The Carlisle independent., 1906-08-30
AN EPlToME OF THE MOST lM. PORTANT EVENTS AT HOME
 AND ABROAD.
NORTH, EAST, WEST, SOUTH
A Carefully Digested and Condensed Compilation of Current News
 Items, Domestic and Foreign.
MISCELLANY EouS.

Four men entered the off1clal resi- dence of Premier Stolypin, in St. Pc tersburg during a reception, and one of them prematurely dropped a bomb in the ante-ehamber. The four men were blown to atoms, and 34 others were killed The premier escaped with slight injuries, but his son and daughter were seriously hurt. Among those killed were number the ter rorists had marked for death. The incident caused intense excitement throughout St Petersburg and in Rus 5sia, wherever it became known.
 At secret meeting of independent distillers in Chicago, resolutions against the denaturized alcohol bill were adopted,
 Bitter rot threatens the southern H. iinois apple crop, despite heroic eff forts to stamp out the disease by picking bad fruit
 President Roosevelt has appointed Basil Mics, of Pennsylvania, as first secretary of the American embassy at et. Petersburg. Mir. Miles was pri- yate secretary to Ambassador Meyer.
 
 a large section around Marion, Ind, entailing much property loss. Many persons were injured, but no deaths are reported. Three and one-half inches of rain fell in 45 minutes.
 The authoritie. of the city of Buda- Pesth, Hungary, have decided to un- veil the Washington statue, now un-
 
 have sent out invitations to the may DTS of American cities presidents of American universities and many nota- ble public men of the United States to attend. The idea of raising this statue arose out of the erection in Cleveland, O., some years ago, of a statue to Kossuth.
 Kermit Roosevelt, son of the presi- dent was in a railway wreck in North Dakota. but escaped with a slight shaking up.
 Imports and exports for July exceed by many millions those of the cor responding month of last year, and the Imports and exports for the seven motths of the present year exceed those of the seven corresponding months of last year by sS5, 10000
 A correspondent of a London paper says of the situation in Russia: 'Beastiality and humanity are now struggling for the upper hand, and the chances are on the side of beasti- ality."
 Gen. Min. close friend of the czar, cbnr fya mere girl at the railway station in 2 mere girl at the railway station in St Petersburg, where he was with his family. The generals wife seized the girl by the head and held her until she could be arrested.
 A negro was lynched at Calhoun. La. on Sunday. for the usual of fense" The following was pinned to the body; This is warning to all negroes who attempt to force an en- trance to the apartments of white women"
 The jury in the case of Doss Gal braith, the alleged leader of the mob which lynched and burned three ne groes in Springfield, Mo, in April last, and who was on trial, charged with second degree murder, was dis charged by the court when it reported that it's members were unable to agree. The jury stood 10 for aequittal to for conviction.
 One thousand of those who were killed by the earthquake at Valparaiso have been buried, and there are more than one thousand corpses beneath the ruins.
 President hoosevelt has resolved to adopt the reform" or Carnegie meth cd of spelling, Tn his messages and executive correspondence. Comment ing on the presidents decision, the London Standard bluntly declares that Mir Roosevelt oyerrates his pow CTS, adding that 1t declines to believe that scholarly and cultivated Ameri- cans will sacrifice the history and meaning of the language by adopting the Carnegie jargon."
 Alfred Stevens, the celebrated Bel gian painter, is dead in Paris. He was born in May, 1923.
 Finance Minister Kokovsoff of Rus sia has authorized the press to deny categorically the constantly recurring reports that Russia intends to enter the foE.ggn market for new loan this