The Carlisle independent., 1906-09-06
AN EPGTPME OF THE MOST I'M PoRTENT EVENTS AT HOME
 AND ABROAD.
NORTH, EAST, WEST, SOUTH
A Carefully Digested and Condensed Compilation of Current News
 Items, Domestic and Foreign.
MISCElLAN EOUS.

found dead in court room in the Bee building, having passed away, it is presumed, from heart disease, MT. Rosewater had been prominently iden- tffied with the political, financial and business affairs of Omaha and Ne braska for forty years. He was born sn Bohemia, in 1S41, came to America tn1S54, and during the civil war was a trusted telegrapher under Gen Grant
 The Constancia Sugar Plantation Co., in Cuba, has asked for American government protection for their prop erty against raiding parties of insur- gents.
 Kentucky democrats have started a movement to secure the national dem gcratic convention of 1908 i'll Louis vile.
 The interior department promises to establish agents with data about the lands in Oklahoma at various cen ters; the sealed bid plan is un- changed.
 Oklahoma may be able to formally enter the union of the United States by July 1, 1907, but it has many de- tails to work out before entering.
 Texas Cattle Raisers' association and others seek to reopen the cases of rate complaints before the interstate commerce commission.
 The last day of August broke all heat records iu England. The official instruments at D. m. registered 91 degrees in the shade and 129 in the sun, degree of heat the average Snglishman is not used to.
 James Van Peyma, aged 90, a we'll known politician of Kansas City, Kas.. and formerly president of large hardware company that failed recent ly, committed suicide at his home by shooting. He had been Respondent over financial losses.
 The wedding ceremony of Thomas 2. Mcclure and Miss Pearl Miligan had just been completed at the home of the brides parents, Mr and Mrs s. c. Miligan, few miles north of Kingman, Kas., and + : wedding party had seated themselves to partake of refreshments, hen terrible bolt of
 
 wreckiTs ; he building. Rev Davis c. Mcclure and Ernest Johnson and sev- Jeral others were badly stunned.
 Word has reached Washington that many members of the two houses, and particularly the senate, do not ike kindly to the Roosevelt method of spelling. These public men have inti- mated that as long as the control Of the government printing office re- mains with congress, as it undoubted- 1y does now, they will oppose radical spelling departures.
 The express companies have notified the officials of the various railroads that the express company and the car rying road expose themselves equally to the penalties of the Hepburn act (the rate bilD by carrying the prop erty of one road over the lines of another, and as a consequence this practice will be discontinued at once.
 The closing of the two weeks grand circuit meeting at the New England breeders track in Readville, Mass, saw two worlds records established by SSSldllS, nO pdCeu llt SGGOlu neat of the final free-for-an in 2:01A, and the third in 2:0224 The first is the fastest by a second ever made by a pacing mare in race, while the com bined time of the two heats average faster than any previous time by a pacing mare in competition.
 Wm. Jennings Bryan received an ovation at Madison Square garden, fully twenty thousand people being present. Mir. Bryan declared the trusts would be the important question in the next presidential campaign. He favored an income tax, arbitration be- twen capital and labor, government ownership of railway trunk lines, and Independence for the Philippines.
 Secretary of Agriculture Wilson in sists on plain labels, stating that pack CTS must place tags on packages stat ing ingredients.
 Turkey and Bulgaria believed to be on the verge of actual hostilities.
 The public will reap no benefit in express rates under the new rate law. The rates of every company will be identical with those of every other.
 The Japanese have opened Dalny as . free port.