The Yale expositor., 1896-09-25

A dispatch to the London Times from
Fort Salisbury, Matabeleland, dated
Saturday. says that Major tanner has
completely beaten Umtigeza's tribe,
numbering 5000 men, at Fort Charter,
and has captured all his strongholds.
Umtigeza has surrendered.
Bishop Foley welcomed the delegates
to the conventions of the German Cath
Ollie National Association at Detroit
Sunday. Bishop Richter spoke in Ger
man, emphasizing the greeting.
Lady Henry Somerset writes from
Marscilles an appeal to the London
Daily News to collect the funds 70 send
the refugee Armenians to America.
Abe Drummond, a respected citizen
of Dochler, Ohio, has mysteriously dis
appeared, and the town is considerably
agitated over it. 1t is feared he has
met with foul play or committed sui
eide
A Constantinople dispatch to the
London Daily News: "The United
States legation has received news from
one of its consuls of serious massacre
at Ehin, in the vilayet of Kharput."
The big Edgar Thomson steel works
OF the Carnegie Steel Company resumed
operations in all departments Sunday.
The plant gives employment to 5000
men, who have been idle two weeks.
A Brussels dispatch to the London
Chronicle says that the authorities of
Rotterdam have received an anony-
nous letter threatening to destroy all
OF the public buildings there with ex-
plosives unless the Irish prisoners,
Kearney and Haines, are liberated.
Nine 100-pound sacks of gold ore.
valued at 100000, were stolen from the
powder magazine of the Tom-Boy mine,
at Telluride, Colo, where they had
been temporarily placed.
The American Board of Commission
ers for Foreign Missions has announced
TO the vari0s Congregational churches
throughout the country the heavy load
of debt with which it was burdened at
the beginning of the fiscal year has
been lifted. There was on Aug. 81,
1895, debt amounting to $114,632.SS.
Aug. 81, 1896, there was surplus Of
s5O2.65.
The Turkish authorities have put
stop to the deportation of Armenians
which has been going on since the re-
cent fatal riots in Constantinople.
The French Admiralty Office is max
ing inquiries as to the time that would
be occupied in fitting out three iron
clads in view of the menacing situation
in Turkey.
Advices from Manila, in the Philip
pine Islands, report the discovery of
fresh plot to surprise the garrison
there, to seize the headquarters and
to murder Captain General Blanco. A
hundred persons have been arrested
fer completely in the plot.
Thomas E., alias Snake" Kinney.
prominent Second Ward politician, a
delegate to the Democratic city conven-
ton, Sunday shot and MORALLY wound
cd Badly Higgins at st. Louis at an
early hour Sunday morning.
Charles Carroll. seventeen-year-old
son of Henry Carroll, living near
BreedsvilIe, Mich, is slowly dying
from cigarette smoking For nearly
two years he has smoked from three to
five packages a day, and now, on his
death bed, Graves for them.
President Hubbard and Secretary
Fleming of the Wisconsin State Agri-
cultural Society decided not to grant
a concession for the sale of beer on
the state fair grounds during he an
nuaI exhibit.
Americas foreign trade balance is
nearly five times as great as 1t was
last year Therefore a continued out
flow of gold and consequent rise in
the bank rate is inevitable.
Fire broke out in the char house OF
the Moncton sugar refinery at Moncton,
n. B., o'clock Sunday evening. Be
fore the firemen could reach the place
the upper stories were mass of flames.
1t is said to be insured for 100000, but
the loss will exceed that figure. About
$50 men were employed. The cause OF
the fire is unknown.
Chris Hye, dry goods dealer of
Sedalia, Mo-, has failed, and his stock
is in the hands of Henry Lamm, trus-
tee. The secured liabilities aggregate
s19, 1857, but there are other liabilities
that will foot up quite largely.
A branch of the Union Veterans
league was formed at Galesburg, ILL.,.
with fifty members.
Miss Ada Buchanan of Hannibal, Mo-,
shot herself because of i'll health. She
was to have been married soon.
The city council at Leadville. Colo,
adopted resolutions instructing the
mayor to employ an unlimited number
of police. and If he finds they cannot
preserve the peace, then to call upon
the governor for troops.
st. WendeIius' Catholic church at
Fostoria, Ohio, was robbed, chalices
and valuable books being taken, while
the vestments were strewn over the
rooms and yard. A monstrance was
taken to the yard, where golden cross
was broken from it and the remainder
left under some bushes.
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