The Carlisle independent., 1906-08-16
AN EPITOME OF THE MOST I'M PORTANT EVENTS AT HOME
 AND ABROAD.
NORTH, EASi, WEST, SOUTH
A Carefully Oieested and Condensed Compilation of Current News
 Items, Domestic and Foreign.
MISCEUlAN E0US.

King Alfonso and bride go to Scot land to visit Lady Keith, who was Miss January of St. Louis.
 MT. Bryans idea of public ownership as to railroads is to divide control be- tween federal and state governments, says dispatch from Zurich, Switzer- land.
 Secretary of the Navy Bonaparte recommends death penalty for all an- archists who attempt to kill.
 President Roosevelt, it is said, is de- termined to appoint Gen. Leonard Wood lieutenant general and chief of staff before ne retires from the White House.
 Judge O'NeilI Ryan, of St. Louis, in speech at Milwaukee, urged new Ireland an Irish republic.
 Riots took place on Coney island cars because passengers refused to pay double fare, and 5o,000 persons were showed off trains and had to walk.
 Gen. Linevitch is recommended for Russian war commander by Grand Duke Nicholas, who declines post.
 The Mad Mullah raids the Rare haron tribe, is Africa, killing 1000 and capturing 10000 camels.
 On the first day of the G. A. R. en- campment at Minneapolis, Minn, 75,- 900 visitors were in the city.
 The Pennsylvania railroad manage meBt announces that in future all pas senger cars for that system will be constructed of steel as a measure of safety.
 Returns from the principal railroad for the fiscal year show a large in- crease in gross and net earnings.
 At least a dozen persons are re- ported dead or missing as the result of cloudburst in the vicinity of Lang try. Tex, small town on the south ern Pacific road, 300 miles west of San reach s1,500,000.
 w. H. flyers, who dead body was found in a field near Kansas City, Mo, was secretary of the national board of trade of Kansas City. His suicide is said to have been due to financial diff Suculties
 MT W. J. Bryan has cabled his brother, c. W. Bryan, of Lincoln, Neb., fixing the date for his arrival in New York August 30. He will visit New Haven and Bridgeport August 31 Jersey City, September 1 Chicago, September f; Lincoln, September ,; St. Louis, September II; Louisville, September 12. and Cincinnati Septem- ger 13, stppoing at Kansas City on the return trip
 The Longworths have arrived home from Europe.
 Grain rates from Missouri river to Chicago have been restored to Il cents.
 A Paris professor says X-ray will restore natural color to gray hair.
 Chicago's new city directory shows a population of 2,500. 300.
 Cattle raisers of the west met Sec retary of Agriculture Wilson in Chi cago, and asked for a square deal.'' Secretary Wilson assured them, as well as the representatives of the Chicago packers, that square deal' was exactly what the government in- tended to give every branch of the meat industry in this country, and at the conclusion of the meeting ex- pressions of the utmost satisfaction were voiced by all interests con cerned.
 The king of England and the em- perors of Austria and Russia will be godfathers to Emperor Williams grandson, whose christening was post poned from August 12 to August 29.
 United States customs authorities at New York have taken acticn which may result in the confscation of Gainsboro painting valued at 0,0O0. The importer is resident of Chicago, whose identity has not been divulged. The painting was invoiced as having a value of s15,470. Appraiser Fowler had the importation examined and, upon certain information which came into his possession, advanced the value to s30,000.
 A telegram has been received at the bureau of insular affairs, in Wash ington, from the comptroller and gen. eral receiver of customs at Santo Do mingo, announcing that John Milburn, a Porto Rican, was killed, and Charles P Thurston. an American. wounded, by smuggiers in the vicinity of Las Matas, on August 5, and that Thurs ton died of his wounds August 8.