The Carlisle independent., 1909-02-18


 the ships small boats and later were picked up by pilot boat.
 Following a cloudburst in Rubio canon. above Pasadena. a terrific flood of water came down the narrow canon precipitating the Rubio canon pavilion into the ravine and burying Fred T. Drew. agent of the Pacific Electric railroad. with his wife and four children in the ruins.
 Blood poisoning. resulting from a slight cut on the finger during an op- eration, has caused the death of Dr. Adolph Won Duering, noted sur geon and physician of New York.
 The one hundredth anniversary of the birth of Charles Darwin was eel ebrated in the New York Academy of Science. at the Museum of Natural History. with the unveiling of a l bronze bust of the naturalist present. ed to the museum by Charles F. Cox.
 The house committee on census de- cided that there should be no attempt on the part of the house to pass the census bill over the veto of the presi- dent This action was taken after much deliebration among the leaders of the house and senate.
 Surrounded by flowers and gifts Harry K. Thaw celebrated his 37th birthday Mrs. William Thaw. his mother. helped make the occasion bright
 AS a result of an opinion by Assist ant Attorney General Sluder of Tex as, there is a probability some of the textbook companies which have con tracts with the state will be sued for cancellation of contract. The school officials of Hopkins county advised the attorney generals department that 4.676 books needed in that county could not be obtained from the com panies having contracts with the state. and suit may be instituted against these companies for breach of contract
 The porte has notified Russia of it's acceptance in principle of Russia's latest financial proposal for a settle ment .of the Turko-Bulgarian dispute.
 A bill has been introduced in the Cuban senate to annul the order of the American military authorities abolishing the lottery.
 Rooseyeltian doctrines of anti-race suicide are not practiced to any ex- tent on the canal zone, according to figures given out by the isthmian ca nal commission. They show that the average zone family consists ct hus- band, wife and one child
 Yielding to the moods of artistic temperament and resenting criticism leyeled at his work. Oscar Mundhenk, 1 a young sculptor, wrecked an elabor- ate production he was executing for the new St. Mary's Catholic church at i Marietta. Ohio
 Complaining that the name of the 1 National Red Cross is being infringed upon to sell such commonplace mate rials as chicken feed, and that persons have resorted to the use of the name i to collect funds not designed for the relief of of suffering humanity, Miss l Mabel Boardman, secretary of the American National Red Cross, ap- | pealed to the house committee on for | eign affairs for further legislation to | supplement its original incorporation. l Senator Frye has abandoned his ef forts to have the nomination of W. D. 1 Crum, the negro reappointed as col | iector of customs at Charleston, S. C., confirmed at the present session. Armour & Co, the largest of the Chicago packing concerns, has been l called upon to furnish the federal gov l ernment with ammunition in the war of the department of justice upon the | beef trust and the National Packing l Co.
 Hundreds of unemployed made violent demonstration in Berlin coin eident with the arrival of the British king and queen and were only sub 1 dued by the police, who drove the mob before them with drawn sabers. About fifty were severely wounded, several perhaps fatally and score or more were arrested.
 Tn case of war Japan could un- ] doubtedly take the Philippines. but in a year we could retake the islands and the empire of Japan with them This was the declaration made by former United States Senator George F. Ed munds of Vermont.
 Leroy Cannon, a Virginian by birth and distant relative of Speaker Can non. whose family now resides in Harrisburg, Pa, was forcibly expelled from Honduras. being put aboard a fruit steamer bound for New Orleans. He was carried from Tegucigalpa, the capital, to Puerto Cotez. by military escort, and was about to be locked in the Cortez jail until the ship sailed, 1 but the American consul made such violent protest that Cannon was pa roled in his custody until the vessel sailed.
 Congressman Shepherd of Texas has introduced a bill providing for a world temperance conference.
 One of Nebraska's solons proposes to introduce a bill In the state legisla-