The Yale expositor., 1906-06-15


been killed by mistake.
Thirty-five thousand Christian Sci
entists assisted in the dedication OF
the new 100000 mother church at
Boston, six services being held.
While dressing for a partys Miss
Annie Weisenborn, of Belleville, ILL.,,
broke her left arm in trying to button
her shirtwaist up the back.
Judge Alfred Watson Benson, OF OF
tawa, Kan, was offered the appoint
ment of United States senator to sue
coed Joseph r. Burton, stated that he
would accept the position.
Thomas p. Coyne, former county
clerk, was killed in a runaway at
funeral at Madison. Wis. Mr.. Coyne
was a drummer boy in the civil war.
Thirty-four Christian Scientists
were injured through the overturning
of large sightseeing automobile in
the Brighton district at Boston.
The first educators to be awarded
pensions from the $10,000,00O Carnegie
fund are two members of the faculty
of Ripon college. They are DR.. E. H.
Merrill, former president of the col
lege and Prof. c. II. Chandler.
A tornado at Dewey, |. T., demol-
ished several residences and wrecked
200 oil derricks.
Col. Henry j. Latshaw, who at one
time represented the Fifth Missouri
district in congress, died in Kansas
City.
A terrific wind and rain storm swept
over Ontario from one end of the
southern peninsula to the other. demol-
ishing buildings, uprooting trees and
leaving the telegraph and telephone
lines in a tangled mass of wires.
An unusually severe rain and wind
storm did mnch damage to crops and
farm property in various Indiana coun-
ties. In South Bend and Peru the wind
unroofed buildings and caused loss of
thousands of dollars.
Following q spell of very oppressive
weather throughout central New York,
word comes of violent storms which
did considerable damage at number
of points.
AS Il ItSull VI lIt SlllhC at SdhohNos
Mexico, mines of Col. W. c. Greene,
the American miners are crossing the
line now in droves.
The strike in the Indiana coal fields
ended when the joint convention of
operators and miners voted unani-
mously to report of the joint scale
committee. Work will be resumed at
once.
Gov. Warfield. of Maryland, has ap-
pointed William Pinckney Whyte, the
noted lawyer and former governor and
United States senator to fill the va
cancy caused by the death of United
States Senator German.
Purchasing Agent Charles Armitage,
of the Illinois Eastern hospital was
summoned before the grand jury at
Kankakee with the records of coal
purchases made by the state institu-
ton for three years.
Daniel Szelig, a refugee from San
Francisco. shot and killed his wife and
then killed himself in the presence
of his two children at st. Louis. See
Zig had been separated from his wife
for two years.
There were rumors that charges
had been filed against a member of
the Illinois supreme bench and that
the secret night session of the court
in itself an extraordinary proceeding
was held to consider the evidence in
the case.
Ii tn Tho rinfG Of
Cananea will probably never be
known. The Mexican authorities bur-
led the dead without any attempt at
! Identification.
| The Miners International Congress
held its closing sitting at London UNI
der :he presidency of j. p. White, pres
ident of the American Miners associa-
ton. Resolutions were adopted in ia
vor of miners old age pensions and the
naturalization of miners.
F. l.. McKoy and Chester Ogle
miners, were blown to atoms in a
shaft by a premature explosion in a
mine near Carterville. Mo. Scott AL
frey and II. G.. Bishop were injured
when a freight train backed into the
ambulance.
All the Ohio troops in the Jefferson
county mining region have been or
dered home.
The Stockholm Bladet asserts that
Russia has sent a military detachment
to the Aland islands Tin the Gulf OF
Bothnia) to do patrol service against
Finland, and that this section is q
breach of the treaty of Paris.
Six dead, many seriously injured anC
thousands of dollars worth of prop
erty blown away, briefly summarizes
the effects of the storms which devas
tated sections of Minnesota and Wis
consln.
Thunder showers, electric storms anC
heavy downpours of rain that hav,
prevailed throughout western Pennsyl
vania during the entire week cul
minated in cloudbursts in Cambria
Westmoreland, Somerset and Butler
counties, that caused the rivers ant
creeks to overflow, flooding the street!
in many communities and disseminat
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