The Yale expositor., 1897-11-05
NEWSY CONVERSATIONS.

NEWSY CONVERSATIONS.
Z. A. Hitchcock, the new u. S. min
lister to Russia, has sailed from New
York.
The duchess of TeclS, cousin of Queen
Victoria, died very suddenly at Rich
mond, Eng.
The Union Knitting mill at Hudson,
N. Y, was destroyed by fire with a loss
of $500, 200.
Grant Long, while stalking cars in
the c., II. & ID. yards at Lima was hit
on the head by pole which broke and
was probably fatally injured.
Edward A Schaleder, the Iowa man
who talked of nssassinating President
Mckinley, has been arrested at Chicago
and will be examined as to his sanity.
President Mckinley has appointed
Henry S. Pritchett, of Missouri, as
superintendent of the coast aud geode-
tic survey, and Gen. Dufiield will re-
tire Dec. l.
Gen. Longstreet, of Georgia, the
famous Confederate officer, has been
appointed by the President as com
missioner of railroads, vice Wade
Hampton, resigned.
2Counterfeit silver dollars of greater
weight and fineness than those turned
out from Uncle Sans minis are the
latest in the counterfeiter's art. st.
Louis is the first city to suffer from
them. Several bank tellers were
fooled by them.
The will of the late George NJ. Pull
man gives the larger portion of his es-
tate to his wife and two daughters,
and allows his twin boys but So, 900 per
year each, owing to their tendency to
regard life as one grand round of
pleasure and ease.
The refusal of the car and czarina
to receive the grand duke of Baden
and his duchess, at Darmstadt, for the
alleged reason that their dates were all
filed, is causing much talk, and the
papers pronounce it an insult TO the
whole German nation.
Investigation shows that the reports
of a failure of crops in Ireland and the
probability of terrible famine were
but little exaggerated and the British
government is being urged TO start re-
lief work before the people reach the
point of actual suffering.
The U. S. cruiser Yantic, on her way
to Detroit to be turned over TO the
Michigan Naval Reserves, soon after
passing Quebec collided with the coast
ing steamer La Canadienne, almost
cutting her bow in two and carrying
away her foremost. No one injured.
An incipient mutiny was aroused at
Santander, Spain, by some soldiers who
had been ordered to embark for the
island of Cuba refusing to go on board
the transports. Although the men
were eventually compelled to obey or
ders, the occurrence has aroused con-
siderable misgiving as to the possible
behavior of future attachments of
Spanish troops ordered TO the Cuban
war.
Capt. Charles Kronhert and seven
sailors reached Chicago on the schooner
Sheboygan after terrible experience
on Lake Michigan. They comprised
the crew of the fine schooner f. w.
Clifford, which sailed from Escanaba,
iron-laden, for Fruitport, but which
went down at night in gale. The
crew took to the boat and were picked
up after several hours, by the She
boygan.
Chief of Police Ripley, of Chicago,
has issued an order discharging from
the force 434 policemen and appoint
ing in their place a like number of the
''star league" Democratic expolicemen,
who had been discharged under the
previous Republican administration.
One notable feature of the order is that
the four detectives who did the most
conspicuous work on the Luetgert case
are discharged.
Policeman Frederick Smith was shot
and killed in the church of the Holy
Redeemer, Third street, between Ave-
nues A and b, New York City, by a
burglar who was caught robbing the
poor box. The excited populace were
about to lynch the murderer to tree
when several policemen arrived and
summoned riot squad of Is officers
who had all they could do to tear the
villain from them and lock him up.
1t is believed at Washington that, in
view of the great prominence Alaska
has achieved, owing to recent gold dis
coveries, and the Importance OF def
nitely fixing the boundary line be-
tween our territory and that OF the
Dominion of Canada, that the senate,
when it assemblies in December, Will
take early action upon the treaty
pending between Great Britain and the
United States for the survey and mark
ing of the one hundred and forty-iirs'
meridian. This treaty was sent to the
senate almost two years ago.
Japan will apply the gold standard
| TO the currency of Formosa at once.