The Huttig news., 1908-04-04


risks, except in the cities of Louis
Vile, Lexington, Greensboro and Pa
ducah. The amount to be Cancelled is
said to be about 100000.
Archbishop Ireland writes letter
to the clergy and laity of his archdio-
cese, declaring that America leads all
other nations in the race to do honor
to the empire Of divorce.
Fright occasioned by small fire
at her home caused the sudden death
of Mrs. Anna L. Brown at Browns
dale. w. Va. She was 6S, the wife
of the Hon. w. F. Brown, one of the
most prominent men of the vicinity.
In order to combat the wave OF
prohibition in Oregon, the wholesale
liquor dealers of the state have an
nounced that they would take steps to
weed out the bad saloons and place
the business on footing that would
call forth the least opposition. An
official statement from the Oregon
State Brewers association lines the
liquor men up with the very issues
that have been urged by the reform
erS.
]. Pierpont Morgan shows himself
the accomplished courtier; when
Queen Alexandria admires a minia-
ture he promptly presents it to her.
Honors and offices held by the late
duke Devonshire will soon be re-
turned to king and conferred upon
others.
Mysterious woman who lived at
Cambridge, Mass, for years, and who
always went about thickly yelled, is
found after her death to be a negress.
Suit that attacks state control in
any way, and denies right of the
Nebraska railway commission to reg
ulate traffic, rates or service, is be
gun by the Missouri Pacific road.
Pennsylvania railway fixes upon
plan for the ventilation of its cars and
coaches, after expanding 100000 in
experiments; system adopted wins ap-
prevail of the health commissioner of
Chicago.
Large dealers in New York get APP
parently correct intimatiOn that the
price of ice is to be raised &C per
cent
Thomas w. Lawson's call to the
public to buy Yukon gold shares
brings 5000 persons to the curb mar
ket and extra police are called in to
quell the riot.
Troops have been ordered from
Fort Seward, at Haines, Alaska, to
preserve order at the Treadwell mines
on Douglas island, where 500 miners
are out on strike. The strikers have
stolen large quantities of powder from
the mine stores and threaten to de-
stroy the works if the non-unionists
| are landed.
Thirty-three Armenians have been
| butchered and eight wounded by Bas-
f.ree ysassshtu -fUI-
lowing the shooting of government
spy by an Armenian revolutionary.
Silverstein, the anarchist who ex-
ploded a bomb at the demonstration
York Union square, and who was ter
ribly mangled by the bombs prema-
ture explosion is still alive and may
recover.
The Chapman & Dewey Lumber
Co. of Kansas City, Mo-, pleaded
guilty Monday in Judge Dyer's court
at ST. Louis to accepting rebates on
| lumber shipments from the Frisco
railroad from points in Arkansas to
st. Louis. A fine of $4,000 was i'm
| posed.
After an absence of ~ years from
the halls of congress, John M. Stew
art of Vermont Monday realized his
| life's ambition when he was sworn in
as United States senator to fill the
unexpired term of Senator Proctor.
After ten years of leadership Of the
! United Mine Workers of America.
! John Mitchell Tuesday retired from
the head of the great labor organiza-
ton, succeeded by Vice President
| Thomas L. Lewis Of Ohio.
Without exhibiting the faintest
signs of emotion, Chester Gillette was
put to death in the electric chair at
Auburn, N. Y, Monday morning. With
almost his last breath he confessed
that he killed Grace Brown, his sweet
heart, whose body was found in Big
Moose lake OF July II, 1907.
One Of the siX-inch broadside guns
on the battleship Missouri blew up
while that vessel was at target prac-
| tice in Magdalena Bay Monday No
one was injured. The gun blew its
muzzle off. The fracture was a clean
one, indicating that there was no flaw
in the gun or the metal.
The president has decided to ap-
| point former Assistant Secretary of
State Francis B. Loomis to the posi-
ton OF commissioner general of the
United States to the Toxic exposition
of 1912. The place will pay $4,000 a
year and will be created as soon as
congress passes the bill appropriating
| 100000 for our participation in the
| Japanese show.
Premier Sir Henry Campbell-Ban-
herman has developed a serious case