The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1896-03-27
CENERALITIES IN BRIEF.
Fire did 100000 damage in the At
lantic oil refinery at Pittsbur

Fire did 100000 damage in the At
lantic oil refinery at Pittsburg.
John Hartman shot his wife and
himself at Omaha because they were
penniless and he could not find work.
Strikers and non-union men came to
blows at Chandler IL Taylor's iron
works at indianapolis and three men
were fatally shot.
John A. Right, cashier of the Fifth
Avenue Savings bank, Columbus, o.,
was arrested and charged with having
embezzled $50, 600.
Gen. Alger, in an interview at Wash
ington, said he had no idea of trying
for the nomination for President, but
that he would vote for Mckinley at
the Republican convention.
At Belleville, Tex, Glenn Stawther
and Buck Chappell, Negroes, were
hanged for the murder of Mrs Dora
Ermshoff because she did not hand out
her pocketbook quick enough.
The wife of John Noes, wealthy
brick manufacturer, secured divorce
at Tiflin, O. A few days later he
called at her residence and demanded
her return to his home. She refused,
and he shot her and her sister, Katie
Smith, wounding both fatally.
Thomas A. Edison reports that by
means of y says he can see through
eight inches of wood with the naked
eye. Mr.. Edison says that. with the aid
ola flucroscent screen, he has been able
to see objects through all sorts of sub
stances, except metals and bones.
The final formalities for the release
of John L. Waller, formerly American
consul in Madagascar, who was SEN
fenced to 20 years Imprisonment for
conveying information to the IIovas
regarding the French, have been com
pleted in Paris, and Waller is now free.
Direct negotiations with Great Brit
| ian respecting the Venezuelan bound
| airy dispute have been resumed by our
| state department at the point where
there were left by the exchange of the
| notes of Secretary Olney and Lord
J Salisbury, of last July and last Novem-
| Der.
u. S. Consul j. ID. Hall, at San Juan,
| Porto Rico, reports an attempt on his
| life by Spanish soldier who shot at
| him from the prison wall saying after
| ward that the shot was aimed at an
| escaping prisoner. News had just ar
rived of the action of congress on the
Cuban question.
The Ohio brigade of the Il. of p. will
| hold an encampment at Cleveland
the fourth week in August, 1896, and
has issued n general invitation to all
the brigades of the military branch of
the Knights of Pythias throughout the
| sunreme jurisdiction tn ioin with IL in
q general cncampment
Lord Salisbury, the British premier,
has sent reply to the memorial in
favor of the Anglo-American arbitra-
ton of the Venezuelan question adopted
by the peace society. lie says: Il am
| glad to be able to inform you that this
question is receiving the consideration
| of the government and that proposals
in the direction indicated by the mem
orial are now before the government
of the United States"
Very general response is being made
| by the commercial and manufacturing
| interests of the country to the circular
letters addressed to them by the house
| ways and means subcommittee on
| reciprocity and CONNER cia treaties. in
| viting expressions of opinion from
them as to the advisablity OF endeav-
oring to renew the reciprocity agree
ments made with many foreign coun-
tries under the terms of the Mckinley
tariff act. There is an unquestionable
preponderapce of desire for the re-
newal of the reciprocity agreements.
The L. :. census bureau ut Washing
ton was damaged $40, 600 worth by fire.