The Carlisle independent., 1910-01-27
Charitable institutions of Go

county, IlllHOIS, VIII receive S0Uf ,- S29.40 more from the county board this year than last. The annual county budget shows an appropria- tion of S1,7SS,2S3 for charitable pur- poses out of the total of s7,0S6,O00
 Wellesley, Miss, college girls have sent $1,000 to help the cause of the striking shirtwaist makers. They also gave an order for 1000 shirtwaists to be made by the girls cooperative fac tory.
 A bill to permit the drawing of a second grand jury without the judge ordering it called was favorably re- ported by the house judiciary com mittee.
 Democratic leaders of the house have decided to stand by their origi- nal caucus nominees for the Bal Hnger-Pinchot Investigating commit tee. This points to refusal by Lloyd of Missouri to serve in lieu of Raney of Illinois.
 Col. Robert Lowery, twice governor of Mississippi, died at his home Wednesday, aged IS years Colonel Lowery served in the confederate army, in command of Mississippi regiment.
 Henry Mead, a Freeport, L. l., baker, dropped dead after eating a piece of pie for breakfast. The doc tor ascribed death to heart failure, =1fnO Orin hx- iraAf Ten thousand dollars will be pre- sented to Commander Robert E. Peary, discoverer of the north pole, at a reception in his honor at the Metro politan opera house, in New York, February 8.
 Woodrow Wilson of Princeton uni versity will be put forward by New Jersey for the Democratic nomination for president in 1912. This announce ment was given out by James Nugent, chairman of the Democratic state committee.
 Willis Clark, the negro who shot to death Motorman Eugene V. Goudney on an East St. Louis car and wound
 
 IS, was sentenced to death by Judge Crow in the circuit court at Belle vile. Friday, February IS, was fixed as the day of execution.
 Representative Henry T. Rainey of Illinois and Ollie James of Kentucky are the choice of the Democrats in the house as the minority members of the committee which will make the investigation into the merits of the Ballinger-Pinchot controversy.
 Representative Dawson of Iowa has announced through the chairman of his district committee that he will not seek reelection.
 Charles R. Heike, secretary of the l American Sugar Refining company who was indicted by the federal grand 1 jury in New York for conspiracy to defraud the United States, is the man higher up9 whom the govern ment has been after for a long time, according to Collector William Loeb, Jr.
 J. Edward Boeck, serving a sentence of seven years in Sing Sing for a jew elry swindle in 1907, is perhaps the only heir to more than a million dol lars, left by his uncle, J. c. Lounsber- " of St. Paul, who died there Janu- ary 12 amid squalid surroundings.
 Fifty thousand elk in the Jackson Hole country are starving because they are unable to get food through the deepest and most crusted snow in years, according to reports received at Cheyenne, Wyo.
 A gift of $10,000 from J. P. Morgan for the establishment of the William NJ. Laffan professorship of As syriology and Babylonian literature has been made to Yale university as a memorial to Mr. Laffan, publisher of the New York Sun, who recently died. Three West Point cadets have been found guilty of hazing, it is reported at Washington, and their dismissal will follow the approval of the sen tence by the secretary of war, who is allowed no discretion in the matter. From 40 to 50 per cent of the natives of the Samoan Islands are in-
 
 | statement of Past Assistant Surgeon R. s. Rossiter, U. s. N, senior medical officer of the naval station at Tutuila.
 Jack Gleason, who. with Tex Rickard, has the contract for the JeRerson-Johnson fight, said that the big battle would be held in San Fran cisco or the immediate vicinity. If he is denied the permit to fight 45 rounds in this city, the heavyweight struggle will take place at Ocean View, sev- enty miles across the bay from San Francisco
 Representative Gerrit J. Diekema of Michigan is a candidate for the speakership of the Sixty-second con- gress. The young Michigan repre- sentative is now serving his second term in congress.
 Miss Helen Taft, daughter of the president, is lending her aid to the several thousand shirtwaist strikers