The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1901-07-26
THE NEWS CONDENSED

According to the reports of special
agents the Siberian crops appear to be
nearly total failure.
Cornelius Vanderbilt has accepted a
commission as lieutenant In the
Twelfth regiment of New York militia.
The transport Sheridan, with the
Fourteenth infantry and Adjt. Gen.
Barry OH board. sailed from Manila
Friday.
The New York board of estimates
adopted a resolution accepting the So
200, 900 gift of Andrew Carnegie for 90
libraries
James ]. Van Allen has gone to Eng
land to receive the decoration of the
order Of st. John of Jerusalem from
King Edward.
An Australian fortune of S40,000,000
is to be divided among the heirs of the
late Josiah Tyson, residing in Georgia
and Alabama.
Riceville, Mimi. with a population Of
500 TO 1000, was practically wiped out
by fire to-day. involving Il loss esti-
mated at 100000.
Alfred b. KitteridGe, of Sioux Falls,
has been appointed United States Sen
ator to fill the uneXpired term of Jos.
ii. Kyle, deceased.
Fifty Milwaukee machinists volun-
tarily went back to work at the Allin-
Chalmers company. virtually putting
an end TO the strike there.
Andrew Carnegie has offered Still
water, Mimi. $4,000 for n public Ii
brary. A site has been secured and the
council will provide the required in
come.
Broom corn has reached the record
price of $125 ton at MattoOn, ILL.,,
where the trust and antitrust COM
panies are scrambling for everything
in sight.
EX-Speaker Thomas b. Reed is ac-
cused of the parentage of the new oil
cloth trust. just formed in New York
and capitalized at $10,000,000. Tom
gets some stock.
Sultan Abdul Hamid orders that no
more Turkish children be permitted to
attend foreign schools. He is alarmed
because Il Turkish girl recently gradu-
ated from Nassar.
No negotiations, say London dis
patches, are now in progress between
the American embassy and the British
foreign office respecting the revival of
an lSluHldH Candl lTelly.
An Australian fortune of S40OO0,000
| is to be divided among Is heirs of the
late Josiah Tyson. residing in Georgia
farm to Mistress Lillian Allen Widow
Lorillard gets an annuity of $4,000.
A special train Of five cars was haul
ed over the Pennsylvania road Tuesday
from Pittsburg to Chicago in 10 hours
and 30 minutes. This breaks all pas
senger train records between the two
cities
George w. Lane, wealthy farmer
| near Canton. H.. found his wife, aged
40 dead in the woods. Developments
show murder Ivy strangling. The par
! ties are prominent and the murder is Il
mystery.
Nicaragua has recently closed three
of the four national colleges. supported
by the state. 1t is said there are not
enough advanced scholars among the
youth of the country to fill more than
one college.
The ministers of the powers at Peliin
| now freely admit that the prospect of a
conclusion of the negotiations is grow
ing darker. The situation is most seri
Gus. as the deadlock has continued for
more than month.
After three months trial of civil
government in Cebu and Bohul and the
province of Batangas. LuzCn. control
of those districts. owing to their in
complete pacificaton, has been return
ed to the military authorities.
Carlisle d. Graham has made his
! fifth successful journey down the rap
! ids of Niagara river in the same barrel
4 lirI b, I'm, hie f,.f,,
| He almost suffocated from heat. being
confined in the barrel for - minutes.
The politsche Correspondent of vi
emma has published an article asserting
| that the Spanish government meditates
! proposing to the powers that they guar
antee the integrity of Spain in much
! the same way they do that of Belgium.
| Francis Schlatter. the so-caled "di-
| vine healer was tried in n Washing
| ton police court Saturday as vagrant
and fined so or 80 days in the work
( house. AS he returned to his cell he
! pleaded that the workhouse authorities
/ refrain from shearing his locks.
An insurance swindler has visited
! several Michigan towns recently, APP
| pointed local agents and written poll
! cies for the National Fire Insurance
| 1Oullldul Vi AlncTlcu. Incfe is no
! such company authorized i'm this state
or any other state, as far as can be
! learned.
! j. A. Parker. chairman of the Peo-
! pies party national committee, has is
sued call for n conference of Ohio
! POpulists and all those who favor the
amalgamation of independent reform
forces into an allied third party to
| meet in Columbus, July 80, to place a
state ticket in the field.
In response to representations to the
state department the British govern
ment has declined to release any of the
Americans who were captured while
serving in the Boer army. The only
exceptions will he i'm the case of pris-
oners whose health is such MS to make
their confinement dangerous.
The official call of ''the Bryan Dem
ocrats" of Ohio charges that the Ohio
convention repudiated the last two
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