The Carlisle independent., 1906-11-01
NEWS OF 1EMEEK
AN EPlToME OF THEM&r iM- PoRTANT EVENTS AT HOME
 AND ABROAD.
NORTH, EAST, WEST, SOUTH
Compilation of Current News Items, Domestic and Foreign.
MISCELLANEOUS.

the West Jersey x SeaSnore falIfodu jumped the track on the bridge over the Thoroughfare. at Atlantic City, N. J., going off into the water. Two of the cars were submerged with their living freight, but the third car was not submerged until the people were able to get out or were rescued. The dead was yariously estimated at from 55 to 75. Many of the injured were perhaps fatally hurt
 The San Francisco school board states that it was simply obeying the laws of California when it established separate schools for Japanese and other orientals. Many of the so-called Japanese pupils are grown men, and are not fit associates for little girls and boys in white schools. The super intendent says: We do not deny the Japanese any educational right, but there are separate schools for them, and those they must attend
 Says a Tokio dispatch: Among the 266 coral fishing vessels which were caught in the hurricane off Goto island, only 3S of them lived through the storm. Of 1,210 men on board, S22 were drowned and 100 injured.
 Three persons were killed and a number injured by an explosion of natural gas at Coffeyville. Kas., which wrecked five two-story business build ings
 Fire partially destroyed Trowbridge hall, the young ladies dormitory of Defiance (Ohio) college, and 56 girls had narrow. escape.
 William O. Robeson, for the past 29 years supreme secretary of the Royal Arcanum. died of pneumonia at his home in Wellesley Hills, Mass, after an illness of two days. He was born at Loyal Oaks, Md, in 1923.
 President Felton of the Chicago & Alton positively forbids the employ ment of relatives in any capacity, and heads of departments have all been notified
 \ Paderewski has canceled his en- gagement to appear in this country in January
 At Saratoga. N. Y, Italians started a Tn on the Adirondack Trust Co.,, of which State Senator Bracket is presi- dent. The Italians are said to have become alarmed because Bracket was not renominated for senator.
 E. H. Hartman has 10000 laborers at work on railroad he is building on the Pacific coast of Mexico. The road is 1.500 miles long, and will be completed, it is said, in eighteen months
 Robert M. Snyder, a Kansas City, Mo-, millionaire, was fatally injured in an automobile accident, during which boy was struck and fatally hurt. Both died at the same hospital short time afterward. Snyder was under indictment at St. Louis on the charge of bribery. Not long ago Carey Snyder, a son, was found murdered in Oregon.
 The months statement of the collec- tions of internal revenue shows that for the month of September, 1906, the total receipts were $21 1,362639, which is an increase as compared with Sep tember 1905, of $13S,151.
 Increased shipments of wheat from Argentina has had weakening effect on the wheat market Weather there was said to be favorable for the growing crop.
 The first test of the federal eight hour day law ended in a victory for the government at Cincinnati After being out only 15 minutes, the jury in the United States court found the Sheridan-Kirk Contracting Co. guilty of violating the law in the construction of the big Ohio river dam at Fernbank, nine miles below Cincinnati.
 A drastic measure against the rebel lious clergy according to well-informed persons, has been decided upon by the French cabinet which intends to deal with them as foreign officials
 Mrs Robert E. Peary, wife of the ex- plorer, is quoted as saying: I feel just as sure as I am living at this moment that my husband has found the north pole, and that he will soon be home to tell us about It."
 President Roosevelt has directed Victor H. Metcalf, secretary of the de partment of commerce and labor, to proceed to San Francisco, and make a thorough and complete inquiry into the situation affecting the exclusion oi Japanese children from the schools provided for white children and the determination to place Japanese pupils In separate schools.