The Carlisle independent., 1910-06-09
RACES FOR THE REMNANTS.
National Leaque.
American Leauue.

Hon. Charles Stewart Rolls, son of Lord Longattock, accomplished the feat of flying across the English chan nel from Dover to Calais and back without a single stop on French soil. thus making the first round trip ever accomplished.
 While 13 stations in the corn and wheat belt of the northwest reported temperatures at or below freezing, Thursday. June ?, hot winds swept Oklahoma with temperature of 110 to 115 in the shade.
 A Folk-for-president banquet was held in St. Louis by the Missouri Democratic league, at which former Governor Joseph Wingate Folk was indorsed for president. The guest of honor in ad address, said he was will ling to respect the party's wishes.
 Twenty-two railroads in Ohio, Indi- ana and Illinois have filed freight schedules, raising rates from 10 to 40 per cent, with the Interstate Com meree commission to take effect July 1. The move by the railroads is re- garded as exactly parallel to that in the middle west, and which the gov ernment is contesting in an injunction suit.
 A federal grand jury at Chicago is Investigating the fixing of butter and egg prices in Chicago and Elgin. The inquiry is the result of an investiga- ton by Attorney General Wickersham.
 The Jeffries-Johnson fight is to take place in San Francisco. The board of supervisors granted the permit with but two dissenting votes.
 The supreme court of the United States has restored the corporation cases, heard last spring, to the docket. for reargument before the full bench.
 Former President Roosevelt startled all England by declaring to them in a lecture that the British should rule Egypt right or quit.
 Because policyhoIder committed of the amount is ruling of the Mis- souri supreme court.
 At St. Paul, Minn., Capt. Timothy Murphy of the Volunteers of America, who said that he was kidnapped and robbed of s1.250 belonging to the or ganization on March IT last, was found guilty of larceny.
 John w Gates and the other stock holders of the Texas Oil company nave voted an increase of SIS. GOO 000 in the capital stock of the company, making it s36. 6.000.o00.
 More than 500 persons have been drowned and many ships lost in ter rfNc cyclone that swept East Africa, according to Eeager dispatches re- eeived from Mozambique.
 The present demand for labor in the west is so strong and the wages paid so high, comparatively, that the post office department is finding it difficult to find young men for post clerkships at the initial salary of $600 a year Postmaster General Hitch cock has written to Senator Penrose. chairman of the committee on post offices and post roads, to this effect, and has suggested the passage of 3 bill authorizing the postmaster gen eral to allow higher compensation for services at points where it is diff fcult to obtain clerks.
 Mrs. Frank Bond of San Francisco waas drowned in the Russian river near Bonneville, Cal, when the auto mobile in which she and her husband. their daughter and A. R. Strange of San Francisco were riding, plunged over 15-foot emtankment
 Lena Berteau and Henry Meineke were downed in Vermilion river near Cleveland, O., in the sight of hun dreds of holiday makers While try ing to change seats their canoe was upset.
 The depe sed shah of Turkey, who has been living at Odessa in villa placed at his disposal by the govern ment, has taken up the study of medi- cine. After private preparatory work he expects to attend clinics and lee lures at the University of Odessa
 The British Antarctic expedition set sail from London June 1. The steaw CT Terra Nova will pick up Captain Scott in New Zealand and the 10000 mile voyage into the Antarctic will then continue. December, 1911, is the time set for the arrival at the south pole.