The Carlisle independent., 1906-05-31
GENERAL NEws ITEMS.

Lightning struck a Missouri Pacific freight train near Jefferson City, Mo-, instantly killing w. H. Edwards, brakeman Several cars were slightly damaged.
 The anniversary of the battle of the Sea of Japan was celebrated in Tokio with brilliant festivities.
 For the first time in many years Louisville, Ky, experienced dry Sunday, the lid being down on every thing except hotels, drugstores and railroad and street car lines. The scheduled game of baseball between Toledo and Louisville was stopped in the first inning, and the park ordered closed
 James A Hayhurst, carpenter, who had been separated from his wife, at Memphis, Mo, shot and killed her and then killed himself.
 Mrs. Francis Ernest Drake, nee Col ten, of Chicago, wife of the director of the American electrical machinery de- partment at the Paris exposition of 1900, died in Berlin of heart failure.
 The Ogilvie eompany's grain elevator at Fort William, Ont, slid into the river. causing a loss of s250,000. It contained 350000 bushels of grain, much of which was saved.
 Nine miners were burned, two seri- ously, by an explosion of gas in the Brazenell Gas Coal Co.'S mine near Bentleyville, Pa The mine had to be flooded.
 A party of picnickeTs went boat rid ing near Willow Springs, on the Des- plaines river, south of Chicago, and someone rocked the boat, with the re- suit that it was capsized and three out of five were drowned
 Mrs. Julia Ward Howe, the venerable authcress, celebrated her eighty-seventh birthday anniversary, surrounded by her children and friends in Boston. She was the recipient Of many loving re- membranes.
 Princess Ena, Of Battenterg, won the hearts of her future subjects when she successfully pleaded for the life of a man condemned to death, and whose pardon reached him just as he was about 10 led out for execution.
 Atty.-Gen. Hadley, of Missouri, will make every effort to secure for the Missouri creditors of the American Reserve Bond Co. the million dollars deposited with the state treasurer. Creditors in other states want the money turned into the general assets of the company.
 After having had the lid down for two Sundays the shopkeepers of Kokomo, Ind, who had been in the habit of do- ing Sunday business concluded to open up and let the law be tested.
 L. M. Dyke, president, and W. R.. Lawley, cashier of the First national bank of Attalla, Ala, which was closed April 24, have been arrested on war rants charging them with misapplying moneys of the bank.
 Russia is apparently more nearly on the verge of revolution than at any time during the past year. Parliament has defied the ozar, and the country awaits the response.
 One dead and 83 injured Is the result of collision on the battle-ground inter urban line near Lafayette, Ind. The victims are nearly all civil war veter- ans attending the state G. A. R. en- campment. With the exception of Rev. Peter H. Owens, of Medaryyille, Ind, all are expected to recover.
 D. c. Smith. E. F. Inland, Conrad Lappen and Henry Block, the four prin- cipal owners of the failed Teis-Smith bank of Pekin, H., have been indicted under 125 counts each by the Farewell county grand jury. They were held in e3B, 600 bond each. The charge in each eoupt is embszzlemept,