The Carlisle independent., 1907-01-03
NEWS M M WEEK
AN EPlToME or THE MOST IM- PORTANT EVENTS AT HOME
 AND ABROAD.
NORTH, EAST, WEST, SOUTH
A Carefully Digested and Condensed Compilation of Current News
 Items, Domestic and Foreign.

Alexander Johnston Cassatt, presi- dent of the Pennsylvania Railroad Co, died suddenly of heart disease at his residence in Philadelphia. He was recognized as one of the foremost rail- road men of the country. He leaves 8 fortune estimated all the way from $5O,000,000 to $75,000,000
 In a railroad collision near Ar broath. a town between Edinburgh and Aberdeen, Scotland, caused by heavy snow, Is persons were killed and over thirty seriously injured.
 Arctic weather has prevailed Throughout central Europe. In Great Britain violent gales and snowstorms were accompanied by thunder.
 Efforts on the part of the United BtAtes to effect a peaceful settlement In Cuba are not meeting with encour- agement from the Cubans. It Is the impression of public men generally in Washington that the better element of people of Cuba desire annexation.
 Bishop A. Coke Smith, of the Meth UQlDt CAu1Cl1y SOotd, NACO ~S <1SAAN 1-~>' H. c.
 The director of the mint has pur- chased 100 900 ounces of fine silver, to be delivered at the Philadelphia mint, 1t 7015S cents per ounce.
 Speaker Cannon wins fight for precedence over the chief justice of the supreme court at social functions.
 Mrs. Russell Sage has given out | statement in which she declares that 1t is not her intention to distribute Immediately the money left by her husband, and much less does she in tend to distribute it everywhere and to everybody.
 w. s. Reyes, a banker and pioneer business man of San Francisco was found dead at his club from natural causes.
 The internal revenue receipts for the first five months of the fiscal year amounted to S116175, ,407, an increase over the same period of 1905 of S9,722,- e6S.
 United States Senator Beveridge, of Indiana, addressed the school teachers of Nebraska, and was introduced by Wm. J. Bryan.
 It is stated that James J. Hill will retire as president of the Great North ern railroad July l, and will be sue ceeded by his eldest son, Louis J. Hill.
 Lawrence Leberg, who was lynched et Las Animas, Cal, for murder, was recently released from the asylum at Promo, Utah. The superintendent of the Utah institution believes the Colo rado mob lynched lunatic.
 The statement is issued from the White House that the president does not contemplate trip to the Philip pines next summer.
 It Is stated that Germany has signed a peace treaty with the Hereroes, the African tribesmen who have given trouble for several years.
 Near Muskoday, N. D., the process of thawing dynamite was being car ried on. It exploded, blowing two men to atoms.
 It has been announced at the state department in Washington that the United States will support measure adopted by England to ameliorate the sufferings of people in the Congo country.
 Mir and Mrs. Louis Bischoffesheim- of London, have donated Sz00, 900 to the imperial cancer research fund
 In an interview at Topeka, Kas. William J. Bryan stated that such high honor Is the presidential nomi nation that no man should decline"
 Yauqi Indians, in the state of So nora, Mexico, are on raid, numbering and plundering.
 It is stated that thirty million peas ants will need assistance In the Rus sian famine districts.
 Count Eugene Zichy, who died al Budapest recently, left an estate val ued at $10,000,0 He boqueathed g splendid collection of paintings and other works of art to the city of Buda pest.
 Andre Giron. who achieved notoriety three years ago by eloping with the then crown princess of Saxony, has married Mile. came Bream. who is F years older than Giron. The crowT princess of Saxony lost all her roya rights through her escapade, while Giron went unpunished.
 The coasts of England have beer visited by terrific gales, causing loss to shipping.