The Yale expositor., 1895-10-11
NEWS IN BRIEF.

Rev. a. T. Hinshaw has been found
guilty of the murder of his wife at
Danville Ind.
Maj Gen. Miles has arrived at Wash
ington and formally assumed command
of the army.
Amos j. Cummings. the famous, has
been nominated for congress from the
Tenth district, New York, by Tam
many Hall.
Peter Crawford, aged 90, has been
asleep at Cleveland for nearly eight
months, with the exception a few
hours. His case is n remarkable one.
The grand jury at Washington, d,
c., has recommended the whipping
post for wife heaters and other petty
criminals and it will probably be
adopted in the district.
DIR. Mary Walker has bought farm
of 1875 acres, near Oswego, n. v, and
proposes to form on it a new woman
colony. Only women who will pledge
themselves to celibacy and boomers
will be eligible.
State Vetinarian Quigley pronounces
the disease that is killing cattle in
Catteraugus county. New York, Texas
fever. The milk from these afflicted
cattle is said to have caused the death
of several infants.
The house of deputies and the house
of bishops which, together. make up
the general convention of the Protest
ant Episcopal Church of the United
States met at Minneapolis in the
thirty-sixth triennial convention.
The silver Democrats of Ohio will
conduct fight for the white metal
during the state campaign. This was
decided at conference of prominent
free silver men in the party, at the
office of Allen w. Thurman at Column
bus.
Mrs Gustav Pabst, formerly Mar
garet Mather the actress, became an
gered at her husband, the son of the
millionaire brewer at Milwaukee, and
gave him horsewhipping on the
street at Milwaukee, creating huge
sensation.
James Stiles. Philadelphia man.
broke his spinal column twice in three
months. He has now tumbled down
his cellar stairs and is again paralyzed
with a broken back. The doctors
again recover.
Rufus Barrett, near Summit City,
picked and ate few tomatoes on his
farm. He was seized with vomiting
and violent pain in the stomach and
died from their effects. 1t is believed
that some worm or insect in the veg
etables poisoned him.
Fire broke out in the Saginaw Box
Co. IS factory, and before the fire de-
partment could reach the scene, the
plant was mass of flames. 1t origi-
mated in the dry kiln and the plant
was soon destroyed. Loss $50, 900.
Over so men are out of employment.
Near Bingham City, Utah, two wag-
ons met on a narrow pass on the side
of mountain and one vehicle with all
its occupants, was crowded off and
hurled down into the stream below.
Four ladies were unable to eXtricate
themselves from the wagon and were
drowned.
Chas. +. Kline, known as the iison
inventor, who has patented telephone
transmitter, has been paroled from the
Ohio penitentiary. Kline was con
victed three times of burglary and was
ScHltHCtu lOI lllC NnC hdVibudA
criminal act, and he is the first such
convict to be pardoned.
The spot where Miles Standish
landed September 20, 1921, in Squan-
tum, has been marked by unique
monument composed of round stones
brought by members of the Daughters
of the Revolution and kindred societies
and placed in position by Mason.
The address was by Hon. Charles
Francis Adams.
The constitutional convention of
South Caroline ahas adopted sections
prohibiting divorces; also placing prop
crty and educational qualifications on
the electoral franchise. evidently with
the purpose of disqualifying the ma
iority of the Negro voters; prohibiting
intermarriage of whites and blacks.
The convention also passed resolu-
ton of sympathy TO the Cuban patriots
and calling upon the II. S. congress to
recognize them as belligerents.