The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1896-05-29

PARACRAHIC CHRONICLE.

The twelfth annual May musical
festival at Cincinnati was huge success.
1t is stated on excellent authority
that the Mikado contemplates a tour
of America and Europe.
Miss Abigail Dodge Gail Hamilton,
sister of the late james q. Blaine, is at
the point of death at her home ut
Salem, Mass.
VIM. Stamps Cherry of Chicago, who
spent three years in central equatorial
Africa, has left on another expedition
into that country.
EX-Commissioner of Pensions VIM.
Lochren will open court as United
States judge for the Minnesota district
about June /. Judge Lochren relin-
pushed his duties at the pension bureau
May 90.
| BY the explosion of gasoline stove
on Townsend street. Chicago. the fam
lily of Otto Malm-siX persons-was al
most eXtcrminated. Four are dead and
"a fifth is so badly burned that death is
almost certain.
| ITcSlLcnJ blSNelhnu HAS fcluScu 10
to send to the senate the correspond
ence in regard to the treatment of
American citizens, on the ground that
it is incompatible with the public SER
vice to do so at this time.
+. j. KieclShofer, the chief of the
| bureau of accounts and disbursing of
fcer of the state department, was ar
rested at Washington, on three war
rants charging him with embezzlement.
His shortage is said to reach $137 900.
Rev. Francis Hermann, pastor of the
First Scandinavian church of Salt
Lake City, has disappeared, as have
also two girls-IIenrietta Clausen and
Annie Samuclson-and it is now al
| legged that the preacher murdered the
girls and then skipped
Gen. Lucius Fairchild. commander
in-chief of the Loyal Legion and eX-
commander-in-chief of the G. A. r..
died at Madison, Wis Gen Fairchild
suffered from the effects of the grip
| for several weeks and month ago. the
ailment was comdlicated by kidney
! trouble.
a car on the Agate avenue line of
the Tramway Co.. at Denver got out
of the control of the motorman. jumped
the track at "A curve. when going down
| hill at high speed in the darkness of
midnight and turned over. There were
"a passengers on the car. dozen of
whom were injured, two. at least,
| fatally.
| The great imitation of the Ferris
| wheel. at London. became stalled about
| s p. M. with every car loaded with
passengers. All efforts to turn the
wheel were unavailing until noon the
next day. There was great excitement
during the meantime. hut all were sup
piled with eatables by means of ropes
| let down from the cars.
The British steamship Iorsa. the
vessel which has become notorious as
an alleged Cuban filibustcr. put in at
South Port, n. c.. with only burned
out hull. fire having ragged on board
for over "a hours. The captain disap-
peared at the same time and it is sus-
pectcd that some of the Spanish sailors
murdered the captain. threw him over
board and set the vessel on fire.
The strike OF the employees of the
| Milwaukee Electric Railway and Light
Co., and the subsequent boycott of
merchants who sympathized with or
patronized the company. has developed
into a reign of terror. Wires have
been cut. cars demolished and fired
upon. bottles of muriatic acid and blue
vitriol thrown into the cars and several
motormcn and policemen badly beaten
| or stoned.
The one hundred and eighth asscmb
of the Presbyterian church of the
! United States was held at Saratoga.
y. V DR.. Robert Russell Booth OF
! New York. the retiring moderator.
preached the opening sermon. The
| furtherance of benevolent and mission
airy work were the principal matters
| for considcra zion. DR.. John l.. Win
throw. of Chicago. was elected modera-
| tor on the first ballot.
| The revised sentences of the Trans
vaal reform prisoners have been un-
favorably received and a great revul-
sion of feeling is evident among the
| Afrikantlers. 1t is declared by a most
independent and trustworthy authority
that President Kruger insisted that all
the sentences by Imprisonment should
be replaced by fines. For three days
he pressed this view, but he was over
come by majority of the executive
council.
The strike at the shipyards of the
Globe Iron Works Co. at Cleveland, has
been settled. and all the men returned
| tc work. The men get an advance.