The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1906-07-27
MOST IMPORTANT HAPPENINGS
AT HOME TOLD IN CON-
DENSED FORM.
LATE FOREIGN DISPATCHES
Interesting Items of News Gathered
from All Parts of the Globe and
Outlined in the Briefest Manner
Possible.

and the government now stand lace
TO face, and upon the army depends
the immediate issue. Even should
the government succeed in restraining
an outbreak of the people the victory
probably will only be temporary and
simply confine the steam for the final
explosion.
Russell Sage died suddenly at his
country home. "Cedercroft," at Law
renee, l.. /. The immediate cause OF
death was heart failure, resulting
from a complication of diseases Incl
dent to old age. The veteran tinan
cier would have celebrated his nine
tieth birthday on August 4.
Just before a ball game between a
local team and a Plymouth. Wis, nine
at Manitowoc, Wis, fierce electrical
storm swept over the city and a bolt
of lightning hit the grandstand, where
the spectators and players had sought
shelter Five persons were killed out
right and score or two injured by
the shock.
The executive council of the Ameri
can Federation of Labor made good
its declaration of several months ago
to enter the field of politics in the in
terest of trade union movement and
10 eXhort all members and friends OF
organized labor to work for the cleo
ton to political office of men known
to be favorable TO labor's cause.
The insurance companies doing
business in New York issued 1896
fewer policies in 1905 than in 1904.
the amount of insurance written last
year showing a decrease of 1851, 724,.
S54.
The value of canned meats export
ed from the United States in June,
1906, was $461, 100, against 1897 127
IN June, 1905, and in the fiscal year
1906, $9,233,410. against $9,577, 045 in
1905. The figures for the fiscal year
1906 include canned beef, S6,430,446;
canned pork, S1,215S57, and other
canned meats, $1,5S7107
The labor situation in the anthra.
cite region is one of profound peace.
In all the active collieries mining is
progressing satisfactorily.
The United States geological sur.
vey states that the total output Of
zinc during 1905 amounted to 203, S49
short tons, an increase of 17,147 short
tons over 1904.
No statement will be made by Mrs
c. j. Holman, mother of Mrs Harry
X. Thaw, relative to the letters found
in the effects of Architect Stanford
White and alleged to have been writ.
ten by Mrs. Holman to White before
the marriage of her daughter to
young Thaw
Military investigation and a grand
jury inquiry have been ordered into
the mystery surrounding the disap.
pearance of nine wagon loads of Ii.
quors dispatched from the Moulder
depot warehouse to the Jefferson
Park hospital storeroom at San Fran.
cisco.
{ Charles D. Schmidt, an assistant
bookkeeper for the Helena Mont.
Water Works company, shot and
killed his wife and tried to kill him.
self 1t is said that Schmidt discov.
cred letter duplicating his wife
with a man at Fort Assinniboine.
Unless his present plans are
changed John d. Rockefeller is going
to Cleveland, to spend the latter part
of the summer.
With the heel of his heavy shoe, AL.
bert Rierson, % years old, patient
at the Racine county insane asylum
beat out the life of John Ladrach
aged GO years, another patient.
The overturning of a boat resulted
in the drowning of two persons in the
Sioux river, near Riverside park
Sioux City, Iowa. The dead are Carl
X. Carrick, aged 81 Joseph Berries
aged %.
Representative James S. Sherman
and his associates on the Republican
national congressional committee have
decided to appeal to Republicans to
contribute one dollar each to its cam
paign fund
Miss Eva Osborn, a Chicago young
woman, was drowned while bathing al
Duck Lake, summer resort near Mus
kegon, Mich.
According to advices received by
the bureau of manufactures, the Jap
anese government has undertaken one
of the greatest experiments in the
worlds history which indicates a clear
purpose to protect. supervise. develop
and nationalize all Japanese indus
tries.
At Lancaster, Mass. Lancaster Inn
was burned loss $4,000.
Two men were instantly killed and
a third is believed to have been fatal
ly injured as a result of the derail
ment Of a switch engine in the Hous
ton & Texas Central railway yards in
Houston. Tex.
The British cabinet has decided tc
rescind its action cutting down the
naval estimates and to build two bat
tleships of the Dreadnought class.
Congressman Frank b. Keeper, oil
Kingston, was renominated for con
gress by the Republicans of the Third
Missouri district.