The Carlisle independent., 1906-09-13
NEWS OF THE WEEK AN EPlToME OF THE MOST IM- PORTANT EVENTS AT HOME
 AND ABROAD.
NORTH, EAST, WEST, SOUTH
A Carefully oigestsd and Condensed
 Compilation of Current News Items, Domestic and Foreign.
MISCEIUANE EOUS.

of Blees' military academy in Macon, Mo, and prominent character in Missouri, was found dead in his room at the Southern hotel. Death, 1t is believed, resulted from natural causes.
 Attorney General William H. Moody will go on the supreme bench this fall, to fill the vacancy caused by the re- tirement of Associate Justice Brown. Secretary of the Navy Bonaparte will succeed Attorney-General Moody as the head of the department of justice. George Won L. Meyer, ambassador to St. Petersburg, will enter the cabinet as the head of the navy department. This, it is said, is the administration programme.
 The republicans of the Sixth con- gressional district of Alabama. have nominated I. Green, of Tuscaloosa, for congress He will oppose Capt Rich mond Pearson Hobson, who defeated Sankhead.
 Mrs. Laura E. Dent sister-in-law of Mrs. U S. Grant died in California insane asylum.
 H. P. Hedges, of Fresno. Cal, thirty-third degree Mason, dropped dead at Ogden, Utah, immediately af- ter alighting from train. Heart dis ease the cause.
 Three New York autoists arrived at San Francisco, having made the trip across the continent in 24 days, hours and 45 minutes.
 Intervention of the United States in Cuba is being discussed on all sides. Many Cubans who hitherto were not favorable to intervention, now believe that it will be the only means of plac- ing Cuba permanently in her rightful position.
 John Sharp Williams, of Mississippi, in statement telegraphed a Rich mond (Va) paper says: T am op- posed to government ownership of railroads-irrevocab now and for ever, in theory and in practicea ques- tion concerning which MT. Bryan and I agree to disagree. We will simply vote it down if offered as plank in the democratic platform.
 During the past fiscal year the United States took of Mexican exports s1s6,o10,052; Great Britain, s47,272,-
 
 SS,101,279 Mexico imported from the United States to the amount of S145,- 60o.313; from Germany, 0,344 GAS; from France, s16,3S3, ,255. All sums are in Mexican standard currency, the unit being one-half American dollar gold.
 Clarence K Wooster, vice-president of the Peoples Gaslight & Coke Co.,, Chicago committed suicide by cut ting his throat He is believed to have been temporarily deranged.
 King Edward has authorized Dr. Ott to make the following statement: "The king underwent an excellent cure Cat Marienben, Bohemia), is in splendid health and the best of spir- it's, and has lost the proper amount of weight"
 The sultan of Morocco is willing to give up Stensland, the defaulting Chicago banker.
 Forgeries for more than S250,000 by Frank K Nipple, the suicide presi- dent of the defunct Philadelphia Real Estate Trust Co.,. have been discov- cred by Receiver Earle.
 yReports of Mexican uprising against Americans are laaked upon as ridic- uIous by leaders in that republic.
 Citizens of La Ceibe, Honduras, at lacked an American physician who re- ported yellow fever there. He took refuge in the United States consulate which American citizens were called upon to guard for week
 Earthuuake shocks shook south western Indiana, but caused no dam age. About the same hour, so dis patches say shocks were felt in the Windward islands, southeast of Por- to Rico
 Former Gov. David R. Francis, of Missouri. had an audience with Elm peror Francis Joseph, for the presen- tation to the emperor of the St. Louis exhibition commemorative medal.
 The newspaper, Kysten, of Chris tiania, Norway, states that United states Senator Knute Nelson of Min nesota has proposed that the Amerl- can government purchase the stea,d- ar Gioa. which recently completed vovage through the northwest pas saee in order that she may be the 6rsf vessel to go through the Pana- ,,a canal. and thus be the only ship fhat has sailed around America.