The Carlisle independent., 1906-09-27

sweet Marie, In front or the largest crow1 ever gathered at the Columbus (O) track, was successful in not only lowering her own record of 2:03a, but in establishing new trotting mark for the course. Her mile in 2: 02 flat is a quarter of a second better than the time Cresceus made on the same track in 1901.
 It is believed that over ten thousand lives were lost in the typhoon at Hong Kong. Six hundred vessels were wrecked.
 Twelve deaths, the injuring of scores Of other persons, and five hundred thousand dollars worth of damage to property was caused at Jellico, Tenn, when carload of dynamite, standing on track near the Southern railway depet, exploded with report that was heard for 20 miles.
 At Cape Girardeau, Mo, in the fed eral court the jury in the Smith case returned verdict of guilty against Charles M. Smith and Charles M. Smith, Jr., and the five tenants of their farms, on the eleventh count in the peonage case.
 Fowler Mccormick, aged nine years. son of Harold F. and Edith Rockefel. Ter Mccormick, is staying at Forest Hill, Cleveland, O., his grandfather's home. The lad plays about the grounds near the house, but never for an instant is he left by a French maid. Within calling distance two or more stalwart guards walk about
 Wilbur Glen Voliva has been chosen by the people of Zion City as their leader, by vote of 1911, to for A. N. Bliss. This practically makes Al exander Dowie, the self-styled prophet and Elijah H." founder of the order an outcast.
 The Pennsylvania Railroad Go. mas awarded contracts for the construction of 12,400 freight cars, at an estimated cost of s15,OO0,00O
 The establishment of a permanent peace in Cuba without armed inter- vention on the part of the United States is apparently impossible.
 Count Boni de Castellane may delay divorce proceedings by demanding to be paid alimony.
 Four proposals have been submitte4 to the isthmian canal commission for the furnishing of Chinese labor to be employed in the construction of the Panama canal, but the award, if any, will be announced later. One firm agrees to furnish 15,000 Chinese la tC
 John T. Morse, who was Harvards oldest living graduate and sole sur vivor of the class of 1882, died at his home on Beacon street, aged 93. He was born in Boston, and came of long line of Harvard graduates. He fitted for college at the Old Round Hill school at Northampton when it was under the direction of George Ban croft, the historian.
 Brigadier General Samuel M Mills, chief of artillery, will be placed on the retired list September 30, upon his own application, after more than forty-five years of service. He will be succeeded as chief of artillery by Lieutenant Colonel Arthur Murray.
 A typhoon ragged two hours at Hong Kong, destroying and damaging many vessels and causing much loss of life. The harbor was strewn with wreck. age and the city with debris.
 Final preparations have been made for filing objections to the probation of the will of the late Russell Sage. Several ot the fnancier's relatives have expressed their intention of try ing to get bigger share of the estate than is coming to them according to the provisions of the will. It looks now, however, as if the brunt of the contest will be borne by Edson Con- rad, the eight-year-old grand-nephew of MT. Sage, in whose name papers will be filed.
 A crowded express train on the Great Northern railway in England jumped the track near Granthan, the engine and several coaches going off the bridge to roadway. The debris caught fire, but a neighboring fire company extinguished the flames. At least ten people were killed and many others were injured.
 The president has issued procla- nation opening the Kiowa and Co manche and Apache Indian lands in Oklahoma. The interior department will announce the date for the recep- tion of bids for the 505,000 acres of land to be disposed of to homestead CTS.
 Secretary of War Taft and Assis- tant Secretary of State Bacon, on their arrival in Cuba, began to hear the stories of both sides of the Cuban difficulty. It is believed that the United States administration will de-