The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1895-08-23
NEWS IN BRIEF.

John Lindsey is in Jail at Pomeroy.
O., charged with numbering VIM. Gun.
diff, "A crippled miner.
One person was burned to death and
a score of others injured in a rcGrend
collision at Camden, n. j.
At the Germania dock yards at Kiel
a gang plank gave way with a large
number of men and 10 were drowned.
George Elsbree's home, near Lewis
Center, O., was totally consumed by
fire, and Mrs. Ellsbree persisted in the
flames.
EX-Mayor Van Horn, of Denver, was
killed by falling from a third-story
window of the Grand Central hotel, of
which he was the proprietor.
NJ. Urukoff, chief of police of Sofia
Bulgaria, was taken into custody on
suspicion of having been concerned in
the murder of eX-Premier Stambouloff.
Senator PETER announces that he has
come To the conclusion that the cOun
try's currency should be based on land
values instead of upon either gold or
silver.
The japanese forces IN Formosa
made a concerted attack on the head
quarters of the rebels and after a
severe two days fight won "A complete
victory.
Ex-State Treasurer W. w. Taylor, of
South Dakota. who defaulted last Jan
uary with 1878. 900, was sentenced the
limit of the law-five years ut hard
labor in the penitentiary.
Cholera is working frightful havoc
in Japan. The military have suffered
a loss of thousands during the past few
months. The Formosa expedition has
proved especially disastrous.
1t has practically been decided that
II. II. Holmes, the alleged murderer of
Minnie and Mamie Williams, Il. f.
Pitezel and half a dozen others, will
20 to- Chicago for trial for the murder
of the Williams girls.
The dead body of August Schlissler
aged 60. was found hanging from "a
tree near his home in the outskirts of
Cleveland. He had badly injured his
wife in quarrel and evidently
thought he had killed her.
The executive committee of the Re-
publican National League in session at
Chicago chos> Aaron L. Bliss, of Sagi-
nav. MicA., as treasurer of the league,
to fill the vacancy caused by the death
of the late 4. ID. Harper, of New York.
The prize drill of the uniform rank
II. q. Il. NJ. took place at Euclid Beach
park at Cleveland. The II. A. Chandler
division of Sandusky won the first
prize; Toledo second. and Saginaw
third. Next years meeting at Saginaw.
The organ OF the Spanish govern
ment, makes the announcement that
Spain will have 156,272 soldiers under
arms in Cuba by Sept. 5. This in
cludes the $1,000 soldiers to be dis
patched from Spain at once. When
those reinforcemeuts arrive there will
be 1922 regulars and 5000 volunteers.
At dance at Crown Point, Ind. a
number of persons were poisoned.
four fatally, by drinking from a pail
of water in which strychnine had been
placed. Mrs. Chas. Williams has con-
fessed the crime. She says she wanted
TO put her husband out of the way SO
that she could get his heavy life in
Surance.
Seven missionaries left Toronto,
Ont, bound for China. They were
Rev. H. A. Mitchell, Mrs. Goforth,
Miss Mackenzie, Miss Harriet Hast
ings, OF Toronto; Miss NJ. Il. Man
chester. of Edmaston, n. Y; Miss Jen-
ME Davis. of Elyria, O., and Miss Julia
A. Smith, of McIndoes Falls, n. y. A
large crowd gathered to see them off.
The board of United States engineers
appointed by the war department to
consider whether the Chicago drainage
canal will affect seriously lake levels
is making a trip over the route of the
canal They will make "A thorough
inspection of the capacity of the canal'
and the amount of water IL will carry
away from Lake Michigan. Gen. Poe.
Of the board, says il will lower tho
level of the lakes considerable. but
whether il win be enough TO become
serious cannotSyet be determined.
The members of the Spanish reserves