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The Carlisle independent., 1907-01-24

Geo. Duckwald, q prominent rice grower living east of town called last week and advanced lis subscription to the Indepenoent il year, for which he has our thanks. Mr. Duckwald will have 80 acres of rice ou Mr. Chapman's $ farm this year.
The Carlisle independent., 1907-01-24
For Sale CT Trasle.

I have fine Copper Bottom Stallion that l will sell cheap, or trade. He is 6 years old, about 16 hands high and will weigh about HOO pounds. Apply at the Potter place 8 miles Northwest of Carlisle, H. c. Kring
The Carlisle independent., 1907-01-24
Mules Fer Sale.

We have a number of good work mules for sale. Apply to c. ". Snelling's barn.
 SMELLING 6 ROBBINS.
The Carlisle independent., 1907-01-24
Fer Rent.

AelSe fdIHl Well HI lpfOFeQ, two miles from town. Apply to,
 M. B, MOORE 1909 Welch St.
 Little Rock Ark,
 The Ladies And Society of the NJ. E. Church assisted by the local talent, will give Valentine Social at Echlins Hall on Wensdav evening Feb. B 1907. A good supper will be served for p cents and there will be a musical and liter ary program rendered free of charge. One of the interesting fea- lures will be the post-office, winch will contain a valentine for every body. All are cordially invited to attend and bring yonr frie ids.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1907-12-27
TOLD IN A FEW LINES.

The farmers Union warehouse at Tay.
Tor. Texas, with 1000 bales of cotton,
burned. Loss S125,000, fully covered by
insurance.
Five hundred persons will leave New
York City Jan. Is, 1908, to establish an
industrial colony or one of the islands of
the Southern Pacific ocean.
At the sale of the effects of the late
Stanford White in New York a Damascus
carpet 81 feet long by 10 wide was rur-
chased by Miss Elsie De Wolf for S4,100.
The interstate commission, at
Washington, is preparing to assume juris-
diction over the street and interurban
railway systems doing an interstate bust.
ness.
Practically all of the Cambria work
men suspended recently, partly by reason
OF needed repairs and partly on account
of a shortage of orders, have resumed
their employment at Johnstown, Pa.
Oscar Frederick Spat, alias Reginal
SSpaulding, alias Sterling. was fined 800
or thirty days in the workhouse at Pitts
burg on a charge Of swindling certain peo-
plc of that city with an offer to introduce
them at King Edwards court if well paid.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1907-12-27
NEW YORK.

Cross currents in trade, finance and in.
dustry prevent generalization, but inan-
conditions generally have shown fur
ther easing, while the approach of the hol-
iday period and more seasonable weather
helped. ~enliven distribution, which in some
sections also feels the stimulus of price
concessions. On the other hand, whole
sale and jobbing trade has rather quieted
and manufacturing industry has slackened
slightly. Collections generally are very
SLOW, and failures tend to increase in
number.
There is less talk of cancellations,
though there are evidences of these in
many lines. To offset the possibility of
large stocks accommodating, buyers are
keeping their activities restricted, and this
tendency is also REINFORCED by a fair
volume of resales by jobbers who find sur
plus supplies at hand.
Business failures in the United States
for the week ending Dec. IL number 2S4,
against 272 last week, 220 in the like
week of 1906, 226 in 1905, 139 in 1904
and $50 in 1903. Canadian failures for
the week number so, as against 26 last
week and 81 this week a year ago
Bradstreet's Commercial Report.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1907-12-27
200 ARE ENTOMBED IN
PENNSYLVANIA Mine
Terrible Explosion imprisons All
the Men Working in Coal Shaft
Near Connellsville.
FIRE ADDS TO AWFUL HORROR.
Darr Workings, Owned by Pittsburg
Coal Company, the Scene of Lat
est Slaughter Of Miners.

