The Carlisle independent., 1906-05-03

lie mouse passed the emergency bill carrying S170,000 for emergency expenses at tIte San Francisco post office and the employment of laborers at the Mare Island navy yard.
 The senate passed the bill making an appropriation of s300,000 for the em- ployment of extra labor at the Mare Island (California) navy yard.
 GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.
 The Philippine commiss.on has en- acted a corporation law patterned after the corporations acts generally in force ia the United States.
 The Railway Oil Refining Co.'S plant at Elizabethpert, N. J.. was destroyed by fire, causing a loss of s100,000. Six oil tanks blew up, and for a time shipping in Staten Island sound was endangered.
 The democratic congressional cam paign committee will maintain branch headquarters in Chicago, with Con gressman Lloyd of Missouri. in charge during the coming campaign.
 Maj. C. B. Throcp, who served on the staff of Gen. U. S. Grant in the civil var. committed suicide by shooting at ais home in Belvidere, III.
 Will Brown, a negro, charged with Elling W. J. Johnson, railroad con- raetor of Corinth, Miss, was lynched :, Iuka, Miss
 Andrew Carnegie, who went to Otta- va, Ont, to open the Carnegie library there, was the guest of Lord Grey, the governor general, during his stay.
 The second Sabbath following the great disaster in San Francisco found the populace calmly surveying the sit uation, with more definite apprecia- tien of the herculear task before them in the rehabilitation Of the city.
 The libraries of San Francisco lost over million volumes, and the art gal leries and private collectors thousands of costly canyases that money can not replace.
 The federal grand jury at Roswell, N. NJ, has returned indictments in the so-called land fraud cases against Ches- ter L. Tallmadge and E. R. Tallmadge. of Chicago; B. H. Tallmadge, of Den yer; Karl c. Young and John H. Nc. Kinstry, of Kansas City.
 Great damage was done by the tor rents of mud, cinders and basaltic stones driven down the sides of Mount Vesuvius by the recent torrential rains. Many animals were killed, and al Pa cuano, a small town, houses were par tially buried.
 The bottle blowing plant of the Ev- ansville Qnd.) glass works was de- stroyed by fire; loss, S110,0O0.
 William J. Bryan. during his visit to Jerusalem, eloquently addressed a spe- cial meeting, in the tabernacle, held by the Christian Missionary alliance, on the life of Christ.
 A Moorish cobbler at Marakesh, pamed Mesfewi,. who was found to have murdered 35 women and buried their bodies under his shop, was sen fenced to be crucif1ed.
 The quadrennial general conference of the Methodist Episcopal church, south, in session at Birmingham, Ala, promises to be one of the most inpor- tant in the history of that denomina- toin
 Henry c. Coll, who was assistant cashier of the First national bank of Milwaukee, wrecked by Frank G. Bige- law, was found guilty by jury on 19 out of 34 counts relating to false en- tries and misapplication of funds of the bank
 Mrs. Kate P. Raymond, wife of a clerk in the interior department at Washington, who asphyxiated her 14- year-old son at Hollywood, Cal, has been committed to the asylum for the insane at Highlands, Cal
 Erich Muenter, an instructor in German at Harvard university, is charged with the murder of his wife by poison, and a warrant has been issued for his arrest
 The Greeks were with difficulty en- abled to control their chagrin at the successes of the American athletes in the Olympic games at Athens, and in some instances successful Amer jeans heard few misses.
 The town of Bellevue, Te... is re- ported to have been entirely destroyed by tornado, and at last account fire was consuming the wreckage Bellevue was town of 1,500 inhabitants. The towns of Stoneburg, Hamilton and Hico also suffered severely. The loss of life was quite heavy:
 Complete official returns from the Sixth Alabama district primary give Capt. Richmond P. Hobson a majority of 495 over Congressman Bankhead for the congressional nomination.
 The next annual reunion of the Unit cd Confederate veterans will be held in Richmond, Va.