The Carlisle independent., 1909-02-25

few days the official announcement Will be made that the road has been sold to the Baltimore & Ohio railroad system
 Vice-President-elect Sherman was the guest of honor at a reception Tuesday night rendered him by his fellow members of the Tape Worm Club an organization which had it's inception in the days when Speaker Reed presided over the house of representatives.
 At the opening session Tuesday of the Illinois convention of the United Mine Workers of America, Secretary Treasurer Hayes recommended that the strike fund" abolished last year be revived
 A house-to-house census which has l been taken under the auspices of the i ployed persons in Berlin of 67,367, in addition to 33,933 unemployed in the i suburbs. The municipality will carry l out a similar census, but has called upon the unemployed to report al va rious centers
 i fierce fire ragged in the Great Northern railroad tunnel at Teton Sta i tion. 50 miles east of Great Falls, Mont. The tunnel will probably be l burned out. A large force of men is trying to check the flames, but no water is available. The road may be | blocked for several days.
 Louis Anthehue Gregori, the French military writer who made an attempt on the life of Major Dreyfus at the i eanonization of Emile Zola at the Pantheon last June, Monday filed a complaint against Madame Alophe Steinheil. the woman charged with the | sensational murder of her husband in Paris May 31 of last year, in connec- tion with the death of Felix Faure, who was president of France when he died in 1899.
 James Morgan, bank thief recent ly let out of Jolit Qll.) prison. was arrested a Racine, Wis, Monday night charged with having taken LOGO from a department store messenged in the First National Bank of Milwaukee. Morgan confessed to the police that he had four accomplices, but they es- caped. About $500 was recovered.
 The great coffee interests in this l country are becoming alarmed lest the | project for a coffee taxe to help offset l the reduction in the revenues be en- | tertained seriously by congress.
 A score of fishermen and their dogs 1 were carried out into Lake Erie Sun- day morning when the ice field was set in motion by shift in the wind. All were rescued except Joseph Ga 1 tusky, who is missing.
 At the close of a long conference at the palace in Havana between Presi- | dent Gomez and Vice-President Zayas, for the purpose of deciding upon terms for the fusion of their rival factions of the liberal party, President Gomez announced that a definite agreement had been reached and that a commit tee had been appointed to arrange the details
 Following a cloudburs, in Rubio canon, above Pasadena, a terrific flood of water came down the narrow canon precipitating the Rubio canon pavilion into the ravine and burying Fred T. Drew, agent of the Pacific Electric railroad, with his wife and | four children in the ruins.
 A dispatch to German news l hot King Menelik has returned from his | pilgrimage and is in the best of health
 AS a result of an opinion by Assist ant Attorney General Sluder of Tex as, there is probability some of the | textbook companies which have con- tracts with the state will be sued for cancellation of contract. The school officials of Hopkins county advised the attorney generals department that 4,676 books needed in that county could not be obtained from the com l panies having contracts with the state, and suit may be instituted against these companies for breach of contract.
 A bill has been introduced in the l Cuban senate to annul the order of the American military authorities abolishing the lottery.
 Rooseyeltian doctrines of anti-race suicide are not practiced to any ex- tent on the canal zone, according to | figures given out by the isthmian ca nal commission. They show that the average zone family consists of hus- band, wife and one child.
 Yielding to the moods of artistic temperament and resenting criticism | leveled at his work, Oscar Mundhenk, a young sculptor, wrecked an elabor- ate production he was executing for the new St. Mary's Catholic church at Marietta, Ohio
 Complaining that the name of tho National Red Cross is being infringed upon to sell such commonplace mate rials as chicken feed, and that persons have resorted to the use of the name to collect funds not designed for the relief of of suffering humanity, Miss Mabel Boardman, secretary of the American National Red Cross, ap