Two hundred miners were entOmbed
In the Darr mines Of the Pittsburg
Coal Company at Jacobs Creek, on the
Youghiogheny River, eighteen miles
west of Connellsville, Pa. OF the vic
tins fully 100 are Americans, the 9th
ers being. principally Hungarians.
A terrific explosion shook the vicin-
ity of the mine Thursday morning and
announced to all the surrounding coun.
try hat a great disaster had occurred
under the surface. Smoke soon began
to issue in heavy columns from the
mine, which is of the slope variety.
The mouth of the mine was wrecked,
and this, together with the fire which
was discovered raging inside, prevent
ed any attempt to rescue the imprison-
ed men. There was nothing to indi-
cate whether it was gas or coal dust
that exploded. ..... .....
Within a few minutes after the ex-
plosion the mouth of the pit was sur
rounded by the relatives and friends of
the entombed men. Smoke and flames
issuing from the slope made it impos-
sible to enter and the wives and chill
dren were frantic.
The scene of the explosion is on the
Pittsburg & Lake Erie Railroad side
of the Youghiogheny River. Jacobs
Creek, on the main line of the Balti-
more & Ohio Railroad, is across the
river. 1t is forty miles east Of Pitts
burg and eighteen miles west of Con-
nellsyille. ~
The officials of the Pittsburg Coal
Company stated that the mine was one
of the largest and was equipped with
the most modern appliances for mining.
The Pittsburg Coal Company mines are
on both sides of the Yo%ughiogheny
River. The fuel mined in this field is
used for coking purposes. The terri
tory is a part of the original Connells-
vile coke field and the mines are said
to contain considerable gas.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1907-12-27
Kentucky Night Riders Raid.

Hopkinsville, KY, was the scene of a
desperate and destructive attack by mask
ed night riders Of the night of December
g., when 500 of them entered the town,
captured the police and fire departments,
took possession of the telephone exchange
and railroad stations and then burned
three tobacco warehouses and other prop
city aggregating 100000 in value. So
quietly had the ~marauders come and SO
thoroughly did they do their work that
the people of the place had no chance to
offer resistance. The store windows were
broken in and the plant of the newspa-
per favorable to the tobacco trust was
demolished. For the motives of the raid
was to get even with the warehouse men
who had refused to join the Farmers As
ISOLATION and had dealings with the trust.
Several of these men were beaten with
switches and one man was shot, a brake
man who was trying to get his train
away from the path of the flames. A
posse followed the, retiring raiders some
distance, but were outnumbered. Next
day Gov. Beckham ordered a company Of
militia to the scene to aid Sheriff Smith
Investigation is to be rigid.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1907-12-27
1]HE GA1NERS
-MNlGI

Chicago-Cattle, common to prime,
$500 to $6.1O; hogs, prime heavy, $500
to $3.50; sheep, fair to choice, $500
to $4.25; wheat, No. 9, CSC to $1.O0;
corn, No. 2, SOC to Gle; oats, standard,
49c to soc; rye, No. 2, roc to Sic; bay,
timothy, $11.OO to $3.50; prairie, $500
to $3.50; butter, choice creamery, 24c
to 29c; eggs, fresh, &c to &c; potatoes,
pei bushel, 4Sc to 56c.
Indianapolis-Cattle, shipping, $500
to 1925; hogs, good to choice heavy,
500 to $4.75; sheep, common to prime,
$500 to $3.50; wheat, No. 9, 93c to 95c;
corn, Nc. 2 white, sc to ac; oats, No. z
white, 49c to SIC.
st. Louis-Cattle, $3.50 to 5000; hogs,
$500 to $4.75; sheep, $500 to $500;
wheat, No. Z S1.o2 to $1.03; corn, No. 2.
53c to 54c; oats, No. 2, 4Sc to SOC; I've,
No. 2, 75c to 79c.
Cincinnati-Cattle, $500 to $5.25;
hogs, $500 to $3.50; sheep, $500 to
$3.50; wheat, No. 2, 99c to $1.OO; corn,
No. 2 mixed, 55c to SEC; oats,j No. 2
mixed, SOC to 52c; rye, No. ., roc to Sic.
Detroit-Cattle, $500 to $500; hogs,
Sl.OO to S0lO; Sheep, SOU TO 9f.oo,
wheat, No. 2, $1.oO to $1.o2; corn, No 3
yellow, soc to Gle; oats, No. 3 white,
53c to SAC; rye, No. 2, soc to SIC.
Milwaukee-Wheat, No. 2 northern,
S1.0S to $1.1O; corn, No. 8, SOC to Coo
oats, standard, 52c to 53c; rye, No. l,
Soc to Sic: barley, No. 2, 96c to &c;
pork, mess, $12.S5.
Buffalo-Cattle. choice shipping steers,
$500 to $3.50; hogs, fair to choice, $3.50
to $3.50; sheep, common to good mixed,
$500 to $3.50; lambs, fair to choice,
$500 to 1925.
New York-Cattle, $500 to $3.50;
hogs, $3.50 to $500; sheep, $500 to
$500; wheat, No. . red, S1.O3 TO S1.O4;
corn, No. 2, 66c to &c; oats, natural
white, SIC to zoe butter, creamery, 2oc
to 29c; eggs, western, Doc to 33c.
Toledo-wheat, No. 2 mixed, &c to
99c: corn, No. 2 mixed, SIC to 59c;
oats, No. 2 mixed, 53c to SAC; rye, No.
2, 7Sc to soc; clover seed, prime, $1,000.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1907-12-27
THIRD HORROR IN A FORTNIGHT

