The Carlisle independent., 1909-10-14

Wandering to a lonely spot n wood within the grounds of the gov ernment hospital for the insane at Washington. William Ohle, 62 years old, veteran soldier and an inmate of the institution, committed smCila by tying a handkerchief around his neck and suspending himself from tree by means of a rope. Another in mate discovered the body.
 Former Governor A. NJ. Cookery, of Missouri, addressed 10000 visitors at the German-American State Fedora tion festivities at Little Rock A pa geant of allegorical Heats was given in the morning.
 In freight train collision on the Canadian Northern railway near Ban- ming, Ontario, Fireman Woodccck and Brakeman Lockhart were killed and Engineer Hauser badly injured Two engines and eight cars were piled up.
 By the collapse of a section of bank brackets which supported a thirty foot embankment during the building of a concrete wall. one man was kiillG and five others were injured on the Ontario & Western road in Archibald.
 Fourteen persons were injured, five seriously, when a south bound passen- ger train on the Frisco railroad col lided with freight train near Blythes- vile, Ark. late Tuesday night
 The automobile carrying the Phila- delphia Press courier wish a message from President Taft to the Alaska Yukon-Pacific exposition president, rolled down an embankment into the Snoquaimie river near North Bend, Wash. The occupants swan ashore. The automobile was submerged.
 Thomas H. Swope, millionaire and philanthropist, died suddenly at his nome in Kansas City. following stroke of apoplexy. He was S1 years cid
 The Germans of Chicago celebrated the anniversary of the German 'pil- grim fathers and the founding of Germantown, Pa, on October 6, 1883. The celebration was opened with parade in which 25,000 Germans par tieipated and 200 societies were rep resented.
 Lieut.. O. w Baird, 2S years old, a recruiting officer in the United States army, committed suicide at his board ing house in North Adams, Mass. by taking poison. The suicide left a note closing with the words: Here goes a misspent life. May God forgive me.
 Using a Glenn H. Curtiss aeroplane, Foster Willard made two brief but successful flights at the state fair grounds at Richmond, Va.
 Charles R. Crane, newly appointed minister from the United States to Pekin. was recalled to Washington, by telegram from Secretary Knox.
 The supreme court of Georgia re- fused new trial to Clifford NJ. Orr, former cashier and director of the Ex- change bank, of Macon, who was con- victed in March, 1908, of embezlement and sentenced to serve seven years in the penitentiary.
 The aeroplane and balloon carnival scheduled in the Fort Indianapolis speedway on October IA, 15 and 16, has been called eff, according to an an. nouncement Friday by Director E. A. Moross. Failure of the speedway management to reach suitable terms with the ayiators, particularly Glenn H. Curtiss, is given as the principal reason for tho action
 With view to carrying out Post master General Hitchcock's policy Of retrenchment and economy in the postoffice department Alexander Grant, superintendent Of the railway mail service, directed the division su- perintendents of the mail service to meet him in Washington on October Il for a conference.
 The American Red Cross society, through the state department, sent an additional s2,00O to the flood sufferers in the vicinity of Monterey, Mexico, making a total contributed to date of S7,000, and one thousand blankets.
 Fishing schooner Caldwell H. Colt, of Pensacola, Fla, has been seized by a Mexican gunboat off Progreso and her crew of eight men thrown into prison.
 On the steps to the Hall of Fame at New York university an unknown man shot himself in the head. The body was removed to the morgue.
 Old wire bed springs lying in junk yard at the rear of Michael Hatz's residence in Chicago saved Hatzs life While walking in the hall of the house Hatz stepped through the window. and fell from the third floor to the junk yard below, and lit on the old bed springs.
 By a decision handed down in the district court. Sweetwater. Tex. will retain the permanent headquarters and shops of the Kansas City, Mexico & Orient railroad, in Texas. Sweet water obtained temporary injunction restraining the removal of the offices to San Antonio.
 A. B. Bryant, aged 61, one of the wealthiest men near Ferris, Tex, was killed by Burr Bryant, his son A