The Carlisle independent., 1909-12-30
LATEST NEWS OF THE WORLD
 TERSELY TOLD.
NORTH. FAST. SOUTH AND WEST
Notes From Foreign Lands, Through out the Nation, and Particularly
 the Great Southwest.

ASSlASuts @uO COllplGlGQ 0V gSd1 . oA o life sentence in state prison for mur- der, last Saturday, was denied par don by the state board of pardons. Warren murdered his wife by holding her head under water until she was drowned
 Two thousand persons sat down to the banquet rendered by H. J. Heinz Company to it's president and founder, H. J. Heinz. at it's main plant in Pittsburg, Saturday night in celebra- tion of the fortieth anniversary of the establishment of its business. MT Heinz was presented with loving cup.
 The Kansas Grand Army of the Re- public officials announced that they would not take any part in the protest being made against the placing of statue of General Lee in the hall of fame at Washington.
 Ice in the Ohio river has forced all boats to harbor except the two big Louisville and Cincinnati mail liners. which are still running.
 The Rev. Anna Shaw, president of the Sufferage association. is to i'll to Ill her engagements. While fer in- disposition has not been regarded as serious, for a week she has been un- able to speak publicly. It has been decided that the suffrage leader should go to a sanitarium for several days.
 Three men are dead at Grand Cane, La, following battle between whites and blacks. Six others were wounded and the whole parish is greatly ex- cited, many of the negroes fleeing to other sections.
 With the temperature ranging round 35 degrees below in the Wyoming mountains and a twelve inch blanket of snow covering the entire west, live stock on the plains is suffering terribly, and sheep are perishing by the thousands in the foothills of the mountains.
 The appeal of Harry K. Thaw from the decision of the New York courts committing him to Matteawan, will not be considered by the supreme court of the United States.
 Owen Kildare, the author and play wright, is critically i'll at hospital at New York His physicians say that his death may be expected at any time.
 Mrs. Mamie Cook, a widow was shot and killed at the home of her daughter. Mrs. Harry Jones, in East Worth, Tex, by Harry Williams of Dallas, rejected suitor, who killed himself with the same weapon.
 Theodore Earhardt, butcher, is under arrest at Denver, Colo, pending an investigation of the death of his wife. who, the police believe, was poi soned by her hsuband
 During the first two weeks of De- cember GO cases of bubonic plague of which B proved fatal. were officially reported at Guayaquil, Ecuador. In tne same period there were 12 cases of yellow fever and five deaths.
 Manager Evans, of theatrical com pany travelling out of Memphis. was killed and five others seriously in jured in a free-for-all fight at Maren, Miss.
 Captain Peter Neilsen, of the Nor way-American steamship Norway, who IS a lieutenant in the Norwegian navy, left Galveston, Tex, in response to cable orders from his government to prepare for south pole expedition.
 Complaining that the verdict in his case was "repugnant'' because of the fact that a number of counts against him in his trial in the United States courts of Illinois were based on the same transaction, the Chicago banker, John R. Walsh, filed in the supreme court of the United States at Washing ton his petition for writ of ceriorari, which, if granted, would have the ef- feet of bringing the record of the case 10 the supreme court for general re- view.
 Three men were blown to pieces when a boiler exploded at the Roy clay works at New Philadelphia, o.
 Charges of corruption against mem bers of congress and of the subsidiz- ing of newspapers for and against ship subsidy which have been made in various American newspapers and periodicals, are recounted Tn resolu- tion introduced in the house by Rep resentative Hardin of Texas, who de- mands congressional investigation.
 Engineer Tom Walker and Fireman P. w. Bauer, both of Tucson, Ariz., were killed, thirteen passengers were seriously injured and thirty-nine oth- CTS cut and bruised when an east bound Southern Pacific train was wrecked three miles west of Penson.
 Samuel R. Van Sant, commander in chief of the Grand Army of the Re public, announced in Chicago that the executive committee has set Septem- Der 17 to "A as the time for the next national encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic at Atlantic City, x. J.