The Huttig news., 1908-02-01

| 1 special French district In the Moose | jaw region in Canada, and extensive | immigration to the new province is | expected.
 l Society of Authors of London plans | to pay homage to George Meredith, it's president, on the occasion of his SOth | birthday.
 1 Five hundred pounds of dynamite l in box car at the mining town of l Hooking, two miles from Albia, Ia, ex- 1 ploded during fire which started in | the company's store. Five men were l injured and s60,00O worth of property | destroyed
 Liberal-unionists make important gains in parliamentary elections in England, carrying campaign on tariff Burglars forced an entrance into the postoffice at Bradner, small town | near Toledo, O., wrecked the safe and escaped with $500 worth of stamps and | $100 in cash. According to estimates by owners and insurance men, $100,000 was the amount of damage done by the fire which destroyed two blocks of build ings early Saturday, in Madison, H., and was only prevented from sweeping the entire business section by the 1S- inch wall of the First National bank. Chancellor D. Benjamin Andrews of the University of Nebraska discussing the presidential candidates, says that no matter who wins, the country will be in safe hands.
 Thi.omas Witnerell Palmer celebrates his 18th birthday at Detroit, and is congratulated by his friends through. out the state and nation.
 Heavy fog over London does great damage, interfering with business and work of burglars.
 The Rev. J. w. O'Bryant, who has been pastor of the Hyde Park Meth odist church, St. Joseph, Mo-, has re- signed to become a street car con ductor on a suburban line there. He says he can make more money as con- ductor than as preacher. A band of 100 night riders burned a large tobacco barn on the farm Of James A. Coleman, in the southern part of Christian county, Ky. It con tained 15000 pounds of tobacco Believing that his illness would re- suit fatally, John Fetter, aged 73 years, confessed that he murdered his daugh- ter. Ella Fetter, aged 39 years, in November, 1894.
 Four firemen were killed and 20 seriously injured by falling walls at Baltimore in what was the greatest fire the city has experienced since the conflagration of 1904. Cables received in Chicago tell of the romantic elopement from the villa of her husband in Hyeres, France. of Mrs. Henry Addison Alexander. daugh- ter of the late General Joseph Tor renee, millionaire iron master of Chi cago.
 Two definite movements were start ed e5 lsks 5S6H ssteeseA sE tirement from the leadership of the United Mine Workers, a professional adviser for life for organized labor. Judson Harmon in an address at Nashville, Tenn, ascribes the recent | financial troubles and commercial dis tresses to the high tariff. which he says feeds trusts.
 Raub Cunningham, young man Of | Flora, H., who recently went to Louis
 vile, Ky, to receive treatment in sanitarium shot himself in the head
 and died five hours later. Despond- | ency is supposed to have been the
 cause.
 | Two unidentified Americans, young man and young woman, apparently on their bridal tour, were eaten by alligators in the Balsas river, stream forming the boundary between the states of Michoacan and Guererra, | Mexico.
 The president has used the "short-
 CT and uglier word" in answer to the
 charges that he has been using fed
 eral patronage to bring about the nom-
 ination of Secretary of War Taft for
 the presidency In letter written to
 personal friend in Indiana, MT.
 Roosevelt says, touching the federal
 patronage charge: 1t Is an unquali | fled lie"
 The announcement is authorized at
 the war department that Governor Ma
 goon and Colonel Crowder, legal ad
 wiser of the Cuban government, have
 been requested to come to Washing
 ton at once for conference with the
 president.
 James Van Hise of Newark, N. J.
 has officiated at 87 hangings he has
 conducted. Saverio Curcio was the
 man executed, having slain Nicholas
 Farrian.
 Charles B. Morrison special govern
 ment prosecutor in the Standard Oi
 suit, will oppose the government in
 Santa Fe rebate case on issues almos
 identical.
 Two negroes were killed and 8 thirt
 wounded in a battle with guards while
 dynamite the factory of the Hays-Sar Tobacco Co. at Clarksville, Tenn. Frank Brady. a well known adves