The Yale expositor., 1897-08-20
TELEGRAPHIC TICkINGs.


Congressman Ashley b. Wright
dropped dead at his home at North
Adams, Mass.
A serious revolt occurred at Oporto.
Portugal, and IS army officers were ar
rested as ringleaders.
Southwestern Indiana coal miners
have voted unanimously to lay down
their tools until the big strike is settled.
Upon the success or failure of the
bituminous coal miners strike depends
the inception of movement by the
anthracite miners in Pennsylvania for
higher wages and better conditions.
Immigration to the u. S. is now the
lowest since 1882. The decrease has
been largest in German immigrants
and smallest in Italians. The total
decrease during the last fiscal year was
230, s32 as compared with the previous
year.
Philip Hines died at Delaware, o.,
aged 1O7 years. He went to war when
II years old, and got discharge re-
Gently, as he was on n furlough when
peace was declared. He was the last
veteran discharged. His wife is 81
years old.
Michael Angiolillo, the anarchist as
sassin of Premier Canovas del Castillo,
of Spain, has been tried by courtmar-
tial and sentenced to death by being
garroted. Upon hearing the sentence
Anglolillo turned deathly pale and had
to be assisted from the courtroom.
Nikola Tesla, the sensationally adj
vertised electrician who poses as a
rival of Edison says he has succeeded in
making it possible to send electrical
currents to any point without wires
any p int means that the earth can be
circled with the mysterious current
and that space means nothing.
About 125 men and women of the
Minnesota Editorial association struck
the Wolverine state at Ludington,
after journey across Lake Michigan
from Milwaukee, on weeks outing.
A special f. & T. NJ. train carried the
party to Detroit where four days were
spent in sightseeing and side excur-
sions.
Over 300 striking miners from Ohio
invaded the Boggs Run field near
Wheeling, w. Va, with a view of in
ducinS the miners at work in that sec
ton to join the strike. They an
nounced that they would stay until
those mines closed and met with good
success the first day-over 40 miners
not going to work.
Latest advices from Alaska say that
the snow has already commenced to
fall and there is every prospect of an
early winter. This being the case
there is very little chance of one-half
of the would-be prospectors now at
Dyea crossing the Chilkoot pass before
spring, to say nothing of the thousands
now on the way to Dyea and Juneau.
Ex-Vice- President Cameron Miller,
of the United Mine Workers, has en-
tered suit at Pittsburg for S., 600 dam
ages against L. Il. DeArmit of the New
York & Cleveland Gas Coal Co., for
malicious prosecution. DeArmit had
him arrested on charges of riot and un-
lawful assemblage. These charges
were not substantiated and the case
was dismissed.
To carry forward its work, the sound
money executive committee appointed
at indianapolis last January met in
Chicago to endeavor TO proceed with
the task of creating national currency
commission to whom will be intrusted
the responsibility of undertaking to
devise some satisfactory and accept
able plan for revising, refol ming and
regulating the currency system.
The Turkish government officials are
now manifesting a desire to expedite
the settlement of the peace negotia-
tons, owing to the straitened state of
the exchequer, rendering it impossible
under the present circumstances TO
contract new loan; because of the
unhealthy condition Of the troops in
Thessaly. where many OF the soldiers
are dying, and for political reasons,
the attitude of Bulgaria, Servia and
Montenegro appearing threatening.
Five enormous waterspouts were
seen moving eastward across Lake Erie
near Cleveland. Three of them struck
the shore there, two of them at the
foot of Wilson avenue without doing
much damage, but the third struck
near Coe street with terrible force,
badly damaging the Avery Stamping
works. threw a box freight car 60 feet,
and partially wrecked many roofs and
broke scores of windows before it spent
its force. No one was injured
Over 1000 miners of the Massillon
district met near Wadsworth, o., and
passed resolutions that no coal what
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