The Carlisle independent., 1909-10-28

' and indorsement of the present sys. tenn of forest protection were the bur. den of reports presented by two com mittees to the convention of the Car riage Builders National association in Washington.
 Armed with a certificate of mar riage that she says never took place, Miss Alice o. Anderson, 19 years old, of Derry, Pa, is in St. Louis on the trail of Charles A. Shanefelt of Bra | denville, Pa, who, she says, disap- peared after tbe justice had come to perform the ceremony.
 The Presbyterian and Hahnemann hospitals of New York will each be i about $900000 richer by the will of Mitchell Valentine, a money lender of l Westchester village, who died at the age of S5 years, leaving an estate worth s2,000,000
 One of the Italian military dirigible balloons went from Bacciano to Rome, distance of 19 miles, in 30 minutes. The dirigible executed evolutions over the city, and passing over the gardens of the Vatican, was seen by the Pope. | The pontiff stopped to watch and ad- mire the evolutions.
 The Bank of Minocqua. Dis, was robbed by four masked men. The rob bers blew open the vaults and escaped with several thousand dollars. A posse has the robbers surrounded in the woods between Hazelhurst and Minocqua
 Matt" Henson, the negro who ac- companied Commander Peary on his polar dash. was the guest of honor at dinner given by the leaders of New York City's negro population. A heavy gold watch and chain with miniature gold icebergs linked together were presented to Henson.
 The Nippon bank of Sacramento, Cal, voluntarily closed it's doors and notified State Bank Commissioner An derson of it's suspension. This is the second Japanese bank in that city to close within week.
 The explosion of boiler in the gov ernment Indian school at Rapid City, Mich, resulted in the death of Adolph Russell, a pupil from the Pine Ridge reservation, and the probable fatal in- juries of Ronald Whitfeather, another student
 For the first time in California, woman was sworn in to serve as juror, when Mrs. Johanna Engelman, of Santa Monica, took her place in the jury box of department of the superior court of Los Angeles county.
 Use of the words "so help me God at the end of oaths may be prohibited in the courts of the District of Colum- bia, if congress passes a law which is now being drafted by the commission CTS of the District of Columbia
 Howard A Robinson, of Memphis, Tenn, a cousin of Lamar A. Harris, the Los Angeles attorney who commit ted suicide after robbing the Erskine bank at Highland Park, H., arrived in Chicago and identified the body positively as that of his cousin.
 Uncle Sam grew financially fat of industrious inventors last year, the records showing that revenues in fees from this source were sufficient to pay s1,SS7,443 in expenses for run ing the United States patent office and leave a surplus of s88,476.
 The fourth annual convention of the American Meat Packers association opened in Chicago. Five hundred del egates from all parts of the country have arrived. Gov. Deneen welcomed the delegates at the opening of the convention.
 Col. J. c. s. Blackburn, of Kentucky, head of the department of civil ad- ministration in the Panama cant zone, is in New York. Colonel Black burn denied that he contemplated re- signing as governor Of the canal zone.
 Deer are so plentiful in Franklin county, a., that farmers in the noun tains are losing money by their depredations. Deers destroyed 400 head of cabbage in one field.
 Jack Johnson vindicated his right to the heavyweight championship ii. tie by knocking out Stanley ketchel in twelve rounds of a twenty-round fight at San Francisco.
 A new Jack the Ripper" has ap- ,eared in St. Petersburg, Russia. Ie has already murdered three girls.
 At Stuttgart, Ark, Dr. A. D. Bum has threshed an average of more than 1141a bushels of Japan rice on 19 acres, and S1 bushels of Honduras rice to the acre on q acres.
 The head of L. W. Smith, one of the most enthusiastic baseball fans in Atlanta, Ga, is completely bare of hair as a result of betting that the Pittsburg team would win the worlds series in five games.
 A pure white quail was killed by three boys near Coshocton, Ohio. It was with coyy of ordinary quail
 Harry Hall Il, negro, opened the door of George Antilles chicken house in the north part of Wellington, Kas., at 3 o'clock ia the morning. 4 shot