The Carlisle independent., 1910-04-14
NEWS IF THE WEEK
LATEST NEWS OF THE WORLD
 TERSELY TOLD.
NORTH, EAST, SOUTH AND WEST
Notes From Foreign Lands, Through cut the Nation and Particularly
 the Great Southwest.

The French Senate passed the bud get bill, which carries s40,000,000 ad- ditional taxation. the new taxes being principally levied on automobiles, to- baceo, wines and inheritanees.
 President Joseph Smith of the Nor man church has been served with a subpoena to appear before the federal grand jury at Pueblo, Colo, April g. to testify as to the affairs of the Utah-Idaho Sugar company, of which he is president.
 The Pittsburg special federal grand jury returned a presentment against the Imperial Window Glass company, a West Virginia corporation, charg- ing it with being in combination in restraint of trade.
 An explosion on the British steamer Cairnrona. of Dungeness, Eng wrecked the women's qaurters, killing one child and injuring number of women and children. The steamer caught fire and a panic ensued, in which men fought for the possession of the boats and had to be beaten back by the crew to allow the wo- men to be taken of first.
 Mrs. Emma Smith. an active tenn perance worker here, member of the Orinoco, O.. ". c. T. |. and wife of Policeman George Smith, was arrest ed as a "bootlegger, the specific charge being selling intoxicating li- quors without license.
 The Ohio house of representatives has passed the Anderson Dill author izing cities, villages and townships to conduct local option elections to de termine whether or not Sunday base ball shall be permitted.
 Forty pictures from the collection of Charles T. Yerkes sold at Mendels- sohn hall, New York, brought s162, ,225. They were sold before the largest crowd that has attended sale of pie lures in that city since the auction of the Matheson collection.
 That the sudden shrinkage of cot ton prices cost James A. Patten s50o,- poo is reported by Chicago exchange members. a few of whom figured in the crash in a much less spectacular degree.
 The Pittsburg graft Investigating grand jury returned presentment or dering the indictments of Frank H. Heffstot, a prominent steel manu- facturer and banker on two charges of conspiracy and bribery.
 In New York Mrs. Alice Y. McAloon has obtained final decree Of divorce from William 4 McAloon, who is known on the stage as Andrew Mack" An interlocutory decree was granted in December last.
 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- tains the charge that the shooting was done by soldiers of the Twen- ty-ffth Infantry, a negro regiment.
 Chas. Benichie. so years old, the last surviving chief of the Chippewa Indians, was killed by South Shore passenger train between Baraga, Mich. and the reservation. He was on his way home from Baraga, where he had been celebrating the election.
 William MeGuinness, 45-year-old Democratic ward leader, choked to death in a Brooklyn restaurant while trying to swallow a large bite out of ham sandwich.
 Hood A. Alexander, superintendent for the Philadelphia street railway, was shot and probably fatally wound ed today by Harold Lane, 28, a strik- ing trolley man.
 After lying in ambush all night al the home of Jesse Anderson. alleged leader of the band of night riders that murdered 12-year-old Charles Carroll and whipped Mrs. Carroll and her other children, Sheriff Vincent and 8 posse arrested Anderson near Browns vile, Ky.
 At Hartford, Conn, while trying out his new aeroplane, Hiram Perry Max i'm. Jr, inventor of the noiseless gun was thrown from his seat, when the plane was about 30 feet in the ail and. besides sustaining broken an kle. suffered various injuries to his thighs and hips.
 The Sugar Trust-The American Sugar Refining company-must pro duce it's books in the government: suit against it, according to ruling made by Judge Lacombe, in the cir cult court in New York City.
 Mrs Elisa Shafer and her four chil dren are in jail at Berryville, Ark. charged with the murder of Mrs. oha fer's husband near Blue Springs. Ii is charged that one of the boys took Shafer's revolver from underneath his pillow while he slept and killed him
 Frank Johnson, an aviator, narrow Jy escaped drowning when his Curtiss biplane plunged into San Francisco bay, a mile from shore, off Almeda Cal His wife and his mother tainted when he fell from a height of 80 feet and were not revived until after he had been rescued.