The Carlisle independent., 1910-03-31
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.

MlSS1SSlpp1 ana MlSSOurl I1NSl piO jects in the river and harbor bill next Tuesday. They have been deferred during the illness of Chairman Frye, who desired to be present when the vote was taken.
 Frderick Saugrain, the oldest living native of the Louisiana Purchase, celebrated his 104th birthday annjyer- sary Thursday at Sedalia, Mo.
 All danger of a strike of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Bremen and Enginemen on 49 western roads is past. An agreement providing for settlement of all the points in dispute was signed by the fremen and railroad managers.
 AS a result of an automobile ac- cident at a. m Thursday on the viaduct in East St. Louis, three men are in St. Mary's hospital, the bodies of two men are thought to be at the bottom of Cahokia creek, which is be- Ing dragged.
 Proposals to form a national labor party were discussed at the session of the executive council of the Ameri- can Federation of Labor. The sug- gestion involves cooperation with the National Farmers union, body claiming 3,00u,000 members.
 A bulletin issued from the bedside of United States Senator Daniel of Virginia indicates slight improve in bic aOndifiOO
 The Kansas Pharmaceutical associa- ton will hold it's next annual conyen- ton in Saline May 24, 26 and 27.
 There will be no statewide strike called of the union men in Pennsyl- vania by the members of the State Federation of Labor executive council, The delegates are opposed to such drastic measures, although they will not be quoted.
 The bill for the raising of the battle ship Maine in Havana harbor, passed the house late by a vote of 150 to 4 The bill provides that the army engi neers shall remove the bodies of the sailors to Arlington National cemetery
 A s250,000 fire Wednesday destroy ed the Lehigh Valley Coal company Mineral Springs breaker, one of the biggest in Pennsylvania.
 Twenty people were injured, two of them seriously, when a Soo passenger train left the track near Bismark, N D., Monday afternoon.
 That there will be no strike of fire men on forty-nine western railroads is the opinion expressed to-day by railroad officials here, following the announcement that Charles P. Neill labor commissioner and federal medi ator under the Erdman law had made a definite settlement proposition tc the representative of the Bremen Brotherhood and the railroads.
 Officers of the seven brewery unions in St. Louis have called meeting to prepare new wage sched ule, which may demand an increase Upon the heels of this announcement all breweries in St. Louis have sent out notifications to their customers tc stock up. They assert conditions il the future cannot be prognosticated
 The American peace and arbitration league held a big banquet in New York Friday evening, the guests o1 honor being President Taft and for mer Vice President Charles Warren Fairbanks.
 Eli Dewey, v years old. said to be
 D 4 killed by a Santa Fe passenger train ct Prowers, Col He was wealthy farmer and came from Vermont many years ago.
 Representative Gillette introduced bill in the house of representatives de scribing bundle" as containing 23t shingles inches wide the bundle tc be 20 shingles wide, with 25 courses at the end
 Lee Fairchild, at one time president of the Pieiales club, poet, humorist and for many years a familiar figure in political campaigns in New York and elsewhere, died penniless at a New York hospital of pneumonia. He was 50 years old.
 Middle of the road is the position President Taft assumed in regard to the Connon-Insurgent struggle al Washington.
 By vote of : to 12 the executive committee of the Philadelphia Car mems union, aIter an all night meet ing rejected the proposiaon of the Philadelphia Rapid Transit company looking to a settleAent of the rolle, strike.
 Prof. R. T. Benton, principal of the Pine Bluff, Ark, high school, com mltted suicide at his home by shoot ing himself in the head. He had beer Respondent since the death of hii mother, three months ago. and re gently became subject to suicida mania