The Carlisle independent., 1910-04-28
NORTH, EAST, SOUTH AND WEST
Notes From Foreign Lands, Through out the Nation and Particularly
 the Great Southwest.
National League Standing,
American League Standing.

Club Won Lost Pet. |.. |.. ]. |... .:.. !. ]. !. New ofk --------.--+-. ooV Boston .................. .9l1 Cleveland .-.--.---.-... .9t1 St- Louis ..--t--.-----.-..-- .1VO Philadelphia --.......----- J .1UV Washington -..l-.......-. 5lo Chicago =.....------. .4ot
 Knowing that James O'Connor. 70 years old, a blind musician. was lost in a burning house in Chicago, Ralph Gembel. 1 years old, entered the house. and. fighting has way through the flames, brought the man to safety.
 Frank Mathusic, alias Bate., who was identified by John O'Shea Of St. Louis, Mo, as the man who escaped after having been sentenced for theft in that city. was ordered extradited by a London magistrate Friday.
 w. Bourke Cochran. former Demo cratic congressman, has been assigned by Judge Malone, in general sessions, New York City. to defend a negro, Victor Nelson, on murder charge.
 Preston Brown, one of the four men who captured Jefferson Davis, at the close of the civil war, is dead at Lees burg, Ind.
 With the wind blowing a gale. a spectacular fire ragged for hours in .he Lincoln, Neb., yards of the C>;cago, Burlington & Quincy railroad Thurs day night. The loss is between $125,- 900 and s150.000. Nearly dozen rail- road buildings and 30 freight cars were burned.
 The Fl Paso (Tex1 Morning Times has been sold for s150O00 to a stock company headed by Thomas OKeefe. The Times was founded 30 years ago by Capt. Juan s. Hart.
 Mrs John D. Rockefeller is making her first visit to her home in Tarry- town, N. Y, in over a year. When she arrived she was so weak that she had to be assisted to a carriage by her husband and son. An attack of pneumonia, which she suffered last year, has impaired her health.
 Major General Franklin Bell com pleted his term of duty as chief of staff of the army last Fri.ay and took official leave of his associates. Major General Leonard Wood sue ceeds General Bell as chief of staff, but will not assume the duties of that office until he returns from Buepos Ayres in June next
 Samuel P Peters, member of the national house of representatives from 1889 to 1891, died at his home in New ton, Kan. after an illness of two years. He was captain of Company A. Seyenty-third Ohio infantry, in the civil war.
 Corporation tax assessments up to date amount of s15, 5,O52.156. Only s132,- 045 has been paid into the treasury on the account of the tax. Corpora' tons have until June 30 to pay up.
 A Inan's head was discovered in a box in the office of the Wells-Fargo Express company at Spengfeld. III. It was sent March 29 from the Chi cago office of the company in West Madison street It arrived in Spring field April l, and has since been in storage at the local office
 F. N. Hoffstot- president of the Pressed Steel Car company, was ar rested in New York on a warrant is- sued in Pittsburg charging him with bribery and conspiracy in connection with Pittsburg graft, and the alleged bribing of Pittsburg councilmen with s40,000
 A bulletin issged by the interstate commerce commission shows that l ,090 persons were killed and 22,491 injured in railroad accidents in the United States during the last three months of last year. This is an in crease of 101 in the number killed over the same period of the preceding year and an increase of 5,645 injured
 The military court of inqury, which during the last year has been investI gating the shooting up of Brownsville. Tex, finds the evidence clearly sus- tairS the charge that the shooting was done by soldiers of the Tgen- ty-fifth Infantry. negro regiment.
 A petition asking that John R Walsh, Chicago finaneier, be pardoned was presented to President Taft by Representative William A. Cullop of Indiana The petition bore the names of 12,000 residents of Indiana along the lines of the Walsh railroad
 Charley Hunter. United States cir cult clerk, who formerly was captain and now is commander of the Roose- welt Rough Riders, has issued for nal call for a regimental reunion in New York June 16. The purpose is to welcome home Roosevelt on his re- turn home.