The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1900-11-16
BRIEF NEWS PARAGRAPHS.

recuperate.
Members of both houses of congress
began drifting into the national capt.
tai on the 9th.
A wholesale Jail delivery was foiled
by one of the Cook county jailers at
Chicago on the 5th.
The Press Knicker5oclIer Express,
of Albany, N. Y. was burned out on
the 9th. Loss, $60,0 600
Five inches of snow, the beautiful
still falling and the wind blowing a
gale, was reported from New Rich
mond, Wis, on the 9TH.
Quarrels over politics and gambling
resulted in five men being shot to
death and one fatally wounded on cleo
ton night in Kentucky.
Presents sent from China by Ameri-
can soldiers TO friends in this country
are admitted free of duty.
The population of the state of Maine,
as announced by the ccnsus bureau, is
6ot, ACC, as against Gel ,0S6 in 1890
Several arrests were made in Chicago
on the 5th, as a result Of what is al
legged to be an election fraud conspir
acy.
The first blizzard Of the season at
Minneapolis. Mimi. was reported on
the 18th. Heavy snow storms were also
reported in several places in the state.
Standard Oh Co. certificates made a
new record price on the 5th. They
touched G?5, or - points higher than
the previous highest price ever quoted.
According to private dispatches re-
ccved at 81. Petersburg on the 9th, ty-
phus and other fevcrs are beginning 10
abatc in the Russian army in Man
chnria.
The storm Of the eth was very severe
on the lakes, three consorts went adrift
on Lake Superior and others parted
their tow lines. No loss of life was
reported.
The movement of iron orc on the
lakes up TO Nov ] was lT,2S1 .052 tons,
II gain of ,G93, GA tons over last year.
October shipments, however, show a
falling Off.
The Japanese battlcship Mikasa,
said To be the most formidable vessel
of its kind in the world, was launched
on the Sth at the Vickers- Maxim works
at Barrow, England.
The Russian government intends
sending an agent to the United States
to study homestead legislation with
the view Of its partial application TO
the peasant communities
The Democratic presidential nomi-
nee, VIM. j. Bryan, is not talking for
publication at present, but says it IS
his intention 10 remain in Nebraska
until he is thoroughly rested.
Jas. A. Norton, one of the jurymen
who convicted Goutsey of the Goe bel
murder, was burned 10 death in Jail at
Georgetown, Ky, CT the 9th, where
he was confined for drunkenness.
Geo. NJ Harding. a well-known citi-
zen of Eeynoldsvillc. Pa, on the Sth
attempted to kill his wife and then com
united suicide by blowing his brains
out. The wife will probably recover.
The telegraph service in and about
New York was badly crippled during a
gale on the sth and 9th. Some of the
time the wind blew at the rate of 80
miles an hour. No loss of life is re-
ported
John A. Burr, Jr., night transfer
agent of the United States Express Co.,
at Green Bay. Wis, is missing. Burr
is accused by Gen -Supt f. ). Averill
Of the express company Of having APP
propriated between $li 900 and SIS 900
A fatal fight between deputy sheriffs
and policemen occurred at the opening
of the polls in one of the precincts in
Denver, Col, on the 9th, and as a re-
suit one deputy was killed and four
policemen were wounded.
The result OF the elections in the II
S. was quietly received in Manila. So
far as the Filipinos are concerned. no
noticeable change in the situation has
ensued, nor is any likely to occur in
the immediate future. They are for
the greater part non-committal.
More than 1000 hosting engineers
and 1000 miners in the state Of lndi
ana went out on a strike on the 18th as
tue IcSulJ VI TIC ldlluTc vi tic
block and bituminous coal operators to
sign the scale presented TO them by the
engineers.
A dispatch from Barcelona, dated
the 18th, has the following; The gov
eminent troops have captured a band
of 50 Carlists near Villa Franco del
Panades, % miles west of Barcelona.
They seized a quantity of arms and
ammunition.
An open switch caused the north
bound Missouri Pacific passenger train
to take siding in the yards at Leav.
cnworth. Kas., on the nth, colliding
with switch engine. Application of
the air brake checked the speed, but
several passengers were injured, none
fatally
Plans have been made by the Amor
lean Bridge Co., of Pittsburg, Pa, for
the erection and operation at an early
date in the Pittsburg district Of the
largest and most complete bridge build
ing and structural plant in the world
Mammoth works to cover Il tract OF 40
acres with IL river frontage of ut least
q, huIf mill, - tho rro,a,nI ,,Io, III,