The Carlisle independent., 1909-08-19
nE MS IF THE WEEK
LATEST NEWS OF THE WORLD
 TERSELY TOLD.
aORTH, EAST, SOUTH AND WEST
Notes From Foreign, Lands Through, out the Nation, and Particularly
 The Great Southwest.


 dian name is 'Wompuneaca,e a poor washerwoman of Des Noines, la, was notified that she will receive from the government s60,000 as her share of disbursement in s2000000o due the Choctaw Indians from Uncle Sam.
 The British cruiser Forte returned 60 Cape Colony after an unsuccessful search for the steamer Waratah. dur Ing which a distance of 1920 miles was covered. The Waratah has been missing since July 26 She had 93 passengers and crew of POT men.
 Miss Myrtle Maude Lawrence. for the last few years companion to Mrs. aMry Copley Thaw, was married to Dr. C. L. Mackenzie of Alberta. Can ada. The ceremony was performed at St. Luke's church in Matteawan.
 Judge William T. Wallace. promi- nent in California politics for more than fifty years, died in San Fran cisco at the age of S1. He presided over the grand jury which broke up the so-ealled Chris Buckley ring in San Francisco
 A captive balloon in the Spanish lines discovered two new camps of the Moors, which were promptly shelled by the Spanish artillery. The Moors were driven out, carrying away their dead anG wounded.
 The striking employees of the Pressed Steel Car Co. at McKees Rocks. Pa. won the first round in the legal battle when Judge James R. Mcfarland granted a rule on the Pressed Steel Car Go. to show cause on or before August IS why arbitrat- ors should not be appointed.
 Willard Webb, a negro, was con vieted of criminal assault upon Mrs. Evy Brown at Brownings. Ga, sev- -eral weeks ago and sentenced to hang September r. To prevent lynehing. he has been taken to Atlanta.
 Ella Gingles, the Irish lace maker, who was recently acquitted on a charge of larceny after a most sensa- tional trial, is on her way home in Larne, Ireland. She is accompanied lhy Mrs. Grace Vandusen Cook.
 Milton Chandler, noted citizen of Georgia, formerly congressman and for several terms a member of the state legislature, died at his home in Decatur, Ga, aged 72 years.
 NV E. Russell, mining promoter, who was arrested at Lima, O.. on warrant from Cleveland, furnished bail for s5,0OO before United States Commissioner F. w. Haines pending a hearing for extradition to Toronto, Canada, on charges in connection with some mining deals in 1907
 The Lisbon Secoli's Melilla corre- spondent says that the Spaniards have lost 800 men killed and 200 wounded in the last three days fighting with the Nfoorish tribesmen, and that thir- ty-fve officers and 150 men have fall Fen Into the hands of the Moors, who tOVtured them before putting them to death.
 Federal Judge Ralph E. Campbell sustained the demurrers of defendants In 30000 Indian land alienation suits brought by the government The ac- tions by the government were ordered dismissed. The court held that the titles obtained from the Indians be- fore the act removing restrictions went into effect are good
 Because he attacked an 11-year-old girl in 1898, William Bowman, at Fort Smith, Ark. was sentenced to hang. He was convicted once before but se- cured on technical grounds an order by the supreme court for a new trial The girl, now 9 years old, appeared in the case both times as prosecuting witness.
 Jeu Sing Wah, Chinese, who has -smassed a fortune as a merchant at Eudora, Ark, and is now on his way 70 China with his American wife and z son II months old, called on United States Immigration Inspector James R Dunn at St. Louis to get a certii- cate entitling the boy to citizenship an the event he wishes to return to she United States when he reaches maturity.
 Letters demanding s45,000 ransom, coupled with a threat to dynamite the Pennsylvania lines, steampships and yowing death to the travelling pub sic in the event of refusal, led to the arrest in Philadelphia of Abrac c. Eby, mayor and referee in bank eruptcy of Burkeville, VS-
 William Dean Howells, the author, who has been spending the summer at his country place in Maine, is said to be in very poor health. He will sail next week, with his daughter, Mildred, for Carlsbad.
 With intense excitement prevailing in Gainesville, Ga, Edom Matthews, negro porter of a local hotel wno at tempted to criminally assault Mrs. w T. Lawson, trained nurse, was rushedd to Atlanta to prevent lynch ing. Matthews has an ugly wound in his neck, Mrs. Lawson having stabbed him with a knife.