The Carlisle independent., 1909-04-08

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 The American Sugar Refining Go. Friday posted an advance in rates for all grades of sugar amounting to 10 points. The rise, officials says. is due to the steady advance in the price of raw sugar, especially in the Suban and Porto Rican product.
 Clara Renning, an 1S-year-old girl who ran away. it is alleged from her home in Minneapolis because of her failure to pass a college examina- tion, was taken into custody as she alighted from a train at Oakland. Cal
 Kenneth Archibald, a Dartmouth graduate, son of Rev Dr. Andrew W. Archibald of Brockton, Mass, has been declared legally dead by the probate court and the division of his estate of about $19,000 ordered The young man went west in 1907 and later, while with hunting party in the California mountains, disappeared.
 Wiley Gill, youth, shot and killed Melville Mickle Thursday night in front of his home at Clarksville, Tenn. The killing was caused by a letter Mickle wrote to Gill's 15-year-o1d sis ter, in which Mickle expressed his love for her.
 The federal grand jury which has been conducting an investigation at Chicago into the beef industry during the last three months completed the taking of evidence Friday and ad iourned until April G. when it is ex- pected to make it's final report.
 The First Nationl bank of Fort Gib son, Okla, closed it's doors Friday. It is capitalized at s25,00O. All the de, posits have been transferred to the Citizens State bank. Depositors will be paid in full.
 The recent earthquake made the harbor at Vera Cruz so shallow that ships drawing twenty-four feet of water touch bottom Dredging will be necessary.
 The recent earthquake cracked the walls of the cemetery and exposed the bodies of many victims of the cholera epidemic of 1851, at Oxaca, Mex. The discovery Thursday caused much con- sternation. In 1851 deaths from cholera were so numerous that it was found impossible to bury all, many bodies were sealed up in the niches in the walls.
 The president announced Tuesday that he will nominate Henry A. Wise as United States district attorney for the Southern district of New York to succeed Henry J. Stimson.
 A substitute resolution, offered by the senate committee on federal re- lations, asking congress to enact general Asiatic exclusion law (includ- ing Japanese) was favorably reported in the California assembly Tuesday. Grove L. Johnson author of the Jap anese school segregation bill, which aroused opposition from President Roosevelt, moved the adoption of the report.
 Sergeant Cortes, the leader of the insurrectionists, and his whole band surrendered Thursday night to the civil authorities of Remedies, in Santa Clara province.
 The Arkansas house Monday adopt ed joint resolution providing for an amendment to the constitution that the boundary line of Arkansas shall be so changed that they shall take in the "Choctaw strip celebrated strip of land near Fort Smith, over which Oklahoma and Arkansas have had a long standing controversy and which figured prominently in much litigation
 Prince Michael Whilkoff a mem- Der of the council of the empire of Russia and formerly minister of com munication, died suddenly Sunday. He was present at the inaugural meet ing of the Russo-British chamber of commerce when he tainted. The prince was removed to his residence, but did not regain consciousness.
 The remains of Peter Dieter, a young ranchman who was murdered in his mountain ranch house near Pu- eblo. Colo, several weeks ago, was found buried under a straw stack Sunday. As the body was clothed only in a night gown, it is evident that he was shot in his bed. Two bullet holes were found in the body.
 The first bequest made to the de- partment for the blind of the library of congress since that department was opened seven years ago is one of s1 900 contained in the will of the late Capt. Napoleon J. Smith of Wash ington, D. c.
 Monsignor Falconio, the papal del- egate to the United States. if present plans are carried out. will leave this country about the middle of May for Rome. where he probably will make a prolonged sojourn. Primarily, he will make the trip to attend the golden jubilee of the American col lege.
 General Cipriano Castro, former president of Venezuela was a passeng- CT on the steamer Gaudelopue of the