The Carlisle independent., 1909-10-14
NE WS IF THE WEEK
LATEST NEWS OF THE WORLD
 TFRSELY TOLD.
NORTH, EAST. SOUTH AND WEST
Notes From Foreign Lands Through out the Nation, and Particularly
 the Great Southwest.

inent attorney of San Francisco, who went to Europe in 1901, and when last heard from was in Paris, was declared legally deod by Superior Judge Gra- ham.
 After a thorough consideration of the matter, representatives of each of Enid's five state banks announced tha% the draft of the state banking board, assessing three-fourths of 1 per cent on average deposits for the replenish- ing of the bank guaranty fund, would be paid on presentation.
 Ben H. Murrow was arrested on a warrant issued by Coroner Iven New len, holding him to the grand jury for the murder of his brother. Charles E. Murrow, at the Murrow farm east of Des Moines.
 The Canadian government will build 12 cruisers and desroyers at a cost of $20.00O,0O0 The yearly mainie- nance will be s3.006.000. Docks will be arranged later. Three warshlps will be kept on the Pacific and nine on the Atlantic.
 George w. Bowers, acting general manager of the South Omaha plant of the Armour Packing company, who disappeared month ago, was located at Fort Francis, Ont, by a representa- tive of the company. The cause of his disappearance from this city re mains a mystery.
 Confessing that he had made and passed counterfeit money, William B. Petus, former school teacher, of Car ter county, Ky. was sentenced by Judge Sater, in the federal court, to thirty months in Leavenworth, Kas.. prison.
 A c. Rakow. a farmer living near Neliegh. Neb., is dead from a gunsnot wound. and F. NJ. Thornberg, a neigh bor, is under arrest, charged with the killing, which he does not deny. The men quarreled over the ownership Of a quantity of hay.
 About 200 striking street car men decided to refuse the offer of Presi- dent Wattles of the Omaha Street Car Co. to take part of their number back at the old wage scale and em- ploy the rest as they are needed.
 Baron Shibusawa, head of the Jap anese Trade commissioners who re- gently visited Cleveland, has sent check for S100 to be used for Christ mas gifts for cripples and aged in- mates of the Warrensville Colony, charitable institution, near that city.
 Commemorating the battle of Point Pleasant which occurred one hundred and thirty-fiye years ago, a celebration at Point Pleasant, W. Va. began today and will continue during four days
 Frederick R. Burton, a newspaper man and novelist, died suddenly at Lake Hopatcong, N. J. The cause is supposed to have been heart failure. Mr. Burton was AS years old.
 Forty-four minutes more were clip ped from the transatlantic record by the Cunard liner Mauretania, which arrived at New York from Liverpool and Queenstown.
 The National Guard association of the United States selected St. Louis as the place for it's convention in 1910, and elected officers as follows: Presi- dent, General Thomas J. Stewart, of Pennsylvania; secretary, General Charles I. Martin, of Kansas; treas urer, General J. A Storch, of Ne braska.
 District Attorney William Trayers Jerome filed the necessary petition with the bureau of elections endorsing his candidacy for reelection. Two thousand names are necessary for an independent nomination petition, but Mir. Jerome sent in 5000.
 The Eastern Leagues championship season ended Tuesday, Rochester win ming the pennant with 034 to spare Newark finished second. The cham pion Baltimores of 1908 had a poor season, landing in seventh place.
 While the teacher, Miss Lottie Gam ble, played Yankee Doodle" on the piano, 100 school children whose lives were endangered by fire which was consuming the school building at Shade Gap, Pa, marched to safety.
 King Edward has conferred knight hood upon Lieut.. Gen. Robert stephen son Smyth Baden-Powell, who was prominent in the South African war apd who recently founded the organ ization of boy scouts to promote good citizenship in the rising generation.
 Brig. Gen. Winfield s. Eagerly, com canding the department of the Da- hotas. with headquarters at St. Paul, was Thursday ordered to his home by the war, department, pending examina- ton for retirement.
 The Lowell & Burlington company, Independent tobacco manufacturers Of Covington, Ky, filed in the federal court at thatsplace a suit against the Burley Tobacco society, it's president, Clarence Lebus. and it's directors. de- manding s407,0oo damages. Action is brought under the sherman antitrust law.