The Carlisle independent., 1906-12-06
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cOuSTeSS VIII Dc uefOleu, IL IS pre- dicted, to the passage of appropria tion bills approximating one billion dollars, and as little other general legislation as possible, although the ship subsidy bill may be brought out of the house committee and passed. It has passed the senate.
 1t is estimated that one-third the vast wealth of the United States was represented at the funeral of the late Samuel Spencer, president of the Southern railway. Such men as J. P. Morgan and E. H. Hartman were among the mourners.
 George Hoffman, of Ashley, Pa, had to be locked up when twins arrived at his home. Already the father of ten children, he declared that it was i'm possible to support family of twelve on two dollars day.
 George Ye, a wealthy Chinaman, is to wed, it is said, Detroit girl of excellent fSmily.
 The queen of England celebrated her sixty-second birthday anniversary. Greetings from all parts of the world were received.
 Deputy County Clerk Edward Grit ten, of Hudson county, New York, has received from Acting Commissioner General F. H. Larned, of the bureau of immigration, a reply upholding Grit tens refusal to naturaliZe a Japanese. The naturalization of any other than free white persons and aliens of Afri- can nativity and persons of African descent is forbidden.
 The Missouri state bureau of labor and statistics shows that the value of manufactured products in St. Louis in 1905 was s257, ,99S,293.
 Representative Hays, of California, arrived in Washington with resolu- ton which, it is said, he intended to introduce, excluding Japanese from the United States. By solicitation of the president he has agreed to with hold it for awhile.
 The shah of Persia suffers from kid ney trouble and ropsy His physician says he will keep him alive for per haps one year.
 Influenza is prevalent in London, many notable people being laid up with the disease.
 Trade in London and throughout England is reported better than for several years.
 Many towns in the Dakotas and
  famine.
 A cablegram from Paris says that Mme. Anna Gould, formerly Countess de Castellane, is to marry an Ameri- can millionaire, and that Count Boni is engaged to a millionaire French widow.
 The annual report of Commissioner of Internal Revenue John w. Yerkes for the past fiscal year shows total receipts of s249,102,7 73S, an excess of $14,914,762 over the preceding year.
 Lauded as diplomat who tempered statecraft with the Golden Rule, the late John Hay was honored by the Jewish people of Philadelphia when a handsome memorial window to the dead secretary of state was unveiled at Keneseth Israel temple.
 Sir Thomas Lipton, who recently visited this country, and who knows the business situation here far better than the majority of Americans, on his return home to England wrote a London newspaper that the American of perity greater than ever known in hu- man industry. He says that even we'll informed English writers have little idea of what is happening in the United States. All this is due, he says, to our solid industries, while the general confidence is such that nobody is afraid to spend lavishly.''
 So large is the demand for struc. tural iron in this country that the lmportations are greater than for years, the American mills being un- able to meet the exigencies. Great buildings are in course Of construc. ton in New York, Chicago, St Louis, San Francisco and other cities, which. together with the demand for bridges. will consume the output of the Amer ican mills until the fall of 1907, indeed the output has been contracted that far ahead. h Glasgow, Scotland, the Americans are buying everything in sight.
 A report is current in London that the British South African Co. has of. fered the Salvation Army 1.000,00I acres of land in Rhodesia for coloniza ton purposes, with the stipulation however, that in the event of coloniz ing scheme proving a failure the land should revert to the company.