The Yale expositor., 1901-08-09
THE NEWS CONDENSED

Washington's district prosecutor has
! asked the commissioners to suppress
! parrots.
Southern lumber mills in 1880 had
an output of $3S,11G,000. Now ii is
$105,5T5,S19 year.
Charles Hunter, 20 years old. of
Branch, Ark, is under arrest for dis
emboweling mis- father.
The Dowager Empress Frederick of
Germany is very ill, and the emperor
Is Fastening to her bedside.
Chicago iron molders employed by II
firms have dropped their strike and re-
turned to work without concessions.
Harry Fletcher. charged with forg
ing 10 shares of stock of the Central
National Bank, Of Cambridge, o.. was
| arrested
The Beers in. the field maintain q
regular service of dispatch riders.
Cables are received and filed at Loren
20 MARQUEE.
Alfred B. Ktteridge. of Sioux Falls,
has been appointed United States Sen
ator to fill the unexpired term Of Jos.
III. Kyle, deceased.
been praising the American troops,
volunteers and regulars, saying that
they are "braye, enduring and hui
mane."
At Amsterdam, Kruger received
Robert ii. Van Schaak. treasurer &c
the Holland Society of Chicago. VINO
presented to him an invitation to visit
the United States.
No negotiations, say London dis
patches, are now in progress between
the American embassy and the British
foreign office respecting the revival of
an isthmiaD canal treaty.
Ruth Hanna will use n bottle of
water when she "christens" the new
cruiser Cleveland in Bath, Me-. next
month. The wine is probably too bad
in that State TO risk breaking a bottle.
At Orleans, Ind, frebugs threatened
to burn the Touring mills unless the
owner left bag OF money where they
could get it. A bag Of buggy washers
was left. and in revenge the mills were
burned.
When the sexton OF the First Baptist
church of White Plains. y. Y, visited
the edifice to prepare it for Sunday
service he found the interior entirely
consumed, probably set on fire by
lightning
The monthly statement of the pub
lie debt shows that ut close of busi-
ness July 81. 1901. the debt. less cash
IN the treasury. amounted to Sl.369,-
1I9339. Il decrease for the month of
$292S,6jS.
Catherine Griffin died in Yonkers, y.
Y, the other day in a wretched hovel
where she had lived for some years
an object Of charity. Bank books found
in her possession showed balances to-
falling $4,000.
Charles Vrooman scared an embalm-
er almost out of his wits in Harvey,
ILL.,. by kicking off his shroud and
pitching the poor fellow out of doors.
Nrooman had supposedly been dead for
n day and a night.
Official supplementary estimates is
sued show that $50. 100000 for odds
and ends are needed Immediately for
the English forces in South Africa. 1t
is estimated that S300,000,000 mere will
be needed by Christmas.
Norway, Me-, has to pay $50 in ali
mony yearly to Mrs X. l.. Merrill.
whose suit for divorce was fought and
lost at the expense of the town. which
attempted to foist her support on her
recreant hubby and must now take his
place.
Adulterated milk and cream are to
be confiscated in future at the receiv-
ing depots of all railroads in Chicago.
The discovery Of rormalln at the re-
ceiying depots will result I'm the selZ-
ure of the cans and the dumping OF
their contents into the nearest gutter.
The feeling against American COM
petition is becoming most bitter in
Vienna. The authorities have refused
permission 10 American shoe firms to
open stores in Vienna. This was
brought about by the fact that firm
in Philadelphia have already taken
premises on which to open stores i'm
eighteen districts OF the city.
Details of what at first seemed an
column and Boer commando near
Nquta July 2S shows that n hard all
day fight occurred Four hundred Beers
repeatedly rushed the British position,
killing Maj. Edwards and Gunner Car
penter. The gun was limbered up and
taken at gallop for three miles under
heavy fire. Five British were killed
AS a result OF the longshoremen's
strike in San Francisco. all freight
traffic between Seattle and the Cali
fornia metropolis is stopped entirely.
The Spanish ministry OF foreign af-
fairs Is engaged upon an extradition
convention and general treaty of peace
and friendship with the United States.