The Carlisle independent., 1910-08-25
Notes From Foreign Lands, Through out the Nation and Particularly
 the Great Southwest.
RACES FOR THE REMNANTS.
National League
American League.


 With the Illinois coal strike dispute as the underlying cause, John Mitch ell former head of the miners union, and President Thomas L.. Lewis, elashed at the miners convention in Indianapolis. MT. Mitchell came out nfatly in favor of the Illinois miners their fight for the demands of the Peoria convention, and President Lewis in a hot reply held up to severe criticism the acts Of the former head of the miners in the anthracite coal strike in 1902.
 Emperor Franz Joseph Of Austria Is 80 years old, and the anniversary was celebrated not only by the "A archdukes and archduchesses who had gathered, but by the people at large.
 Baroness Vaughan, the morganatie wife of the late King Leopold of Bel gium, and Emmanuel Durieux, a re- tired merchant living at Neuilly-sur- Seine, were married at Arronyille, France, where the baroness has been living at the Chateau Baincourt.
 The long awaited annexation of Korea by Japan is about to become a reality, according to special dis patches from Seoul, published by the Tol1io press.
 The New York Republican state committee voted, 20 to 15, that it would not recommend Theodore Roosevelt for temporary chairman Of the state convention, which meets at Saratoga Septembar 27, but would rather have vfce-Pfesident James s. Sherman.
 Harry Baldwin, an ironworker, em- ployed in raising the Equitable build ing in Des Moines, la, fell from the top of the establishment to the pave ment on Sixth avenue and was in- stantly killed.
 A number of Italian laborers were killed and injured when the big con- crete dam being built at Massena, N. Y, for the St. Lawrence River Power company collapsed. There were 40 workmen engaged on the work when the collapse took place and most of them were buried.
 During July 52.727 citizens of for eign lands entered the port Of New York Of this number, the Ellis Island records class 12,985 as illit- crate. The number barrel was 1,127. The immigrants brought s1,537,7s4
 Fire started in the Belgian section of the international exhibition in Brussels The flames spread quickly to the English and French sections, which were soon destroyed. Two were killed in a paaic, and a num- Der of persons have been injured. The aggregate less is estimated at $1o,000, ,000
 Indictments were presented in the United States district court in New York against James A. Patten, the cotton king" Sidney J. Harmon Of Shreveport, La; Eugene R. Scales of Dallas, Tex; Col. Robert K. Thompson, partner in the firm of F Il Pell & Co.,, cotton brokers of New York; Frank B. Hayne and W. T. Brown. The indictments charge con spiracy to violate the Sherman anti trust law in connection with the or 
 ganization of the recent Patten cot ton pool.
 Michael Chrisman Saufey, judge of the Thirteenth Kentucky district and former associate justice of the Wyo- ming territorial supreme court, was found dead in the stable of his home at Stanford, Ky. He was 68 years old and one of the most distinguished lawyers of the state.
 In Omaha, Neb., Mrs. Bertha Mott, IS years old, shot and fatally injured Otis Heddy, a married man whose wife and baby are out of the city, when the man came into her kitchen and insulted her.
 An excursion train from Bordeaux, with 1900 passengers and running at a speed of 50 miles an hour, crashed into freight train at Saujon, France. Thirty-two persons were killed and 100 injured. Many of the victims were schoolgirls.
 Dr. Jose Madriz, president of the de facto government in Nicaragua, wants the United States to send commissioner to investigate condi- tions in the territory he controls and in the territory controlled by Gen. Els trada, to ascertain the sentiment Of the people on their governments.