The log cabin Democrat., 1908-01-23
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| lOuSl Ol AIkdllSdS lIdNtltu all UllC way from Wynne, Ark, to Belleville, lH., to plead for two young negroes, who were charged with holding up Louis Freiberg, an East St. Louis saloonkeeper. The negroes are Lucky Pullie and John Inman, 19 and 20 years old, respectively. The formers parents were owned by the father of Mr. Killough. When Pullie was ar rested he wrote to MT. KillOugh who pleaded with County Judge Hay for leniency. The negroes were allowed to plead guilty to petit larceny and were fined $15 each The 20 days jail sentence was stayed Mir. Xii tough paid the fines and took the ne- groes back to Arkansas.
 A bill designed to prevent inter- ference with the state rate statutes during the pendency of trials has been introduced by Representative Hackney of Missouri. It provides that no Circuit or District Court of the United States shall have power to issue any temporary writ or or der restraining any state officials, | boards or commissions from enfOrc- ing any statute of the state pending federal litigation to determine the validity or constitutionality of that statute; or shall have the. power to issue any order restraining such otfi- cials or boards from enforcing their judgments or decisions rendered by state authority pending federal hti- gation.
 An address on the silver question, which proposes congressional en- actment having for this purpose re- lief of the financial stress, has been approved by the Board of Governors and commercial clubs and sent to the Utah delegation in Congress. With the address is sent a personal letter to each of Utah's representa- tives in Congress, asking that he do all in his power to support the legls- lation suggested. The address de- clares that "between 1873 and 1896, because of the demonetization of sil- yer mines in the West lost quite $35O,OO0, ,O00."
 The day of the clipper ship seems to be returning. Closely following the arrival of the Glendoon, with her records of 35 days from Capetown, comes the British ship King George, which has arrived at New York. only 1O7 days out from Hongkong. This is the fastest passage that has been made in years between the Chinese port and New York. The distance sailed by the King George from port to port was given by Capt. White as about 16,OOO miles and her best days run as 325 miles. She brought mat tings.
 "Toters" of pistols will have stren- uous work, according to measure embodied in an original bill to be in- troduced in the present Mississippi legislature. It is made legal to car " concealed weapons provided they are more than two feet in length. Rev. Dr. w. l.. Hunnicutt, well- known Methodist divine, is behind the bill. pr. Hunnicutt has raised the limit of recent legislation en- acted in Alabama which provides that pistols carried as weapons shall be "nQt less than 24 inches in length"
 At joint session at Charlotte, N, C., of the soft and hard yarn spin ners and the North Carolina cotton manufacturers, resolutions were adopted by which the spinners of the South pledge themselves to shut down their mills for 30 days, begin ming February 1 or curtail produc- tion 50 per cent during the months of February and March.
 James G. Darden of Albuquerque, N. M., who is suing for divorce, says the woman now his wife prom ised him $1OO,O00 if he would mar " her, but has given him only $S1,- 900. Mrs. Darden filed a cross-bill to her husbands petition in which she asked for an injunction to re- strain Mir. Darden from disposing of any of his property, all of which she