The Huttig news., 1908-01-25

| a year, accidentally met dn a hotel in San Francisco. They had been | travelling and neither know the where | abouts of the other. When they came face to face both expressed surprise, 1 and in less than minute had made up and started anew together.
 Judge Dana, in the Shawnee county district court at Topeka, Kas., as sessed fine of $12,6 against the h. ternational Harvester Co., which the court found guilty on forty-three | counts of violating the Kansas anti 1 trust law. The maximum fine is S1,- 900 count and the minimum S1G0. | Daniel O'Reilly, counsel for Harry Thaw, announces in New York that Evelyn Nesbit Thaw will tell her story in public for a second time. American National Red Cross is to | inaugurate general campaign for in- crease of membership.
 Rush of emigrants to Europe for January shows big increase.
 After March l, when the nine-hour day for railway telegraphers goes into effect, the roads will use phones in many stations, giving employment to women and displacing telegraph op- orators; and use of block signals will cause the closing of many small sta- tions.
 Amalgamated Association of Street 1 Car Men is enforcing a boycott at Muncie Ind, that is paralyzing the business of the town.
 Expectation is that state primary law will be passed in Kansas, in which event it is said Senator Long will fail of election for another term and old political machine will be wrecked.
 Secret preparations are being made to elevate Mrs. Augustus Stetson of New York city to the supreme leader ship of the Christian Science church. | The prime movers in the scheme are convinced that the venerable Mrs. Mary Baker c. Eddy is close to death
 The attorney general announced that, pending a decision Of the su- preme court as to the provision of the Hepburn law which requires railroads to dispose of their coal mine holdings by May of this year, the government will not prosecute the roads for fail ure to obey the law.
 Augustus Hartje has at last decided to abandon his litigation to obtain a divorce from his wife, Mrs Mary Scott Hartje.
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 More than 100,000000 ties were used in railroad construction and renewals during the year 1906, according to a circular issued under the joint auspices of the Forest Service and Census Bureau of the government. The | figures show that approximately three l fourths of the ties were hewed and l the others sawed, while the average l price paid per tie was AS cents. Charged with having operated upon l and wilfully caused the death of a woman hospital patient while he was under the influence of drugs, Dr. P. H. Dahl, one of the wealthiest and most prominent surgeons in Northwestern Iowa, is under arrest at Fort Dodge. Mrs. Herbert M. Sears of the well known and wealthy family of that plunging from window of her apart ment on the thirteenth floor of the Hotel St. Regis, to the Fifth avenue pavement, in New York.
 Practically all the leading financiers of New York have been summoned as | 11ri+y in hn ifcy Nf 1,1, s. Ochs, proprietor of the New York Times, against William H. Hearst and Arthur Brisbane, seeking $400,000 damages. There are four suits in all, each for $100,000. Their trial prom ises to give New York it's greatest court sensation of the kind in years
 AS result of a decision handed down by Justice Hough in the United States circuit court B. H. Hartman will be compelled to appear before the interstate commerce commission and answer all questions put to him save Union Pacific and Southern Pacific stock in connection with the dividend of August, 1906. In the same order, Justice Hough directed that Otto H. Kuhn of Kuhn, Loeb & Co.,, do like wise.
 England is alarmed for Japan's fu- ture. British statesmen think the combined political and financial crisis there about the most serious any na- tion could possibly face. It needed only a glance at the country's balance sheet to tell some time ago just what was coming, but no one seemed to ap- preciate the imminence of the danger.
 Mae Wood, in her divorce suit in New York, declares Senator Platt paid S10000 for the return of letters.
 Plans are under way for the boring of test oil well in White county, H. linois, and nearly $5,000 has been sub- scribed in Carmi. The first well will be put down in Emma township, to a depth of 2,50O feet if necessary. The Jennings interests of PittSburg have