The Carlisle independent., 1906-11-15
NEWS OF THE WEEK AN EPlTOME OF THE MOST I'M. PORTANT EVENTS AT HOME
 AND ABROAD.
NORTH, EAST, WEST, SOUTH
A Carefully Oisestsd and Condensed Compilation of Current News
 Items, Domestic and Foreign.
MISCELLAN EOuS.

S. J. Demaresque, at Kilpatricks camp, on Hotkam's s sound, British Co lumbia, shot down a shingle Hume 5000 feet. tossed p feet, falling into the ocean. He swan to the rocks and clung there until rescued by his wife He went down the Hume so fast that his clothing was torn off and then his skin was burned off.
 Brig. Gen. Frederick Funston has arrived in St. Louis and taken charge of the Southwest division of the United States army, removed there from Ok lahoma City, Okla. The Northern di- vision headquarters have been re- moved from St. Louis to Chicago.
 James D. Money, Jr, nephew Of United States Senator H. D. Money, of Mississippi, who killed L. J. Tender son at Money station, Miss, has been released on s20,0O0 bond.
 John Smalley, of Futile, Okla, killed his wife and then himself after she had applied for divorce
 Prospectors near Watertown, N. D. Are searching for the source of gold nuggets found in the crop of a duck.
 William Randolph Hearst has gone to California for recuperation from the Etrain incident to his gubernatorial campaign.
 Ambrose L. Thomas. president of Lord & Thomas, advertising agents, Chicago, and interested in other enter prises. dropped dead in a department store in that city from heart disease.
 Railroads are expending s7,O00, 900 improving Ashtabula tO) harbor, the greatest iron ore receiving port in the world.
 Jonah P. Sappington, who died in St. Louis county, Missouri, was the last of seven men who assisted |. $. Grant to build the log cabin in which he lived on a farm south Of St Louis few years before the civil war
 St. Louis chapter of the Daughters of the Confederacy have subscribed 5000 toward the erection of 3 monu- ment to the confederacy in Forest park, in that city.
 The preliminary returns to the de- pertinent of agriculture on the pro- duction of corn in 1906 indicates a total yield of about 2,SS1, ,O9G bush els, or an average of 30.2 bushels per acre, as compared withan ayera e yield of 2S.3 bushels as finally estimat- ed in 1905, 26.S in 1904 and a ten-year average of 25.2 bushels.
 Thomas Dougherty, a prominent young man of DunmoTe, Pa, died in the state hospital at Sacranton, as the 0F tob br- known woman The corner says the wound was in the heart and was in flicted by a hat pin.
 Mrs. Esther Summer Damon, said to be the last surviving widow of soldier of the revolutionary war, died at her home in Plymouth Union, Va, aged 93. She was married in 1885, wlsen 21 years old, to Noah Damon, who was them D years old. Damon served through the revolutionary war, having enlisted in 1775.
 The federal grand jury, in it's inves- tigation Of the Shelby tube scandal at Pittsburg, Pa, returned indictments against three individuals, charging them with conspiracy to defraud the government by selling it defective boilers. Some of these tubes, accord ing to the grand jury, are in use on the battleship Louisiana, on which President Roosevelt is making his Panama trip.
 A lone boy bandit, weighing scarcely lf0 pounds, held up the Golden State Limited, the fast Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific train, near Slater, Mo, and telling the passengers that he was from Missouri, robbed the rear Pull. man car, forcing the porter 10 collect Ln his cap the booty from the occu- pants of each berth. He allowed the women in the car to go unmolested, saying that: Jesse James never robbed ladies"
 It is stated that a general investi- gation of what is known as the Harri- man system of railroads. under the authority conferred by law, is one e the subjects that has been discussed for some time by the interstate com merce commission, and that body, it is said, really stands committed to an inquiry.
 The directors of the State bank of New York have declared dividend of 300 per cent, payable in cash, on the banks capitalization of s100,00 The directors also declared the usual romi-annual dividend of 50 per cent.