The Carlisle independent., 1906-05-17

of seismic action and conditions there are absolutely normal. | Sidi Mohammed, bey of Tunis, is dead. His cousin, Mohammed Fl Nasr, succeeds him.
 San Francisco is, for the present, l absolutely a dry town and Mayor l Schmitz says it will remain so for a while longer, as he ascribes the excel | lent order that has been maintained in the city since the disaster to the absence of intoxicants.
 There is every indication in the condition of John A. Dowie that the end Of the first apostle" of the Chris 1 tian Catholic church is not far off.
 There is probability of a trial for heresy in the Presbyterian fold, with Rev. Dr. Samuel s. Carter as the de | fendant He wants the Westminster Confession revised, declaring that there never was, there is not now, and there never will be such a God as the God of the Westminster Confess sion.'
 Students of the Missouri state uni versity. at Columbia, provoked a quarrel with the attaches of a circus by refusing to pay for remaining to the after concert, and in the fracas that followed got decidedly the worst of 1t. Stakes. knives, razors and pis- tols figured in the melee, and some of the '.rubes' got theirs.
 Rt. Rev. James H. Blenk, bishop of Porto Rico, has been named as arch bishop of New Orleans, to fill the va cancy created by the death of Arch. bishop Chapelle.
 In the course of the Standard Oil Co. hearing before the interstate con- merce commission in Chicago, testi- mony was adduced to show that the Iron Mountain Railroad Go. acted as agent for the Standard Oil,Co. in small agents receiving a commission of one cent a gallon on sales.
 Vice-President Fairbanks celebrated his fifty-fourth birthday anniversary by presiding over one of the busiest days of the senate's present session. He received many congratulations
 Gov. J. W. c. Beckham of Kentucky
 
 all who possess "the priceless heritage of having drop of Kentucky blood in their veins" to assemble in Louisville for Homecoming week. June 13 to r.
 Mrs. Jefferson Davis, widow of the president of the Southern Confederacy, is suffering from bad attack of the grip at her apartments in New York.
 A number of Indians have died on the Duck Lake reservation in Sas- katchewan from drinking Florida wa ter, presumably adulterated, in lieu of whisky
 The Russian parliament has been for mally launched. The emperor's mes sage, delivered at the Winter palace, was brief document, remarkable more for what it didn't say than for what it did. The affair was accomplished with all the pomp and ceremony usual on great occasions in Russia
 Stephen Sylvester, apparently insane, shot and killed his brother, W. H. Syl- vester, president of the First national bank of Montezuma, Ind, and was later arrested by the sheriff and taken to Rockville after he had barricaded him. self in shed at his home and declared 1 he would never be taken alive
 The s5,200, coo in gold, found intact in the vaults of the San Francisco city treasury, has been removed to the United States mint.
 The four cardinals who attended the dinner given by United States Ambas sador White, in Rome, in honor os Archbishop Ireland, have been called upon by Cardinal Oreglia, dean of the l sacred college, for an explanation President Roosevelt has promised to ! attend the opening of the Jamestown (Va) exposition April 26, 1907, and deliver an address.
 Out of 124 coolies attacked with cholera on board the steamer Faukla, en route from India to Suva, Fiji isl. ands, 61 died.
 Dr. George Scott, former United States consul at Odessa, Russia, died at his home in Neigh. Neb.
 The readers Of the Christian Herald, of New York, have closed their Jap anese famine relief fund, having sent through the state department at Wash ington $200,G00, in addition to s5,500 cabled direct to the famine center.
 The fresh eruption of Mount Vesu- vius continues, but 1t is of small pro- portions.
 The government of Panama has been notified that revolutionary movements or other troubles in Panama which in- terfere with work in the canal zone will justify interference of the United States in support of the Panama gov ernment.
 Joseph Dickson, one of the most prominent lawyers in St. Louis, died after an extended illness, aged 50 years.
 Hon. Carl Schurz is seriously Ill at his home in New York. and on account of his age (76 years) his recovery is hardly looked for.
 l The Canadian Pacific Railroad Go. will give $1,000 reward for the capture of each of the robbers who held up their train near Kamloops, B. C., or