The Carlisle independent., 1909-07-29

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 A bill for an injunction against the striking employees of the American Sheet and Tin Plate Go. at Elwood, Ind, was filed in the federal court at Indianapolis.
 Twenty-Five hundred workmen em- ployed by Vickers Sons & Maxim on battleship construction at Madrid went on strike as protest against a reduction of wages.
 The National Editorial association opened it's annual convention at Seat tie today.
 Mrs. J. Addison Hayes, daughter of the late Jefferson Davis, president of the Confederacy, died at her home in Colorado Springs, after an illness of six months
 The Independent Order of Ahwas nual convention at New Haven, Conn
 Half a battalion of Turkish troops have been ambushed by Hamavine tribesmen near Kerkuk in the village of Mosul. Forty Turks were killed, in- cluding the commander, whose family was carried of into slavery.
 It developed Wednesday that Cash fer Policeman, of the Bank of Ander- son, s. C., who suddenly left for parts unknown Sunday morning, had em- bezzled approximately $35,000 of the funds of the bank.
 The London suffragettes who re- gently were sent to prison for taking part in disturbances in Downing street were liberated from Holloway jail as the result of carrying out hunger strike" One of them, Miss Roberts, refused food for 126 hours She is now under medical care.
 Bubonic plague has claimed one victim on the Island of Trinidad re- gently, according to a report received by Surgeon General Wyman, of the publis health and marine hospital ser vice
 The Russian government has asked the new Persian government for guar antees looking to the protection of Russian traders on the Russo-Persian frontier against plundering tribesmen. Unless guarantees are given, Russia will take steps to punish the tribes.
 Pitcher "Christyh Mathewson, the star boxman of the New York Nation al league, was forced to recede from the game in the sixth inning of the contest with St. Louis when a line drive broke the second finger of his left hand. He, will be out of the game for several weeks.
 Jose E. Tijerina was killed outright, Cayettano Lopez badly wounded, and two Mexicans were shot near Me Allen, Tex. The shooting was done by Deputy Sheriff T. L. Mayfeld who was endeavoring to arrest the men for gambling.
 All trains are running on time over the merged lines of Mexico and thus far the strike of train dispatchers has had no effect on operation.
 Wyatt H. Ingram, Jr., trust officer Of the Hibernia Trust and Bank com pany of New Orleans, was finally in- dicted by the grand jury There are twelve counts, two charging embez- clement and 10 charging forgery
 Great ceremony attended the laying of the corner stone of Chicagos new 5000 600 city hall vast crowd as- sembled down town to hear the ad- dresses and the commemoration ode.
 James Bivens instantly killed his brother David with a hoe at Patatown, N. C. The slayer surrendered at Colds boro and following a preliminary ex- animation was released on bond.
 Dr. Edgar Holden, surgeon, writer on medical subjects and president of the Association of Medical Directors of Life Insurance companies, died Monday at the age of T years.
 One thousand delegates, including 400 from the United States and other foreign nations, are attending the twelfth international anti-alcohol con- gress in London
 Private George Hedgepath of the fortieth coast artillery, said to have been the largest man in the army l was killed at Fort Monroe by falling beneath the wheels of a dummy train. | Hedgepath weighed SIS pounds
  Miller. wife of Dr. w R. Miller, now | being held in the Watseka (Iii.) jail | on a charge of murdering Banker | Sayler of Crescent City, H., left | Blairsville, Pa, for Watseka. She | refused to discuss her plans other | than to say that she intended to look | after private interests concerning her self and husband
 Mrs. William Oliphant of West | Branch, la, who gave her four chil- | dren poison, causing the death of the youngest, and then attempted suicide, | was arrested for murder. She admits her guilt.
 Detroit and Washington played what is believed to be a record game for consecutive scoreless innings in a major league contest, the game being called at the end of the eighteenth inning, to 0.
 United States Ambassador to Mex leo David E. Thompson admitted that