The Carlisle independent., 1906-10-11
AN EPiTOME OF THE MOST I'M. PORTANT EVENTS AT HOME
 AND ABROAD.
NORTH, EAST, WEST, SOUTH
A Carefully Oigestsd and Condensed Compilation of Current News
 Items, Domestic and Foreign.
MISCELLANEOUS.

ward J. Mungen. the life of a wealthy oil operator of Fostoria, O., talks daily into photograph, so that when she shall have passed away ner voice may cheer her sorroUing husband.
 The first landing of American troops ir Cuba was at Havana. A camp was established near that city.
 When George V L. Meyer, of Mas sachusetts, enters the cabinet of Pres ident Roosevelt he will be succeeded, probably, as American ambassador to Russia by Lloyd c. Griscom, of Penn sylyania, the present American ambas- sador to Brazil
 MT. and Mrs. Thomas Jeffries, of Coles county, Illinois, celebrated the sixty-fourtn anniversary Of their we'd ding. Mrs. Jeffries. as girl, lived neighbors to Abraham Lincoln, when his father. Thomas Lincoln, moved to Coles county, and built his cabin
 H. Blackburn, negro, was lynched at Argenta. Ark. He had been arrest ed on suspicion of shooting at white men. A dispatch from Little Rock says there is a belief that the negro was innocent
 A movement mas been inaugurated in Cuba, for the organization of a good government club. with the object of securing a more stable government for the island. Americans, Cubans and men of all nationalities are join. ing.
 Daniel J. Jewett, former United States senator from Missouri, the nes- tor of the St. Louis bar, and the oldest lawyer in the west, died at his home Had Mr. Jewett lived until Sept fl, 1907, he would have been 100 years old. He witnessed the inauguration of Andrew Jackson in 1929.
 The new bullet, whicn the ordnance department at Washington has been testing for several months, will be adopted by the war department. The tests conducted have been highly sat isfactory and have shown that the bullet, whicn weighs only no grains, and is therefore 70 grains lighter than the bullet now used has the advan- tages of higher velocity and much flatter trajectory up to 2,00O yards, and has a greater energy up to 1,400 yards.
 Philibert Audebrand. the lone sur vivOr of the last generation of famous Parisian writers. has passed away, at the age Of 91, at his lite house at Nontmatre. France.
 The state and municipal ownership party has nominated a full state ticket in New York
 Secretary of State Elihu Root will not make any public statement con corning his recent South American trip until next month, when he will deliver an address in St. Louis.
 An internal machine" sent Gov Pennypacker of Pennsylvania was evil dently a joke.
 In an address before the Mormon conference in Salt Lake City, Utan, Presiden, Joseph Smith of the church said: Let every man live such an exemplary life that there can be noth- ing said against him Let him be true to his people; let him be true to Zion and pure in his own way, and the one God will uphold him. whether he is deprived of his liberty or in pTlSOu CeilS. SullLu Is uHO6F lDQICJ- ment for living with five wives. He is the father of 43 children
 Fifteen men were entombed in the Dutchman mine. at Slissburg, N M, and it is believed all perished
 Question of legality of advertising contracts in exchange for railway transportation will probably be ap- pealed to the courts for a final de- cision.
 A special train carrying soldiers bound for Cuba ran into the rear end of regular passenger train on the Bos- ton & Maine railroad, at Lansingburg, N. Y wrecking two Pullmans and kill ing five passengers and injuring 20 Among the dead are Mir F. L. Block, merchant of Peoria, H., and Mrs. J. W. Dacey, of Boston, a bride of 24 hours.
 Clutched in each others arms, two young men fell from the fourth story of the Lake Shore railroad office building in Cleveland, O., to their death. They were J. V. Bunts, aged 90, and Harry Wilfred, aged 26, and were clerks in the office of the Lake Shore railroad. They had engaged in friendly scuffe. slipped and fell out of the window