The Carlisle independent., 1909-05-06
NE WS 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.

gineer of the Cramp Shipbuilding Go. and formerly an engineer in the Unit ed States navy, died at his home ln Philadelphia Friday.
 The suit in Paris brought by Rich ard Klegin, the pugilisitic manager against Sam McVey, the negro heavy weight, for s4,O00 for breach of con tract, was Friday thrown out of court. Judge Foster in the United States court Friday dismissed the applica- ton for a writ of habeas corpus in | the case of Louis F. Allardt, who, it is claimed, defrauded merchants of Peoria, H., out of about S39,0OO.
 There will be 100 days of racing in Hot Springs, Ark, each year if bill l offered in the legislature Friday IS passed. Following series of confer | ences between the Hot Springs dele gates and local business men, the bill introduced several weeks ago by Senator Wadley has been amended.
 Dr. N. Knepper, a physician of Col l lins. la. was shot in the breast just above the heart by his son Friday, ! The doctor was reprimanding the boy, and the latter became enraged and fired at his father.
 Cole Younger, ex-bandit and for merly member of the Jesse James gang of bank and train robbers, made his debut at Tulsa, Okla, Friday on the chautauqua lecture platform. He l K-;- from manuscript, as setting forth the lessons that might be drawn from hls past life.'
 Asa. son of Whoa, was Thursday l elected chief of the Apache Indians to succeed Geronimo, the noted war rior. who died last February. The election will be submitted to the war department for approval.
 Robbers, using a heavy charge or uitroglycerin, wrecked the postothce safe at Prairie City, la, early Thurs day and made good their escape with s600 in stamps and $400 in money.
 A wireless telegraph station has been established on the roof Of the Auditorium Annex hotel in Chicago. This is the first hotel in the west to be so equipped. The station will be used for establishing communication with the boats on the great lakes and with stations that will be established in St. Louis. Detroit and other cities. jury. He is charged with embezz!e- ment of funds from the railroad com pany while acting as it's attorney. His
 bond for appearance was fixed at $20,00O.
 President Taft Thursday night at tended regular session of Temple | Masonic lodge of Washington. There was a large attendance and the presl- dent. who was made a Mason "at sight" in Cincinnati in February, saw the third degree worked upon several candidates.
 l 4 breach was made Thursday in the l great ice jam which for ten days has held the lower Niagara in it's grip and caused damage estimated at a
 million dollars. At o'clock the blast 1 from 15O pounds of dynamite sent tiny rivulet trickling through the east side of the jam.
 John Mitchell, former president or the United Mine Workers of America spoke Tuesday before the Yale diyin- ity school on the relation Of the working man to the church"
 To afford all protection possible to American citizens and their interests in Turkey the administration has de- i cided to dispatch special cruiser squadron to that country.
 If Jack Johnson, the heavyweight pugilistic champion of the world, de feats Stanley Ketchell in their fight i October 10 he will be matched with James J. Corbett, the former heavy weight title holder, for battle at San l Francisco on Thanksgiving day.
 Chief Inspector Cochran Of the Den yer postoffice announced Wednesday that a mail pouch containing 29 regis l tered packages had been lost from q Union Pacific train between Green River and Bryan, Wyo, Sunday night
 Mrs. Minnie Crosby confessed Thurs i day before the coroner's jury at Hat 1 tiesburg, Miss, that she pulled the trigger which sent the contents of l double-barreled shotgun into the head of.J. R. McShane, whose decomposed
 body was found in secluded spot near the Bouis street bridge in Leai river swamp.
 Gov. Haskell said Tuesday nigh
 a reward would be offered for infor
 nation leading to the conviction oi | the leaders of the Ada mob, which lynched West. Miller, Allen and Bur | rell Monday.
 Ineensed because his stepmothel 1 had left him at home near Opelousas La. in charge of his young stepbroth
 CTS and sisters for the day, Tom God
 frey, a 12-year-old boy, fed the young est of his charges to the hogs, ant later, with an ax, inflicted what prob
 ably will prove fatal wounds on th' l other children.