The Carlisle independent., 1909-09-02
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.


 of Ambia, Ind The damage is about s30,000, partly insured.
 While bathing in the Menominee river, Milwaukee, Joseph Britz, 452 Clark stdeet, and Harry Weidnes. 496 Clark street, aged 15 and 13 years, respectively, were drowned. The bodies were recovered.
 Eastern Nebraska became the vic. tim of another heat. wave, the mer- cury rising to 9S in the government bureau. Reports indicate the South Platte country of Nebraska will suffer further serious injury to it's corn crop unless rains come in day or two.
 A catch of mullets aggregating half million pounds, said to be the larg est ever known along the Atlantic coast, was made off Beaufort, N. C., by deep sea fishermen.
 4 man answering the description of Leon Ling, the alleged murderer of Elsie Sigel, of New York, was arrest ed at Sunbury, Pa, as he alighted from freight train.
  while playing in a launch in the Mis- sissippi river at Davenport. Ia, fell overheard and was drowned before he could be rescued by his parents, who were fifty feet distant
 w. H. Oakley, paymaster of the Franklin Construction Company, was shot to death by an unknown man and robbed of two thousand dollars at Rock, ". Va. The murderer was pur- sued by a posse, captured and Iynched. Marietta Carcaccfo, F years old, was placed in the House of Detention at St. Louis, after she had asked the police to look for Naido Gafo, who she said, had induced her to elope from Danville, H., and deserted her in St. Louis, without marrying her.
 4 bloody street battle between prominent white youths and a band of negroes took place on a street car at Louisville, Ky, the results of which have confined three of the youths in a Louisville hospital.
 The New York ladies auxiliary ward of the Jewish Consumptive Re lief Society sanitarium in Denver was dedicated. Funds for th9 building, S10,000, were raised by the auxiliary. The presentation was made by the Rev. Harris Mastiansky, of New York Accused of batting Joseph E. Rich ardson, farm hand, 50 years old to death with a horsewhip, Ernest E. Stout, 28, is in jail at Grand Island Neb.
 A record-breaking claim in the Los Angeles (Cal.) courts was allowed by Judge Wilbur. It called for the pay ment of s1,320.00O to the Hibernia Loan and Savings Society of San Francisco. The claim was a note executed by E. J. Lucky) Baldwin on January 12, 1909, due in one year. The government of Cape Colony and the admiralty have abandoned the search for the steamship Waratah, which is now about a month overdue from Australia to London.
 President Taft will have special agents investigate the facts in the Pinchot-Ballinge controversy. He wants to know on his own account, and from unbiased sources, just what the facts are.
 On a bet that his first-born would be a boy, George Ward, a Chicago newspaper solicitor. won a ride of eight miles through the business dis trict Cf i,a ago in wheel6arrow Charles Maine. the loser of the wager. held the handles Of the vehicle ana furnished the power
 Probably the smallest cIa1m for a refund of alleged overcharges by a railroad that ever was filed with the interstat commerce commission has been rec, ived. It was a claim for 20 cents
 One illion Philippine cigars have been a ted to this country under the ire orisions of the Payne tariff law. Practically all of these came in before ? | laE became operative Au- gust 6. bu Lad been held in bond Tn warehous s in anticipation of the passase or the act
 Order have been issued by the Car negie Steel Co to place it's plant at Columbas. O.. in operation as soon as possible It will require some time to get the plant in operating condi- tion. a it is not likely that any of the steel will be made before Septem- Der l. The plant has been idle two years
 4 score Of miners are reported to have been killed by the fire which is destroying the Camelia mine at Real Del Monte in the State of Hidalgo. Mexico. Six bodies have been recoy- cred.
 Judge Campbell at Muskogee, Ok., has sustained the demurrers in the suits brought by the United States to set aside various deeds and leases made by citizen allottees in the five civilized tribes in eastern Oklahoma. and thus settled legal controversy that had been the cause of consider able concern in that part of the state.