The Yale expositor., 1895-07-19
NEWS IN BRIEF.

annual convention at Cleveland.
The German Epworth League of the
United States held an enthusiastic
convention ut Chicago.
The American Wire company closed
down their plant at Cleveland for three
months owing To the strike.
Two little Cleveland girls, Lena
Groh and Stella Schlaudecker, were
instantly killed by an electric motor.
Terry Tufft. his wife and three chill
dren, were drowned by their boat
capsizing on Lake Keuka, Bath, y. y.
Nebraska reports splendid wheat
| crop--fully two-thirds of full crop
Corn and oats were never better there.
Lawrence Burton. of Sonora. o., was
arrested at Kansas City. Mo for run
ming away with Sl,i0o of his wife's
money.
Charles ID. Sherwood. eX-lieutenant-
governor of Minnesota, was found
dead, floating in the lake at Chicago.
Suicide.
The body of Andrew Lasilla, a Rus
sian traveller was found near Toledo
n bullet hole in his head gives the APP
pedrdncc OF murder.
A stay of execution has been granted
in the case of Harry Hayward, under
sentence of death at Minneapolis for
mui ~, until October.
The l4-months-old child of John Il.
Irwin, of South Bend Ind, got hold of
a pan of gasoline and drank it. The
child died in great agony.
A caisson of the big bridge now
building at Mage Hamed, near Alexan-
dria, Egypt, by French firm collapsed
and 40 workmen persisted.
The IL principal glass manufac-
turers west of Pittsburg met at Ander-
son, Ind, and formed com bine to
raise prices rs to 40 per cent.
Chas. Schlick, white, was arrested
at st. Louis for committing a crime
similar to that of Jack, the ripper. 4"
Ella King, colored, was his victim.
Flora Gedeon and Mary Tomasch,
who accompanied an excursion from
Cleveland to Chippewa lake, o., were
drowned by the capsizing of boat
Ex-Secretary of State Foster has re-
turned from Hong Kong, having con-
cluded his duties as the agent of
China in negotiating peace with Japan.
About 700 Chinese attacked Hsinchu,
| Island of Formosa, and 200 of them
were killed and many were captured.
On the Japanese side the loss was IL
men.
The Caddo Indians in Indian Ter
ritory are worshipping an old Indian
rel-bccause it rained after his
incantations and after several weeks
drouth.
Harry Jackson. Chicago crook, was
instantly killed at Portland. Ind, Gus
Gar was fatally wounded and Ed
Barker was arrested while trying to
| burglarizc a store.
Capt Bundy, for 81 years mission
airy among the sailors on the Great
lakes, has sold his gospel boat, Glad
Tidings, and will seek retirement in
his old age at Chicago
A bad wreck occurred at White Sui
| phur, O., on the Big Four, resulting in
the wreckiug of IL cars of whisky,
feed, tobacco and candies, amounting
to 5000. Dick Hurley, IA molder of
Cincinnati, was killed
A prize of $1,000 is offered by the
| Chicago Times Herald to the successful
competitors in a horseless carriage or
vehicle motor race between Chicago
and Milwaukee. Definite details will
be announced in the near future. The
date of the contest will not be far from
November /.
The French line steamship La Nor
mandie reports that on her last trip
| from Havre TO New York she caught
on fire in the lower hold amidships.
! The crew volunteered to a man to go
down and the fire was overcome aft -
Is hours work. Very few passengers
knew of their danger
Nathan Goodrich, CLERK at the r. &
| o. c. freight Office at Fostoria, O., was
riding on hand car with his wife and
little son when the car was struck by
AN engine. Mrs. Goodrich and the lit
| tie boy were killed, both being horri-
| bly, mangled. Mr.. Goodrich was seri-
ously hurt and he may not recover.
Fire, which started in l.. A. Mayos
hardware store, in which a large
| quantity of powder and fireworks was
stored, destroyed property of the es-
| timated value of $3.50, 200, at Lynn,
| Mass. James III. Winslow, an en-
ploye, is thought to have persisted.
He was IS years old and in feeble health.
A dispatch has been sent out from
Montreal saying that the cause of the
wreck at Lewis, Que, where Is were
killed, was that Engineer Mcleod was
asleep at the throttle owing TO being
compelled to work three nights in sue
cession in addition to his regular run,
because the Grand Trunk management
had cut down their force.
The row in the Soldiers Home at
Grand Rapids was investigated by the
board, and the result is that Mrs.
Trask, of Greenville, matron of the
woman's annex, who had been sus-
pended by Commandant Graves, was
rcinstated. Then a resolution was
adopted declaring that Mr.. Graves. in
! taking the action he did, acted for the
best interests of the home.
The first convention of the Michigan
| Hardware Dealers association was
| held at Detroit, with the foremost
men in the business in the state in at
tendance. Officers elected: President,
| L. =. Carleton, Calumet: vicc-president,