The Yale expositor., 1896-07-10
NEWS ITEMS IN BRIEF.


Daughters and Sons of the American
Revolution was held at Saratoga, n. y.
by the explosion of natural gas at
the Evergreen hotel, near Allegheny,
Pa, six persons were injured fatally.
The hotel was badly damaged.
dispatch from Cairo says the Egypt
ian government packet Rahmanieh,
from SualSim for Suez, was wrecked
on reef and 60 people drowned.
L. 5. Ambassador Bayard gave a
Fourth of July banquet at London
which was attended by 800 guests.
Sir Richard Webster toasted the Presi-
dent of the United States.
Maj. f. w. Halford, who was private
secretary to President Harrison and is
now paymaster of the L. 5. army in
the west, sustained compound frac-
ture of his right leg while riding a
bicycle at Denver.
Prof. j. o. Simlund, II Swedish music
teacher of Manistique, disappeared
June and his body has just been
found in Il swamp near the city. The
coroner's jury attribute his death to
drink.
Henry Fontaine, of Muskegon, was
taken to Grand Rapids, charged with
being Il foreign pauper. He came to
Michigan "A year ago and soon developed
insanity. He will probably be de-
ported.
American prelates have protested
against the selection of Mgr. Falconio,
who is mentioned as the successor to
Cardinal Satolli, as apostolic delegate
to the United States. They favor an
American for the place.
A dispatch from Athens says that
the Cretans have elected a provisional
government, decided to proclaim the
union of the island with Greece and
expressed the hope that autonomy will
be granted the island under the sur
Vigilance of the powers
A cloudburst at Wegee creek. near
Bellaire. o.. drowned james Berry. his
wife and child, and destroyed the Bel
laire. GAINESVILLE IL Cincinnati railroad
bridge. II large trestlc Oh the Pitts
burg IL Ohio Valley railroad, Presby-
terrain church and dozen other build
ings.
Sidney Randolph. negro charged
with the murder of little Sadie Buxton
and with brutal assaults with intent
to commit murder On the girls father,
mother and elder sister ut the home of
the BuXtons near Gaithersburg, Md.
was lynched by mob who overcame
the sheriff and forced him to surrender
the keys to the Jail.
The Turkish legation at Washington
has received a message from the sub
lime porte denying the news published
charging the Mussulmans and imperial
troops in Crete with crueltieS is false.
On the contrary the Christians burned
the homes and olive orchards and the
Mussulmans burned in return. but the
troops are trying to protect all property.
Senator Teller was given tremen-
dous welcome upon his arrival at Den.
YER. Flags banners and bunting every.
where. an immense parade of military
and civic bodies including the Teller
silver club, 1000 strong. greeted him
as he stepped from his train and was
escorted to this carriage which was
then drawn by 800 young men through
the streets where "a continuous ovation
was given him.
The strikers at the Bcrea stone quar-
ries, near Wcstview, o.. made raid
upon the non-union men. but were met
by 40 armed deputy sheriffs. A battle
ensued in which four strikers were
wounded and one will die. During the
fight the women sympathizers of the
strikers swept down upon the "scabs"
and drove them out with clubs and
then forced Sheriff I.cck and his dep
uties to retreat. The sheriff has called
for troops.
1t is reliably reported that the Col
umbus, Hooking Valley & Toledo rail
road will be consolidated with the
Flint x Pere Marquette road on July
10. The +. & J.. NJ. is now building "a
new depot in Toledo, and will soon be
in that city, and the consolidated line
will make a fine lumber and coal road,
and intersecting SO many trunk lines
will secure an cnviablc passenger
traffic.
The two most extensive printing
houses in Lansing-.D ID. Thorpe d
Son and Robert Smith & Co., the pres
ent state printers. were merged into
one and will hereafter be known as
the Robert Smith Printing Co. The
state printing and binding for the next
two years will be executed by this
company. it having secured by assign
ment the contract awarded by the state
auditors to ID. G. Page.
The Woman's Rescue league. with
headquarters. at Washington. has am
nounccd a national crusade against
women riding bicycles, declaring that
recreation to be productive of immoral
ity, disease and crime: that the craze
swell the ranks of reckless girls who
finally drift into the standing army of
the outcast women: that married wo-
men should not resort to riding the
wheel unless they wish to prevent
motherhood; that bicycling by women
is indecent and vulgar. and that the
bicycle is the devils advance agent.
1t is reported from Washington that