The Carlisle independent., 1909-05-27
The Carlisle Independent.
 ERNEST ELLIS, Editor. NEWS IF THE WEEK
LATEST NEWS OF THE WORLD
 TERSELY TOLD.
NORTH, EAST, SOUTH AND WEST
Notes From Foreign Lands, Through out the Nation, and Particularly
 The Great Southwest.


 William Adler, found guilty in the federal court on "A counts charging misapplication of the funds of the defunct State National Bank of New Orleans, of which he was president, was placed in the parish prison to await sentence.
 The lower house of the Michigan legislature, by vote of 67 to 4 passed bill to extend the primary nomina- tion system to United States senators. The senate is expected to concur.
 Richmond Dean, general manager of the Pullman company announced that s3000,00O would be spent in the improvement of the car shops at Pull man, H. This means the employment of 12,000 men.
 President Taft will be a welcome visitor at the Boston National League baseball grounds this summer. Owner George E. Dovey has designed a solid silver special pass for the chief ex- eeutive.
 Capt. Rhodes. commanding two troops of the Sixth cavalry, struck a portion of the band of outlaws headed by Jikiri near Bamno, P. L, Wednes- day and in a fight that followed five of the natives were killed One of these was Jammang. noted as trust ed lieutenant of Jikiri.
 Representatives Garner and Dies of Texas, Stanley of Kentucky, Chandler of Mississippi and Sims of Tennessee, all Democrats, have protested r0rm- ally to Speaker Cannon because negroes occasionally are served 1n the house restaurant.
 It was announced at Fort Riley, Kas., that Brig. Gen. Winfield Sedger- ly will succeed Gen. John B. Kerr as commandant of the fort on the lat ter's retirement May 20 Gen. Sedger- Iy is now in command of the depart ment of the Dakotas at St. Paul.
 It has been impossible to verify the story coming from the Island of St. Vincent that the captain and crew of the American whaling vessel Carrie D. Knowles of Proyincetown, Mass, have been languishing in 3 Venezuela jail for five years.
 It was reported that Elmer Dover, secretary of the Republican national committee. would be appointed short ly as national bank examiner for the state of New York by Lawrence 0. Murray. comptroller of the currency.
 Two dead, a third wounded and the authorities in pursuit of another, are the results of pistol fight in the tent of a wild west show at San An geIo, Tex. The shooting followed the performance.
 The Canadian Pacific railway re- ceived a communication from Count Boni de Castellane. former husband of Anna Gould, asking that arrange ments be made for guides, etc, for a hunting trip after big game in the Rocky mountains in July.
 Gen. J. B. Frisbie, California and Mexican pioneer, died at Mexico City He was born in Albany, \. T., in 1923 and went to California when a boy He came to Mexico over % years ago and was the oldest American resident here.
 Gov. Haskell and the six other Ok 1shomans will. it is stated, move that the federal grand jury, called to re- investigate the Muskogee town lot eases. be dismissed. This move is to be made when the jury is organized.
 T. c. N. Weaver, alias Professor West. charged with operating in At lanta. Ga. several months as clair voyant. was Monday sentenced to serve twelve months on the chain garg and six months in jail.
 pr. Leon Harrison, of Temple Israel, St. Louis, stoutly opposed the intermarriage of Jews and Christians in a sermon Sunday at the Free Syn agogue in New York. He said, inter marriage would simply mean-not that the vast majority would be drawn to Israel, but that we of Israel would be overwhelmingly merged and lost in Christendom."
 The United States circuit court Of appeals Monday decided that the earthquake of April IS. 1906, was not the cause of the San Francisco fire occurring after the eaftnquahe lHS decision affects several hundred suits pending against insurance companies for losses suffered in the great fire.
 Capt. Alex NJ. Wetherill of the Nine teenth infantry was Wednesday or dered to duty at the Alaska-Yukon- Pacific exposition at Seattle, Wash, and will report to the president of the exposition by May 15.
 Otto Suter of Cleveland won the welterweight wrestling championship of the world from Charles Conkle of Hamilton, O., in Cleveland. Suter won in straight falls of 46 and 3 min utes.
 The first anti-treating saloon in the United States will be opened in Des