The Carlisle independent., 1910-02-17
LATEST NEWS OF THE WORLD
 TERSEIY TOLD.
NORTH, EAST, SOUTH AND WEST
Notes From Foreign Lands, Through out the Nation and Particularly
 the Great Southwest.

and 2S,444 acres along the Salmon power sites; also 672,142 acres in Wyoming containing coal deposits.
 Miss Bessie Ryan, q years old, was instantly killed, an unidentified man fatally hurt, and more than fifty other persons seriously in jured near Hins- dale, Mass, Wednesday, when car of the Pittsfield street railway left thetraeks on a high grade, dashed linton an abuttment Of the Boston & Albany railway, and was mashed to splinters.
 The wake" of the Chinese old year was celebrated Tuesday night in Chi cago and lasted till morning. The celebration in Chinatown began shortly before midnight and lasted till 2 o'clock Just as the old year of the dragon kingdom was breathing it's last there were flashes of intermit- tent streaks of cratic explosives along South Clark street.
 Another prehistoric village has been unearthed in Arizona. Frank c. Erwin, while digging an irrigation ditch If miles from Coehise, unearthed a number of utensils and skeletons and then found a wall 20 feet long and tables bearing remarkable hieroglyphics.
 Heedless of he warnintg of fore man in charge of excavating opera tions along the line of the Private Motor road from Kelvin to the Ray copper mines in Arizona, the motor man of a gasoline car containing six passengers ran his car close to sput- tering fuse of a heavy charge of dynamite and the car and it's seven occupants were blown to atoms.
 King Gustav of Sweden has been compelled to take to his bed as re- suit of appendicitis. He was operated on and the official report says it was successful.
 Maj. Gn. Leonard Wood. United States army, is in the John Hopkins hospital at Baltimore, confined to a bed in a private ward. Dr. Harvey Cushing, his personal physician, and a corps of surgeons are trying to de- eide whether he should undergo an operation.
 Joha Williams and George Reynolds convicted of attacking white woman, were hanged early Tuesday morning. Monday night both men issued state ments denying their guilt.
 A silver half dollar which it would take 5000 whole silver dollars to buy, is on exhibition at the New York Numismatic club. It is tn half dollar of the confederate states and is said to be the only extant metallic coin of the lost cause.
 Bob Taft, the presidents son, has been voted by the senior class at Yale its brighest member and it's best scholar He has held the lead in the race for premier scholarship honors most of the time since the class en- tered Yale, three years ago.
 Drastic prohibition for Hawaii is provided in bill introduced by Re presentative Scott of Kansas The bill makes it unlawful to manufacture or sell or to give away, except, in a private residence, any alcoholic liquors.
 Representative c. c. Dickinson took the oath of office and the seat of the late David A. De Armond, as the re- presentative of the sixth congression- al district of Missouri Monday.
 John L. Sullivan worlds champion pugilist, was married Monday night to Miss Kate Harkins of Boston, who was his sweetheart years ago. The ceremony was performed in a parlor of the Parker House at Boston by Fred Ingalls,, clerk of the municipal court.
 Prof. Martin Ekenburg, the Swedish scientist, who on being arrested in London last fan, charged with com plicity in several bomb outrages in Sweden, became temporarily insane but later was committed for extradi- tion to Sweden, died suddenly in Brixton jail.
 Contracts were closed for an avia- tion meet at San Antonio, Texas, April 21, 22, 23 and 24 Glenn Curtiss, Charles K Hamilton, Olive H. Willard operators or aeroplanes; J. C. Marse, pilot of a spherical balloon, and Arthur J. Bernard, pilot of dfrigible balloon, will be the participants.
 Efforts of the sheriff's posse in search of robbers who held up the passengers on the Missouri Pacific Saturday night have been fruitIess The chase has not been given up however, Missouri officers are as sisting in the search.
 Three persons lost their lives in a fire at Jersey Short, Pa, which early Wednesday destroyed the First National bank building. The dead: A. l.. Dravenstadt, killed jumping from third-story window; Mrs. Drayenstadt, aged. 62, burned to death; William O'Connor. 52. burned to death.