The Carlisle independent., 1910-03-24
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.

Asserting that 50 per cent of the eases of bankruptcy in the United States have at least a suspicion of fraud and that national fund of S1,- 100000 is needed for investigation, D. L. Sawyer of St. Paul in an address to the Chicago Credit Mems associa- tion, advocated establishment of a national fund to prosecute 'profes- sional debtors and bankrupts."
 Omaha women have shamed the city council until it has decided that the "hatpin" ordinance will be allow ed to die natural death.
 Hallev's comet will be visible to the naked eye just before dawn April s, ar shortly after that date, states s. V. w. Campbell, director of Lick ob- servatory.
 With a pump shotgun, Mrs. Shipp wife of Sheriff Thomas B. Shipp, at Decatur, Ala, prevented the escape of four white prisoners, charged with capital offenses.
 Preparations for the homecoming celebration of Mir. and Mrs. Charles Warren Failbanks are completed at Indianapolis, Ind. The former vice president and his wife will be given a hearty Hoosier welcome, and the whole state will be represented.
 John P Cudahy, millionaire packer of Kansas City, who recently obtained notoriety by his attack upon Jere F. Lillis, banker, in the Cudahy home, accompanied by Joseph NJ. Cudahy and his wife of Chicago, have arrived at Asheyille, N c.
 Three firemen were blown fifty feet and seriously injured in gasoline explosion in s100.000 fire which de- stroyed J. B. Reeves garage at Cam den, N. J. Twenty-three autos were burned.
 What the Chicago police declare is another bold black hand murder was committed Thursday afternoon, when Carmelo Copr:s, 37 years old, Italian storekeeper, was found dead, with four stiletto wounds in his neck.
 Opposition to postal savings banks was voiced before the house commit tee on postoffices and post roads by representatives of the American Bank CTS association. Not only did the speakers oppose the postal savings bank bill, which recently passed the senate, but they said they opposed the principle of the government going into the banking business.
 An unprecedented registration of 112,53S Tuesday raised the number of Chicago voters to total that assured a new record, estimated by the elec- producing animals amounts to s24000,- after revision.
 Judge William N. Butler unexpect- edly called a special grand jury late Tuesday night at Cairo, H., to investi- gate the action of the mob that at- tackled the county jail in February, when an effort was made to get the negro John Pratt, purse snatcher. out of jail and lynch him.
 The house committee on naval af- fairs favorably reported a bill ap- propriating s500,O00 to raise the wreck of the battleship Maine, in Havanna harbor.
 A big crowd greeted Edward Payson Weston when he arrived at Kingsley, Kan, and escorted him to the home of Mayor Pearson, where a gold watch was presented to him as a birthday present from the citizens of the town.
 The jury in the states charter an nulment suit against the French Lick Springs Hotel Co, owned principally by Thomas c. Taggart found for the defendant at Paoh, Ind.
 Nearly 15,O00 delegates will at- tend the Farmers Educational and Cooperative Union convention in St Louis the week of May ?, according to letters received by John Grady, in charge of arrangements. Eighty or ganizations have been heard from and 14,500 locals, each with an aver age membership, have announcer they will send delegates.
 The senate committee on judiciary voted to recommend the rejection by the senate of Robert T. Devlin's nomination as United States district attorney at San Francisco.
 Herman H. Moritz, retired New York heal estate man, shot and killed his two young sons, set fire to his home in the Bronx and then commit ted suicide. He had been in mel aneholy state of mind for some time.
 Fire, which started from an un- known cause, entirely destroyed the Cumberland, Md, city hall, in which was located the Academy of Music, the Masonic Temple Odd Fellows nall and the market house. The loss is over $150,000.
 An entire family. composed of The ophil Thoni, wife and two grown daughters, were burned to death in a fire tbat consumed their home on farm six miles west of Twin Falls. Idaho It is believed the house was robbed and then fired to conceal the crime.