The Carlisle independent., 1909-12-23
LATEST NEWS OF THE WORLD
 TERSELY TOLD.
H3RTH, FAST, SOUTH AND WEST
Notes From Foreign Lands, Through out the Nation, and Particularly
 the Great Southwest.

ger or Henry Flood, at Marked Tree, Ark, several months ago, and sen fenced to be hanged Friday ar Harris burg, Ark, got a stay of execution of the sentence from Chief Justice Mc- Culloch, pending his appeal in the su- preme court.
 The reported merger of the Waters Pierce Oil company and the Aguilla Oil company of Mexico, which would give the Waters Pierce concern a practical monopoly of the Mexican oil business. is officially denied by Presi- dent Landa y Escondon of the Aguilla company.
 Negotiations have just been made whereby all the independent telephone companies in the country, including the Kinloch of St. Louis, will be con- nected by big trunk lines to be con- structed at once, according to state ment made by Herman c. Stifel, St. Louis broker.
 The St. Louis coroner, aroused by numerous auto accidents in St. Louis recently, will make a searching in- R. Ballard, who was run down and al most instantly killed Monday night by an automobile driven by George Geb- hart, Is years old.
 Because of his espousal of the cause of Francis J. Heney and the graft prosecution, Rev. David Evans, for three years rector of Grace church at San Francisco, the wealth jest and most exclusive Episcopal congregation in that city. has been forced to resign.
 Henry Miller, who was Abraham Lincoln's driver on the speaking tour through western Illinois in ais cam paign against Douglas. for the United States senate, died at Kewanee, IL. at the age of S2 years. Miller was also a guard when Lincoln's body lay in state in Washington in 1865.
 The Buffalo Jones African company of New York was incorporated to or ganize and maintain and conduct hunt ing and exploring expeditions into Africa. The directors are Francis w Bird, George D. Dutton and Mansfield Ferry of New York.
 John Richards, his wife and his son, Thomas Richards. were asphyxiated by the fumes from gas stove in their home in Topeka, Kas. The three bod les were found by the wife of the younger Richards several hours later.
 The large tobacco barn belonging to Daniel Miller, in Spencer county, Ind, l tained 5000 pounds of tobacco and large amount of grain. The fire is supposed to have been of incendiary origin. This is the fourth large tobac- co barn in this section to burn re- kcently. Miller's loss Is about s1o,000 Elth small insurance.
 It is reported that the steel trust has absorbed the Clinchfeh corpora fion, doing an extensive business near Bristol, Tenn, the price being s15,000, poo. The property consists of the C. ,. & O. railroad and valuable mineral iands.
 4 Five members of one family were : burned to death at Wayne, small Town fourteen miles from Concordia, tkas. All the living that remain of the Hicks family of seven are an infant Hhild and the ia her, MT. Hicks. The qhother, two boys, 3 and g years old, Ind two girls, and 10 years old Were burned to crisp, and the house Totally destroyed.
 I Red Cloud, the famous old Sioux In- Han chief, is dead This information das received by Superintendent Bren- nan of the Pine Ridge agency, who is in Washington attending the meeting of those interested in the education of the Indian.
 James A. Hart, former president of the Chicago National league team, was reported as resting comfortably at the German hospital, following an operation for appendicitis.
 A change in the date of inaugura- ton of the president of the United States from March to the last Thursday in April is strongly urged fin the annual report of the commis- sioners of the District of Columbia, presented to congress.
 Judge w. H. Pope of Roswell has been dppOlulcQ CHlcI JuoLlCc O1 TNcW Mexico to succeed Chief Justice Mills. who has been appointed territorial governor.
 Engineer Ryden of Mount Carmel. TN., was killed and Conductor Earl Van Brunt badly injured when switch engine on the Cairo division turned over in the yards at Lyons. The rails spread. throwing ten box cars into the ditch.
 Painting at the sight of blood, liar ty T. Simmons, junior in the West eru Reserve medical college at Cleve- aand, O., feii to the floor ip hospital clinic and fractured his skull. He died on the operating table at which . few moments before he had been n sssistsnt