The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1898-12-30
BRIEF NEWS PARAGRAPHS.

Senior Sagasta, the Spanish PREMIER
is very seriously ILL
1t is said the deal whereby the Chi
cago & Alton road goes to the Missouri
Pacific has just been concluded.
Six people, including one woman,
were killed by snowslide on the
Chilcoot pass.
Canada and Australia will unite in
constructing Pacific cable to connect
the two countries.
The customs receipts at Santiago I'M
der the occupation of the United States
forces up to Dec. were 1915, 21S.
Admiral Sampson says the wealthiest
and most influential people Of Cuba
want the island annexed to the United
States.
The Filipino insurgents demand that
Spain pay them $50, 900, 900 as ransom
for the 10000 Spanish prisoners held
by them.
Lord Salisbury has recommended to
the czar of Russia that the European
disarmament conference be held in
London next May.
Secretary Alger has ordered the
Third, Fourth, 18th, 18th, Goth and 22d
U. S. infantry to Manila as soon as
possible to relieve volunteers.
The house committee on military af-
fairs by party vote OF to ordered
favorable report on the Hull bill in
creasing the regular army to 100000
men.
In view of the growth of German
power in Samoa the u. $. consul has
has been instructed to act with great
vigilance to maintain our influence
there.
Elmer f. Rose, an employee of the
Dunlop Vehicle Co., at Pontiac, was
instantly killed by being crushed in
an elevator shaft He was % years old
and had been married but six months.
Commissioner Campbell reports that
the Northwestern Fire Insurance Co.,
of Chicago, which is not authorized TO
do business even in Illinois, is flooding
this state with circulars soliciting
business.
Diplomatic relations will not be
opened with Spain until the treaty of
peace is ratified by the senate and the
cortes. According To well established
diplomatic u. ages Spain must take the
initiative.
Arrangements have been completed
for disinterring the bodies of the 200
soldiers who were buried in the im-
provised cemetery at Camp Wikof,
i. l., and transporting them to their
former homes.
Capt. Milford, New York inventor,
has offered TO raise the Spanish cruiser
Cristobal Colon at Santiago and the
u. S. battleship Maine at Havana and
deliver them at the Brooklyn navy
yard Unless he succeeds he asks no
compensation.
Lord Charles Bcresford, now in
China, asserts that owing to the ag-
gressivc diplomacy of Russia, Great
Britain has taken second place in
China. Russian troops control the
whole of Manchuria. The prospects
for trade and open ports looks very
dark.
rear end collision occurred on the
Pennsylvania railroad three miles from
Railway, n. j., which resulted in the
loss of two lives and serious injuries to
four persons. About 20 others were
cut and bruised and several were im-
prisoned in the wreck until a wreck
ing train arrived.
The naval authorities in Investigate
ing the accident by which the battle
ship Massachusetts was disabled
learned to their dsmay that our big
battleships like the Oregon or Massa-
chusetts are in constant danger of run
ming aground in New York harbor dur
ing extra low water.
The so-called congress of the revolu-
tionary government of the Filipinos,
which has been in session for some
time at Malolos, has unexpectedly ad-
iourned, owing TO the difficulty OF
formulating a constitution. The cabi-
net of President Aguinaldo, appointed
at Bacoor on July Is last and named in
the Bacoor proclamation issued that
day, has resigned.