The Carlisle independent., 1906-11-22
AN EPiTOME OF THE MOST I'M. PCRTANT EVENTS AT HOME
 AND ABROAD.
NORTH, EAST, WEST, SOUTH
A Carefully pigestsd and Condensed Compilation of Current News
 Items, Domestic and Foreign.
MISC CELLANEOUS.

Gen. Nelson A. Miles expressed re gret over the death of Gen. Shafter both because of his splendid career as a military officer and because ot his splendid personality"
 A great rush of railway traffic to the gulf ports is reported.
 At a convention of roadmasters in St. Louis a resolution was adopted declaring the organization ''unaltera- bly opposed to foreign labor of the Italian and Greek brands that takes from honest American laborer the money and work rightfully his" The delegates agreed to cooperate for SC curing American-born labor for all track work.
 Henry Irving Miller has been elect ed president of the Chicago X Eastern Illinois and the Evansville & Terre Haute railway companies, Alfred J. Davidson resigning. in order to give attention to the development of the St. Louis & San Francisco in the southwest.
 Lakes to the Gulf Deep Waterway was organized at St. Louis during the deep waterway convention. It was resolved to ask congress to ap- propriate s31,0O0,O0O for the purpose of constructing deep water course from the lakes to the gulf.
 Bitter feeling exists between the moderate and liberal parties in Cuba. Themoderates are believed to prefer annexation to the United States rather than liberal party rule.
 The Bank of England is making ex- tensive purchases of United States eagles, in lieu of bullion. and storing them in it's vaults to strengthen it's reserve
 President Roosevelt, on his visit to Panama, went into the great Culebra cut of the canal. He boarded a steam shovel and talked almost half an hour with the engineer, who explained to the president how the thing worked, and then told the president that the engineers of steam shoyels were not paid for overtime. The president promised to look into the matter. It rained torrents while the president was in the cut, and he came out wet to the skin and covered with mud Wherever he found an Amer ican at work he shook hands with him.
 William Randolph Hearst has filed a statement of his expenses during the late gubernatorial campaign in New York. He certified to the secre- tary of state that he spent S256,370.
 Near Asheville, N. C., a posse shot to death a negro desperado, and the coroner's jury returned a verdict that he came to his death at the hands oi publie-spirited citizens, who at the time were in the fearless discharge oi their duty
 Rumors of great graft growing out of the relief fund sent to San Fran cisco after the earthquake and fire
 Destructive floods continue in the state of Washington. Railroads have been greatly damaged and towns in undated. The loss around Seattle and Tacoma has been heavy.
 Embodying a membership of over 1,000,000 claiming to represent more than one-seyenth of the entire popu lation of the country, the American Society of Equity. the recently-formed National Farmers union has become affiliated, in a limited degree. with the American Federation of Labor.
 Rev. Dr. James Mason Hoppin, pro lessor emeritus of art at Yale, died from old age. He was in his seth year.
 The death is announced of Ras Man gasia, son of King John of Abyssi mia. who played a most prominent part in the talo-Abyssinian war owe. Massowah. It is said that the king of Abyssinia is a direct descendant oi Solomon tracing his ancestry farther than any other king in the world
 Six ice companies and firms al Columbus, O., alleged to be in com bination to control prices, have beer indicted for the third time, the frs and second indictments having beer dismissed by the court as defective.
 Criminal prosecution of the highes officers of the Standard Oil Co. vii be the next move of Prosecutor David at Findlay, O., according to a state ment made by him.
 Lord Kurzon is in the United State' and will remain here several weeks.
 Rumors are in circulation that there will be no strike on the Pennsylya nia.