The Carlisle independent., 1909-05-13
NEWS IF THE 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.

SudHOetiOA dIu pI IluClpdl OL AOSl NlCSA (Scotland) university, died Sunday, He was born in 1884 and was noted writer and lecturer.
 Rear Admiral Hedworth Lambton anchored in Yokohama harbor was granted an audience with the emperor Monday.
 Promptly at midnight Friday night the government of Saskatchewan province took over the entire tele- phone system in that province recent ly purchased from the Bell Telephone company and now the Bells are cut of the vast tract from the great lakes to the Pacific. Manitoba and Alberta already had taken over the systems in their borders.
 After Dr. F. W. Page of Waverly, Mass, an alienist, had declared that Chester s. Jordan, on trial for the murder of his wife, was incurably ill and could not survive three years, the defense attempted Friday to have a record breaking hypothetical ques- tion of 31 900 words introduced. The court decided that the question was really a review of the evidence.
 New York City finds itself facing problem in carrying out its agreement with Andrew Carnegie to provide sites for seventy-eight public libraries for which the ronmaster appropriated s5.O00,00O. So far the city has ac- quired only fifty-five sites and will have to acquire twenty-three more.
 Antonio Cipollo was hanged at Fol som prison, California, Friday for the murder on March i of last year of Joseph Priano. Cipollo and a com panion enticed Priano up the Sacra- mento river, stabbed him and threw him into the water after robbing him.
 Chas. w. Fairbanks, former vice president, concluded through agents Thursday a deal for the purchase Of s30.O00 residence in one of the fash ionable districts of Pasadena. It is said he will make this his future home.
 L. ". Bingham, of Cleveland, pri- vate detective. was shot and probably fatally injured by his wife Thursday afternoon. After telephoning the po- lice to come, the woman and her daughter ate ice cream.
 Contracts have been awarded by the isthmian canal commission ap- proximating in value s1,000,0OO for supplies of various kinds to be deliY- cred during the fiscal year 1910.
 The Wisconsin house Wednesday killed the Stou woman suffrage bill by vote of 5 to 34. Since the bill passed the senate four weeks ago the women of the organization did every thing within their power to influence assemblymen in favor of it.
 Eugene Pearson, chief clerk Of the United States army transport service in San Francisco was arrested Wednesday on a charge of having em- bezzled s1,145. Pearson's books are said to have shown several apparent shortages.
 The French government has award ed a frst-class life savers medal 10 John R. Binns, for courage displayed when the White Star steamer Repub- lie was run down by the steamship Florida off Nantucket last January Binns was the Marconi operator on board the Republic.
 William E. Johnson, of Salt Lake Utah. special Indian agent who has been investigating the source or sup Dly of what is known as the "Peyote" bean. which has been sold to the h. dians. condemned the supply of beans and bought them for the government, paying $250 per thousand.
 Chester M. Hamsher, in the federal court at Kansas City, pleaded guilty to a charge of signing his wife's name to love letters which he wrote to Neil Johnson. a wealthy man of Atehison, Kas. and he was sentenced to year in jail.
 Chief Inspector Cochran or the Den yer pestoffiee announced Wednesday that mail pouch containing 29 regis tered packages had been lost from a Union Pacific train between Green River and Bryan, Wyo., Sunday night.
 Governor Shafroth of Colorado Tuesday signed the campaign ex- penses bill passed by the recent legis- lature, and the unique measure be- comes a law in ninety days. The bill provides that the state shall contrib ute for campaign expenses every two years, 9 cents for each vote cast at the preceding general election.
 J. Frank Randall, former building commissioner of St. Louis, charged with offering bribes to members of the Oklahoma City school board, was arrested Monday night on his return from Mexico.
 A mass meeting of 1000 citizens decided that Goldtield should offer s50,- 900 for fight between Jack Johnson and James J. Jefferies, to take place in the latter part of September during the session of the mining congress.
 Theodore Roosevelt started on his first lion hunt Thursday. He is on the trail of hugh black maned lion.