The Carlisle independent., 1906-08-30

from Havana, loaded to full capacity with tobacco, which is being rushed out of Cuba by importers.
 Plans are already under way to build. Valparaiso again, making it 8 more beautiful city.
 Present interstate railroad rates must remain absolutely unchanged un- til September 2S.
 Judge Magoon, governor of the Panama zone is to succeed Gen. Smith as governor general of the Philippines within twelve months.
 Chief Engineer Stevens cabled the isthmian canal commission that the recent earthquake in Chilli was not noticed at Panama, and that there was not even a record of it made on the seismographic instruments there. At the canal commissions offices there is firm conviction, based on gov canal zone is entirely without the earthquake area, though it has been popularly supposed to be within its range.
 Japan, it is said will send a com mission to the Pribiloff islands to in- vestigate the killing of Japanese seal poachers by American guards on the islands. The Japanese consul at Van couver reported to his government that 1t was impossible for him to ob- tain a satisfactory report of the affair, hence the action determined upon by Japan.
 Sud Miller, a pioneer merchant tailor of Fairbanks, Ia., was drowned while bathing His wife almost per ished in an attempt to save him.
 Edward M Ames was elected con- mander-in-chief of the Sons of Veter- ans at their national encampment at Peoria, H. The next encampment will be held at Dayton, o.
 King Alfonso of Spain has signed the decree making the treaty of com merce between the United States and Spain effective.
 The czar has determined to dispose of crown lands and appendages to the peasants, and thus make bid for the support of Russias peasant millions against the revolutionists.
 Thirteen negro soldiers of the Twenty fifth infantry were arrested by the civil authorities at Brownsville, Tex. and will be held on charges of recent riot disorders, in which one man was killed.
 The Cuban government has asked the United States for eight rapid-fire guns, manned by American artillery men, to assist in suppressing the re- belIion.
 The national convention of Sons of Veterans closed at Peoria, H., with the election of officers and the selec- tion of Dayton, O., as the next meet ing place. Edward M. Aimes, of Al toona, Pa, was elected commander-in- chief.
 At Anadarko, Okla, Annie Dress back, aged 16, shot N. Mulliken, acci- dentally. discharging revolver, and then, believing she had killed him, shot herself. Both were fatally wounded.
 The tenor of the London press is that the United States must sooner or later intervene in Cuba and re- store order under the Platt amend ment.
 During the past year the Salvation Army has sent 12,000 immigrants from the United States to Canada.
 The Cuban government has ordered a number of rapid-fire guns in the United States, and will endeavor to secure experienced American gunners to man them.
 Michael McNamara, St. Louis po- liceman shot and killed James J. Brophy and Mrs McNamara in a ho- tel Brophy had just registered as J. c. Wilson and wife, Centralia, H."
 Three hundred and fifty Chicago tel. ephone girls strike because ordered to enter through rear door. Company yields after 13,500 phones are tied up.
 Secretary of the Treasury Shaw di- rects that s3,000,000 be distributed among small national banks.
 The democratic state convention Of Illinois, at Peoria. indorsed Wm. J. Bryan for 1908, and tabled a resolu- tIOn requesting sullivan 10 resign ITOm the national committee from Illinois, as demanded by MT. Bryan.
 The democrats of Ohio indorsed W. J. Bryan for 1908, in the state con yention.
 It is reported that the pope, i'm pressed by the frequency of earth quakes in the new world, intends or dering special prayers to be said after mass for delive7ance from similar visi- tations. The archbishop of Santiago, Chile, cabled to the vatican, reporting loss of life among the clergy, and the Ii 1liL.