The Carlisle independent., 1909-08-26

" stS bSdlSu anu llS SKULL CTuSuSu The motive of the murder was evi- 1ently robbery Two of her tenants were arrested.
 The Journal de Brussels Pekin cor respondent says that serious difficult ties have arisen between the Japan ese and Russians north of Tchang- Choun, Manchuria, and that each side has mobilized troops.
 A blanket reduction of P per cent III all fire insurance rates for Kansas business property in Kansas was or 1ered by Charles w. Barnes, superin- tendent of insurance. The reduction becomes effective September 15.
 The descendants of Hugh Brady and Capt. Samuel Brfady, pioner settlers of Cumberland county, Pa, held a reunion at Carlisle, Pa. to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the birth of their ancestors.
 The mystery of the wreck of yes sel during storm off Rag de sin has not yet been cleared up, but the ill- fated craft is believed to have been a Spanish steamer, which was lost with all on board.
 The standard of the Grand Army, reported missing, was found stored in the Commercial building in which the executive committee of the recent en- campment had it's headquarters at Salt Lake City,
 Acting Secretary Reynolds of the treasury department signed an order for the issuance of fifty million Hud- son-Fulton stamps by the bureau of engraving and printing. The entire issue will be ready for delivery to postoffices throughout the country by the middle of September
 All newspapers in Stockholm have brought suit against the compositors' unions for breach of contract The ac- tions grow out of the cOmpositors join ing the strike when their contracts provided against such action.
 The famous sociologist, Ludwig Sumplowicz, professor of political law at Graz university, Syria, and his wife, Francisco, committed suicide by taking poison. Tine reason assigned for the ded is that Prof Sumplowicz was suffering from an incurable dis ease.
 Ten persons were injured seriously and 20 others had narrow escapes in Chicago when 250 feet of the Twelfth street bridge over the river and via duct collapsed. It was at first thought that several had been killed, but work men digging in the ruins have not found any bodies.
 By requiring carriers to double uizsz.v5siS -, .5siS routes during the dull sea son of July and August, instead of employing substitutes, Postmaster General Hitchcock expects to save the government not less than S250,000 in the cost of carriers vacations during the present fiscal year
 The striking matters who have beer out in Orange and Newark, N. J., for five months voted a resolution indors- ing the action of the union officers in accepting the proposals for Q set clement recently submitted by Gov Fort.
 Announcement was made by Post master General Hitchcock Of the ap- pointment of Elmer E. Adams as post master at Winnetka, IL
 Grace Maidhof and Ralph H. s. Whitney, the young people who have been held in jail in New York, charged with passing worthless checks. both pleaded guilty to forgery in the second degree and were re, manded for sentence on August 24 They both expressed their intention in court of getting married as soon as they get out of their present trou- ble.
 Returns from the municipal primary election held in San Francisco indi- cate that Charles Pickett. for district attorney, is running far ahead of Francis J. Heney for the Republican nomination.
 Governor Brown signed the recent act of the Georgia legislature which prohibits the use by negro secret SO cieties of the insignia. ritualistic work, grips, etc, of orders composed of whites.
 Mrs AL Downdell, so years old, general secretary for the United Daughters of the Confederacy, died at her home in Auburn, Ala.
 Mrs Shelby M. Cullom, wife of Senator Cullom of Illinois. is criti- cally ill at her home in Washington and the attending physician has given up hope of her recovery.
 Six men were injured. at least two fatally. in a natural gas explosion at the plant of the Wirick Storage com pany at Cleveland, o.
 Doing his last days work in the mines, intending to move to Gaines vile, Mo, to go into business, Elijah Bohannan was killed by a falling stab in the Trinity mine at Webb City, Mo.
 Hannah Jones, a negress, aged no, died at Pine Bluffs, Ark She was mother of sixteen children, who sur vive. She was born in Carlton, Ala, and had lived there many years. Deputy sheriffs, farmers and police of Flint, Mich, art searching for Eber Lambie, 30 a Greek, also known as