MononEnh,W. Va, and YOInnde Dis
aster Cost Lives of Hundreds.
The Connellsville mine horror is the
third to shock the nation within the
last fortnight. An explosion in mines
Nos. 6 and 8 of the Consolidation Coal
Company at Monongah, w. Va, wreck
ed the interior Of the mine and caused
a loss of life at first estimated at 500,
but since found to have been less thar
400. Not all the bodies of men trapped
in subterranean passages have been re-
moved even yet. At last accounts 1856
had been found.
This disaster brought desolation to
the whole city Of Monongah and the
surrounding region and restitution and
even disease have resulted. The State
authorities and others have taken
measures to investigate the causes rig
idly and to seek greater safety for the
workers.
The other serious accident occurred
in the Yolande coal mine, nea Bir-
mingham, Ala. The latest reports from
the scene of this horror, published yes
terday, show fifty-nine bodies found
and twenty-five men listed as still
missing.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1907-12-27

w. r. Boggs, an American, was slain
by Mexican laborers who demanded their
wages.
of King Carlos of Portugal in the Royal
Theater of Lisbon.
Brigands tortured Marquis Cito of Ma
pies and forced his wife to write a check
for $4,000 for his ransom.
In the effort to gain the mastery of
the Pacific, Japan forced every foreign
shipping line out of the China trade.
Thousands of native troops who attack
ed the French forces on the Algerian
frontier were driven back into Morocco.
] A steamer went on the rocks of the
Nova Scotia shore in a binding storm,
but the 600 persons aboard were taken
off.
Oscar Erbsloeh was forced by German
authorities to pay duty of $50 on the
James Gordon Bennett Cup he won in
The balloon race.
The death sentence of Prof. Karl Hau,
convicted of murder in Germany, was
ccmmuted to life imprisonment
Empress Alexandra of Russia became
so i'll that special consultation of court
thy SiNIGsIlS a LIN ttSS
Nicholas Tschaikovsky, known as the
founder of the first revolutionary circle
at st. Petersburg, and Nine. Breshkov-
skaya. one of the first aristocratic con-
ycrts to the terrorist program, both of
whom have many friends in America,
have been arrested and thrown into the
Fortress of SIS. Peter and Paul at the
Russian capital.
Finance Minister Kokorsoff, in an
nouncing the budget in the Duma, Tues.
day, said that it would be necessary to
get sos, 600, 200 on credit to meet the ex-
fl aordinary expenses.
Recent conferences between the Ameri-
can ambassador at Toxic. O'Brien, and
Foreign Minister Hyashi, lave resulted in
u satisfactory settlement of the limitation
Of japanese immigration to the United
States. 1t was agreed that only students
and commercial men should be allowed to
come, n that the going of laborers
should be prevented by the Japanese au-
thorities. Similar assurances were giveD
to the representatives Of Canada.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1907-12-27
NArIoNA1 CAPITAL NOTES.

