The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1901-07-05
THE NEWS CONDENSED


Bessie Stewart, daughter of Senator
| Stewart, of Nevada, has opened a mil
| linery store in Newport, Il. /.
Some old Nevada mining claims left
Mrs. Mckinley by her father are prov
Ing valuable. 1t is said they are worth
| $250,0O0
Gen. Macarthur has ordered 1000
| Filipino prisoners of war released in
the Philippines on promise of peaceful
! behavior.
Battle medals" to be given partici-
| pants in the Santiago naval campaign
| are TO bear the head of Rear Admiral
! Sampson.
The government will buy no more
horses for use in the philippines, owing
! to the cessation of active hostilities in
! the islands.
The state democratic executive com
mittee of Pennsylvania has decided to
! hold the state convention at Harris
burg on Aug. -.
w. c. Mendenhall, geologist, is lead
| ing a United States exploration party
OF six in the deepest wilds of Alaska
! for the government.
Gen. Corbin, Gen. Weston. Senator
! Dietrich and Congressman Kahn have
sailed for Manila from San Francisco
on an investigating tour.
! The FOrty-third regiment. the last of
| the volunteers 10 leave the Philippines.
| las arrived at San Francisco on the
transport Fitzpatrick, % days from Ma
Mia
Good judges of the situation assert
| that the great railway deals now in
process of contamination will he com
pleted before the crops of 1901 are
| moving.
Several persons have been burned in
| the fire which was started Tuesday
night by lightning striking. tank be-
! longing to the Standard Oil Co., at Pre-
bic. Ind.
The executive committee of the Ma
! tional Hospital for COnsumptives. To-
Gated at Denver, Col, has received $780,
| 900 to be applied to the building now
in course of erection.
Aid. Goodman. of New York. wants
| TO send at least 5000 of the unem-
| ployed men and women of New York
city to the fields of Kansas and other
western states TO help harvest the
crops.
! Fridays statement of the treasury
balances in the general fund exclusive
of the $150,0000 900 gold reserve in the
division of redemption shows: Avail
anle cash balance $173, 733, 135; gold,
.r3S O92.f2G
Representative Of the Japanese gov
| eminent are in Chicago for the pur-
| 70 frfv .i.saYa
horse and ,he methods of its breeding,
with the view of its extensive intro
| duction into Japan.
During Il heavy thunder storm Tues
day night n holt of lightning struck the
College of Physicians and Surgeons, on
| Harrison street. Chicago. The fire de-
stroyed the college building, one of the
finest in the west.
Owing to the machinists' strike,
work is entirely suspended on the ar.
mOred cruisers California and South
Dakota. and on the monitor Wyoming
| aud the cruisers Tacoma and Milwau-
| kee, ut San Francisco.
The United States assay Office for
the Salt Lake district reports the min
eral output for 1900 exceeded in value
that of 1899 by nearly % per cent. the
| principal increase being in the silver
and copper production.
Under the recent decision of the
United States Supreme Court declaring
the war revenue tax on export ship
mcntS unconstitutional the government
will have to refund millions of dollars
| to the railroad companies.
The government at Washington has
received some Of the franchises grant
ed by the Porto Rican legislature. Tn
der the Foraker law these franchises
must be passed on by the president be-
! fore they become effective.
The navy department has given out
statement TO the effect that it is
ready 10 give every encouragement to
the naval militia This was called out
| by reports that the department had de-
cided 30 abandon the militia.
The annual message of Mrs. Mary
Baker Eddy to her communicates was
read at the Mother Church in Boston.
| The church. she said. now has 21,G3l
communicates. and that since last No
vember 2,496 had been added.
What is said TO he the largest oil
gusher yet struck in the southwestern
] UelG IL ut lNCu fOIk, OIeeh NdtlOu,
north of Denison, Tex. The oil spout
ed 100 feet i'm the air. 1t is still gush-
ing and is wasting in great quantities.
Adelbert Hay, killed in New Haven.
| Conn will he buried in Cleveland.
/ Col. Hay has received thousands of
messages of coincidence. including dis
patches from King Edward VII. Pres
! ident Loubet. Earl Roberts, Earl Ross
Ign. Lord Pauncefote and Sir Henry
Irving.
The Cuban republican and national
parties have signied their approval
of the Plat amendment The nation
al party takes this action with the UNI
derstanding that it will later use all
possible legal means to effect the re-
peal of ,--e amendment.
With n surplus of ordinary receipts
of SG.O00O00 and Il cash balance of
| S1S5, 00C 900 confronting the treasury
at the beginning of the new fiscal year