The Carlisle independent., 1909-03-04
NEVIS 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.

Western league for the coming sea son as announced Friday by Tip o,Nein are: John Mullen, Jack Has ken J. NJ Dugan and George Clarke.
 yandyke Stoops. son of Finlay Stoops of Pittsburg. Kas., was found dead in his room late Friday. He had shot himself through the forehead. stoops. who was 2S years old and student at Louisville tKy.1 busl- ness college. left no,e declaring that he could not live through the shame his parents had cast upon his life.
 The Tennessee senate Wednesday passed the house bil 10 permit spar ring matches of eight rounds with SIX ounce gloves, and under direction Of chartered clubs.
 William Smith alias Randall. l9 wears old. was Tuesday convicted Of robbing a Great Northern train on the Shelby line. This is the second con vietion in the case. Two other boys are accused of complcity.
 pr. A. L. Arnwine, one or the proml- nent physicians of central Texas, was rund won and killed while walking on the track near Calvert, Texas.
 stewart Douglas Robinson. l9 years old. a nephew of President Roosevelt and a sophomore of Harvard college, fell from a six-story window of Hamp- den hall. a dormitory, and was killed. He was a son of Douglas Robinson.
 The steamship Prince Nillem w. which arrived at New York from Ven ezuela. brought reports of great dls- tress in the hospitals al Caracas. A short time ago the physicians and nurses in the hospitals went on strike because the authorities failed to fur nish food and medicine.
 Col. William F Tucker. |. S. A, has returned to the army and navy hos pital al Hot Springs after his eXperi- ences before the retiring board in Chl- eago He stated that he had not heard from the report of the board.
 The required s10,00o has been raised and it is now the intention to dedicate the stephen D. Lee memorial in the Vicksburg national military park ln June
 Mrs. James Hamilton Lewis, Of Chl- eago who is now in London. was robbed of s10.0O0 worth of jewelry while on the way over frfom New York Detectives from Scotland Yard are attempting to locate the thief who' 1t is thought. left the liner at Queens town.
 Princess Trixie, the famous educat- ed horse. burned to death in Della ware wreck. was owned by w. h. Barnes. of Sioux City, who has been exhibiting her for the past ten years. She was insured for S50,000
 Disguised at the way Kansas papers have been attempting to prove that no cruel or unlawful punishments were inflicted on Oklahoma conyicts, J. r. Corners. president of the Oklahoma department of agriculture and of the state prison board, offered a $l0o re- ward each to one. TWO or three male Kansans of sound mind and body who will undergo similar punishments ln- Aicted by the same man who was con- Delled 10 punish Oklahoma conyicts at Lansing
 Six persons were crushed 10 death and thirty were seriously injured at Tulsa. Okla. during fire panic in moving picture theater. The film of machine caught fire, starting rush of spectators for the exits.
 More than 1000 delegates to the Mississippi grand lodge of Masons heard from Grand Master Edwin J. Martin that he had committed the grand lodge to withdrawal Of all fraternal correspondence and athl- ation with the grand lodge of New Jersey because in the latter jurisdlc- ton the grand lodge recognizes and admits to it's work Alpha Lodge. No. 166 located at Newark, and composed mainly of negroes.
 One half of the United states Navy should be kept on the Pacific coast at all times. in the opinion of the senate. An amendment 10 the naval bill was agreed to providing that in inc discretion of the president one hall or lUt navy oACtt ~ Pacific waters so far as practicable. The president has already the author ity to so divide the fleet, but the amendment amounts to an expression of congress in favor of such action.
 State Senator Gillett Wednesday re- ceived a letter threatening to blow up the Ohio senate chamber next Tues day. The named signed was John Komfska. He said there no longer was any chance in this country for a poor man.
 Former President Eliot of Harvard University, who addressed both houses of the Texas legislature, said, regard ing a published report that he would likely be offered the ambassadorshlp to Great Britain, it would be lmpos- sible for him to accept the post should it be rendered.