The Carlisle independent., 1909-08-12

courts for violating the Kansas pro hibitory law.
 Secretary of the Treasury MacVeagh has announced that he had decided to have the minting of the new Lin coin pennies stopped for the present, and that new dies will be prepared as soon as possible eliminating the initials of the designer, which now | appear so prominently, and substitut- 1 ing the single initial B" in an ob- l scure part of the design. For five hours Lieut. Harold Utley of the marine corps was subjected | 10 an exacting cross-examination in regard to his connection with the death of Lieut. James N Sutton of | Oregon, which is the subject before the naval board of inquiry at the naval academy at Annapolis. l Rev Robert J. Burdette, humorist and preacher of national fame, who | spine, received from a fall on the stone veranda of hls Pasadena (Cal.) | home, was pleeed in a plaster cast and will be compelled to stay in it | probably two months. James Speyer & Son of New York have eabled 5000 as a subscription | toward the Acapulco and Chilpancingo earthquake sufferers. This is the first | American contribution the Mexicans | have received, and Mexico is deeply | grateful. There is a lamentable short | age of food, shelter and supplies both at Acapulco and Chilpancingo.
 The torpedo boat destroyer Paul | Jones, which left Seattle July 26 for cruise in Alaskan waters, is said to have struck a reef several miles from | Skagway, and made port in a sinking condition. The extent of the damage is not known
 A special dispatch from Barcelona says that meeting of the city council there resolution was adopted de nouncing the recent violence and in eendiarism. It was adopted by the narrow margin of six votes, p for and 10 against it.
 A monument to Count Zeppelin was unveiled at Oppenheim on the Rhine to mark the spot where the Count landed in his airship August 1, 1909 during his flight from Lake Constance | to Mayenee.
 NJ. Commer, the aeronaut, using | Henry Farman's bi-plane, made a flight of two hours and ten seconds This | lowers all French records except that of Wilbur Wright, the American, who last year few two hours and nine min. utes at LeMans
 Mrs. c. s. Bennett, Hazel Hudelson and Eva Porter, of Clarion, Ia., were drowned on Elm Lake. A party of dozen girls crowded a launch, which sank with all on board In a quarrel over a ball game at Lee City, Ky, w. F. Lawson was struck over the head and his skull crushed with baseball bat in the hands of his brother, Clay Lawson. The injured man died in a hospital at Lexington.
 The will of the late Don Carlos, the pretender to the throne of Spain, leaves to the pope works of art and money totalling s2,000,o00 in value
 The fifth victim of heat prostraticn during the summer season at Musko- gee was Michael Hynes, a Bartles- vile oil operator
 President Diaz has headed a sub- scription list for the relief of the women and children of Spain made dependent on account of the war in Morocco. His donation was s1,000 The Spanish colony and the Mexican public are contributing liberally to the fund.
 Approximately 142 900 acres of land in Wyoming near Gillette, which had been withdrawn for the purpose of coal classification, were, upon recom- mendation of the geological survey, restored to the public domain by act ing Secretary of the Interior Pierce for entry.
 Charles Brown, who is said to have been a banker of Buffalo, N Y, com mitted suicide by cutting his throat on board the steamer Vaderland, as the vessel was nearing Antwerp. He previously had made an unsuccessful attempt to kill himself by jumping into the sea.
 While regretting that death should occur from boxing exhibitions in the navy, department officials said in connection with the death of Harrison H. Foster on board the battleship Vermont that it occasionally is a re- suit of the sport no matter where it is encouraged.
 The Georgia state court of appeals has affirmed the sentence of the lower court that William H. Mitchell must serve year on the chain gang for assault and battery upon a rich girl, Miss Lucille Linton. After disgusting himself as negro. he tried to abduct her about year ago.
 Thomas Cummins was shot to death by his brother Frank Cummins, in revolver duel fought on the public road near Paola. Kan. Charles Cum. mins, third brother witnessed the duel. but did not take sides.
 James Bivens instantly killed his brother David with a hoe at Patatown,