The Huttig news. (Huttig, Ark.) 1907-1955, 1908-03-07


(Ark) lumber companies feud, has
been found with his wife at Clarks.
La. 1t was believed his body had been
burned in a furnace.
Two of the big government depart
ments are to be brought into the glare
of the senate searchlight and exam
ined in regard to alleged sins of omis-
sion and commission in connerfioa
with the administration of affairs or
certain of the Indians belonging to the
Five Civilized Tribes in Oklahoma.
1t is practically assured that Presi-
dent Roosevelt will send a special mes
sage to congress urging that it pass
anti-injunction, employers liability,
tariff commission and other legislation,
the need of which was set forth forcl-
bly, in his INSTRUMENTATION mes
sage submitted in January.
The case of the commonwealth
against Beach Hargis, charged with
the murder of his father former Judge
James F. Hargis, one of the principals
in the Breathitt county feuds, WAS
called before Judge Adams. Attorney
A. Floyd Bird was engaged by the citi-
zens of Jackson to prosecute IIargis
and will assist the counsel for the
state of Kentucky.
Judge Lebbeus r. Whitley Of st.
Louis was declared by President
Roosevelt Monday to be innocent of
the charges made against his official
conduct as judge of the United States
court at Shanghai, China.
If the New York. New Haven &
Hartford Railroad Co. insists on ell
forcing the piece work and bonus
systems. the members of its shop
crafts declare that there will be 4
strike in all their departments.
The administration is preparing to
bring pressure upon President Castro,
with the view of compelling hiI y
do justice to American corporations
and individuals who have been de-
prived of their investments in Nene-
zuela, and whose property has BEEN
taken away in arbitrary fashion.
News of the frightful tortu"es TO
which Correspondent Edwin Levin OF
the Frankfurter Volstimme, prisoner
at Mansk, Russia, has been subjected
by the cars officials, has just reached
Berlin and serious trouble between
the two governments is threatened
over the affair.
The National Cash Register Co..
largest in the world, has shut down
for an indefinite period, throwing 5000
employees out of work. Lack of orders
is given as the cause.
Rev. T. H. Rice, pastor OF the Bap-
fist church at Columbus, Kas., was
convicted on statutory charge and
sentenced to an indefinite term in the
penitentiary Mrs. Rice charged that
he sent her and their children away
and during their absence lived with
another woman.
Great Northern and te1egraphers
reach an agreement by which the road
will comply with the nine-hour law
and will not cut wages.
Bird census of Illinois, as taken
under the state entomologist's direc-
lions, determines that the English
sparrow is not a great foe to insect
pests.
Appointment of receivers for the
Mechanics and Traders bank in New
York develops the fact that the re.
ceiverships have become the subject
of political fray between Tammany and
Attorney General Jackson's friends.
Insurance men are studying the er-
fects of the recent Dayton motor car
| fire on REINFORCED concrete.
Speaker Edward d. Shurtleff of the
Illinois house of representatives is
out of the race for the governorship.
He withdrew in favor of former Gov.
Yates.
Judge Peter S. Grosscup. co-defend-
! ant to manslaughter charges arising
from the Nation trolley wreck, was
freed by Judge Thompson. The in
dictments against him were quashed.
Charged with numbering her hus-
| band, whose dead body was found near
his home three weeks ago, and who
was believed to have committed sui
eide, Mrs. VIII Watts of Dresden,
Tenn, has been arrested upon a war
rant sworn out by her daughter, Mrs
| Mary Bolin.
While the shah was driving through
the streets of Teheran in an auto
bomb was hurled at him. He es-
capped uninjured, but three outriders
were killed and number of persons
| injured. The would-be assassin of the
monarch escaped and there is no clew
to his identity.
E. P. Ripley, president of the Santa
Fe railroad, denies that any intima-
ton had reached him that he is to be
asked to retire from the presidency
of the road at the next meeting of the
directors in July.
Japan which has never before per-
mitted foreign soldiers to fight under
her banners, is prepared now to &C.
cept the services of mercenaries from
other lands. The new army and navy