The Huttig news., 1908-01-04
NEWS OF THE WEEK
THE LATEST NEWS OF THE
 WORLD BRIEFLY TOLD.
NORTH, EAST, WEST, SOUTH
Foreign Lands Throughout the Ma tion and Particularly From the
 Great Southwest.

Borrowing over his sons disgrace, Ira c. Hoops, 60 years old, wealthy attorney of Kokomo, Ind, committed suicide at his home in West Taylor street Unobserved by members of his family, MT. Hoops quietly entered the parlor, made pillow of his over coat, lay down before the grate and fired a shot from a revolver into his right temple. The bullet killed him instantly.
 The old battleship Hero, of the British navy, has been battered into scrap iron by modern shell fire rained into her by two of the newest men, owar in King Edwards feet. The twenty-year-old warship, long since useless as a fighting machine, has shared the fate of the veteran Bellisle, which two or three years ago sacri- feed to modern gunnery.
 Mrs. Laura M. Carter, in whose apartment Chester B. Runyan, the teller of the Windsor Trust Co.,, con- cealed himself after making away with $96,000 of the company's funds, has brought suit against the trust com pany for $7,950 which she claims is due her as reward for delivering up the defaulting teller. Against this action the trust company has brought suit to recover $25,000 from her, al- leging that she and Runyan were in a conspiracy to rob the institution and that this $25,000 was lavished upon her by Runyan.
 Active construction work has been begun on the telephone lines which are to connect Annoy with Tsuen Chou Flu, fifty miles to the north, and Chang Chou Flu, thirty miles to the west.
 Horace Mckinley, wanted in Oregon in connection with the land fraud troubles in that state, who escaped on Nov. II last from the Manchurian authorities at Mukden, where he was incarcerated pending the arrival of an officer from America, has been recap tured at Harbin.
 Women stenoographers and type writers are not wanted for the gov ernment service on the Panama canal or in the Philippine Islands. This announcement is made in black type in a circular of the civil service con- mission. announcing a general exam ination for stenographer and typewrit- CT to be held Jan. 27 in various parts of the country.
 While the 3-year-old son of Alfred Thomas of West Scranton was play ing at the home of a neighbor, he blew off the head of Annie McNally, his 6-year-old little friend, with a shot gun. The gun was left within reach of the children, and the boy could not lift it from the floor, but in some man. ner he managed to pull the trigger, with the tragic result related.
 By an order entered in circuit court, all claims for damages against the Illinois Traction Co. as a result of the interurban wreck of Aug. 30, in which IS were killed and 50 injured, are settled on basis of S41,O00, and prosecution is dropped. This is about IF per cent of the claims.
 Line officers in the navy declare the statute of 1899 exl ressly forbids such appointments as thac whicE caused the resignation of Admiral Brownson
 New marriage license law in New York requiring that both bride and groom must apply in person fer per init to wed goes into effect.
 Governor Hughes, it is said, will recommend that the office of state superintendent be abolished and the work done by three commissioners at salaries of $12,000 to $15,000 each.
 In a toast to Admiral Dewey on the occasion of his roth birthday an niversary, President Roosevelt says that of all living Americans, he has brought greater glory to the nation
 Five persons were burned to death in fire which destroyed the house of John Clark at Wa.ertown, suburb of Boston. Every member of the Clark family met death in the flames.
 Twenty persons were killed in a railroad, collision near Libbiana, in
 
 Europeans and the rest are natives. The crash was between two nassen- ger trains. Both were running 30 miles an hour.
 J. B. Cain, convicted of the murder of Frank Morris, a mine operator, and sentenced to life imprisonment, cut his throat with razor in the Polk county Qowa) jail an hour before he was to leave for the penitentiary. He secured the razor from the jailer te shave.
 Depleted treasury balance may cause Cortelyou to ask bankers tt pay up deposits they hold.
 Discovery of antimony in army bull lets points to guilt of negro soldier: in Brownsville raid.
 Arkansas mob chases sheriff witl negro to state prison gates.
 Photographers are said to be secret ly reorganizing with view to calling another strike in June.
 Judge Wood denied the motion filet
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