Representative Coudrey Of Missouri in
troduced a bill making it a penitentiary
olfense to publish a false advertisement.
A petition from the Chicago Associa-
tion of Commerce asking better postal IA
%cilities for Chicago was presented by Sen:
ator Cullom.
The War Department cabled GOV. Ma
COON that it hopes to raise the quarantine
against Cuban ports before the end OF the
present month.
Senator Hopkins introduced bills pro
viding for the erection of federal build
ings to cost $4,000 each at Duquoin and
Murphysboro, III.
President Roosevelt sent to the Senate
the nomination of William II. Grimslaw
to be United States marshal for the Dis
trict of Minnesota.
Representative Lowden introduced q
bill providing for an appropriation of 3d.
600 for the purchase of land at Sterling,
ILL.,, for the enlargement of the postofice
Commissioners of Indian Affairs Leupp
in his annual report says that two Of
Special Officer Johnson's men and one
posse man have been killed in skirmishes
with bootleggers in Indian, Territory and
ten violators of the liquor laws have met
a like fate.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1907-12-27
CHICAGO.

Although the volume of business falls
short of the normal, there are indications
that point to some recovery. Payments
through the banks reflect a smaller com-
parative decline, commercial defaults run
under those last year, and there are not
only increasing deposits but more rapid
cancellation of emergency checks and re-
newal of discount operations in mercantile
paper.
Shipments of currency to the interior
have expanded for the marketing of corn,
and the preparations assure ample funds
to meet heavy January disbursements at
tn. banks. Settlements on December ma
turtles thus far have been made with less
trouble than expected, and the small ag-
gregate of extensions sought was the
cause of lessened fear in financial circles.
Quiet conditions prevail in the leading
industries, but ~seasonable weather brought
Improved demand in distributive branches,
and the absorption of winter apparel, food
products and Christmas goods makes a
rapid reduction in stocks. There is also
more activity in the advance buying in
wholesale, lines, with a better supply of
mail orders for dry goods, woolens, cloaks
and suits and boots and shoes.
With the approaching holidays there is
greater tendency to curtail machinery en-
ployed in factory work, and shut-downs
may be more extended than usual.
Receipts of raw materials reflect fur
ther shrinkage, but these are ample for
requirements, and prices have an easier
tendency in pig iron, lumber, leather and
wool, although hides steadied on buying
for eastern consumers
Failures reported in the Chicago dis
trict number %, against IS last week and
20 a year ago. Those with liabilities over
$1,000 number 3, against Z last week and
5 in 19O6.-Dun's Review of Trade.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1907-12-27
Machine. for Curing Liars.

Prof. Hugo Munsterberg Of Harvard
university has invented several machines,
the purpose of which is to record the emo
lions and reveal the secrets of the human
mind. One scientist calls them truth
compelling machines" and another ma
chimes to cure liars" 1t is said that
one of these machines was employed by
Prof. Munsterberg in his recent test OF
Harry Orchard, the chief witness for the
prosecution in the Haywood trial. This
nstrumen is known as the autOmauto-
graph. 1t consists merely of a wooden
sling suspended from the ceiling pom
which rests the arm of the person being
examined. A pencil is grasped lightly in
the fingers, the point of the pencil just
reaching a smooth sheet Of paper, which
records the involuntary writings of the
suspect. 1t has been learned that the
arm muscles and finger muscles thus used
constantly twitch under the stress of any
passing emotion. Tests upon different
persons nave disclosed the fact that the
same general outline is made by any per-
son under the stress of the same emotion.
Another instrument, more delicate in
construction, called the pneumograph,
records the normal breathing, and any
variation in breathing caused by an emo
tional suggestion. The recording is done
electrically, and in another room far re-
moved from the suspect. The effect OF
emotional stress upon the rate of breath
ing is a matter of common knowledge.
Still another device called the sphygma-
graph is attached to the wrist and records
the action of the heart beats. 1t is said
to be the surest of all, as the heart is the
most sensitive and the least influenced by
The will.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1907-12-27

