The Carlisle independent., 1910-03-03
The Carlisle Independent
 ERNEST ELLIS, Editor. CARLISLE . ARkANSAe NEWS 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.

of the interested attorneys, the pre- liminary hearing of Dr. B. c. Hyde, charged with the murder of Col. Thomas H. Swope, was continued un- til March 4.
 New snuff boxes have been install led in the senate chamber. They are tackled on the wall, one on either side of the vice-president's desk. Many senators took pinch. The snuff boxes displaced have been in use for 50 years.
 Sunny Jim" Sherman, v1ce-presi- dent of the United States, will be given by congress a home to live in while he remains in his present office.
 Personal friend of Charles " Morse the convicted New York banker, are prepared to spend more than s1,000,- 900 in working for his release from the federal prison in Atlanta.
 A memorial to E. H. Hartman in recognition of his services in the in- terests of good roads and the breeding of high-class horses will be erected at Arden, N. Y, this summer by the Orange County Road Improvement association.
 Immunity baths" will be thing of the past if the senate concurs in the bill passed by the house repeating that section of the revised statutes which has allowed witnesses who testified in certain cases to escape from being prosecuted in connection with these cases.
 Although David De Armond, late representative from Missouri and noted Democratic leader is dead, his work in congress still lives, and bill introduced by him at the last special session was favorably acted upon by a subcommittee of the house com mittee on banking and currency We'd nesday.
 The Portuguese government has dis covered a widespread revolutionary plot. Lisbon is in a state of intense excitement.
 Estimates place the loss of the Colo rado Fuel and Iron company at S1,- 100000 as the result of a fire which Tuesday night destroyed the pattern shops of the Minnequa steel plant at Pueblo, Colo
 Premier Asquith is playing game of solitaire in English politics, and un- less the radical lieutenants in the Lib eral party can screw up his courage tremendously the downfall of the As quith administration is a question of hours.
 All the departments of the govern ment in Washington, except congress, were closed Tuesday in honor Of the 17Sth anniversary of Washington birthday, while many patriotic soci- cities observed the day with special exercises.
 An attempt was made on the life of former President Zelaya during his trip on the steamer Liverpool, was announced in San Jose paper.
 An engine boiler exploded at the East Side coal mines at Equality, H., and killed Edward Hales, the oper- ator of the mines, and Gus Foster a laborer. They were the only ones about the engine room, and it is not known what caused the explosion.
 Swift & Co.,, one of the leaders in the fight of the packing companies of Kansas City, Kas., to evade the tax placed upon their finished products, have abandoned their efforts to escape the tax
 Attorney General O'Malley has taken an appeal from the recent order of Supreme Court Justice Tompkins, appointing William Van Ameer ref cree to take evidence on the applica- ton of Mrs Mary c. Thaw for the transfer of her son, Harry K. Thaw, from Matteawan state hospital to an- other insane asylum.
 Children of Destiny" which one critic calls "The nastiest play that New York has seen for many day" was uproariously applauded at the Sa- voy, where 1t had it's premier. Sev- eral other critics agree with the one quoted.
 Congressman Bartholdt addressed a large anti-prohibition mass meeting at the Lyric theater in Baltimore Sun day afternoon. The question of state wide prohibition Is before the Mary land legislature.
 Theodore Roosevelt will be in Der lin from May l to II. after reaching Paris at the end of April. He will be in London May Is.
 The Iowa state penitentfary at Fort Madison was endangered by fire Saturday The roof of the warden's house was burned of and there was desperate battle to keep the sparks from igniting the roof of the cell house.
 The expenditure of $100000 year in stamping out the white slave" traffic would be money well spent, said Secretary Nagel in submitting to the house recommendation that the total estimate for regulating im- migration be increased from $2,40O, 900 to $2.56o,0oo.