The Yale expositor., 1896-04-24
GENERALiTIES IN BRIEF.

troops are going to the Soudan in the
autumn.
The Matabelc uprising in South
Africa has extended to the borders of
the Transvaal, and the Beers have
asked their government for arms and
protection.
Prof Ii. p. Pratt and Prof. Hugh
Wightman, of Chicago, announced to
the world that diphtheria and typhoid
germs are absolutely killed by the
Roentgen rays.
Nine Gloucester, Mass, fishermen
were lost off Long Island when the
fishing schooner j. w. Campbell, Of
Gloucester, was sunk in a squall. The
seven survivors reached bedford
The rebels in Nicaragua have met
several defeats recently and are re-
ported to be suing for peace, but Pres
ident Zelaya demands unconditional
surrender and the punishment of rebel
leaders.
Four men engaged in driving head
ing from the shaft to the slope of the
Eddy Creek colliery, near Olyphant,
Pa, were instantly killed. and a fifth
painfully injured, by the collapse of Il
ROOF weighing over 80 tons.
Three tiremen were crushed to death
and several others seriously injured by
falling walls at fire which destroyed
the old depot of the Pennsylvania
Railway Co., at Philadelphia, and en-
tailed loss Of about 100000.
that it is true, rs has been before re-
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his way to Moscow to be present at
the coronation of the czar, bears with
him IL secret Russo-Chinese treaty.
London: The Daily News asserts
that President Kruger's original de-
mand for an indemnity from the char
tered South African Co. for the Jane
son raid was $l5, 100000 but that ne
gotiation has reduced 1t to 81, 800, 900.
kilograms from Bitlis, eastern Tur
key, state that the houses of Rev. Geo.
Knapp and Rev. Royal Nj. Cole, Amer
lean missionaries, have been bloclladed
by the Turkish government, and that
their servants have not been allowed
to go and come from the markets.
An explosion occurred in the Broad
water mine at Niehart, Mont, by
six others were seriously hurt. The
accident occurred in the magazine
used for thawing powder and was
caused by a careless miner with
candle.
The Raines liquor law in New York
is easily evaded on Sundays, owing to
"a clause in it allowing hotels to dis
pense liquor where regular meals are
served. A sandwich sufiiced as meal
for barroon frequenters, and saloons
are being fitted up as hotels with
apartments just large enough to hold
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A dispatch from Wady- IIalfa, Egypt,
says: Sarras and Akasheh have been
strongly garrisoned. The railway be-
tween these points is being pushed
forward as rapidly as possible. The
dervishes at Suarda, who number 5000,
have advanced their posts to Megra-
keh, distant Is miles from Akasheh,
the main body of dervishes still re-
manning at Dongola.
Brief, incomplete and unsatisfactory
reports of battle near Marlel, Pinar
del Rio, are given out by the Spanish
authorities at Havana. They acknowl-
edge that the troops were forced to
retreat from two positions and were
finally driven into Notifications at San
Claudio where they were under the
protection of gunboats., The losses
are not given, but reports from other
sources will soon find their way to the
United States
The famous case against Edward
O'Neil, charged with violating the
local option law two years ago,
came up IN court at Charlotte
for the second time. On the
former trial O'Neil was found guilty
and sentenced to six months at Ionia,
which was set aside by the supreme
court. At the second trial O'Neil
plead guilty and was fined Sl00 and
costs, 800 more, which he paid. His
defense has cost him nearly $4,000.
United States Consul j. l.. Pearoy at
Colon, Colombia, reports that Capt
Hendricks, of the American schooner
George w. Whitford has complained
that his vessel was seized by the Col
ombian gunboat Cordova off Manza-
nilla Point and forced to return to
Colon by the officer of the Cordova,
who boarded him and threatened to
sink his ship with the Stars and
Stripes Tying from the masthead.
Spanish influence is back of the out
rage.
While brooding over the idea that
his family would suffer from want
John Lehman, of Chicago, shot and
killed his three smallest children. He
then attempted to end his own life by
hanging, but failing in this, turned
the revolver upon himself and sent
bullet through his heart, killing him
self instantly. His wife aud two older
children were away from home or they
might have met like fate. Lehman
had 81, 500 in the bank, but was out of
employment.
Fire totally destroyed the abattoir
and stock yards of the Michigan Beef
and Provision Co., "a quarter of mile
beyond the city limits, west of Detroit.
Adjacent to it on the north and east
sides are the stock yards of the Michi-
gan Central railroad and these caught
ablaze and with the house of the fore
man of the yards were quickly con-
sumed. The plant is one of the most
valuable in Michigan and has been
greatly improved of late years, all the
latest machinery in the slaughtering
business being in use. The loss Is
about 100000.