The Carlisle independent., 1909-04-15
NE EWS IF TIE WEEK
LATEST NEWS OF THE WORLD
 TERsELY TOLD.
NORTH, EAST, SOUTH AND WEST
Notes From Foreign Lands, Through out the Nation, and Particularly
 The Great Southwest.

Though only six years old, Fred Bell is a prisoner in the Union county (S. O. jail, with the charge of murder resting against him. It is charged that the child Wednesday afternoon shot Ethel Thomas, who was three years old. Il is said the boy tried to hide the body of the little victim in an apparent effort to cover up the tragedy.
 Just as Mrs. George Gulliver, of Osage, la, had started a search for her aged mother Thursday night she was mortified to see her plunging to the ground from ffty-foot windmill to her death. Mrs. J. c. Pierce was 76 years old and had been i'll several months.
 Ordway Pullen, a former member of the Virginia legislature was shot Thursday by a policeman just after having broken the window of a saloon. The officer, presuming some one was breaking into the place, ran to the scene and shot Pullen. Pullen it is thought is not dangerously wounded.
 D. c. Noonan, general superintend- ent of the Minneapolis & St. Louis railroad, has resigned his office. MT. Noonan viii leave Minneapolis for Watertown, s. D., where he will en- gage in business.
 Rev. Joseph D. R. Rees. of Parkers- burg, w Va, died Thursday night from injuries received Thursday in a street car accident near the national capitol.
 Henry A. Wise was sworn in Thurs day as United States district attorney for the southern district of New York, in succession to Henry L. Stimson. President Taft has appointed MT. Wise to the office for the full term of four years.
 Three men were Killed Wednesday when one hundred quarts of nitro glycerine exploded in a construction camp at Blue Sulphur. Va. A heavy blast set off the explosive.
 Repre- 5ntatives of lead mining in terests in Iowa. Illinois and Wisconsin at a mass meeting Wednesday adopted resolutions asking their congressman to demand a tariff of one and half cents per pound on zinc.
 That Pope Hill. a prominent attor- ney of Macon, Ga, is the third victim of an assassin in the now celebrated Dodge case is the belief of the author ities of this county The coroners s jury, after a careful examination, de clared Monday afternoon that Hill was murdered by parties unknown
 It is reported that Jack London, the novelist, will sell his sloop the Snak. with which he planned to circumnaVi- gate the globe, at Sydney, and re- turn to San Francisco June 6.
 Senator Shelby Cullom of Illinois introduced bill extending the term of president to six years. No presi- dent, under the Cullom bill, will be eligible to reelection.
 In honor of Tokataro Sakai, com missioner-general, and Hikojiro Wada, commissioner of the Tokio exposition. who are in this country in the inter est of the Japanese worlds fair. a dinner was given at the White House Tuesday night.
 Col. Hoffman, in charge Of the state troops hunting Crazy Snake and his troublesome Snake Indians, received orders from Gov Haskell to remain in the field until he captured the chief. Col Hoffman had planned to break camp Monday.
 William V. Smith, George D. Rose and Herman Schuman, creditors of the brokerage firm of John Dickinson & Co. which suspended business in New York Saturday, filed an inyolun- tary petition In bankruptcy against John Dickinson Tuesday. Judge Holt appointed Edward s. Thomas receiver for the Dickinson company, under a bond of s5,Ooo.
 The corner stone of the new chapel of the military academy at West Point, W. T., was laid Tuesday in the presence of the officers and cadets of the academy by Col. Scott, the super intendent.
 Chief of Police Charles Brubaker and Policeman c. B. Johnson. were arrested and jailed at Fitzgerald. Ga. Wednesday on a charge of murder in the first degree for the killing of Robert Gresham, Saturday The of ficers were trying to arrest Gresham on charge Of robbery, and alleged that he resisted.
 Matthew libby, head of the libby Bross. Glass Co. died Sunday in Pitts burg at the age Of 84 years. h 1852 he entered the employ Of the Penn sylvania railroad along with Andrew Carnegie and Robert Pitcairn.
 Thomas, Birch and Edward Rhodus were reindicted Friday by the fed eral grand jury in Chicago on charge of using the mails to defraud in con nection with the Central Life Securi- ties company. one of their enterprises. A previous indictment on this charge was quashed as being improperly