The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1896-12-18
HISTORY OF A WEEK.
THE NEWS OF SEVEN DAYS UP
TO DATE.
Political Religious, Social and Criminal
Doings of the whole World Carefully
Condensed for Our Readers'-The Ao-
cident Record

The New York Salvation Army is
about to apply to the board of police
commissioners for the privilege of WIS.,
iting the prisoners in the various po-
lice stations for the purpose of en-
deavoring to convert them.
Cornelius Vanderbilt is so rapidly
triumphing over his recent attack of
paralysis that during the last few days
he has been able to lift his right hand
to level with his head. He walks for
an hour and half every day and gets
along without the aid of a cane or
crutch and can go up and down stairs
unaided.
Mrs. Catherine Corbett, aged 20, and
her daughter Mary, aged 40, were
found dead in their home in Indianap-
oils Sunday. Both were lying on the
floor, and as the odor OF gas was
strong in the house it is supposed they
were asphyxiated.
Samuel Bros. dry-goods house at
Lincoln, Neb.. burned; loss $4,000; in
suranee $4,000.
Ed Wright, prominent merchant Of
Scotia, Neb., committed suicide by
shooting. He leaves a widow and three
children.
o. L. Partridge, ex-secretary of the
Alpena, Mich, Loan and Building as
ISOLATION, was found guilty of embez-
element of $4,000
While crossing a field near Ireton,
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German woman was attacked by a
vicious bull and probably fatally in
jured.
The Paris Gaulois alleges that the
Royal Niger company British is en-
croaching upon the French sphere OF
influence on the Niger in the direction
of Dahomey.
There is talk of a meeting between
! Queen Victoria Emperor William and
President Faure at Dinard in the
! spring.
| An explosion occurred on Saturday
afternoon in the Moabit quarter of Ber-
| lin in the house of the scientist, George
Isaac. who was experimenting with the
manufacture of acetyline gas. Isaac
and three assistants were blown to
atoms.
Richard Rowe, brother of the Monte
yuma Qowa) county treasurer, who
went to Mexico with the county S
funds, was sentenced by Judge Ryaa
to three years in the penitentiary for
! completely in the looting of the county
treasury. A new trial was denied.
The London Chronicles Berlin cor
respondent says it is reported that the
minister of foreign affairs, Baron Mar
schall Won Bieberstein, is seriously i'll.
The Sunday issue of the Social
! Sachsischen Arbeiter Zeitung of Ores
den has been confiscated and the ed
itor arrested for leze majesty.
A Berlin dispatch to the London
Daily News says it is rumored that the
government will submit a bill TO the
reichstag for new artillery which will
involve a great expenditure, Prussia's
share footing up S43, 100000.
Hon. Sydney Fisher, Canadian min
lister of agriculture, is in Washington
| where he will likely stay for a couple
of weeks. Mr. Fisher will discuss the
question of abolition of internal cattle
quarantine with the United States gov
eminent.
Robbers entered the barroom OF the
Hotel lie Grand, 80 to As Wells street
Chicago, early Sunday morning, and
one of them killed William Jahns, the
bartender. They escaped.
1t is evident that Roscoe ID. Dix
auditor eneral-elec of Michigan, pro-
poses to make sweeping changes in the
force of clerks in that Office. He COM
menced operations by notifying TWEEN
ty-eight of them that there would be
no work for them after January.
The American Society of Irrigation
Engineers has adopted resolutions op-
posing the idea of goernment action in
the building of irrigation reservoirs
and canals, but advocating a govern
,ment commission to look over the arid
territory and make suggestions for the
aid of the states in the work. The
permanent headquarters were estab-
lished in Denver.
Chairman Hanna returned home
Sunday. coming direct from Philadel-
phia. He declined to say anything
about the gossip concerning the cab
met appointments OF President-Elect
Mckinley.
Fred II. Holmes, for nineteen years
postmaster at Canton, Mass, was yes.
terday arrested on charge of embez.
cling $1,110 of the funds of the post.
office department.
Ex-senator w. c. Gear of Upper San.
dusky, Ohio, who has been on trial here
for week for alleged bribery in the
passage of a bill, was acquitted by q
jury.
Herr Ernst Engel, the German sta
tistican, is dead. He was born a
| IA.oran., ~, 1901 hnnarnn dire ctnl. Of thl