The Carlisle independent., 1909-02-18
NEWS IF THE WEEK
LATEST NEWS OF THE WORLD
 TERSELY TOLD.
NORTH, EAST, SOUTH AND WEST
Foreign Lands, Throughout the Ma ton and Particularly From the
 Great Southwest.

prOpriatiOn Of S20,O0O TOT the expenses of a commission to go to Liberia to make recommendations as to what specific action on the part of the gov ernment is desirable that will most aptly render effective relief to that republic under the present critical cir cumstances.
 Now that the acute phases of the anti-Japanese agitation on the Paclhc Coast have been quieted, more det- nite settlement of the points at issue between the United States and Japan probably will be reached by diplo- matic interchanges.
 William L. Milne, the $15.0a0-a-year lace salesman of New York, whom Mrs. Jane Parks Caldwell. the trial marriage beauty of Eminence, Ky, brought into public view month ago as her affinity $ dead. mostly from worry, at his home in the little Jersey suburb of Haworth.
 Very much the same review program is expected to be followed at Hampton Roads when the president and Secre- tary Newberry greet the battleship fleet on it's return cruise as when the vessels left that place more than year ago.
 It is said by leaders of union labor that the charges made by Postmaster General Meyer against Frank L. Rog- CTS. president of the United Associa- tfon of Post Office Clerks; William Kelley. president of the National As socfa+ion of Letter Carriers, and E. Fl. Roberts of Washington, representing the railway mail clerks, of attempting to influence legislation in their own interest and in the interest of the asso- citations they represent, is but the De- ginning of a movement to take the en- tire postal service from the ranks of unon labor.
 Becoming suddenly insane on Great Western passenger train near Berwick. Ia, Martin Oberman of Chi cago drew a large knife and slashed at all within reach. Before he had been beaten sensless by trainmen and passengers he stabbed three men.
 James H. Ceiford his daughter. Mrs. James Collier. and James Collier, prominent people of Pocahontas, Ark, have had a hearing before Gommis- sioner Parse at that place, charged with peonage. F. H. White and Della, his wife. who are midgets, and Homer White of Pocahontas, their father, claim they have been leased against their will to Ceiford and Collier for exhibition purposes.
 tax on Merry Widows is being urged by Senator Shirley Gilliland in a bill he is supporting before the pres ent Iowa general assembly. MT. GlLll- land has a supreme contempt for the woman he describes as she with a hat so broad she can not squeeze into a telephone booth without going side ways and who ehucks under the chin some rich old man in his dotage ln order to become his surviving spouse.
 The Wright brothers have accepted an invitation to go 10 London at the end of March. when they will be gwen the gold medal of the Aeronauucal Society of Great Britain
 Railroad companies must show that changes in rates or rules and regu- lations proposed by them the just and reasonable. before being able to put such changes in effect, if the pHi which has been introduced by Repre- sentative Needham of California IS enacted into law.
 Any idea that he was contemplat- ing retirement from active paruclpa- tion in the management of the rail road and other properties in which he is interested, was secuted by George J. Gould To reporters who asked him about a report to that ef- feet. MT. Gould said that however much he might desire to get out of business. he could not think of do ing so.
 Charles A. Strong, son-in-law of John D. Rockefeller. was attacked and bitten on the face by an insane pas senger on the North German Lloyd liner Barbarossa on the last trip to New York.
 According to new figures compiled the railroads operating in the South west have increased their rates from four to 10 per cent since August 8, 1908. when the Hepburn law became effective.
 William Jennings Bryan denies en- phatically the report that he was in jured in an auto accident in Florida.
 
 Four insane criminals armed with knives made from springs taken from their shoes, escaped from the state hospital at Columbus, o.
 Thomas Oliver, inventor of the Oli- yer typewriter, died suddenly of heart disease in Chicago MT. Oliver with his wife. was at a railway station ready to start for Pine Bluff, Ark, when he collapsed. He was going to Pine Bluff to perfect a machine which he said would pick cotton.