The Carlisle independent., 1909-06-03
The Carlisle Independent.
 ERNEST ELLIS, Editor. SHHGtSGG AHNANSA AS 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.

the Baldwin Locomotive works by the Hartman lines.
 It was announced at Fort Leaven- worth that the war department is con- sidering the concentration of the field artillery at Sparta, Wis. during the coming summer fer experimental fir ing.
 Philippe H. Roy, former speaker of the legislature of Quebec and presi- dent of the Bank of St. John, was found guilty of falsifying returns on the banks condition. Two days ago, Roy attempted suicide by shooting.
 Give and William Newman, hold-up men, were sentenced at Greenwood, B. C., to twenty years in the peniten- tiary for having held up and robbed the Great Northern railway agent at Bridwell, B. C., last December. The men committed the crime in company with Ben Hart, who turned kings eYi- dence and who was allowed his frfee- dom.
 The latest name under consideration as a possible successor to MT. Rock hill the American minister to China is that of Prof Jeremiah W. Jenks, of Cornell university.
 Senator Beveridge of Indiana has introduced an amendment to the tariff bill, prohibiting any dealer or man. ufacturer o1 tobacco from giving away coupons or devices entitling the pur- chaser to a gift or prize.
 Boatswain Alexander Hamilton of the United States cruiser Pennsylya- nfa, who was injured while the ship was dropping anchor at Seattle, sui fered amputation of both legs and may not recover. Capt. A. Wilner has ordered an investigation of the accident.
 It was with difficulty that scores Of men and girls escaped from fire which attacked the lard house of Schwarzs- child & sulzberger at the Chicago stock yards The blaze started on the ninth, or top floor. of the the building, and spread to the eighth, where 1t was checked
 4 H. Lotze. head of the firm of A. LotZe Sons &. Go, Cincinnati, we'll known manufacturers of stoves, com nitted suicide by placing revolver to his mouth and firing a bullet into his brain. He was sixty years old. Cause was despondency over ill health.
 Mrs Beecher Bingham. of Spring field, Mass, was sentenced to two years in the penitentiary in common pleas court at Cleveland, O., after pleading guilty to the charge Of man slaughter. She shot and killed her common law husband, Lemuel Blng ham, a few weeks ago.
 The Dutch ship Nederland, which sailed from Melbourne, Australia, Tor Falmouth on March 23 has arrived at Coquimbo in distress Captain Spa rud four seamen and a boy were washed overheard off Cape Horn.
 The senate committee on finance met Monday and acted on number of minor amendments to the tarln bill. The lumber tariff is to be re- written, but it will not be disposed Of finally in the senate for several days.
 Edward E. Coyle for the past ten years a newspaper correspondent at Washington, died Friday night at the home of relatives in Baltimore. Md.
 w. K. Vanderbilt's Oversight won tbe Drix la Rochette of $G,000 at eleven furlongs at the Lon9champs course. MT. Vanderbilt's Nagofol mn isbed second in the prix du Prince de Gales at mile and half.
 Harry K. Thaw and his mother 1fary, f,onelv Thaw. both issued state mants attacking the affidavit made and statement issued in New York by Clifford W. Hartridge, formerly of counsel for Thaw in which the lawyer said that he had spent approximately st0.600 hush money" to conclliate persons who would otherwise have in- jured his client
 Dr. Paul Ritter, newly appolnted minister of Switzerland to the United States. and Amos P. Wilder, United States consul general at Shang Hal, arrived from the Orient on the Mp pon Maru.
 Mrs. Hattie Pope was found guilty of the murder of her mother, Mary Yino at Montevallo, Ala. on March 4 last and was sentenced to serve 99
 
 wears in the pentitentiary. Mrs. Pope broke down when the verdict was an nounced
 Capt. Alex NJ. Wetherill of the Nine 4eenth infantry was Wednesday or dered to duty at the Alaska-Yukon- Pacific exposition at Seattle, Wash, and will report to the president of the exposition by May 15.
 The senate program for this week includes nothing but the tariff and there is no prospect for any of that spice which is said to be the result Of variety. The sessions will continue to begin early and there is now possi- bility that they will not only continue until late in the day but that they will be extended into the night.