The Carlisle independent., 1907-04-18
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Chairman Tawney, of the house committee on appropriations, and Representative Olcott. wNo have re- gently returned from visit to the isthmus of Panama, Thursday dis cussed with the president conditions as they found them. Mr. Tawney is favorably impressed with the progress being made in the canal work and told the president he thought at the pres ident he thought at the present rate the waterway should be completed in five years.
 Fred w. Troy, travelling photogra- pher, 35 years of age. who shot and killed his wife, Potosia Troy, and mor tally wounded Ralph Guin in Joplin, Mo, New Years day, pleaded guilty to second degree murder in circuit court and was sentenced by Judge Gray to serve term of 99 years in the penitentiary.
 Two large public banquets. instead of the dinner originally planned, it was announced. will conclude the na- tional arbitration and peace congress which is to meet in Carnegie hall next Sunday.
 In apparent deadlock, yet without having intimated to the court the i'm possibility of reaching some final agreement, the jury which is trying to determine the guilt or innocence of Harry K Thaw Friday was again locked up for the night, after having passed thirty hours in continuous de liberation.
 In an eloquent appeal both to the written and unwritten law, Dolphin M. DeImas committed Harry K. Thaw's fate to the jury. The California at torney concluded his five hours sum- ming up speech declaring his client was justified in killing Stanford White.
 The attention of the government has been called to the fact that thou sands of Jewish families in the south ern provinces of Russia are selling their homes and departing in anticipa- ton Of wholesale anti-Jewish attacks at the Russian Easter, April 28.
 Charges of graft in the canal con- missary department may be investigat- ed by personal representative of Presi- dent Roosevelt if the Golthals report is xot satisfactory.
 The executive committee of the or ganization known as the Moyer-Hay wood Protest Conference at New York, announced Saturday night that 1t had sent to President Roosevelt a letter protesting against the presidents re- ference to Moyor and Haywood in the letter addressed to Representative James s. Sherman and recently made public in connection with the E. H. Hartman letter incident.
 The trial of Harry K. Thaw. charged with the murder of Stanford White, is nearing the end. Attorney Dolphin M Delmas. the California advocate began his closing address to the jury Monday.
 The Western Federation of Miners has organized a union at Risbee, Ariz., and have issued an ultimatum to the companies that strike would take place unless the union is recognized. Three thousand men are affected.
 After session lasting two days, at Cleveland, O., the National Union of Window Glass Workers and the execu- tive board of the Manufacturers as sociation failed to agree Monday night and declared the conference at an end
 While three armed men patroled the main street of the town at midnight shouting warnings and shooting at citizens who dared appear two others blew open the safe of the First State bank, of Seminole. l. T., and decamped with $1,000.
 against the New York Times and Adolph s. Ochs, it's manager for s500,- 900 damages for alleged libel
 Nicaraguan troops are in control of the Honduran coast and war is near an end unless movement is made on Salvador and Guatemala
 President Roosevelt said to fear third term nomination unless object &ions can be overcome by sentiment.
 Former Attorney General Rogers Of Arkansas. on stand in Covington trial, denies charges made by Gross
 Interstate commission will file pro- ceedings in federal court to compel E. H. Hartman 70 answer questions con cerning the Union Pacific stock trans actions
 Six automobiles being built in New York for ice and water travel. Will be used in dash for North Pole.