The Carlisle independent., 1910-08-04
Notes From Foreign Lands, through out the Nation and Particularly
 the Great Southwest.
RACES FOR THE REMNANTS.
National League
American League.


 Washington ............ SS 52 553 55532 Chicago ......''''.''.'. S2 g 'SS3 SS3 St. Louis .....s.....s.- 70 oo .SuA After deyoting an entire day at Denver, in consideration of the lock out in force against union miners in the Black Hills district of South Da- kota the Western Federation of Min CTS voted an assessment of S2 per member to aid the strikers at the Homestead mine, owned by Mrs. Phoebe Hearst.
 Predicting a further rise in the prices of foodstuffs, particularly meat, if the seasons corn crop is not good, James A. Patten, the retired wheat king, and his former partner, William H. Bartlett, sailed for Europe.
 Robert Higginbotham, slayer of his 13-year-old daughter Evelyn and of her stepfather, Michael Moser, died in St. Marys hospital, East St. Louis, from the wound inflicted in his chest by Henry c. Fellauer.
 Marion, H., has the population of f,093, according to census figures made public In 1900 Marion had 2,510 and in 1890, 1,33S; a gain of more than 220 per cent.
 An attempt was made to derail Grand Trunk passenger train near BrockviHe, Can. but the engineer re- ceiyed a warning and slowed down sufficiently to pass over the spot where the spikes were pulled and the rails loosened. Troops have been sent to Brockville to replace the mi itia there.
 Capt. James Osborn, friend Of Dr. Frederick A Cook, discredited polar explorer, announced that the rival or Commander Peary in the north pole chase was within a stones throw of New York's newspaper offices and that there would be started defen- sive magazine article in his behalf.
 Seven aero planes were wrecked on the Washington Park, H., aviation neId when a small tornado broke the three poles of the big ciEcus tent in which they had been housed for more than two weeks. The airmeR on the field at the time estimated that the damage done at s25,000
 Former Mayor \. H. Bouseman of Ridgeway, Henry county, Va, while lying in a hammock on his front porch, virtually was blown to pieces by a bomb thrown at him from the road
 Returns show Oscar B. Colquitt, anti-prohibition candidate, has won the Democratic nomination for gover- nor of Texas by plurality of 50,0oO. Judge William Poindexter and Cone Johnson, prohibition candidates. ran close together. R. V. Davidson, @the trust prosecutor, was hopelessly de feated.
 Revenue officers raided an opium still in a Chinese den in the heart of Kansas City and seized $25,000 worth of opium.
 Mir and Mrs. William Spartans eel ebrated their sixty-fifth wedding ami versary at their home near New Bed ford, H. Both were born in England
 clews indicating that Joseph Con nor. the embezzler who escaped from the Elgin, H., insane asylum in an auto with two women, had gone to Chicago and is in hiding were found by the Elgin police.
 Dr. Frederick C, Graves died, sui eide from the most remarkable dose of deadly poisons ever introduced into the human system. He committed sui eide by swallowing the contents of ev- cry bottle in his medical cases. The doctors say there was poison enough to have killed 500 men.
 "Mashers'' and rowdies in Minneap- olis, Minn., parks will be spanked in stead of arrested. There will be no fast ride to the station, an arraign- ment in police court, no fine and nc workhouse. The edict was issued by Burt Kingsley, chief of the park police.
 Harry Smith, business man. Mrs Bessie Bird, a widow, and her infant child were drowned in Randell reser voir, five miles from Denison. Tex They drove into the reservoir to water their horse, supposing it to be shal low.
 Miss Deufex was taken to a hospi. tal. but has not recovered sufficiently to give any reason for the tragedy Rigdon had been respected business man here for many years. His son is cashier in local bank, and father and son are well known in financial cir cles.