The Carlisle independent., 1906-10-04
NEWS 0F THE WEEK
JAN EPITOME OF THE MOST IN. PoRTANT EVENTS AT HOME
 AND ABROAD.
NORTH, EAST, WEST, SOUTH
"A Carefully Digestsd and Condensed Compilation of Current News
 Items, Domestic and Foreign.
MISCELLANEOUS.

Hi0SGEIfNHGOOS
 Fifty lives are reported lost and 5000 houses damaged in Mobile, Ala, as result of hurricane. The prop erty loss is placed at s3,O00,00O.
 Cotton in Mississippi, southern Alabama and southern Arkansas was greatly damaged by the storm the lat ter part of September.
 Quanan Parker chief of the Com anche Indians, is advocating the in- termarriage of whites with the In. dians for a better citizenship among the Indians. He is quoted as saying: Mix the blood; put white mans blood in Indians, then in a few years you will have better class of h. dians." Quanah's mother was a white woman, and several of his daughters have married into white families.
 Eugene c. Bagwell was arrested in the office of Alton B. Parker, 32 Mas sau street, New York, under an in dictment for bigamy in Oswego, Kas He is Mr. Parker's secretary.
 David R. Francis has arrived home In St. Louis from his visit to royalty He said he was glad to get home, and that the worst thing in Europe is warm drinks.
 Word has been received from Mar. seilles, France, to the effect that Sen ator w. A. Clark, of Montana, was in an automobile wreck and sustained a broken rib. At last accounts the patient was slowly recovering.
 George H. Poor, the inventor of the air brake generally used on American railroads, died in Portland Me.
 Mrs. Howard Gould's sister has married a Chinaman in San Fran cisco. A complete and very elaborate Celestial ceremonial marked the cele- bratian of the nuptials, and Miss Ella CleDmons Is now entitled to the namc Sun Yue. She has been a mis- sion worker in San Francisco for sev- eral years. She said: For eight years l labored night and day attend ing the women and children in China town, the only Catholic who ever de- voted herself to that branch of mis- sionary endeavor.
 Mrs. Eleanor Reede, of San Francis co, was robbed in Paris of a zibetene stone worth s10,000. A man intro duced himself to Mrs Reede at her hotel as the representative of a big jewelry firm. An accomplice then came up an announced to Mrs Reede the call of prominent resident, and she left the room to see him. When she returned the alleged jewellers representative and the stone were gone.
 During the 24 hours ending at a. ID. Saturday 2.16 inches of rain fell in St. Louis, according to the official fig ures of the weather bureau. The total fall since it began raining af>ut D. m. Thursday was PCT inches The rain, which was due to the gulf storm, was general over the Mississippi Ohio and Missouri valleys. The storm has moved northward and is expected to reach the lake regions Saturday and continue down the St. Lawrence val ley.
 Paul o. Stensland, the Chicago bank convict, was put to work in the sorting room of the broom factory, where he will labor by the side of John A. Linn. the ex-clerk of the SUI perior court of Chicago, under sen tence for embezzlement
 2 A natural gas franchise, which gives the Kansas City-Missouri Gas company the right to serve the city with natural gas for thirty years, at an average rate of twenty-eight cents per 1000 feet, has been passed by the city council and signed by the mayor of Kansas City, Mo. The rate for manufacturing purposes is to be ss low as the price in neighboring cities, some of which pay eight cents.
 President Roosevelt has appointed H. Morgan Shuster as a member of the Philippine commission, to fill one of the vacancies caused by the resig- nation of Governor General Wright and Governor General Ide. The other vacancy recently was filled by the ap- pofntment of Judge Charles E. Ma goon, American minister to Panama, and governor of the canal zone
 President Palma agrees to Secretary Taft as arbitrator, and it is now hoped that Cuba may be paciied.
 Becoming Respondent over ill-health, Mrs. N B. Carson, of Eldon, Ia, com mitted spicide by drowning in Des INoines river The body was found about ten feet from the river bank en- tangled in 2 fish net