The Carlisle independent., 1909-09-23

I dClllN COdSls caught Ire ana the flames soon spread to the companys dock. It is believed the loss will ap- proximate between s95O,O00 and s400, ,00O.
 Running at top speed Reading (Pa9 trolley car turned over on a sharp curve at culvert under the tracks of the Philadelphia & Reading railroad. The conductor, Winfield Wiedner was killed and four passen- gers were injured seriously.
 The grand jury dismissed the charge of felonious assault against Mrs. Mary Scott Castle, who, on August 8, shot William B. Craig, a New York lawyer. at the Waldorf Astoria. The grand jury's reasons were not made public.
 Halley's comet has been located by Heber D. Curtis and photographed with the aid of the Crossley refecting telescope at Lick observatory. The comet can be seen only with the most powerful instruments. It will grow rapidly brighter, according to a state ment made by Director w. W. Camp bell of Lick observatory.
 Aroused by the challenge hurled at Texas Democracy and the yelled at- tack against himself by W. J. Bryan in his Fort Worth speech, Senator Bailey announces that he will reply to Bryan in Dallas.
 Charles Pinckney. second baseman on the Dayton (Ohio) baseball team, who was hit on the head with a pitched ball, in the game with Grand Rapids died in the hospital. He suf- fered fracture of the skull
 J. E. Savers of Richmond county, W. Va, was on the verge of madness in his cell after being arrested for the murder of his bride. a girl of 14. They had been married only two weeks. The allegation is that he gave poison to his bride, with whom he eloped
 M. Santos-Dumont, in his aeroplane the Demoiselle, flew a distance of five miles, at the rate of 56 miles an hour. This is the speed record for aeroplanes, but whether it will be recognized as an official record is yet undetermined
 Eugene Cockrell, of Huntsville, Mo, A years old. was found dead by the side of the Wabash track about three miles south of Moberly He is SUD- posed to have fallen from a Wabash train, as no fractures were discovered, and death is supposed to have result ed from coneussion of the brain.
 Fulfilling his promise to Sheriff Gaston, made at his Birmingham home, where he was questioned, Fred Banding, the University of Michigan baseball player, who has been men, tioned in connection with the murder of Mabelle Millman voluntarily went to Detroit. He went immediately to police headquarters for secret con ference with Captain of Detectives Mcdonnell.
 Running at full sped into a group of three nuns crossing the street, the automobile of Charles Mueller, a real estate dealer of New York, hurled the women aside with frightful force, kill ing one of them and possibly fatally injuring another.
 Secretary Ballinger, it is under stood, will retire from the Taft cab inet. This does not mean that his resignation will be immediately ac- cepted. It is the information of his subordinates that the president is not satisfied with the explanations which have been given regarding his con- nectiou with the Cunningham coal tract in Alaska.
 One torpedo boat destroyer and three torpedo boats, bound from Hampton Roads to St. Louis, entered the mouth of the Mississippi river at Port Eads. La, Monday afternoon and proceeded or their way to New Orleans.
 Fire destroyed the business section of Monroe City, Ind. at loss of $100,- 900. Both telephone exchanges were destroyed and communication with this city was cut off.
 John R. Early, the so-called leper, has been stricken from the pension
 
 tirely free from any disease, having recovered from the skin eruption which was declared by eminent physicians 10 be leprosy
 After killing a 12-year-old boy and terrorizing the community at Moselle, Miss. Leroy Watts, a negro crazed by whisky bought from blind tiger, was slain by 8 posse, which ran him down in the woods
 At Fairmount, Neb., the new s35,O0O high school building is nearl gnished and will be ready for use this fall.
 Considerable excitement was caused and many guests fled from their rooms to the street when fire attacked the Hotel Rensu, 292 Wabash avenue, Chicago, causing a loss of s1000
 Mail carriers are not required to deliver mail at residences where vi cious dogs are permitted to run at large, is new regulation adopted by the postoffice department.
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