The Carlisle independent., 1906-11-01

 holds hers in readiness
 Great Britian, France and Italy form defensive alliance to safeguard peace of Europe
 New York jobbers report the largest business ever known to date in Octo- Der
 The Spanish minister of war has in- troduced a bill in the cortes calling for the complete reforming of the army and bringing it up to modern require ments
 c. C. Rose Gnd Mrs. Winnie Wheeler leaders of the Brotherhood of Lights, who conduct home for poor children on 8 farm near Arbeles, Col, were arranged before justice on charges of manslaughter in connection with the death of six babies on the place, and sent to jail.
 Carrying out further the policy under which arms surrendered by the Cuban insurgents have been destroy ed, orders have been given that a great quantity of arms, the accumu- lation of forty years, now stored in the basements of Morro castle, Havana be thrown into the sea.
 At a dinner. given in his honor by the Brooklyn Yacht club, Sir Thomas Lipton, declared that he hoped he might be privileged to challenge for the American cup, the international trophy, and intimated that he would issue challenge next year for a race, possibly in 1908 or 1909.
 By a remarkable achievement in wireless telegrpahy at the Pensacola Fla, station, that plant has been able to keep in communication with steamer from the time she left New York, until shs arrived at Honduras.
 hurricane swept southwestern Japan. Several hundred coral fishing boats are reported missing. Each boat is manned by at least two sailors.
 Before the San Francisco earthquake there were separate schools in San Francisco for the Japanese. These were destroyed during the calamity. The city authorities are merely re- building the schools which existed be- fore they were destroyed and not dis eliminating against the Japanese is that respect.
 The statement made by Secretary of War Taft, on the eve or his de- parture from Cuba, that he would put all arms surrendered by the insur- gents where they would do no further harm, was verified when a company of the Cuban artillery spent an after noon throwing these weapons into the sea from the outer bastion Of Moro castle.
 The board of bishops of the Metho- dist church has decided to raise s700,- 900 to rebuild the churches destroyed by the San Francisco earthquake. A committee has been appointed to re port on some plan for raising the money
 "Attorney-General William H. Moody will be appointed to the su- preme bench to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Asso- ciate Justice Henry Brown" is the statement made in unofficial circles in Washington.
 Midshipman Kitigaki, Japanese, has resigned from the United States naval academy by order, it is said, of the Mikado. This is indicated as an indorsement of the i'll feeling of the Japanese people against Ameri- cans, caused py the exclusion of Jap anese children from the public schools attended by white children in San Francisco, and the geenral anti-Japan- csc agitation on the Pacific coast.
 A statement has been issued from the White House setting forth the following contemplated changes in the presidents cabinet: Secretary of the treasury, Hon. George B. Cortelyou; postmaster-general Hon. George Won L. Meyer; attorney-general, Hon. Charles J. Bonaparte; secretary of the navy, Hon. Victor H. Metcalf; secre- tary of commerce and labor, Hon. Os- car S. Straus. The appointment of MT. Straus will be the first time that a citizen of Hebrew faith has been made cabinet member.
 The Brotherhood of Railway Train men, on behalf of it's switchmen, has presented demands to all the rail- roads centering in Chicago for an eight-hour day.
 The Standard Oil Co. of Iowa has transferred its holdings in California to the Standard Oil Co. of California It is understood that the consideration amounted to several millions.
 R. E. Short. of Hugo, l. T., was as sassinated, being shot through the window of his home in the presence of his wife and three children. The weapon used was a shotgun loaded with buckshot, and the shot was fired at close range.
 Three thousand negroes assemble in front of a Philadelphia opera house and endeavor to prevent the produc-