The Carlisle independent., 1910-01-06
NE Ws 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.

An invitation to address the Royal Geographical Society of Antwerp, Bel gium. was received by Commander K. E. Peary.
 Count Tolstoi's condition was. re ported as favorable by the att4nding physicians at his home in {asnaya, Poliana. The count has Rheumatism and influenza. He is S1 Tears old.
 Governor Hughes of New York au- thorized the return 10 New Jersey of Caroline B. Martin and Mrs. Mary Snead, who are 1etained in New York upon the charge of being implicated in the murder of Mrs. Ocey W. NJ. Snead in New York on November 29.
 Scores of New York shirt waist strikers played the part of ''newsies." !" Garbed in their best, the girls invaded the residence and business districts selling copies of newspapers printed under their editorship and setting forth their side of the strike issue.
 Fire in the plant of the NJ Kahn Glass company, St. Louis, did damage estimated at s85,000 The blaze was spectacular and attracted a large crowd, which watched the firemen work for several hours, notwithstand- ing the fact that the thermometer registered zero.
 Never knowing that for more than three weeks he had been under indict- ment and that a warrant for his arrest as well as requisition papers for talk ing him from Connecticut Jurisdiction to New York as prisoner, had been issued, George Preston Sheldon, for twenty-one years president of the Phenix Insurance company of Brook lyn, died at his home at Greenwich, Conn.
 The inquest held by Coroner U. H. Holder has thrown but little light upon the mysterious deaths of Rev. Will liam Ritter and his aged wife, whose bodies were found in their country home near Washington. Ind.
 Mrs. Henry Blanton left her home and went across the alley to talk with a neighbor, at Pratt, Kansas. When she next looked at her house it was a mass of flames. Her three children were burned to death.
 The present high prices for farm products have come to stay; the rural population is playing out and the pres ent census, if it classes the unincorpo- rated villages as towns, will show be- tween GO and 65 per cent of tie popu- lation as living in towns" declared Representative Champ Clark of Mis- souri,
 Applicants are not tum bling madly over themselves in an effort to obtain jobs as census enumerators and United States Census Director Durand is considerably perturbed over the shortage of men willing to earn gov ernment money. The difficulty is in the West and South and especially in the cities.
 Just after the minister had pro- nounced the words that made Gabriel Len and Rosa Lee Butler man and wife and the young couple were leav- ing the altar, the groom was shot down and killed by Joe Jackson at the church near Lynn Station, Ga.
 Hans Wagner the Pittsburg shorstop narrowly escaped death in a blizzard at Pittsburg while trying to save his automobile and get it back to his chicken farm at Carnegie.
 Admiral Dewey celebrated his 72d birthday quietly at his hone Sunday.
 Death came to Frank Schroeder while he was beating the bass drum at the charivari of his friend, William Koch at St Louis.
 Leroy Clifton of Sterling, H., has received from the Chicago & North western railroad a check for s8.000, a life pass on the road, and position for life as the result of losing both legs in an accident two months ago.
 Just six weeks after his mother committed suicide by drinking car bolic acid, Jeremiah Leahy, 28 years old, a St. Louis teamster, drank a fatal draught of the same poison, and died.
 The mysterious sky navigator who circled about Worcester, Mass, Thurs day night and travelled to suburbs is declared to be Wallace E. Tillinghast, who asserted that he recently made a trip from Boston to New York and return in an aeropiane of his own in vention.
 The Pine Bluff (Ark.) Eagles aerie was Santa Claus to the poor of that vicinity. At the Elks' theater baskets of presents were distributed to many hundred poor children and matinee show tickets were given to all the poor children who asked for them.
 Allan Blood, aged IA. saved three lives at Grayville, H., by quick action and courage when three boys who were skating went through the ice. He broke limb from tree and, holding to another limb, extended the limb to the boys. who, one after another. were pulled to the shore.