The Huttig news. (Huttig, Ark.) 1907-1955, 1908-03-28

which the boy lived before he was sent
to Pontiac.
Kentucky tobacco growers destroy
beds in panic over threats, while their
tenants flee the state.
Three factories in Joliet, H., are set
on fire and the owners are known as
signers of the local option petition.
New York's brittle-boned bootblack,
who survived GS fractures, is killed by
fall downstairs.
The Chinese government has invit-
ed the United States to send its bat
tleships to the ports of that empire
for a visit The invitation was ex-
tended through Minister WI, who pre-
scented it in person at the state de-
partment. 1t probably will be &C
copied.
Fire of unknown origin damaged
the factory of the Paducah Harness
and Saddlery Co. The loss is esti-
mated at $4,000, with insurance of
$4,000
Justice C1abaugh of the supreme
sued an order permanently enjoining
the American Federation Of Labor
from publishing the name Of the Buck
Stove and Range Co. of st. Louis in
the unfair list" of the Federation's
monthly magazine. The case will be
appealed.
The railroads west of the MISSISSIPPI
pi won their suits in the supreme
court of the United States against the
interstate commerce commission on
rates on meats west of the MISSISSIPPI
pi The court held there was no dis
elimination in rates in favor of
dressed meats and against livestock.
The most recent of hotels exclusive.
ly for women was opened the other
day in New York. 1t is for working
girls earning not more than $40 a
week. 1t is non-sectarian and is to
be maintained by the young people of
the Epworth league of New York.
Two hundred and seyentv-ive are
reported lost in a collision in a fog
off the Japanese coast near Hakodate
between the Matsu Maru and the
Hideyoshi Maru, both Japanese steam
ships. The Matsu Maru was sunk.
Banker Rochelle, one of the best
known financiers in France, was ar
rested charged with swindles involv-
ing more than $12,000,000.
Refusing to take a dare, William
Kelly. q, timekeeper at the steel
plant at Lorain, O., climbed an elee-
trio pole and clutching a live wire to
keep from falling, was electrocuted.
He died a few hours after being taken
from the pole. Kelly's WIFE who had
been seriously i'll, is not expected to
live.
The king of Italy has surrendered
to Cupid. 1t is semi-officially an
nounced that the king has withdrawn
all opposition, if he has had any, to
the marriage of his cousin, the Duke
q. nDruzzf, 70 MISS Katherine Elkins.
daughter of the United States sena-
ter.
The roughness and smuggling"
which have characterized basket bali
this year among the colleges have
caused comment among the authori-
ties, and if a change is not made next
year there is possibility of the fac
ulties interfering and stopping the
game.
Policeman Daniel d. Thomas OF
Wilkesbarre, Pa, has received a let
l.; L,
testifies against John Boner, who is
charged with the murder of his broth
er, Leo Boner. The letter is unsigned.
The police are now making an effort
to discover the writer. Thomas says
he is not frightened.
Mrs. Fannie Pew, who recently died
in Lexington, KY, and who was prom
inent in the social and church life
of Lexington, is credited by Curt Jet,
the notorious Breathitt county muir
derer, now serving a life sentence n
the penitentiary, with having been the
instrument of his reform and CONVEX
sion to the Christian faith.
Five posses searched in vain for the
two bandits who held up the officers
OF the Davis bank at Hoffman, Okla,
and secured $1,000, all the money
that was in sight. 1t is said that
Henry Starr and kid" Wilson, two
of the gang that recently robbed the
Tyro (kas) bank, are responsible for
the Hoffman robbery.
Thirty thousand men in ST. Louis
are out of jobs, according to State La
Dor Commissioner Hitler. In the
heaviest week of last year, manufact-
uring concerns employed 1871 per-
sons in st. Louis and the commission
er thinks that about 10000 of these
are idle and another 10000 working
on half time.
William Dulaney, the negro barber
who has been at the White House
ever since Mr. Roosevelt became pres
ident, has laid aside the official razor
to become a bookkeeper in the office
of the auditor of the navy. His ap-
pointment, which carries with it a
salary of $1,000, was made at the re-
quest of the president several days
ago.
REPRESENTATIVE Tilley has Dractica1