The Carlisle independent., 1909-05-20
NEWS 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.


 probate Thursday. It discloses the fact that he owned no real estate and his personal property did not exceed $500 in value. His debts are said to aggregate s25,000.
 AS a result of the prohibition of opium into America, the Opium Farmer" a Macao (China) firm has failed. The government has seized the factory and will conduct the mo- nopoly itself.
 Johnny Eyers, the star second base man of the Chicago Nationals, was suspended Wednesday by the national commission for failure to report to his team at the opening of the season. It is thought he will be reinstated upon payment of nominal fine.
 Des Moines sweltered under trop- Ical sun Wednesday, the thermometer officially registering 94 at O'CLOCK in the afternoon. Street thermometers in some cases registered 100. At least one death resulted from the heat. There were numerous prostra- tions and infants suffered greatly.
 Canadian cowboys have gathered at Lethbridge, Alberta, preparatory to leaving for Montana to assist in round- ing up three hundred buffalo, the re mainder of the big herd purchased two years ago by the Canadian gov ernment and which burst a corral last summer on the eve of their ship ment.
 Capt. Alex NJ. Wetherill of the Nine teenth infantry was Wednesday or dered to duty at the Alaska-4ukon- Pacific exposition at Seattle, Wash, and will report to the president Of the exposition by May 15.
 The torpedo fotilla of 12 vessels sailed Wednesday for Mare island, whence it will proceed to Seattle to be present at the opening of the Alas ka-Yuken-Pacific exposition.
 Alanson Wood, aged so, famed as the inventor of the roller caster, and who originated many improvements on the roller skate, died at Toledo, 0.
 The countess of Oxford, who was Miss Louise Melissa Corbin, daughter of D. c. Corbin of New York, died sud denly Tuesday at DOlterton Park, Nor wich. She was married to Robert Horace Walpole, eighth earl of OK ford. in 1888.
 Robert $. Mccormick, former am bassador of the United States to Rus sia. is reported to be i'll at the Sted- man private hospital Brookline, Mass MT. Stedman, who conducts the instl- tuition, refused either to confirm or deny the report.
 A company of infantry and half a division of Cossacks have been mool- lized to exterminate the robbers who are infesting the highways of Clscau- vasfa. Russia In a fight with band of five Sunday all the robbers were killed and two Cossacks were killed and two wounded.
 The very Rev John Marshall Lang chancellor and principal of Aberdeen (Scotland) university, died Sunday He was born in 1884 and was noted writer and lecturer.
 After Dr. F. w Page of Waverly, Mass. an alienist, had declared that Chester 2. Jordan, on trial for the murder of his wife, was incuraoly III and could not survive three years the defense attempted Friday to have a record breaking hypothetical ques- ton of 31 900 words introduced. The court decided that the question was really review of the evidence.
 New York City finds itself facing nroblem in carrying out it's agreement with Andrew Carnegie to provide sites for seventy-eight public libraries Tor which the ironmaster appropFlated g.. 900 900. So far the city has ac- ouired only ffty-five sites and will have to acquire twenty-three more.
 Antonio Cipollo was hanged at Fol som prison, California, Friday for the murder on March 1 of last year or Joseph Priano. Cipollo and com nanion enticed Priano up the Sacra- mento river, stabbed him and threw him into the water after robbing hln'
 The United States Steel Corpora tijn has acquired control of the Little Vermillion coal properties at George town. H., III lllc ECeiA OA O district. Tn addition to this, the cor poration has acquired valuable prop critics in and around the Danville (lll) district.
 Rear Admiral Hedworth Lambton commander of the English squadron anchored in Yokohama harbor was granted an audience with the emperor Monday.
 Promptly at midnight Friday night the government of Saskatchewan province took over the entire tele' phone system in that province recent ly purchased from the Bell Telephone company, and now the Bells are out of the vast tract from the great lakes to the Pacific. Manitoba and Alberta already had taken over the systems in their borders.