The Carlisle independent., 1909-06-03

Williams to be commissioner of emigration Of the port of New York and of Walter E. Clark to to governor were confirmed by the senate
 Edward E. Coyle, for the past ten years a newspaper correspondent at Washington, died Friday night at the home of relatives in Baltimore, Md.
 The Pioneer Press announces that the negotiations which have been pending for several days between the Pioneer Press company the the St. Paul Dispatch have been completed and that the owners of the latter paper have purchased the controlling interest in the Pioneer Press.
 At the annual meeting of the Gen eral Synod of the Reformed Presbyte- rian Church of North America the Rev. A. L. Benson, of Clay Center, Kas., was elected moderator.
 William Spinner veteran telegraph operator, died at Reno, Nav. Spinner was with the telegraph corps of Gen. Pope's army in the civil war. He telegraphed the e:ehlinsSact and the constitution of Nevada So Washing ton, his work resulting in ratification being made in time to permit the state to vote for Lincoln for re-elec- tion.
 Representative Charles F. Scott of Kansas, chairman of the agricultural committee of the house, and Repre- sentative ". A. Fucker of Colorado of Colorado, who went to Porto Rico to study agricultural and political conditions, sailed for New York on the steamer Coamo.
 Gen. Booth, head of the Salvation army, cabled approving the purchase of ten thousand acres of irrigated lands south of Calgary, Alberta, from the Canadian Pacific railway, on which he will settle a party from the slums of London this year. He will personally visit the land in Septem- Der.
 A railroad map of the United States, said to be the largest ever sent abroad, has just been shipped by the Cla2ago. Milwaukee & St. Paul rail- ro@d for exhibition at the Golden West and American Industries exhibi- tion at London. The map is 1T feet inches and 13 feet 6 inches high.
 The lower house of the Michigan legislature, by a vote of 67 to passed a bill to extend the primary nomina- tion system to United States senators. The senate is expected to concur.
 An empty balloon. the envelope of which had burst, descended near Lu- beck, Germany, during a storm. It is thought the aeronaut had fallen into the sea. The balloon bears no name and carried no papers by which iden- tification could be made.
 The Cleveland police has learned that a threat was made to dynamite the home of Judge J A. Williams in Mercer, unless he lends his efforts toward obtaining new trial for James Boyle and wife, recently con- victed before him on the charge of kidnapping Billy" Whitla
 Cable messages from Port Limon to the New Orleans office of the Unit ed Fruit Go. report that the companys steamer Chickahominy is ashore near Gorda Point, off the coast of Nica- ragua.
 Thomas Hatch and L. J. Dwyer, two convicts escaped from the Fort Mad ison (Iowa) penitentiary by forcing the bars of the windows in the new hospital building with a jack screw. An alarm brought every guard to .he chase and Dwyer was captured, but Hatch is still at large.
 James and Melissa Sharpe, religious fanatics knowns as Adam and Eve God" on trial at Kansas City for the murder of two policemen and by stander during a religious riot Decem- Der last, were denied a change of venue and the selection of a jury to try them was immediately begun.
 William J. Bryan was the principal speaker at a farewell banquet to Geo. F. Rinehart, former editor of the Des Moines Tribune MT. Bryan scored those congressman who fostered their own section of the country at the ex- pense of the whole. He declared that fully three-fourts of the people are Democrats at heart.
 In accordance with a decree Of the Venezuelan government the body Of General Antonio Paredes, the revolu- tionary leader who was executed in 1907, it is alleged at Castro's orders, has been disinterred. The body will be brought to Caracas where it will be received with military honors.
 The Muskogee and Bartlesville teams of the Western Baseball asso- citation were arrested during the game at Muskogee for playing on Sunday. They gave bond and resumed the game.
 Several new newspapers have made their appearance as usual in anticipa- ton of the congressional election soon to be held in Columbia. The govern ment has suspended Fl Satire for dis