12-Stea mShip Cypress wrecked sn
Lake Superior and % lives lost.
14-Town of San Jose del Cabo, Lower
California, DESTROYED by c~loudburst.
l5-Du Pont powder works near Fon-
tunet. Ind, explodes, killing so people.
16-Wall street furry causes great
slump in copper stocks.
22-23-Panic in New York and the
East, marked by suspension of Kh4cker-
booker Trust Company and of various
financial concerns, appointment Of rsceiv-
ers for Westinghouse Electric and Manu-
featuring Company, and wild scenes on
Stock Exchange.
23-Germans win balloon race from St.
Louis with France second.
27-New S2o,c0o,0o0 Union station
opened in Washington.
BOY Earthquake and mountain slide de-
stroys town of Karatagh, Russian TYR
kestan, and causes $4,000 deaths.
NOVEMBER. a
1-Great railway strike in Great Brit
ain called.
END of t~elegraphers' strike... Elec-
tions in many States. + H
11--Death of Dexter NJ. Ferry, seeds
man. of Detroit. e.. -
In OIL AOnCuTe II. CONWAY
American author. . . Fire destroys town
of Cleary. Alaska.
16-Oklahoma admitted to statehood.
24-Jury in Steve Adams case in Rath-
drum, Idaho, d~isagrees.
25-Thirteen lives lost in New York
tenement house fire.
26-Death of Gen. B. D. Pritchard Of
.Allegan. Mich, whose regiment captured
Jefferson Davis. ..
DECEMBER.
1-ExploSion in mine at Fayette City,
Pa. kills 40 miners. O. .T .
b 2-SiXtieth Congress opens. 1884, So
liking Oscar of Sweden resigns gov.
elnment into hands of Crown Prince as
regent.
6-Explosion entombs 400 miners at
Monongah, w. va. ~
S-Dcath of King Oscar II. of Sweden
and access "l Of his son as Gustaf v.
II -I''r~ ,.rnt Roosevelt reiterates his
deciarGJ q Eat he will not again be a
candidate tor chief executive.
16-Dust explosion kills 70 men in
mine at Yolandc, Ala. Great wal feet
sails from Hampton Roads for Pacific.
11-Death of Lord Kelvin, English
scientist.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1907-12-27

W. j. Bryan is quoted as being In &C
cord with much Of the Presidents nes-
ssge to Congress. In particular h like
the recommendation that the government
pay the p e of elections. only he
would add a provision against private con-
tribations. He also strongly approves Of
the postal and guaranteed banks.
The letter written by Senator Foraker
of Ohio in response to the resolutions Of
the Ohio Republican League committees
last week was his formal announcement
Of willingness to accept support u the
end * his becoming the candidate Of the
party for the presidency. In it the SEN
ator girtually laid down his platforn by
saying he will stick to his policy of OPP
position to executive encroachmcnt and
by opposing tariff tinkering.
Upon the eve of the opening of Con-
gress Representative Fowler of New Jer-
sey, head of the House banking and cur
rcncy committee, issued a prediction Of
coming financial tragedy of far greater
proportions than the present panic unless
we stop issuing a fixed bond-secured cur
rcncy. He says that the banks of the
country to-day have about $12,OOO,OOO,-
600 in deposits and about the same
amount of loans outstanding, against
which they hold reserves of only $780,
100000, of which $200,0o0,0OO is in bank
note, promises. This he calls s.the worst
and widest form of imitation" He de-
fines as blasting one credit upon another
credit Henc he deems the credit cur
rency the safest because it would al
ways be sent to bank of issue promptly
and necessitate proper reserves.
Justice Walter Clark of the North Car
Dina Supreme Court, in his New York
address, tried to show how the federal
constitution was devised to suppress the
will of the people rather than to express
Ii, and urged the calling of a convention
sf the whole people to revise it, in ac-
.ordance with present need and genuine
democracy. He especially attacked the
Erpreme Court for presuming to amend
The constitution and to nullify the acts
of Congress, saying: "A more complete
denial of popular control of this govern
ment could not have been conceived than
The placing of such Unbelievable power
In the hands of men not elected BY the
people and holding Office for life" Ee
said ttat we retain only the form q Do.
oe1atde eovefH0sat.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1907-12-27

