The Carlisle independent., 1909-03-04

The newspaper Zingn of Moscow Friday was fined $1.50O for printing Count Tolstoi's latest article against infiiction of the death penalty, entitled No Evil Without Good"
 Reports from Uehling, Neb.. tell of a serious riot there Friday night be- tween Greek and Italian railroad la borers on one side and the white pop ulation on the other. The town mar shal, George Heineman. and a bar tender named Stamm were shot by the foreigners and are said to be se- riously wounded.
 Representative Lamb of Virginia, interests. protested to the president Friday against the recent award of the American Tobacco Go. of the con- tract to supply the navy with 220,0OO pounds of chewing tobacco for the next fiscal year The protest was based on the ground that the govern ment had just been engaged in expos ing the doings of this big trust
 Judge James denied Wednesday at Los Angeles a writ of habeas corpus asked in behalf of William Wallace, former clerk of Warren county, Tenn, charged with embezzlement. He will be returned to Tennesse for trial, as the courts action ended his fight against eXtraGiti0n.
 The bill which provides for the re- instatement of negro officers and sol diers who were discharge. as result of the shooting affray at Brownsville, Tex. on the night of August 13, 1906, will be favorably reported by the house committee on military affairs by vote of 10 to ,.
 No opposition has so far developed to the provision of the sundry civil bill permitting the use of the govern ment's share in whatever surplus may be left of the Louisiana Purchase eX- position funds toward the erection of a monument to Jefferson at Forest park, St Louis.
 It is announced that soon after his inauguration President Taft will visit the ranch of Charles P. Taft near San Antonio, Tex. A residence is being built on the ranch and golf links laid out.
 Resolutions calling for the organi- zatfon of a junior brotherhood were presented and met with favor Wednes- day at the national convention Of the Presbyterian Brotherhood of America.
 The fourteenth anniversary of the uprising at Baire. marking the begin ming Of the Cuban war for independ- ence was observed throughout the l island Wednesday as a national holi- day. President Gomez and Fice-Pres- ident Zayas, accompanied by the members of the cabinet went to Ma tanzas and unveiled a statue of lib- erty.
 By decision of the supreme court i of the United States express compa- nies cannot hereafter issue franks for transportation of packages.
 E. J. Hucky) Baldwin. who has been seriously i'll for several weeks, suffered a relapse Tuesday. His con- dition is said to be very low.
 Indictments were returned at We woka. Okla Tuesday against Judge i T. s. Cobb of Seminole county, and his brother. Joseph s. Cobb, charging them with felony and misdemeanor It is alleged the indicted men defraud- ed Seminole Indian children in land transfers.
 In an opinion by Justice White, the supreme court of the United States Tuesday upheld the validity of the | Arkansas antitrust law of 1905, which provides a penalty of from s200 to $500 for each offense and the forfeit ure of the right to do business in the state
 Purchase by the Texas company of ! land in New Jersey on which to build l oil storage tanks, extension of office facilities in New York city and gen eral expansion in the East by that company have attracted attention to the fact that the Standard Oil com pany is to have a more vigorous rival than it has had to contend with pre- vously.
 President Roosevelt has slapped Senator James Alexander Hemenway i into the Ananias club He did it in letter containing 5000 or more words addressed to Senator Hale, acting chairman Of the committee on appro- 1 priations. In the course of the letter he challenged a statement made by the Indiana senator as inaccurate and l misleading
 With an ear-splitting warwhoop, an unidentified Wyoming Indian war chief | ran amuck in the Cincinnati Union station. and before he could be over powered had dangerous stabbed and i cut Mrs Anna Doverd of Huntington, i w. Va. and Max Meyers of Cincin- natl. and seriously wounded Joseph w Gordon, Cambridge, H., in an effort to i scalpt them.
 Unexpected and unexplained order from Washington, the extensive immi- grant station newly erected by the government on Angel island, and the tue TnsDector. recently completed for