The Huttig news., 1908-01-18

press on the Wabash railroad plowed through a passing Panhandle freight train at the junction in Logansport, Ind The brakes on the passenger train failed to work. The engineer and fireman jumped and escaped in- juries. Five freight care were de- | molished.
 A light engine on the Erie railroad blew up near the Hackensack (N. J) bridge, killing Fireman o. Wagner and injuring three other men. Engineer G. Waidler had stopped, supposedly to l make some minor repairs, and was standing beside the engine when it went up.
 Sixteen children were trampled to death and forty others, several of whom can not live, were injured in a mad rush for better seats at an en- tertainment given in the public hall at Barnsley, England.
 For the twenty-seventh time Oscar L. Darling, a civil engineer and in- ventor of Amityville, L. l., las be- come a father. Twenty of his chil-
 
 and has twice welded. His first wife was Hannah Smith of Flushing, L. T., whom he welded in 1864. She bore him fifteen children and died in 1884. Ten of these children are living.
 The Count Laszlo Jeno Maria Hen rik Czechenyi and Miss Gladys Moore Vanderbilt appeared at the city clerks office in New York and obtained li- cense to marry. The application blank they presented was filled out in ad- vance.
 Failing in his effort to effect a rec onciliation with his wife, Mrs. Kath- leen Martin, who had just obtained a decree of separation from him, Arthur J. Martin, 26 years old, son of wealthy commission merchant, shot and dangerously wounded her in his rooms in the St. George hotel, Brook lyn. Turning the revolver on himself, he fired bullet into his brain, dying almost instantly.
 In a difficulty in Denton county, Texas, Jim Jons, white farmer, shot and killed Charles Smith and Everett Reed, fatally wounded Mort Moore and slightly wounded another man, ali negroes.
 Thirty-one words, a postscript to an old letter, has been admitted for pro- bate as a will in Pittsburg, Pa, in spite of the fact that only the initial "S' is signed to it. It was proven by 1000 old prescriptions that the late Dr. William G. Simcox simply used the initial as his signature and the court accepted it as such to the will which disposed of an estate valued at $50,000.
 Pietro Saroochi, an ironworker, and his wife, Reina, fought a duel to the death in their little four-room cottage in Oakland, Cal. He was armed with large butcher knife and she with a razor. After battling for fifteen or twenty minutes the husband finally slew the wife and cut his own throat from ear to ear, expiring on her dead body.
 With the New Year new brand of justice has been inaugurated in the police court of Cleveland No man is to be deprived of that priceless boon of citizenship liberty, except as the last resort. Convictions can not be obtained without evidence such as would hold in higher court. The tra- ditional offhand grind" of police court is relegated to the discard. Hearsay testimony is swept aside. Nora Turner, 20, was acquitted in the Williamson county Qll.) circuit court of the charge of murdering her | fiance, Robert Kennedy, who in a dy- ing statement said that the girl shot 1 him. Her defense was that he shot her and then himself.
 | Seven persons were killed and a score injured when passenger train on the Alabama 6 Mississippi rail- I road dashed into log train near Vine l gar Bend, Ala. Five of the dead were | convicts. Hardly a person in the pas senger train escaped injury. The terrific coast storm which has | been raging for nearly three days con- | tinues to sweep the waters of the Baltic far inland The rolling plains III luo VlClulIy Ol LuDSCh, doi ulduy, 1, which Is higher than the neighboring towns, is suffering from the flood. What is probably a unique occur renee, happened at the Birkenfeld In- l firmary, Berlin. pr. Merli, who was | performing an operation on a child, died suddenly of heart disease. No other surgeon was present and the chlld died before another one could be | procured.
 I An execution against former Sena- l tor Joseph R. Burton of Kansas for | the fine of $2,500 imposed in the Unit | ed States district court, where he was convicted of representing get-rich- | quick concerns before the postoffice department, was asked by United States District Attorney Henry W. Blodgett of James R. Gray, clerk of the United States circuit court. MT. Gray
 was clerk of the district court at the | time of Burton's conviction. | Three persons were killed and IS | more or less severely injured fin the