The Carlisle independent., 1906-03-15
GENERAL. NEWS ITEMS.

France has just suffered the worst mining calamity in her history. or 1900 men and boys who went into the network Of coal mines centerins at Courrieres, HOO lost their lives as the result of an explosion and the conse- quent accumulation Of afterdamp. Six thousand fathers. mothers, wives and children are bereayed.
 The anthracite mine operators have replied to the demands of the miners, refusing all of them, and offering as a counter proposition continuance of the terms of the anthracite coal strike commissions award for further term of three years.
 Gen. Joseph s. Gage died at San Jose, Cal, as the result of paralytic stroke. aged 67 years. He was a native of Maine, and had a good war record.
 The Chinese enlperor's illness is not very serious He is able to attend per formances in the palace theater.
 The Mount Hamilton stage was held up at Grand View. Cal. Daniel How ard and wife, of Brocton, Mass, and other eastern tourists occupied the ye- hicle. The amount of booty secured was not large.
 Two persons were killed and 15 in 1ured in a wreck of two freight trains ard a fast passenger train on the Balti- more 6 Ohio failroad near Bloom dale, O.
 Later reports of the casualties at the battle with the Moros at Mt. Dajo, on the island of Jolo, place the Moro loss at about 900, many of whom were wom- en and children, who accompanied the male members of the band into the for tified crater of Mt. Daio.
 Thomas R. McKenna, managing ed ftor of the Rocky Mountain News and Denver (Col) Times. died in Denver of Bright's disease, aged 45 years.
 Two Burlington passenger trains col 1ided head-on, on curve in a deep cut, two miles west of Akron, Col. One man was killed and four injured. The passengers escaped with a severe jolt ing.
 The Carson building. the largest in Amarillo, Tex, was destroyed by ire; loss, s100.G00.
 Bishop Potter, Of New York, is to succeed Bishop Leonard, in charge or the American Episcopal churches in Europe.
 Capt. Ward with detachment Of 40 artillerymen, Is going to Pekin the end of the month to guard the British legation there.
 Owing to .he failure of the wheat and barley harvest. terrible famine is imminent in Morocco.
 ALondon Daily Mail correspondent at Alseciras says that France has been coerced by the neutral powers into making concessions on the police ques- tion.
 Emperor William of Germany, it is announced, will, during the summer, gazette his brother, Prince Henry or Prussia. as commander-in-chief Of the entire German fleet in active service.
 In 9 race riot at Winner, Ala, 4. J. Ellis, an aged white man, was fatally wounded and several others more or less hurt. Four negroes were arrested.
 The three Missouri convicts found guilty of killing Guard Clay during the attempt to escape, some weeks ago, were sentenced to be hanged April 20, but an appeal to the supreme court will act as a stay until next fall at least.
 The New Jersey court of pardons has committed the sentence of Mrs. Tolla, who was condemned to death for killing Jos. Sonta, in defense of her honor, to seven years and six months imprison- ment
 The Washington Post has it figured out that Secretary Taft is to succeed Justice Brown. resigned. on the bench of the supreme court of the United States, and that in the event of the re tirement of Chief Justice Fuller during the present administration he is to step up.
 By the collapse of a gallery staging in Earl's mine at Raibl, in the district of Taryis, Austria, 40 miners and an engineer were killed.
 Weavers of Fall River, Bedford, Law ton and Lowell, Mass, and Baltic, Conn, have organized the National Federation of Weavers.