The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1901-07-19
THE NEWS CONDENSED

| lleaSantvllle, y. Y.
Reports from all parts of the coun-
try SHOW that the machinists' strike is
over.
| Disaster wrought by the storm which
has swept Haiti and San Domingo has
| been great.
Christian Endeavor twentieth an
nuSl convention closed in Cincinnati
Thursday night.
Bubonic plague has caused 361
deaths to date in Cape Town since its
outbreak last fall.
Ex-Lieut-Gov. VIM. Cumback ~
years old, was married in Lapel, Ind,
to Miss Laura Wachstatter. teacher.
The great drouth in Kansas and Mis-
souri, has been slightly relieved by
showers. Most crops are hopeless.
however.
Rev. L. A. Cantrell quits the pulpit
| of the First Christian church, Wash
| ington. announcing that he no longer
believes the Bible.
Gen. Maxine Gomez has returned to
Cuba from New York. Says he will
never forget American kindness as
long as he exists.
Alfred h. Ktteridge. of Sioux Falls,
! has been appointed United States Sen
! ator to fill the uneXpired term of Jos.
III. Kyle, deceased.
A Denver woman has Just secured n
| divorce from her husband because ne
! didn't tell her he had n wooden leg un-
| til after the wedding.
Brooms go up another % cents PEI
| dozen, by order of the trust, which
! promises another raise Aug 1, on the
| plea that broom corn is scarce.
Rear-Admiral Bunoe, u. S. n. re-
| tired, had most of his cancerOus tongue
cut out in a Boston hospital but will
not wholly lose the power of speech.
A storm of wide and in some places.
very heavy dimensions. has swept over
central Arizona, breaking the heated
| spell of unusual length and intensity.
j. II. Hollander is en- route to the
United States and is said to have quit
his post as treasurer of Porto Rico.
| He may go to Mania to frame tax
laws.
\ man in Beaumont. Tex. being in
need of money recently, sold - acres
of land for 5000 to another man. who
in turn sold the land for SGG5,000, hav-
| ing discovered that the land contained
! oil.
The Chinese government, through
Minister WI Ting Fang, has filed n
claim for indemnity to the amount OF
100000 on account of alleged Outra-
geous treatment of Chinese at Butte,
! Mont.
There are only 10000 seekers for the
133,O00 farms in the KiOwa country
opened by President McKinlcy's proc
lamation. Most of the seekers are on
the ground waiting for n chance to
register.
John J. Martin. capitalist ana land
lord of the Capitol Hotel in Phladel-
phia. found his son. lost p years ago,
working among the iron furnaces in
Anderson Ind. He will now have an
easier job.
Mrs. John Edwards and her 15-year-
old daughter, Mary, are i'm jail in
Reading. Pa, accused of Staying John
Edwards, husband ana father, with a
grubhoe. a 10-year-old son told on
them. If convicted they may be hung.
The state pardon board approved the
parole of Cole and James Younger,
who have been i'm the saltwater. Mimi.
penitentiary % years, for completely
in robbery and murder during the raid
7
Mimi. bank.
\ cargo of granite will he shipped
i'm August from Maine quarries to Liv-
erpool. This will be the first cargo of
American granite ever shipped to any
European port, and will be laid down
In Liverpool at 81 a ton. or 81 % n ton
| less than Scotch granite can be sup
! piled.
No seriously injurious effects to
crops from the period Of intense heat
is reported from the middle Atlantic
states but from Texas northward to
Nebraska. Including Missouri. Arkan-
sas. and portions of Illinois, Kentucky
! and Tennessee, crops have been more
! affected.
Independent Cuba will begin bust
ness with bonded Indebtedness of
only S122.40O. resulting from the clause
in the new constitution pledgiDg the
! Cuban republic to the payment of the
| bonds Issued by authority of the revo-
! lutionary government during the war
| with Spain.
The endowment rank of the Knights
/ of Pythias has n deficit of $225, 267.
| This announcement was made by SUI
| preme Commander Ogden III. Fethers
! to the supreme lodge of the order.
which has been assembled i'm Chicago
/ for the purpose of looking into the af-
! fairs OF the rank.
William DuplOy. Boer prisoner who
escaped from Bermuda and got TO New
! York as n stOwaway told immigration
| officials that he came to this country to
earn his own living and there was no
chance Of his becoming public charge.
/ He was sent back to the detention
pen on Ellis island.
Large parts of the Russian empire
are again threatened with famine. The
last official report. which has just been
published. was dated June 81. Since
then not drop OF rain has fallen In
the eastern provinces, and 1t is be-
leved the crops are now largely be-
yond hope i'm many districts.
Every train brings extra coaches
crowded with people coming TO El
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