The Carlisle independent., 1906-05-24

The Columbia will stop at Guantana. mo. Cuba fer final orders.
 Charlotte, N. C., held four days celebration of the one hundred and thirty-frst anniversary of the signing of the Mecklenburg Gec,aTation of inde- pendence, promulgated there May 20 TITS. The president extended official recognition by sending federal troops ard the Marine band to grace the occa- sion.
 The St Petersburg correspondent of the London Daily Telegraph declares that the days of the Russian pariia- ment are numbered; that in the eyes of the court party it is already dead, the only question not solved being how and when to arrange decent burial.
 Mark Wilson, his brother, West Will son, ard Arthur West were found shot to death, with revolvers lying beside them, in a warehouse owned by Mark Wilson, prominent merchant at Lynn vile. Ky The details of the tragedy will probably always remain mys- | tery.
 The navy department at Washing ! ton has been advised that 23 Ameri- can sailors were mobbed by natives at Guantanamo, Cuba, and that all were more or less severely wounded. | One was shot, the rest being clubbed, stabbed or hacked with machetes. | Upwards of 100 dwellings and dog l en business houses at Stanley, Wis, were destroyed by fire that at one time threatened to sweep the entire town. The loss is estimated at s300,- 00o
 The association of German metal working establishments has voted to lock out 60 per cent. of the workmen, June 2, in order to counteract the strikes in various cities.
 William H. Kuhn, aged 73, who helped lay out the city of Denver, Col, died at his home near Council Bluffs, 1 Ia.
 It transpires that the records in over 100000 cases of citizenship were destroyed by fire in San Francisco, the political importance of which can hardly be overestimated.
 Julius Kahn, president of the Cash Buyers National Cooperative soci- ety, which failed last winter, was ar rested in Chicago, on an indictment found by the federal grand jury charging him with having used the mails to defraud
 Marathon, Wis, had big lumber fire that destroyed about 3,000,000 feet, and owing to the extreme dry ness and surrounding forest fires the town was placed in imminent peril. Fire destroyed the plant of the Boone (Ia.) Cereal Co.,, owned by Fred Fear & Co.,, of New York city. The loss is placed at s105, 900; insurance, s43250 Dan Weston, an employe was injured.
 The general assembly of the South ern Presbyterian church is in session at GreenvlIle. 8. C., with 210 commission CTS. representing every one of the s l presbyteries of the south, in attend ! ance
 l George w. Jiminez, the New York policeman who went to Panama to re- organize the police department of that republic, has given up the job, declar- ! A4o lA4Gl pC!lllEdl IOl4SlOCl dlAOuS lGAOGt the task impossible.
 United States Marshal Darrough is l confident that it is only a question of a short time now until the three Wick l life brothers, the Cherokee outlaws, are either killed or captured.
 Fourteen men were injured, three fla tally in the National tube works at ] Par1rrnnI Uo Nv of scaffold, on which they were at work, under the weight of a huge casting.
 Prof. Paul s. Reinsch of Madison, Wis, has been appointed one of the American delegates to the Pan Ameri- can conference at Rio Janeiro, in place | of James s. Harlan, who has been obliged to decline, owing to an accident
 President Roosevelt, speaking to a i delegation of the Merchant Marine league who called upon him at the 1 White House, expressed himself as heartily in favor of the ship subsidy bill now pending h congress. 1 Rev. Dr. Hunter Cerbett, a distin- | guished missionary to China for many years, was chosen moderator of the ! ACSOy lClldu al cSoS1Dly at DtS Moines, la, after a spirited contest, on | the third ballot
 Rev Dr, J. J. Tigert, secretary of the l general conference; Rev. Dr. Seth Ward. of Texas, and Rev Dr. Joseph Atkins, Sunday-school editor, were elected bishops by the general confer ence of the Methodist Episcopal church south at Birmingham, Ala [ Two men, belonging to a construc- tien gang, were killed and five others injur', one fatally, by a prematura explosion of dynamite near Blooming ton, IIgsp OF ths line of the Indianap- i oils Southern railroad.
 Michael Davft, tRs well-known Irish nationalist, has had to submit to a sec ond operation for blood poisoning, and thougA in a very enfeebled condition, may have to submit to third, to save his life
 The National Society of Daughters of | Founders and Patriots held It's eighth annual meeting in Washington, D. C.. | Mra Henry V P0vutop wac e1actad