The Carlisle independent., 1909-08-19
L. c. Miege. an assistant nrofessor

of French at the University of Kan sas, is in jail, charged by the federal authorities with misuse of the mails. He is charged with advertising a fake teachers agency in Mexican news papers, saying he could secure posi- tions for teachers of Spanish in the United States and requiring a pay ment of s as pledge of good faith.
 During the progress of a ball game | between Valentine and Norfolk, Neb, a terrific wind storm carried off the roof of the grand stand, near which players and spectators had taken ref uge. Nearly a dozen suffered inju- ries.
 Corporal Lisle Crabtree, slayer of Captain J. C. Raymond, at Fort Des Moines. will present a formal peti- ton to President Taft pleading in- sanity as his defense. Crabtree will be tried by court martial at Fort Crook, August Is.
 The United States government seized carload of flour at Musca- tine, la, under the charge of a viola tion of the pure food and drug act, | because the flour was bleached. This 1 is to be test case.
 Mrs May Spindle, wife of H. T. Spindle, a prominent Louisville (Ky) lawyer, shot and killed herself in | bedroom of her home while breeding | over her own ill health and that of | her daughter.
 The four-story building of the T. S. Bagley Tobacco company, at Detroit, wa sdamaged by fire to the extent of s10O,000.
 Murray Curran, son of Chief of Pc | lice Henry Curran, of Nashville, Tenn, died from the effects of a fall by which his skull was fractured.
 Captain w H. Wood, aged 63 years, and familiar figure on the hurricane decks of river steamboats all the way from Pittsburg to New Orleans, fell l from barge into the Ohio river and was drowned.
 Mrs. Pankhurst, the suffragette leader, shortly will make 9 trip to the | United States to deliver a series Of addresses in the larger cities.
 Mrs Cyril c. French, aged CT years, of Worcester, Mass, died of heart dis ease on a Northern Pacific train near Kent. Wash. while on her way to Portland to visit a son.
 Glowing reports have been received of the discovery in the Abercorn dis trict of British Central Africa of gold deposits similar to the Rand forma- ton. which are said to extend over an area of six miles.
 A disastrous fire swept through the | business section of Monticello, the county seat of Sullivan county. N. Y. destroying fifty or more stores, the postoffiee a bank, the Palatine and Mansion hotels and driving hundreds
 The Cunard liner Mauretania, which arrived at Queenstown, took one min ute off her New York k-Queenstown rec ord, making the passage in days, II hours and 20 minutes, an average speed of z6.30 knots an hour.
 Diego Rado, the administration can didate, was elected governor of the state of Sinaloa, Mexico. He received a majority of 10000 votes over the Democratic candidate, Jose Farrel.
 Baron Takahira, Japanese ambassa- dor, accompanied by Madame Taka- hira and their daughter, and by Isa- buro Yoshida, the third secretary Of the embassy, left Washington for Seattle, when, on August r, they are | to sail for Japan.
 Without having made formal de- mands upon the company, nearly thousand freight handlers in the sheds of the Canadian Pacific railway walked out
 The sixth anniversary of the coro- nation of Pope Plus was celebrated with great pomp High mass was eel ebrated in the Sistine chapel with Cardinal Merry Del Val. the papal secretary of state, officiating.
 Mrs Mary Scott Castle, the erst- while actress from California, who dented William B. Craig fountain pen and slightly wounded the lawyer at him in the Waldorf, was released from the New York Jefferson Market prison under s3,O0O bail, after six | days of imprisonment.
 The employees of the coal mines of Spring Hill, N. C., 2,00O in number, voted to strike Tuesday. All are members of the United Mine Workers of America, which ordered strike in Cape Breton last month. The men demand higher wages and recognition of the United Mine Workers of America.
 Alfred Kinard, for years known as an outlaw, is seriously wounded at the Harrisburg (Pa.) hospital, follow l ing a fight in a small mountain settle ment north of that city, where he attempted to rob the store of Lewis Myers.
 Lieut. Farrell English was fatally injured and seven other Cleveland | fremen were hurt when the roof of the Ohio Sash and Door Co., Merwin street and Columbus road, collapsed during a fire. The loss Is estimated at $75000.