The Carlisle independent., 1906-08-09


 it has not been so intense for 30 years.
 Senator Willard has been invited to accompany the president on his trip to the isthmus of Panama
 Miss Galbraith, a schos&-teacher, and the Misses Hilda and Margaret Sawyer were drowned in the South Coos river. near Allegheny, Ore. The young ladies were bathing, and Miss Galbraith, who could not swim, got into deep water and cried for help. Her companions went to her rescue, but could do noth- ing with the drowning girl, and the three were drowned.
 Reports indicate that the strikers on the Mexican Central railroad are losing ground, quite a number of men having come forward to take the places of the strikers. It is not be- lieved probable the strike will spread to other railroads.
 There is a cry from Minnesota, come and help us" A bumper crop is ready and there is not one-tenth of enough men to harvest it. The same conditions exist in Iowa and the Dakotas.
 Ex-Gov. Samuel Van Sant of Mime sota has been chosen as grand mar shal of the C. A. R. parade in Mime apolis August 15.
 Bradstreets reports a decidedly op- timistic feeling in all lines of trade, the heavy crop yields and the phe- nomenal demand for iron and steel in building operations being the maln factors.
 The town of Hamburg, Pa. was al- most washed away as the result of cloudburst, which sent ten-foot flood sweeping through the main portion of the town. One man was drowned and there were many narrow escapes.
 Three little girls, the oldest not much more than F years of age, ar rived, unaeeompanied at Boston, on the steamer Iyernia from Helsingfors, Finland, tagged Portland, Ore, U. s. A." where theh father awaits them.
 Secretary Root, before sailing from Rio Janeiro for Montevideo, gave farewell reception on board the uiser Charleston. Mrs. Root was made the recipient of some beautiful and costly presents from President Alves, on be- half of the nation, and others.
 David Hoover, United States col lector of customs at Gateway, Mont, and Quon Lee, a Chinaman, have been bound over to the federal grand jury at Helena to answer charge of con spiracy to smuggle Chinese into the country.
 Rear-Admiral Charles J. Train, com mander of the United States Asiatic fleet, died at Chefoo, China, August 4, of uraemia.
 As a result, primarily, of one man failing 10 pay his union dues, between 5000 and 1000 men employed by the Boston & Montana company, at Butte, in the mines. the smeltermen at the Great Falls smelting plant and the train crews engaged in hauling all are idle.
 From 1881 10 1905, inclusive, 4,425 miners and 2,452 mine laborers were killed in Pennsylvania, due largely to their own negligence, carelessness, wrecklessness and ignorance.
 Brig Gen. Albert L. Mills, comman- dant of the military academy at West Point. has received orders to proceed to the Philippines and relieve Brig Gen. Winfield S. Eagerly, in command of Fort William Mckinley, who is or dered to San Francisco.
 Ed Misener, accompanied by his wife and son, has just completed via the Chicago drainage canal, the Illinois and Mississippi rivers, in an 1S-foot launch, without mishap on the trip.
 E. A. Gage, son of former Secretary of the Treasury Lyman J. Gage. shot himself through the heart at the Tour ist hotel in Seattle, Wash. Acquaint- ances said he had been acting strange ly for some time.
 The federal department of justice has taken up the case of the alleged burning of rebate evidence by the Bur lington Railroad Co.,, when two cars, loaded with documents. were burned at Belfast siding in Greeley county, Meb.
 James B. Postlethwait. employed in the clerical department of the Micht- gan Central Railway Co.,, at Detroit, lasted 49 days for the benefit of his health and then died of exhaustion. | Mrs. Grace Hutchinson was acquit- ted of the charge of murder in the 1 killing of Mrs. Mary Bode at Salida, Col, last June, after her husband hat confessed intimacy with Mrs. Bode AR investigation of alleged irregu- larities in the Philippine islands is be ing conducted by Col. Wood. inspector general, under the direction of Mai Gen. Leonard Wood.
 Floyd Carmichael, negro, was shot l to death at Lakewood, a suburb of