The Carlisle independent., 1910-01-13
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.

The Canadian bureau of census esti- mates the population of Canada at the close of the year at 7,350,000. The province of Ontario leads with 2,619,- e25.
 Four striking shirtwaist makers who were fined s25 for their activity as pickets, paid their fines in pennies. It took the clerical force of the court nearly half an hour to count the 2,500 pennies while the girls looked on with amasment
 The Scott expedition is search of the south pole is now assured, the British government having promised S1o0,000 towards the s200,000 which is the estimated expense.
 Wilson D. Rich, assistant postmaster at Ames, Ia, was bound over to the federal grand jury on charge of using official letters for his own private business.
 Nine persons are dead and two oth- CTS are not expected to live. as the result of eating canned peaches con taining ptomaine poison at Los An geles.
 The town of Castlewood, s. Dak., narrowly missed being wiped out by fire of unknown origin, during heavy wind. The entire south side of Main street is in ashes, entailing loss es- timated at s1s,000. Twelve buildings were destroyed.
 Richard Yelling, New York law yer. classmate of Theodore Roose- cyelt at Harvard and a Republican, was appointed by Mayor Gaynor as a member of the Municipal civil service commission, at salary of $5,000 a year.
 Announcement was made by the Merchants and Manufacturers Asso- citation at Grand Rapids, Mich, that it would fight any local option move ment to the end.
 David W. Gerard, supreme chief of the Tribe of Ben Hur, died at Craw- fordsyille, Ind.
 l.. L. Dyche, state fish and game warden. is preparing to issue cook book on how to prepxre fish and re- move the bones. The state will dis tribute the book free to try to in- crease fish eating in Kansas.
 Johnny Breeland, postmaster Of yarnado, La, was arrested on a charge of embedding s1,200 from the office. Thomas A Petit, whom Breeland sue ceeded, recently completed term of six months in prison for similar of fense
 Six million dollars in holiday pres ents is the amount Tom Waggoner, Fort Worth millionaire banker, ranch man and capitalist, gave to his three children.
 An unusual case came to close in the Morgan county courts at Mar tinsville, Ind, when Miss Catherine Hendy of Indianapolis received yer dict of $10.0oO against the Indianap- olis Traction and Terminal Go. for malicious prosecution.
 F. H. Jermyn. one of the wealthiest coal mine operators in the United States, was struck down and fatally in jured by street car in San Francisco.
 Herburt Turner, son of Eli Turner, 9 farmer living near Indianapolis, Ind, was killed Saturday while jumping on trains
 Winfield Gibson, resident of Mun- hall. Pa, shot and killed his wife, seriously wounded son, fired three shots at his fleeing daughter and then killed himself
 Charles w. Morse, the convicted banker, was taken to the federal pris- on at Atlanta, Ga, Sunday, to serve a 15 year sentence.
 At Trenton, Mo, the coroner's jury brought in a verdict declaring in for nal way that the California special wreck near that city was caused by spreading rails.
 Simon Hudson, convict in the Ne braska prison, stole a pint of wood al cohol from the prison broom factory, drank it. and is now totally blind.
 Officers of the American Federation of Labor have issued a call on ns l. 5s0, 900 members to subscribe to a fund with which to wage a fight on the steel trust. The sum of S154,0 is 10 be raised at once
 By margin of 2,4G5 votes over the necessary two-thirds majority. voters of San Francisco have declared for the municipal ownership and operation of the Geary street railway and its ex- tentions.
 The coroner's jury brought in 6 verdict declaring in formal way that ike California Special wreck near Trenton, Mo, was caused by spread ing rails The woman who was among the killed has been identified as Nrs. G. Hedrick of Chicago.
 TEe legal brawl between Gov. Has keli and States Attorney General West and District Judge A. H. Illus ton over tke Prairie Oil and Gas Co., $ prosecution in Oklahoma was dis. Eslsscd by the supreme court of the United States at Washington withou zn opinion