engaged in a razor duel. Her oppo-
nent was Mrs. Olin G. Castle, who, az
Clara Wiley, was married to y0un1
Olin Castle, clerk In an Eldorado store.
Both girls had in turn been wooed BY
him.
July %, 1900, nine days after ths
wedding OF Clara Wiley and Castle,
Miss Morrison visited the young wife
and the total battle ensued. II was
called to the Castle home by Mn. 0e
tie, who commenced 1 furious TRADE
against me-" she says in telling the
story. ~Shs attacked me with a aEor.
I snatched the weapon from her and
slashed her." Mrs. Castle died q week
later.
Miss Morrison had three trials, In
each OF which she was found guilty.
The first time she was sentenced to
three years in prison, the second to
ten, and the third time TO twenty.
The prominence Of the principals Of
the case made it one OF the greatest In
terest throughout the country. The CON
victed woman's father was at n time
a member of the Kansas Supreme
Court. n&
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1907-12-27
1,ew rr.nesrle i'm structnraI werk.
R.bic. = Real pt,ca,e.

Chief Melvin of the Bureau of Animal
Industry Of the Agricultural Department
says that many experiments conducted
by the bureau row demonstrate that by
drophobia is q real germ-generated and in
fictitious disease. This disease, he says,
can be communicated from beasts to men
as well as from beast to beast. There are
two types of ~hydrophobia, dumb and furi-
Gus. In the earlier stages of the former
kind a dog is dangerous, but in the late
stages it is not, as it sustains paralysis
of the jaws: but a dog with the furious
type of h~ydrophobia is very dangerous,
yelping and running about with fretAins
mouth and without any sign OF jaw par
alysis. DR.. Melvin insists that rs yet
there is no cure for rabies known to MID
zeal science.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1907-12-27
ASK RELEASE OF GIRL SLAYER.
Jessie Morrison, Who Killed Her
Rival, Said to Be Dying in Prison.

Jessie Morrison, Who Killed Her
Rival, Said to Be Dying in Prison.
Interest in the tragic life stery Of
Jessie Morrison, of E~ldorado, KAN, is
revived through the Efforts Of inAu-l
entail friends to secure her release
from the Kansas State penitent1ary
'or the murder Of her school girl friend,
rs. O1in G. Castle. The young woun-
an. once kpown throughout the Stats
as a beauty, is said to be dying as o
result of her confinement in the w0In-
ans prison, with sixteen years Of q
t~wenty-yoar sentence yet to serve
Her beauty 4 faded, her spirits
are dead, and she pleads pitifully for
freedom. Those who were once her
bitterest enemies are Interesting them
selves in her battle fer laniency. Min
listers are at the head Of the movement,
and an application for pardon, signed
by some of the foremost men and wom-
en- of Kansas, will soon be in the
hands of Gov. Hoch. I
The crime for which Miss Morrison
Is paying the penalty was committed
when she and a successful rival In love
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1907-12-27

Thirty-eight of the forty-three defend
ants named by the government in Its
charges of conspiracy and trade restraint
on the part of the powder trust have filed
answers in the Federal Court at Whining
ton. all denying the charges. The chief
contention is that the business is not UNI
lawful because large. and that the COM
pany had a right to purchase either COM
panies or properties when considered good
Investments. The answers show how the
smaller concerns were absorbed by the
voluntary consent of both parties.