The Carlisle independent., 1906-10-18
NEWS OF THE WEEK
AN EPITOME OF THE MOST M. PoRTANT EVENTS AT HOME
 AND ABROAD
NORTH, EAST, WEST, SOUTH
A Carefully Ogestsd and Condensed Compilation of Current News
 Items, Domestic and Foreign.
MISCELLANEOUS.

Barney Parsons, a farmer, his wife and three children were murdered, near Licking, Texas county, Mo. Jodia Hamilton, a farmer, was arrested, charged with the murder, and con- fessed. There were threats of lynch ing, and the sheriff spirited him away to the Ozark mountains,
 Secretary Taft, Assistant Secretary of State Bacon and Gen. Funston sailed from Cuba, their labors there being completed. The government of Cuba was turned over to Gov. Chas. E. Magoon in a simple American man. ner, devoid of show.
 The aged emperor of Austria is con- fined to his apartments with cough and catarrh. Medical advisers agree that he should be removed to a milder climate.
 A mass meetings of citizens, held in Union square San Francisco, called to form a committee of public safety, broke up in disorder, two factions striving to gain control of the assem- blaze.
 The big steamer James Laughlin  iuth, Minn. She loaded 37S,000 bush els. The cargo is the largest individ ual one of wheat ever fioated. The boat gets a freight of PA cents bush el for transportation of the grain to Buffalo
 Fraulein Bertha Krupp, the richest woman in Germany, and Gustav Von Bohlen und Halbach, an army officer, were married. One hundred and eighty thousand dollars was distrib- aed among the employees of the Krupp gun works on the occasion.
 Judge John W Wofford, of the crim- final court, Kansas City, declared from tue bench that John D. Rockefeller was the most maliciously maligned man in the world.
 Attorney-General Moody announced in Washington, after conferring with the president, that he would retire from the cabinet January l.
 The interstate commerce commits sion has received flood of complaints from shippers regarding lack of freight car service, showing that rail- roads are not able to care for the enormous tonnage OHel6Q.
 The British steamer Hankow was burned while lying alongside her wharf at Hongkonk, China. Hundreds of Chinese passengers, mostly women, were burned to death, and the valua ble cargo was destroyed. All the Euro pean passengers and crew were saved
 An imperial order giving notice of the retirement of Lieut.-Gen. Stoessel on the ground of i'll health, has ap- peared The trial of Lieut-Gen. Stoes- sel for surrendering Fort Arthur to the Japanese has been going on since September 29. His resignation from the army has been expected. It has been asserted that he would resign because he preferred to face the court in civilian garb instead of in uniform
 The middle of October having been reached, the time set for receiving news from the Peary Arctic expedi- tion, hope practically was abandoned of hearing this year fEom the band of explorers which sailed from New York fifteen months ago. If Peary had decided to spend second winter in the Arctic circle, 1t was expected that news would come from the expedition through the whalers when they sail into Dundee, Scotland, at the end of their cruises this fall.
 Gen. Miguel Nibold has been ap- pointed Mexican consul at St. Louis. He succeeds Rafael P. Serrano, who was dismissed from the service by President Diaz because of his alleged relations with the revolutionary junta whose headquarters were in that city. Senor Nibold has been fin the consular service for the past ten years, acting in the capacity of an agent.
 Forty counties In Missouri give en- ployment to 34,000 persons, says la bor bureau report.
 At conference betwen union rep resentatives and several contractors, in Chicago, no solution of the pending labor difficulties was reached, and at the close the contractors issued an ultimatum which was in effect: Re turn to work or stay away forever"
 The United States, through its peace commissioners, is not ready to announce when it will withdraw from the island of Cuba and surren- der the reins of government to the Cubans, but this action can not be taken until the time arrives when fair elections are assureS