousins retirement from the con gressional race in Iowa said to be in- dicative of the political power of the progressives. Feeling that Senator Allison also speedily will retire.
 Harry G. Selfridge, who for twelve months has fought in London for the privilege of erecting in Oxford street a great department store to resemble the mammoth establishments in Chi cago, at last has overcome all oppo- sition, and the erection of the strue- ture was begun last week.
 Frank w. Gould, president of the Union Malleable Iron Go. and the board of trustees of the Western H. linois hospital for the insane at Wa tertown, committed suicide in his bed room by shooting himself in the mouth.
 - Charles W.AMorse of New York changes his plans on his arrival at Liverpool and sails at once for home.
 A big navy and big army are the causes of the present peace between the United States and Japan, in the opinion of President Roosevelt. He l outlined his belief to members of the house committee on naval affairs in arguing in favor of an appropriation for four new battleships.
 Judge James Hargis, who met death at the hands of his son, was buried in the little family burial ground on the q the north fork of the Kentucky river. Near by are the graves of Hargis' three brothers, all of whom died of bullet wounds inflicted by enemies.
 Ten men were imprisoned and all are believed to have been killed as the result of an explosion at the Port Hood (N. S.) coal mines. Seven bod ies have been taken out.
 Friendless and penniless when he came to this country, J. P Daniels was adopted by the Indians. Later he married tribal maiden. Now he is worth $150,000 through dealing in oil lands in Oklahoma.
 Jose Brusseso, with stilletto, and Frank Ferro, with razor, locked themselves in a room in Dubois Pa, and fought a duel Ferro was killed and Brusseso was fatally wounded
 The Kentucky senate passed the bill providing that prisoners con demned to death shall be electrocuted instead of being hanged.
 Tom Mason of Mariana, Ark, placed the muzzle of a shotgun under his chin and struck the trigger with | an ax. His head was blown from his body.
 It is reported that Marsden J. Perry | of Providence, R. l., has sold his col lection of Shakespeare to J. Pierpont | Morgan for S125,000.
 Secretary Metcalf asks for $77,000- | 900 for improving the navy, but the appropriation committee is expected | to cut down his estimate of what vii be needed.
 Charles w. Morse, rated a few months ago as one of the country's