The Carlisle independent., 1910-02-03
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 west coast of Europe began ar irving Wednesday. Many boats have been lost and the death list will be heavy.
 Investigation by the grand jury at Kirksvlle, Mo, into the death of Professor Vaughn apparently has ceased, nothing having been devel- oped since Judge Shelton's ruling that neither the jury or himself had power power to order the elimination of the educators body to search for traces of poison.
 The frail body of 11-year-old Will liam James Sidis, the Harvard uni versity prodigy, who recently .ad- dressed the faculty of the college on his researches to establish fourth dimension, has succumbed to over study and the little fellow is now se- riously i'll at his fathers home in Brookline.
 The final chapter in the Guinness case was written Thursday in the dis missal of Elizabeth Smith, the ne gress involved in the Ray Lamphere confession.
 James B. Aiken, Fort Worth, Tex, real estate dealer, exchanged 100000 acres of land in Brewster and Presidio counties, Texas, for 100000 gallons of whisky to a wealthy dis tiller of Dayton, O. The land is val ued at S110 an acre, and the whisky went in the trade at the same price.
 The Idaho supreme court has hand ed down an opinion declaring eonsti- tutional the local option law which has been attacked on almost every provision since it's passage.
 The new comet is travelling more than 120 miles a second, according to Prof Winslow Upton of Brown uni yersity. Professor Upton declared that by the last of the month, when it will no longer be visible, the comet will be about one hundred and sixty million miles distant.
 The American university, at Wash ington, has just received cash gift of $5,000 from Miss Sarah NJ Billings of Wellsboro, Pa, for the opening fund
 After hours of fighting Monday be- tween the main bodies of the Madriz and Estrada armies at Acoyapa, the Madriz forces withdrew under the pro tection of machine gun fire.
 The appropriations providing for Indian warehouses at St. Louis, Chi cago, New York, Omaha and San Francisco are omitted from the Indian appropriation bill, which was report ed from the house committee on h. dian affairs Monday.
 D. c. Bell, 55 years old, three times mayor of Pine Bluff, Ark, secretary of the Pine Bluff Trust company, died in Pine Bluff.
 On February 2 the house commit tee on claims will conduct a hearing on the Akins claim bill for relief from responsibility for the disappearance of s31 800 from the United States sub treasury at St. Louis.
 Details of the construction of a $5,000,000 harbor, planned for Chicago, are expected to be made public, fol lowing an announcement by Maj. Thomas H. Reece, in charge of the federal engineering department.
 Headquarters of the Rockefeller hookworm commission have been opened in the Union Trust building in Washington. Its work will be direct ed from that city.
 With his head pillowed on a box containing s15.000 worth of negotiable securities. Oscar Schoen, TO years old. was found dead in bed in "a squalid lit tie room at Kansas City.
 Gaefana Galaate was attacked by three men near his home on Georgia street, in Buffalo, N Y, Sunday night and shot and stabbed. There are more than 50 distinct knife wounds on him. one of which will prove fatal.
 The big snow played havoc with rabbits around Mayfeld Ky One man bought in 5000 rabbits and shipped them. Others who shipped them away bring the humber 1p to about 15.oO0.
 Joseph A. Graham, formerly man. aging editor of be St. Louis Repub- lie and one of the best known news paper men in the country, died at Salisbury, Md.
 Several children were injured, prob ably six of them fatally, Friday morn ing, when Lake Shore passenger train, running 45 miles an hour, struck a bus loaded with small boys and girls on their way to school at An dover, Ohio.
 That the plans for a New York worlds fair in 1913 are well under way was indicated by the announce ment that Charles H. Roster has beer appointed foreign commissioner fo the enterprise and has already lief New York on a trip around the worl, In the interest of the exposition.