The Yale expositor., 1896-11-06
NEWS ITEMS IN BRIEF.

BY fall of coal in the Packer No. 2
mine, at Ashland, Pa, three men were
J killed and three so badly injured that
they will die.
In a quarrel over politics at Ports
mouth, o., Yves Arnold and Charles
James were fatally cut by Ike and
Julian Cameron.
Georgia to have Chas. r. Crisp, the son
of the late ex-Speaker Crisp, appointed
| fill to his fathers unexpired term.
At Bellaire, o., Scott Lincoln shot
and fatally wounded VIM. Metzlcr and
Belle Gray, and then killed himself.
jealousy was the cause of the tragedy.
The London Observers Paris CORE
spondent reports from a high source
that it is the ears intention TO put an
end to the situation in Constantinople.
The Ohio supreme court has granted
Romulus Cotell, the murderer of the
Stone family, at Talmage, an indefinite
postponement of execution pending
new trial
All the coal miners in the Athens,
o., district have returned to work
at the 45-cent rate, with the eXpecta-
ton that the rate will soon be restored
to 81 cents.
The faculty of the Ohio State univer-
sity refused to reinstate T.. II. French
| because he gave his whole time to the
football team as captain. The faculty
said college work must come first.
The greater part of the business
portion of the town of Manila, Ind,
was wiped out by the most disastrous
| fire in its history. The total loss will
be more than S40,O 900, on which there
was but $1,000 insurance.
A peculiar disease has appeared
among the horses of VIM. Hammond.
who owns large stock farm near
Pontiac. The animals appear to be
perfectly well, but suddenly the color
of the nostrils changes and without
any apparent pain or sickness they die.
Minnie Gordon, aged II, and her
stepsister, Mary FruecS, aged 81, of
Milwaukee, say that poverty and want
drove them to burglary. They are
held at the police station on charge
of having robbed the house of j. Ii.
Lenhaut. A watch, a pair of shoes and
a silk skirt were taken.
Miss +. l.. Abbott, of Dowagiac, and
Miss Mary Wilson, of Muskegon, grad
yates of the Union Benevolent hospital
training school at Grand Rapids have
started for China TO take charge of two
hospitals, the former at Nankin, the
latter at Wuhu. They are sent 10y the
Methodist foreign missionary society.
Charles Doran, business man of
Glendale, o., took pinch of snuff for
a cold. So severe was the sneezing
that followed that the inferior oblique
muscle of the left eye was ruptured,
and as he continued to sneeze the ex-
ertion forced the eye out of its socket.
1t was replaced by a physician who
says the sight may not be destroyed.
Secretary of the Navy Herbert has
selected the names for the new battle
ships and gunboats now under con-
struction The two battleships will be
known as the Alabama, Illinois and
Wisconsin. The gunboats will bear
the names Annapolis, Marietta. New
port, Princeton, ViclSsburg and
Wheeling.
The Japanese government stand
ready TO join the United States in any
plan of seal protection and is DESTROYS.
also, of including sea offers, which are
being exterminated from the Japanese
islands. As the seal pirates usually
fitted out at Japanese ports the action
of that country will be of great assist
ance to the United States.
Charles Arndt farmer near Elyria,
o.. shot and seriously wounded a one
armed colorcd burglar. Arndts wife
heard the intruder. and awol1e her
husband. He reached for his shotgun
beside the bed and when the fellow
struck match Arndt shot him in the
back. The farmer then took care of
the fellow and dressed his wounds be-
fore sending for the officers
The Venezuelan commission has re-
sumed its session at Washington and
probably will meet very frequently
from now until it compile ties its work
DR.. Baar and Prof. De Ham, who have
been at work at The Hague securing
original translations of manuscripts
and documents bearing on the .contro-
versy, have returned and decision will
soon be arrived at in all probability.
The Empire magazine, near Geneva.
Ind, exploded and 700 quarts of nitro
glycerine. which was stored there tore
che magazine to atoms, blew a horse,
wagon and driver to pieces, and parti-
ally wrecked, scores of houses in Gen
eva. Hundreds of windows were blown
out and cracked, and chimney were
torn down. remarkable fact is that
the Hercules torpedo magazine, only 20
yards away, did not explode with its
$500 quarts of explosives.
A special dispatch from Cairo, Egypt.
saws that Sir Herbert Kitchener com
mander of the British troops in Egypt,
will ask an addition of $500, 900 to the
military estimate so as TO increase the
Egyptian army and advance upon Ber-
Der and Khartoum and continue the
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