The Carlisle independent., 1909-12-30

estate, or about $50O,O00 to be applied to improvement of parks in Indian apolis.
 Robbers early Thursday morning blew open the safe of the State Bank of Centeryille, Kan, and escaped with s1.500.
 The third-class cruiser Apollo, a ship of 3,400 tons, has been purchased by Canada from Great Britian for use as training ship and fishery protection cruiser in British Columbia waters.
 The report of the special committee which investigated Dr. Frederick A. Cooks claim to having reached the summit of Mount Mckinley will be de- liyered to the board of governors of the Explorers club today.
 By far the most sensational tragedy ever known in Laurel county, Ky, oc- cured at Pittsburg, a mining town, when William Murray, miner, shot and killed his wife, Lizzie Murray, mother-in-law, Malinda Chestnut, and l Delbert Cole and himself The trag- edy was committed by Murray as a result of jealousy of his wife. That a bond issue of S100,000, 900 to replenish the treasury is necessary, was decided after a meeting between President Taft and Secretary Mac Veagh, in the course of which Senator Aldrich was called in. Secretary Mac Veagh is to prepare the plans for issu- ing the bonds at once.
 Wilber Glenn Voliva, successor to Dowie. as overseer at Zion City, H., has been taken to Henry county jail at Woodstock as a result of his failure to pay the s10,000 judgment obtained against him by William Mothersill in suit for libel.
 United States Senator Anselm Jo- seph McLaurin died suddenly at his | home in Brandon, Miss Death was due to an attack of heart disease and came without the slightest warning.
 After short honeymoon in New York City. Mollie Cremeans, 61 years old, and her boy husband, Charles Cremeans, IS, returned to Bluefeld, w. Va, only to be arrested and thrown in jail, the bride charged with bigamy and the youthful husband charged with perjury.
 Exactly 42,430,476 will be spent on vessels of the navy now under con struction during the fiscal years 1910 to 1913 inclusive, under the estimates submitted to congress by the navy department.
 The battleship Utah was successful ly launched from the yard of the New York Shipbuilding company at Cam den, N. J.
 Nearly one-half of the Washington fire department turned out and pro ceeded to the white house, where ii was supposed their services were bad ly needed. It developed that one of the automatic alarms had gone off by accident.
 Five persons were burned to deaUn in a fire that destroyed a frame dwelling house in Sherwood Park, N. Y. All the dead were members of the family of Theodore Fredericks, who lost his life in the fire together with his wife and their three children. John Hopkins, the first man to car " pony express from St. Louis to San Francisco, and afterward a hero of the Chicago fire, and, for the last l 30 years, the best known bear hunter l in Colorado, is dead at Colorado Springs, Colo.
 Vice-President Newman of the Tel egraphers' association and President Bawn of the Chicago, Quincy 6 Louis vile railroad, have been selected as arbitrators in the strike of the Illinois Central telegraphers. These two arbi- traitors met in Chicago and will select third to settle the differences that have arisen between the men and the railroad
 Ernest w. Gerbrecht, former super intendent and refinery expert of the Brooklyn plant of the American Sugar Refining company, was arraigned in the United States district court and entered a plea of not guilty, with leave to demur or change his plea within two weeks to an indictment charging him with conspiracy with in- tent to defraud.
 All doubt as to the fate of the l five fiirls who were reported missing after the fire at Shrack & Sherwood's factory at Philadelphia was removed when the five bodies were found on the third floor of the damaged build ing. The charred and dismembered remains were discovered under mass os debris near the rear of the | factory.
 A mischieyous South NorwaIk. Conn. boy is suffering from painful | injuries as a result of a practical joke 1 he played on a stranger. The lad boarded an afternoon commuters train bound for New York. AS the train was starting he set fire to 9 newspaper which a corpulent man b | his side was reading. The man,
 hose hands were badly burned, l jumped in a rage and tossed the boy out of the car window.
 l After a struggle of four hours the | fire department of Peoria, H., sue