The Carlisle independent., 1909-11-04
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.

or Depere, WIS, was Iound Qeau III front of his office with bullet in his back His watch and revolver were gone and the key of the jail was brok- en of in the door.
 Judge J. L. Bethshares, 79 years old, was struck by an automobile driy- en by c. Smith, a snowman, at Pa ducah, Ky, and mortally injured. Judge Bethshares formerly was coun- ty judge and is one of Paducah's wealthiest men.
 Information has reached New Ha- ven that more than S500,000 was be- queathed for use in the medical de- partment of Yale university by the will of the late Dr. Shoemaker of Wilkesbarre, Pa.
 Guy Mosser, farmer, four miles northeast of Wendelin, H., was fatal ly injured in runaway. He was husking corn when his team became frightened. He became entangled in the reins and was dragged more than soc yards.
 Officials of the controllers office at Washington believe the shortage in the First National Bank of Mineral Point, Wis, will be between S300,000 and s40a 900. Receiver Schofeld re- ports that it will be six weeks or more before he will be able to ascertain the approximate amount, on account Of the large number of certificates of de- posit supposed to be outstanding and which are not on the books of the bank
 Prof. Parker of Columbia university will not accompany Dr. Frederick A. Cook on a second expedition to Mount Mckinley, because he thinks it would look as if he were indorsing the ex- plorer. He said, however, he would make the ascent himself next year in an effort to find the documents Dr. Cook claims to have left at the top of the mountain.
 Mrs Sadie Martin, widow 90 years old, living near Louisville. H., has been arrested and placed in jail charged with larceny. Joseph Holts- hausen, a farmer, had the warrant issued, charging her with stealing corn out of his field.
 Robert Fincheer, S1 years old, of Lyon, Mo, who was found bruised and unconscious on the Union Pacific railroad tracks in Kansas City Octo- Der g, died at the general hospital. Death was caused by exhaustion, fol lowing the amputation of his left leg, which had been crushed. Fincheer said he was enticed from the union depot, slugged, robbed and left on the tracks.
 Physicians who examined the body of Mrs Henry Joseph, who died at Terre Haute, Ind, declare her death was due to poison, which was ab- sorbed into her system by excessive application of belladonna, which she used as a cure for rheuma..sm.
 Brig. Gen. John J. Coppinger, U. s. A., retired, son-in-law of the late James G. Blaine, is seriously i'll with pneumonia and, owing to his advanced age, his friends are alarmed.
 In a revolver fghtbetween police men and two men caught robbing a house in Indianapolis, one of the bur glars was shot and the other. Samuel Caldwell of Chicago, was shot in the leg and arm. None of the policemen was hit.
 Leonard Kohler, an electrician, was cremated in fire that destroyed the car barns of the Peoria Terminal Rail- road company, Peoria. III. The loss or the barns was S60,000.
 An understanding has been reached between counsel for John R. Walsh of Chicago and United States District Attorney Sims that no attempt will be made to send the convicted banker to prison until the United States su- preme court has taken jurisdiction of his case.
 Fred Mikel, the man who shot and killed young Magruder in the Higbee (Mo) jail last June, pleaded guilty in the circuit court Monday, to murder in the second degree. He was given a sentence of ten years in the peni- tentiary.
 Mont Hall, proprietor of the Demont hotel, at Seneca, Mo, was tried in the circuit court on the charge of keeping a gambling house. The jury returned verdict of guilty and fixed the pun ishment at two years in the penften- tiary.
 pr. Frederick A. Cook closed his lecture tour in Minneapolis, and from there will go to Missoula, Mont, to look into the matter of the Barrill affi- davits relating to the ascent of Mount Mckinley.
 The supreme court of Arkansas af- firmed s10,000 judgment against the Iron Mountain railroad for the death of Murray Conan, a brakeman, of Wagoner, Okla, in 1907. The court held the company negligent for fail ure to provide a derailing device at the end Of a switch and for failing to keep brakes on work cars in order.