The Carlisle independent., 1906-11-22

1cliOh IcNST COulluuSS iO Spi6dQ III Cuba, although slowly.
 Severe shocks of earthquake were felt in New Mexico. At Socarro sev eral buildings were demolished.
 The United States government made the first move to dissolve the Standard Oil Co. by filing in the United States district court in St Louis petition in equity against the Standard Oil Go. of New Jersey and it's 70 constituent corporations and partnerships and seven individual de- fendants, including John D. and Will. liam Rockefeller, asking that the com. bination be declared unlawful, and in the future enjoined from entering into any contract or combination in re- straint of trade.
 The grand jury at San Francisco has returned indictments, against Mayor Eugene Sehmitz and Abraham Ruef, on the charge of extortion.
 At Weatherford, Tex, a train struck a buggy containing J. w. Glove, a farmer, his wife and baby All three were killed.
 Will Harris, a negro who killed two Asheville (N. @ policemen and three negroes, was shot and killed by a posse of men near Fletcher, about ten miles south of Asheyille.
 From Lexington Ky, news comes that a severe coal famine exists throughout that state Coal cannot be secured from mines because railroad companies state they have not enough cars to supply the demand.
 According to the Iron Trade, a Cleveland (O0 publication, the car shortage is an increasingly heavy handicap to many industries. Deliy- cry of southern iron is much delayed, and it is estimated that in the Pitts burg district and in the Mahoning and Shenango valleys there is a shortage of 100000 cars.
 A tribunal in Paris, France, has granted a divorce to the Countess de Castellane, formerly Anna Gould, of New York, and has given her the GUS tody of her children, who, however, will not be allowed to De taken from France without the consent of their father, Count Boni de Castallane
 The first trip of president outside of the main boundaries of the United States was successfully concluded when the battleship Louisiana, having on board President Roosevelt and his party, dropped anchor in the harbor of Colon. Extensive precautions had been made to protect the president while on the isthmus. Several per sons known to have anarchistic ten dencies were locked up and remained in jail until the president departed.
 The United States census bureau estimates the total wealth of the coun. try in 1904 to be S106, ,SS1, AIS, ,009. This shows an increase in wealth ovet the estimates for 1900 of nearly .21 per cent, and of 64 per cent over the esti- mate for 1890, when the total wealtE was s65,O87 ,O91,197
 Satsuma, the biggest 5attleship in the world, was launched in Japan. The vessel embodies all the lessons of the last war. Details in the main follow those of the British battleship Dread. naught, whose steaming capacity she is expected to exceed.
 Rear-Admiral Robely D. Evans is quoted as saying: At the present time we have nothing more than a respecta, ble nucleus for a navy adequately to represent the United States. It is not my business to criticise, but it some. times puzzles us of the navy to know what congress is driving at
 At meeting of the Pullman Palace Car Co.,, in Chicago, the capital stock of the company was increased by s26,. 100000, bringing the total capitaliza- ton up to s100,000,0 900.
 The attorney-generaI has sent a let. ter to the United States district attcr neys, calling attention to the eight hour-law. He says the government intends to enforce it strictly
 Six men were killed and five seri. ously injured when a boiler in fhe power house of the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern railroad, in Col lingewood, a suburb of Cleveland, (. blew up.
 The United States grand jury st Pensacola has returned indlctme nts against F persons, charging peonage i in connection with cases which orig mated at the Jackson Lumber Co.,, camp several months since
 There is foundation for belief that the Bank of France has come to the relief of the Bank of England, and is furnishing that institution with gol6 necessary to tide it over a pinch caused by the millions drawn from the bank by Americans and shipped to this country. The United States government has the greatest amour ' of gold in its treasury vaults of any nation in the world The tremendou: