The Carlisle independent., 1909-07-15

of s33.S00.000 as received from the president, abandoing all attempts to effect retrenehments.
 President Taft was on the losing side in 9 foursome at Golf He and his partner. Gen. Edwards. were de- feated by Senator Bourne of Oregon and Captain Butt, military aide to the president, by two up.
 A series of tornadoes swept over the small district in the vicinity of Niles. S. D., Thursday. The twisters followed at intervals of a few minutes and the last was the most violent.
 Orders were issued assigning to vessels of the Pacific fleet 4 midship- men who completed their course at the naval academy this month. These young officers are required to serve two years at sea before receiving their compissions as ensigns.
 Max Goodman, a butter and egg dealer of Chicago, who was found guilty with his brother. Jacob, of man. ufacturing and selling oleomargarine as fancy butter, was sentenced to serve two years in the Leavenworth, Kas., penitentiary.
 According to a decision rendered by the supreme court of California, Will liam B. Bradbury, millionaire, must serve one year for perjury. Bradbury was sentenced for giving false testi- mony in a suit involving some land in trial in Marion county.
 President Alcorta officially received Charles H. SherriH. the American minister to the Argentine Republic, who presented his credentials. The usual felicitations took place.
 John Svanberg, of Sweden. de feated Teddy Crooks, of Fall River, in a ffteen-mile running race at Worces- ter, Mass Svanberg's time was hour p minutes and 40 seconds.
 Two explosions in the rooms of the American Film Service Company on the third floor of the Security build ing, Chicago, resulted in a fire which caused a loss of approximately S200,- 000 Three fremen were injured.
 A special dispatch from Saloniki says that former Sultan Abdul Hamid has handed the authorities a check for 5000, 900 which will be devoted to the needs of the second and third army corps.
 Both the Raccoon and Des Moines rivers in Iowa have set new high water marks, the former at 106 and the latter at Al. Much damage has been done to corn fields along the two streams.
 Information is at hand which for the first time since the discovery of the murder of Elsie Sigel eleven days ago definitely establishes that Leon Ling must have had accOmplices and that though a telegram signed with his name and his writing was sent from Washington, he could not have been there on the date on which the mes sage was sent.
 Two sharp earth shocks which oc- cured in Algeria caused the collapse of the cliffs overhanging the river Nina. There were no casualties, but the course of the river was diverted
 4 flood of telegrams. nearly equal ing that which swamped the wires during the anti-railroad pass fight, is pouring in upon senators, in opposition to the corporation tax amendment
 Antonio and Joseph Russo, who were bound over to the federal grand jury at Cleveland Tuesday on the charge of being members of the So- cieta di Banana, an alleged black hand organization, were released on l bail
 Pleading guilty to collusive bidding on steel contract work, the Boston Bridge Works and the Groton Bridge l Company were each fined s1,500, the | Canton Bridge Company s2,000 and the Oswego Bridge Company S1,000, | at Boston
 The supreme court, at Columbus, 1 O., in a decision, holds that the right of cities to tax automobiles was taken from them when the state automobile | tax license law was passed.
 A desperate attempt to wreck | south bound Milwaukee passenger train, just north of Redfeld, & D., | was HdQe. A yOulIS ldL ALSA NAO "aS | walking on the track to his home | heard an explosion. He investigated, | and found a section of the track had | been blown out. He Jagged the pas senger train and prevented disas- trous wreck.
 Otis B. Goodall for several years private secretary to the assistant sec retary of commerce and labor, has | been appointed special agent of the | census. He will have charge of i'm portant field work of the thirteenth i census.
 A west bound Canadian Pacific | freight train was ditched near Ram lopps. Manitoba, and five tramps | stealing a ride were killed. Two oth- CTS were badly injured.
 It is understood that the Turkish government has ascertained that the cash deposits of Abdul Hamid, the de