The Huttig news., 1908-01-04


 Smith, citizen, had Teen murdered in Chinese restaurant. Mobs of sew eral hundred persons descended on the oriental quarter ard smashed the doors and windows and in some cases the entire fronts of buildings.
 A foot and part of a mans leg | were found in a sacK which had been | thrown into the yard of the Pitts burg Plate Glass Co. at Ford City, Pa. From the sack emanated strong odor of acid. Buggy tracks leading to the river caused the authorities to | believe that the rest of the body was | thrown into the river. There is no clew.
 Under orders from the pope, Car dinal Ferrari, archbishop of Milan, has published from the pulpit of the cathe- l dral of Milan the edict of 'the greater eXcommunication" against all con- cerned in the publication of the monthly review, Il RinnoTammeto. l The pronunciation, among other | things, deprives those against whom it is directed of Christian burial, and relieves the faithful of all duties re- garding the bodies and souls of those denounced, whether The are alive or dead
 Heavy endorsements were dis patched to guard over the Russian consulate at Urun.iah, Persian Ar menia, where utter anarchy prevails. Murders are being committed by the score and bandits are attacking every caravan which enters the country.
 Sixteen mills of the Laughlin tin plant of Martins Ferry, O., resumed work, after an idleness of several weeks. An order was also given to repair the furnace of the other seven mills.
 Too i'll to stand while speaking to the jury, Clarence Darrow, chief coun- sel for the defense in the Pettibone trial at Boise, Idaho, sat in his chair Thursday afternoon as he outlined his case. He spoke with effort at times and never raised his voice above a conversational tone. The members of the jury and an audience that crowded the courtroom listened to every word from the Chicago attorneys lips as he explained the theory of the defense. Darrow's statement made it evident of defense will be followed as in the Haywood trIai.
 E. G. Steadman, a lawyer, made his way from among crowd of women on the platform of the subway at Fourteenth street, New York, leaped to the tracks in front of moving local train and was killed. Steadman was rated to be worth in excess of $7,000,000. He was a brother of Ed mund c. Steadman, poet-banker.
 President Roosevelt wired Governor Sparks of Nevada that unless Govern or Sparks issues a call within five days for special session of the leg islature, the troops sent to Goldf1eld on account of the fear of miners riots there will be withdrawn. He ordered Gen. Funston to disregard his previous instructions to withdraw the troops, and to leave them in Goldfield five days longer.
 
 shot and killed his 5-year-old boy, having mistaken him for burglar The child was walking in his sleep. The parents were awakened by noise in the room and seeing the out line of a figure near the window, they concluded it was that of bur glar.
 Unofficial returns of the vote in a majority of the districts of the United Mine Workers of America on success sor to John Mitchell as president show the election of T. L. Lewis of Bridge port, Ohio, by many thousands. Off, cial results will not be announced till the convention meets at Indianapolis, January 21.
 A murder, combining the elements of mystery and deliberate cruelty that make it out of the ordinary, was con- mitted on the Hackensack Meadows in the town of Harrison, N. J., Thurs day, and the nude body of the victim, a comedy woman of perhaps 30 years, nearly submerged in the icy waters of little pond. Only the feet projected when chance passersby broke the ice in which the exposed portions were incrusted and dragged the body ashore.
 It was announced that the St. Jo- seph Lead Go. and the Doe Run Lead Go. at Bonne Terre, Mo-, which have been working on half time during the past thirty days, will resume work at full time Jan. l.
 Papers have been drawn up by Ward, Mellen & Woodbridge, attor- neys, "at the instance of certain gen. tlemen in New England" in a suit to question the legality of President Roosevelt's summary dismissal of the negro regiments after the Brownsville affray of August 13, 1906. They have selected the case of Oscar w. Reid, a private in Company c, Twenty-ffth infantry, and purpose to bring action in the United States district court of the Southern district of New York. | OminorS threats are heard on all