The Carlisle independent., 1910-03-17


 The will of former Senator Thomas Collier Platt will be filed in Tioga county, N Y, this week. No estimate if the value of the estate has been ] nade public, but it is believed to b comparatively small, totaling not IT han s125,000.
 Two American women wer ed by an Afghan fanatic ~ wo"hu 1n a party of tourists Wno III eu dosque Omar in Jerr N1s1' .no 10 a dispatch rec 'Ssaen' according e "t NA0 St"'0 , n1anioon i've committee of the ~ n-1r. natr~ '-e@@liy4g congress, in session +o,,n Lt, Mich, awarded the big ro1a @nent te St. Louis for 1911. Buff opposed St. Louis in the fight for >ae event. Aired Davis, a negro pensioner of Theodore Roosevelt, died Thursday at Oyster Bay, L. l., at the age of 102 years. He entered the employ of Col Roosevelts father upwards of fifty years ago.
 Religious hostility Friday resulted in a battle with knives, revolvers and rifles, in which IT were injured, some fatally at the village fair at Carral near Coruna, Spain.
 With a bodyguard of Italian friends, Enrico Caruso, the tenor, journeyed to s~ooklyn, and swore out warrants against Antonio Missiano and Antonio l Cineotta, accused of writing him black hand letters, demanding S15,000. Henry Wallace, a negro preacher, was | lynched by mob of citizens, follow | ing his alleged attempt to kill Police man J. w. Slack, who had gone to the preachers home to present bill entrusted to him for collection.
 The Cleveland meat boycott, which was the original movement in a nationwide protest against the high cost of living, is an incident of municipal history and the price of hogs almost a dollar above the figure current at the outset of the anti-meat
 strike.
 Cora Dow, IS years old, a senior in
 the high school, was seized by negro
 as she was crossing a bridge going
 to her home in Kansas City, Kan.
 The negro dragged her into a quarry
 and attacked her and escaped.
 The government filed it's brief in
 t4e Standard Oil dissolution case in
 lne supreme court of the United
 States. It combats all of the conten- tions of the Standard attorneys and
 reiterates the government position
 that the Standard is combination in
 restraint of trade; that it has crushed
 competition and has monopolized the 1 industry.
 Unless Generals Chamorro and 1 Mena, the defeated revolutionary lead
 CTS, succeed in reaching Bluefields
 ahead of Gen. Vasquez, at the head of
 the government army, Bluefield will
 surrender to Vasquez without fight
 Vesuvius has suddenly became
 active again. There has been a con tinuous eruption for the past 24 hours i of red-hot stones and ashes, this be- 1 ing accompanied by internal detona- tions Several Assures have opened,
 from which gas and lava are emerging
 in great quantities.
 | Fifty bodies have been removed from the wreckage carried down by the avalanche that destroyed two
 Great Northern trains. Of these, 45 l have been sent to Everett and Seattle. The worlds dancing record of four
 teen hours and forty-one minutes was | broken Sunday afternoon by six coup 1 les, who were the survivors of sev-
 enteen that began dancing a Mar
 athon at 10:3O Saturday night for
 purses of $145
 Dissension and divergence of opin- | ion as to questions of procedure
 threatens to disrupt the working or | ganizations both of the "wets" and
 drys" in Chicago's anti-saloon battle. On both sides important and surpris- | ing developments are expected. Otto Brodie, the Chicago aviator, 1 fell with his Curtiss biplane airship
 at a height of 30 or 40 feet in the state fair grounds at Dallas, Tex, Sat urday evening. The biplane was smashed and ruined. Brodie was bruised and bleeding when picked up, but no bones were broken. That 5-cent difference in the freight rates on dressed meats be- tween the Missouri river and Chicago will cause St Joseph, Omaha and Sioux City loss of s35,000000 to S40,- 100000 is the statement made in good faith by conservative business men on the Missouri river
 Formal recognitio< of Robert E. Peary as the discoyerer of the north pole has been given by the leading scientific societies af ten governments according to advices which have reached the national geographic sc ciety
 Detective John Wren, who, with De, tective Patrick Quinn, was shot by three Italians in Chicago, died Sat ur6iay Wren's death occurred a few