The Carlisle independent., 1909-03-25

 company's building, Third street and First avenue, Minneapolis.
 The bill providing that no aliens shall be allowed to fish in Hawaiian waters was passed by the territorial senate Friday.
 A strike in the mines of the Bache Denman Coal company, Cornada, Ark, was ordered Friday by President Pe- ter Stewart of District 21, United Mine Workers of America. About thousand miners are involved. The union is fighting the company's sys- tenn of working the men double" In each room of the mines.
 The secretary of the treasury Fri day announced the appointment of Charles Dyer Norton, of Chicago, as assistant secretary of the treasury, to succeed Louis A. Coolidge, resigned. Charles Deyey Hilles, of Dobbs Ferry, \. Y, has been appointed assistant secretary of the treasury, succeeding Beekman Winthrop.
 The federal grand jury in session in | Chicago Friday returned an indiet- ment against the Illinois Central rail road for a violation of the federal quarantine law. It is alleged that the road accepted shipment of cattle out ! of Mississippi when that state was under the quarantine.
 A consent verdict for s2,750, against ! of To hn 1 killing of J. D. Biles by the goyernor's s automobile, was awarded Friday The 1 governors chauffeur was en route to the depot to meet the governor when the accident happened
 novel way of raising revenue was proposed in the house Friday by Rep resentative Sisson, of Mississippi It is provided in a bill he introduced that tax of s be levied on every deadly weapon, such as pistols, dirk knives and brass knuckles, manufac- tured and sold within the United States.
 After killing three bills looking to legalizing Sunday baseball, the Ne braska house Thursday voted to ia vorably consider Shoemaker's bill per hitting Sunday games in the cities Of Omaha and South Omaha.
 Lieut.. Semmes Reed, L. s. N, naval aide to President Taft. was probably fatally injured late Thursday while riding with several other naval off cers in Rock Creek park. His horse stumbled and fell upon him, crushing his left thigh and injurfng him inter- nally.
 The two houses of the Pennsylvania legislature, in joint session Wednes- day, formally declared George Tenor l Oliver of Pittsburg elected to the United States senate to fill the unex- pired term of Philander c. Knox.
 The Southern Iron and Steel con- pany was incorporated at Trenton, N. j.. Tuesday with s7,000,0OO pre- ferred and s10.0O0,00O common stock, as the successor of the Southern Steel company. an Alabama corporation, which went into a receiyership in Oc- tober, 1907
 George P. Kemp, of Lamar Mo, was bound over in bond of $500 at Bloomington, H., last Tuesday on the charge of passing fraudulent paper in trading for a Missouri farm, secur- ing a dairy concern in exchange.
 Pedro Ezequiel Rojas, one of the men driven out of Venezuela by Pres ident Castro will be acceptable to the | United States as minister from that country, according to official state ments made Monday He has been | living in New York until recently and is well regarded in Caracas.
 The Nevada senate Monday passed the anti-gambling bill It contains a provision placing bridge whist and all other games of chance played for money or prizes in the same category as faro and roulette and the other pro- ! hibited gambling games.
 The torpedo boat Faragutt which was damaged in a collision with the destroyed Davis in San Diego harbor 1 Friday returned to ,Ae yard Monday, leaking badly, and was placed in dry dock The full extent of the damage has not been ascertained.
 Dr. A. D. Foster, surgeon in charge of the marine hospital at Annoy, China. reports sporadic cases of bubonic plague in Annoy. He Recommends the detection and defection of persons for the Philippines before they embark.
 Charles L. Burpee of Denver, Colo, a prominent banker and former act ing mayor of Denver, dropped dead at the home of his sister in Rockford, H., Sunday MT. Burpee attended a family reunion in Janesville the day before
 Los Angeles was provided with a mayor in the person of W. D. Ste phens, former president of the cham Der of commerce. He was elected by the city council.
 There was filed in a Cincinnati court Monday an entry of settlement which John J. Ryan, the well known sporting man, has effected with John