The Carlisle independent., 1910-05-05
NORTH, EAST, SOUTH AND WEST
Notes From Foreign Lands, Through out the Nation ard Particularly
 the Great Southwest.
National Leaoue standinq.
American Leaque standniq.

New 4ork ....-..--..-.. .623 Philadelphia ....-.-..... .556 Boston -.-.....s--...s... 6 .5UO Cleveland .....--.--.... 6 .455 Washington ...t---..... -SSj st+ 1ollS .........-..... 5 .3t5 LnlCaSo ..........-..... -Si0
 Lieutenant Hotrichter, an officer in sne Of the crack Austrian regiments, aas confessed he sent poisoned can iy and poisoned medicines to superior officers, more than a score in num- per. in the hope that by their death ne would be promoted. Hofrichter probably will face firing squad.
 H. Clay Pierce of St. Louis has pur- 4hased the Borda Gardens at Cuerna- Faca, Mexico, the favorite retreat for Poor Chariotta," wife of the ill-fated Emperor Maximillian. The price is Faid to have been S15,000.
 Rioting, similar to that which led 10 the anti-foreign war in Hu Nan and the burning of missions, has broken out in two of the most populous prov inces in Chi Kiang on the Eastern sea Disorders are also being re- newed in Hu Nan. according to ad- vices received at Shanghai.
 The house by a vote of 130-67. adopted Representative Madden's s amendment to the railroad bill pro- viding for physical valuation of railroads. The amendment author izes the interstate commerce commis- sion to ascertain the value of all the property of every common carrier in the United States.
 At Bucharest, Roumania, the Dimin- catzu prints dispatches from Kieff. stating that hundreds of Jews were massacred there by the Russian peas antry. Hundreds of peasants from surrounding towns gathered in Kieff according to the dispatches, and in. vaded the ghetto, where they com. mitted the most terrible atrocities.
 Just as the law is about to knock of the shackles of the second soul mate entangiement, the news comes from Paris that Ferdinand Pinney Earle has found a fourth affinity. The first one divorced him, for the second a decree annulling their marriage is imminent; the third cast him aside before they could reach the marriage stage
 Refusal by John ". Kern either to affirm or deny the report that he will accept the nomination for United States senator from Indiana, gives strength to the suggestion of the Tag gart machine politicians that their leader had outwitted the progressives of his party in Thursdays conven- tion.
 With about half the cars in opera ton in Columbus, O., the street car strike which has been hanging fire for the past two weeks, broke Friday morning. The men declare that an agreement reached by arbitration haG been violated by the company
 Down ia the vault of the Jefferson bank at Forsyth and Canal streets. New York, George W. Rose, assistant receiving teller of the bank, took his own life by cutting his throat with an ink eraser.
 Albert w Wo1ter, convicted of the murder of Ruth Wheeler, 15 years old. was sentenced to die in the electric chair at Sing Sing prison the week beginning June 6. He displayed only a languid interest in the court pro ceedings.
 It became apparent, much to the surprise of treasury officials, the re turns from the corporation law will fall sS.000, COG short of the original es- timate of s30,9o0, 900.
 Police are endeaForing to clear up tho seventeenth black hand murder in Chicago within the year and the sec ond within three days. Gaetano Dis saliva, well-to-do Italian, was found dead on the sidewalk in front of a house in the Italian quarter, with bull let holes and three knife wounds in his breast.
 r5 The intelligence department of the British foreign office, the most mys- terious secret bureau in the world. has been detailed to guard Theodore Roosevelt during his stay in England.
 That the $3,0o0,o00 failure of the big cotton firm of Knight. Yancey & Co at Decatur, Ala. was due to gi- gantic swindle, and the issuing Of forged bills of lading, was admitted by Mir. Yancey, the junior member of the firm.
 - Plains for golden peace jubilee te be celebrated by union and confeder ete veterans of the civil war in New orleans in 1a1s were proposed to Dixse < arfiors at Mobile, Ala. by the Lou 2 ana delegation. The idea has met
 ' 5 instant favor among veterans q
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