The Carlisle independent., 1909-08-12
NEWS IF THE WEEK
LATEST NEWS OF THE WORLD
 TERSELY TOLD.
NORTH, EAST, SOUTH AND WEST
Notes From Foreign, Lands Through cut the Nation, and Particularly
 The Great Southwest.

anaSSSu fortune as mefCHaHI dl 'Iudora, Ark, and is now on his way to China with his American wife and a son II months old, called on United States Immigration Inspector James R. Dunn at St. Louis to get eertif- cate entitling the boy to citizenship in the event he wishes to return to the United States when he reaches maturity.
 Letters demanding s45,000 ransom. coupled with threat to dynamite the Pennsylvania lines. steampships and vowing death to the travelling pub lie in the event of refusal, led to the arrest in Philadelphia of Abrac c. Eby, mayor and referee in bank ruptey of Burkeville, Va.
 The record for laying 150 feet of hose, breaking coupling and attaching to pipe, after a half mile run was broken twice in the Iowa State Fire mens tournament. A Clinton team reduced the record 1:15 to 1:14 Is, and later a Sioux City team set the record at 1:13 3-5.
 Earth shocks are being felt daily in the Rikateje region of Portugal, where the populace is greatly frightened and camping i'll the fields.
 Clara, the 13-year-old daughter of c. J. Braithwaite, hotel keeper of Harrisburg, Ont, hanged herself to tree. She had received q whipping from her stepfather. The tree she Sc. lected was al point where her father would be certain 10 see her body or his way home.
 Mrs. H. s. Baker filled her hus bands pulpit in Brooklyn. She has been preaching sermons in her hus- bands place in order that he might take months vacation.
 Marital troubles caused Mrs. Elm ma Michael, of Chicago, to kill her two children. Meta, 15 years old, and Gustav, 12 years old, and then com nit suicide by means of Illuminating gas.
 The Alexander & Boyer Lumber company Of Fort Smith suffered a loss by fire of 15,000. which partly de- stroyed their large yards. The cause of the fire Is unknown. The bike Lumber company, adjacent, lost sey- eral piles of lumber.
 Panama has met the insistent de mands of the United States for repa- ration in the cases involving mal- treatment of American naval officers and seamen, the delay in acting on which produced much irritation at the State Department.
 The urgent deficiency appropriation bill which was reported to the sen ate carries s1.107,1S5, and an in- crease of s6S7 ,S26 from the bill as passed by the house. The principal increases were required in order to carry out provisions of the new tariff law.
 When majority leader Payne, head of the house conferees on the tariff bill which bears his name. rose in the house to present the report of the conference committee of the two houses on the bill, the measure had been in conference for just three weeks.
 Arthur F. Statter of the State of Washington, former assistant secre- tary of the treasury, is to be made a sort of supervising special agent of the treasury for the Pacific Coast ports MT Statter will probably make his headquarters at Seattle.
 James L. Houghteling, of Chicago, while on his way to attend the worlds conference of Young Mems Christian Associations, which is being held here. was set upon by thieves in the Italian frontier. He beat off five of the robbers with his fists, sending one 10 the hospital and capturing two others.
 Advertising, it's necessity in the conduct of every big business and it's legitimate place in American com merce, will be discussed in all it's phases at the fifth annual convention of the Associated Advertising clubs of America, which meets here August 3, 26 and 27.
 Indian Commissioner Valentine swept aside Governmental red tape in order to relieve the sufferings of jsEV were left without shelter or food as result of the recent series of storms and cloudbursts in that state
 William Dean Howells, the author, who has been spending the summer at his country place in Maine, is said to be in very poor health. He will sail next week, with his daughter. Mildred, for Carlsbad.
 President Taft pardoned Manning c. Palmer, former president of the American Exchange National bank, of Syracuse, N. r., who was convicted of misapplieation of the banks funds and sentenced to five years imprison- ment in the Auburn state prison. His sentence would have expired on the 31st inst.