The Carlisle independent., 1910-02-17

cattle market and abattoir would soon be established in Winnipeg to compete directly with the trust.
 Y. J. Ling a Chlnaman was slain in his laundry at 1912 Broadway New York. The detectives say the man was killed in tong plot and roundup of all the Chinese of Brook lyn is being made in an attempt to solve the mystery.
 Howard Little. who murdered Mrs. Betsy Justis, her son-inIaw, George Meadows, and his wife and three children in their home near Hurley, Buchanan county. last September, was put to death by electrocution in the penitentiary at Richmond, Va, Friday morning.
 If the house and senate pass the pension appropriation bill in the form that it was reported Friday from the house committee on appropriations, seventeen of the eighteen pensions agencies throughout the country will be legislated out of existence
 A gift of $100,000 to Yale university has been made by Alfred G. Wander bilt.
 Chief Justice Fuller of the supreme court of the United States was 77 years old Friday.
 Senator Albert J. Beveridge was the guest of honor at the thirty-third an- nual banquet of the Indiana Republi- can Editorial association at Indiana polls, Ind, Thursday night
 Widows and surviving relatives of the nearly 300 miners killed in the Cherry mine are discussing an effort by the St. Paul Coal company to set tie out of court all damage suits re- sulting from November's mine fire. It is proposed to pay minimum sum of $500 to relatives of unmarried men and maximum amount of S1200 to widows with six or more children.
 Justice Wright in the supreme court of the District of Columbia granted an adjournment of two weeks in the mandamus proceedings against the joint congressional committee on printing, instituted by the Valley Paper Co, of Holyoke, Mass.
 Hugh s. Gibson of California, second secretary of the United States embas- sy in London, has been transferred to the state department and appointed private secretary to Assistant SecN- tary Wilson.
 The senate passed the bill extending the time for completing the Mckinley bridge across the Mississippi river at St. Louis for one year. Tie bill was called up by Senator Cullon. It has been passed by the house and now goes to President Taft for approval.
 A delegation of 200 citizens of Hot Springs, Ark, called on Gov. Donaghey and requested the governor to recom- mend to the next legislature liberal appropriation for the Hot Springs state fair.
 The National Geographic society, which resolved at meeting Wednes- day to send an American expedition in search of the south pole, confident ly expects ample financial assistance from outside sources to warrant the exploration.
 GtACA AhCAAuSA, ptOLCoo1I VI astronomy at De Paul University at Chicago, said that details of the meteor explosion in the vicinity of Quincy tended to confirm his theory that this meteor and those recently reported from Connecticut are fire balls that became detached from Comet A. 1910, when it passed through the solar system.
 Wallace M. Stuckey, formerly a minister and editor of Williamsburg, kas., was denied a new trial on the charge of abducting Miss horena Southerland and sentenced to from one to five years in the Penitentiary.
 Latest estimates from the Boston of fees of Fisk & Robinson, bankers, whose failure was announced on the floor of the Stock Exchange here, place the liabilities at $1,2000, 900 in- stead of s7.OoO.OOo. as originally stat ed. The assets are approximately $11.- 900, 900.
 At Walker, Minn., Water J. Mo Donald. who has been defying the sheriff's posses since Thursday night, when he baricaded himself in his house after shooting Howard Sexton, committed suicide Saturday by shoot ing.
 Blood dripping through the ceiling led to the discovery Saturday of the suicide of Henry H. Schwabacher, 55 years old, president of J. & NJ. Schwa- bacher, Ltd, at his store at New Orleans, La. MT. Schwabacher, who was a millionaire, had suffered from stomach ailments.
 The viscera of the body of the late Prof. J. T. Vaughan are in the pos session of State Chemist Schweitzer at Columbia, Mo. The jars containing the organs were taken out of town hur- riedly under guard of Sheriff Noen and Deputy Sheriff Burgess of Paris, Mo, accompanied by Dr. Payne.
 The headquarters of the American suffragettes has received an applica- tion from Hawaii for associate mem- bership. The application is from an or