The Carlisle independent., 1909-06-03
The Carlisle Independent.
 ERNEST ELLIS, Editor. CARLISLE kRkANSAa NE EWS 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.

QlanapOllS. MdyOI bOOhHd d4lCA hSAZ comed the editors, and among the speakers were w E. Groves of the Milford Mail, R. B. Wood of the Wolf Lake Trolley, A. J. Heuring ot the Winslow Dispatch. and H. F. Harris of the Piereeton Record, president Of the association.
 President Taft is now member of the Beverly Golf club of Chicago. No tice of his election as an honorary member of the club was mailed to the White House last week and letter of accordance was received from the president
 Stoically indifferent to his fate Charles Kaiser, a full-blooded Warhoe Indian, was hanged at Carson City for the murder of his wife. Kaiser is the first known Indian who made his de fense the "unwritten law
 A report received from St. Anne Des Monets. 25 miles east of Quebec, says that while crossing the river at that point a boat upset and fifteen persons were thrown into the water. Five were drowned.
 A bill arranging for progressive inheritance tax in Russia has been an nounced by the finance committee of the douma It provides for grad uated tax varying from one-haf to two-thirds of one per cent.
 The gallery in the monastery church, in one of the suburbs of Lis bon, collapsed during a service. Seven persons were killed and q hundred injured.
 The First military tribunal of Mex ico sentenced Edward P. Berney, the American who, it was alleged, had assaulted a soldier of President Diaz's guard of honor when the president was returning from Manzanillo, to one year four months and eight days Imprisonment.
 Blaine Taylor, 26 years of age, an attorney, son of the late T. B. Taylor. a caiptalist, and nephew of former Gov. Vansant of Minnesota, was ar rested at Los Angeles on charges of having passed fictitious cheeks and forged others to the amount of nearly sS,00O
 At the May meeting of the Yale corporation announcement was made of the offer of s100,000 from Mrs. Nor ris K. Jessup of New York, to estab- fish a professorship of silyiculture ln the Yale forestry school.
 Announcement is made at Pittsburg that 35,0OO employees of iron and steel companies in that vicinity will receive an advance in wages averaging ten per cent, the first of June or the first of July
 Broughton Brandenburg, the maga- zine writer whose troubles quickly fol lowed the publication of letter in the New York Times last fall, pur- ported to have been written by the late Grover Cleveland, is a prisoner in New York
 The Paris postal strike is now prac- tically dead. The government off cials announce that only 400 men are out and these are expected to return.
 Official estimates place the number of cases of bubonic plague in Annoy at about forty weekly. There is se- we're epidemic at several of the inte- rior towns
 Owing to the shortage of American and Canadian cattle landed at Birken- head and allegations that the United States was withholding supplies with a view to raising prices the Liverpool chamber Of commerce is urging the board of agriculture to remove imme- diately the embargo on live cattle from the Argentine Republic.
 Richmond Dean, general manager of the Pullman company, announced that S3,000000 would be spent in the improvement of the car shops at Pull man. III. This means the employment of 12,OOO men.
 President Taft will be a welcome visitor at the Boston National League baseball grounds this summer. Owner George E. Doyey has designed solid silver special pass for the chief ex- ecutiye.
 The leaders of the Paris postal em- ployes at a mass meeting admitted that they had been bluffing all along. NJ. Patron announced that there was nothing to expect from outside unions which either were not ready or not willing to strike.
 Capt. Alex NJ. Wetherill of the Nine teenth infantry was Wednesday or dered to duty at the Alaska a-Yukon- Pacific exposition at Seattle, Wash. and will report to the president Of the exposition by May 15.
 While the St. Anthony car, which is travelling over the country in the in terest of the Catholic church exten- sion movement, was at Evansville, Ind filled with fashionably gowned women. during mass, some one stole large glass bowl on the altar that was filled with silver and gold, amounting to several hundred dollars.