The Yale expositor., 1906-12-28

The United States will have i'm
ported an aggregate of $50,000.000
worth of crude India rubber at the
close of the present year, according
to statement by the department of
commerce and labor.
The shipment of coffee from Rio
Janeiro is at standstill owing to the
fact that the stevedores have gone
out on strike.
One man was killed and another
hurt by a recklessly driven automo-
bile in Minneapolis.
Mrs. Elizabeth Stalker, of Wilkins
burg, Pa, a pioneer resident OF Blair
county, celebrated the 106th anniver-
sary of her birth. Amone the tele-
grams of congratulation received was
one from President Roosevelt.
Louis p. Koeken, of Philadelphia,
through counsel served notice upon
Corporation Counsel Ellison and
Comptroller Metz, of New York. laying
claim to the major portion Of the
property in upper Manhattan borough
and the Bronx, the value of which
IuuS up lulO AlG lluhhl VI AiAAiAACAS'
The London Chronicle says Joseph
Chamberlain's memory is entirely
gone as a result of being overtaxed
at the celebration in honor of his
10th birthday
Henry McCrory. for years identi-
fed with the practical end of the steel
industry, related by marriage to
President w. e. Corey, of the United
States steel corporation, and also one
OF the Junior partners" of Andrew
Carnegie, died at his home in wilkins
burg, PIT.
Pietro Cuneo, former United States
consul at Turin, Italy, and for so
years editor OF the Union Republican
at Upper Sandusky. o., died of apo
plexy.
Whisky men protested to Secretary
Wilson against his ruling on blended
whisky.
On hundred prominent men through
out the country have consented to the
use of their r"nes as members OF
committee to further the movement
for a national department OF health.
which was launched by Prof. ] Pease
Norton.
Bishop Charles C. McCabe died of
apoplexy in New York.
John Barrett, minister to Colombia,
was elected director of the bureau OF
American republics.
The steamer w. T. Scovil blew up
near Vicksburg, Miss, and four white
men and about ten negroes were
killed.
George A. Marden, for several years
assistant treasurer at Boston, died at
his home in Lowell, Mass.
The school authorities Of Washing
ton, have been called upon to decide
whether a Filipino is white or col
ored.
Prof. w. w. Borden, widely-known
capitalist, died at his home at Borden,
Ind He was SO years old.
A son has been born TO DR.. and Mrs.
Gerald Webb. Mrs. Webb is a grand
daughter of the late Jefferson Davis,
and the newcomer is the only great
grandson Of the confederate president.
Four persons were burned to death
and one was fatally burned in a fire at
the Zenobia apartment house in Buff
falo n. Y.
Charles Rodman, graduate Of the
University of Illinois, where he at
tanned fame as an athlete and discus
thrower. was taken to the Central hos
pital for the insane at Jacksonville,
ILL.,
The bank of Horatio, Ark, was loot
ed by two robbers who covered the
cashier with pistols and took about
$4,000.
By the explosion of dynamite In a
fireworks factory at Savannah. Ca,
one fireman was burned to death and
several dangerously hurt.
John Annoy Knox, once widely
known as the editor and proprietor of
Texas Siftings, died suddenly of heart
disease.
A gigantic merger of all coal mining
properties in Illinois within a radius
of 90 miles of East st. Louis has been
planned by eastern capitalists.
Madame Gould, the former Countess
Boni de Castellane, has been victori-
Gus in the suits brought by creditors
and money lenders against her with
the object of making her jointly re-
sponsible with the count.
Judge Choadle, of Montana, has sen.
fenced "Bill" Hedican, horse thief,
to the penitentiary for IA years, the
maximum punishment.
Fire in Hardin, Manchuria, destroy
ed the huge building situated In the
center Of the town occupied by the
general staff of the Russian army.
The fire also consumed the museum,
library and a number of shops and
warehouses.
Terrorists threw a bomb and fired
revolvers at Chief of Police Cheshan-
owsh at Lodz, Russian Poland. He
was only slightly injured, but his car
riage was wrecked.
George w. Harris, a prisoner for
forgery In the county jail at Goshen,
Ind, declares he Is the man who muir
dered Miss Sarah Schafer at Bedford,
Ind, three years ago.
Fire DESTROYED the main business