The Yale expositor., 1896-11-27
NEWSY CONVERSATIONS.
he wire nail trust has collapsed.

Tennessee Republicans will contest
the governorship on the grounds of
fraud in the election.
The Belmont coal mines at Bellaire,
o., are closed. The miners want their
old wages, 81 cents, restored.
The Buell. wooden mills at st. Joseph
Mo-, the largest west of the Mississippi
river, have resumed operations on full
time.
Peter Maher was knocked out in six
rounds by Joe Choynski before the
Broadway Athletic club at New York
City.
Placards have been posted in Canea,
Island of Crete, melting the Mussul-
mans to engage in a holy war against
the Christians
VIM. j. Bryan made three addresses
at Lincoln, Neb., continuing the battle
for silver. His voice gave out before
he had concluded
The British steamer Memphis, from
Montreal on Nov. 4, for Avonmouth,
went ashore in Dunlough bay, England,
anu - lllNh NtIt hlONiChs
A rumor is in circulation in Wash
ington that the A. L. A. will make "a
strong effort to secure a cabinet posi-
tion for Congressman Linton, of Mich
igan.
Mrs. Samuel Schrocll, aged 81, climbed
tree at MiddleburIy, Ind. fastened a
rope about limb and making a moose
about her neck jumped and hanged
himself.
The Yale and Princeton football
teams played their great game before
$4,000 people on Manhattan field,
Princeton, n. j. Princeton won by a
score of 81 To @.
The subscription to the new Spanish
loan of 25O, ,O0O.OOO pesetas now agrre-
gate sol, los, 500 pesetas of which over
2s5,0O0, 600 were subscribed in the
provinces of Spain.
James Hover has brought suit for
injunction against B. c. Faurot, former
president and present agent of the
Lima, o., national bank, charging him
with appropriating SIS 900 of the
bank funds.
A London dispatch says that Mrs
Maybrick, the famous prisoner at
Wormwood Scrubbs, is very much
emaciatcd and is on the verge of in
sanity. 1t is thought she cannot live
another year.
Rain has fallen in Rajputana. India,
which is in the famine district and
more is promised. This will somewhat
relieve the famine, but comes rather
late. The death rate from starvation
and heat is increasing.
While Warden McCrea, of Erie, Pa,
was en- route to Riverside penitentiary
with % prisoners, Thomas Cronin, un-
der five years sentence for robbery,
jumped from the train. McCrea fol-
lowed him but alighting on his head
broke his neck. Cronin was caught.
There is good chance for serious
international complications between
the United States and Canada over the
troubles i'm the Yukon gold mining dis
trict of Alaska. The Canadian author
tiles continue TO claim to control a val
liable portion Of United States territory
and a conflict with American miners is
not improbable.
As the result of injuries received
while being initiated into the Elks
lodge at Des Moines, Ia, Edward w.
Curry, chairman of the Democratic state
central committee, died of blood pois-
oning 1t is said that he was put to
an electric chair and a powerful cur
rent turned on. which was SO strong
that it burned him horribly.
David Storr johnson, of the Bering
sea commission, states that the United
of st. Paul and st. George are three
times as large as those upon the Rus
sian seal islands. Yet they number
only about one-fifth of what were there
five years ago. He says the Japanese
herds have been eXterminated.
Chief Justice Charles d. Long, of the
Michigan supreme court. who for two
years contested the ruling of the pen
sion bureau reducing pensions of vet
erns and requiring examination before
a board of surgeons before a restora-
tion could be made, has practically
given up He has made application
TO be restored to his old rating of SIS
month and has filed evidence in sup
port of his application.
The records of the L. ). treasury de-
partment show that from Feb. l, 1896,
to Nov. /, there were coined 6,262, ,922
standard silver dollars, from silver bull
lion purchased under the act of
July IA. 1890. The seigniorage
upon this was IS, ,O51 ,430. The balance
of the silver bullion purchased
under the act of 1890 on hand Nov. /,
1896, was 125, ,061 ,263 fine ounces, which
cost the government S212.s65, ,695. and
the coinage value of which is S161,-
693, 900.
Andrew j. Spute was arrested at
Denver, Colo. with the murder of his
wife and five children. On Sunday,
Oct. 25, Sputc, took his family boatrid-
ing on Smiths lake, and the boat was
capsized. Spute alone could swim and
all the others were drowned. 1t de-
vclopcd that Mrs. Spute's life was in
sured for $4,000. Spute has been