The Carlisle independent., 1910-02-24
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.

The man with the longest name Tn St. Louis is dead. The man with the shortest name is at thte city hospital, suffering with alcoholism. John An renhoersterbaeume was the man with the longest name which appears in thecity directory. Fred Eli is the man with the shortest name.
 The marquis and Marquise De Cas- tellane have instituted suit against the Princess De Sagan in Paris for s13,- 600 back annuities, which they allege the count and countess, in the marri- age settlement of 1898, engaged them selves to pay at the rate of s5,600 a year.
 Gen. Orencio Nodarse was released from the Cuba prison on a pardon from President Gomez. after an inear- ceration of A hours, for shooting Senior Torriente, editor of La Peti- tico Comica
 Seven men severely injured, two of them fatally, have been taken from the ruins of the Trojan Powder works destroyed by an explosion at Oakland, Cal, Thursday.
 The annual report of the Postal Tel egraph and Cable company announces the intended sale of all Bell Tele- phone stock now held by the Mackay companies
 Collector Loebs special board of marine sharps engaged in formulat- ing plans to provide more speedy de- barkation of transatlantic passengers and examination of baggage, have recommended a ruling to permit wo- men, as well as men, to bring in 300 cigarettes duty free.
 The Illinois supreme court Wednes- day broke the will of the eccentric millionaire, Col. Thomas Shell of Clin- ton, and his big estate will be divid- ed among the heirs, according to law.
 By the action of the directors of the Standard Oil company of New Jer- sey in declaring a dividend for the quarter amounting to SIS a share, John D. Rockefeller will receive on March 15 a check for $4050000
 Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt and Miss Ethel Roosevelt sailed Tuesday by the liner Hamburg for Europe. Their de- parture is in accordance to schedule announced when Col. Roosevelt start ed on his African hunting trip.
 From the hands of President Taft, Lieutenatn Sir Edward Shackelton, c. V. O., the antarctic explorer, will receive the Hubbard medal the Ma tional Geographic society awarded him.
 Six persons were killed and twenty four were slightly hurt as a result of a head-on collision between passenger trains on the Georgia Southern & Florida railroad nineteen miles south of Macon, Ga.
 In a decision handed down Monday, the South Carolina supreme court took the two children of B. R. Till man, Jr., from their grandfather, Sen ator Ben R. Tillman, and restored them to the custody of their mother.
 Owners of the steamer Kentucky, which foundered off Cape Hatteras recently, issued long statement, de- nying that she was sent to sea in an unseaworthy condition.
 Of eleven families, sixty persons in all, in Pike county, Ala, there have been found thirty-fiye cases of hook worm, according to a report made to the health department by Dr. R. G. Perry.
 Six persons were injured and three overcome by smoke Tuesday in a fire caused by the explosion of a five gal lon jug of whisky in New York saloon.
 An explosion in the forward fire room of the torpedo boat destroyer Hopkins Monday slightly injured seven men. One of the water tubes in the forward room of the vessel burst and scalded the stokers. The injured are at hospital in San Diefo, Cal
 President Fallieres will give grand fete at the Elysee palace on fhe occasion of former President Roosevelt's arrival in Paris.
 gray timber wolf is roaming over the south side in Chicago and the po- lice have been asked to capture 1t. The animal, which is used in play that is being presented at theater at Sixty-third place and Halsted street, escaped after the matinee Sun day afternoon.
 If the calculations of members of the senate and house committees on interstate commerce do not go amiss, the administration railroad measure probably will be under discussion in one or both houses of congress with in the next month.
 With the rudder of his aeroplane tied, Glenn H. Curtiss made several successful flights at Hammondsport, N. Y, to demonstrate that his ma chine is not an infringement on the patents of the Wright brothers and to disprove their theory regarding balancing.