The Carlisle independent., 1906-11-08
AN EPiTOME OF THE MOST I'M. PORTANT EVENTS AT HOME
 AND ABROAD.
NORTH, EAST, WEST, SOUTH
A Carefully Dgestad and Condensed Compilation of Current News
 Items, Domestic and Foreign.
MISCELLANY EOUS.

MS. MdISdTel buSl, OI 1IS 1u6l, ~. Y, sister of Horace Greeley, died in that city, aged S3.
 A special board appointed by the secretary of the navy has under con sideration plans for the most power full battleship ever built. It will be far more powerful than the English Dreadnaught.
 The battleship Virginia was rammed in Hampton Roads by the Old Domin- ion liner Monroe. Neither vessel, it was believed, was seriously damaged.
 King Leopold of Belgium denies the charges of cruel treatment of Con- go natives. Every native, he says, is compelled to work 30 hours each month for the government, and to encourage them to labor over 30 hours each month the government pays them. We are really not so bad after all" says the king.
 William Greer died at his home near Mount Vernon, III. He was born November 24, 1900, and therefore lived in three centuries-3S days in the eighteenth century, 100 years in the nineteenth and almost six years in the twentieth.
 At Jackson, Miss, Mrs. Alice Byrd, divorced wife of a merchant, has been enjoined from passing in front of his store and telling customers he is a fraud" and cheat"
 St. Louis has been selected for the international balloon races for the James Gordon Bennett cup next year
 Not in years has London society supped so full of scandal as over the quarrel between the American duchess of Marlborough and her husband, the duke The duchess was formerly Consuelo Vanderbilt.
 It is the intention of the provisional government to have the American troops make extensive practice marches throughout Cuba. This should not be interpreted as a threat ening demonstration; the step is taken for it's moral effect on the restoration of confidence.
 Mrs. Edward Wilson Nye, widow of the famous Bill Nye, died at Avoca plantation, Louisiana, at the home Of her son-in-law. Eugene A. Pharr.
 Representative John Henry Ketch- am, of Dover Plains, N. Y, died of apo plexy at a hospital He was "A years old. and served many years in con- gress.
 At Atalntic City, N. J., Coroner Gas kill has announced that experts in his employ have decided that a loose ha sylyania railroad at the Thoroughfare draw, in which more than fifty per sons lost their lives.
 Principal Stevens of Eugene Field school, St. Louis, observes natal day of poet by testing knowledge of him among pupils.
 The various railroads in Missouri mitted to Folk for immigration com missioner.
 R. H. Murphy, granitoid walk con- tractor of Granite City, Ill, is held under peace bonds for menacing coun- cil.
 Plan for dealing with inebriates, made famous by Judge Pollard. of St.
 
 Merger of lines in Pennsylvania for carrying out the project of Joseph Ramsey, Jr., is finally approved by the governor.
 Michael Angelo's lost art rediscov- cred in the vatican by German artist. Gloss-like paint to reyolutionize mod ern frescoing.
 News has been received direct from Robert E. Peary, Arctic explorer, that he failed to reach the north pole, but made the record of "farthest north''- 81 degrees and six minutes, or about 203 miles. He was beyond the S5th where he found an open sea, but ter rife gales drove the ice eastward de- stroying his caches of food, cut off his communications, and compelled him to return. The secret of the north pole is still hidden, but an Amer ican now holds the honor of ''farthest north"
 The monthly circulation of the comptroller of the currency shows that at the close of business October 31, 1906, the total circulation of na- tional bank notes was S583, ,985, which is an increase as compared with October 31, 1905, of s5s,763, ,736, and an increase for the month of s9,- 26S,877.