The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1906-11-23

OF the Temple Beth Elohim, of Brook
Ign, and formerly rabbi of the Mount
Street temple of Cincinnati, died In
Brooklyn. He was so years old. and a
member OF many geographical. histor-
ical, scientific and charitable societies.
William Randolph Hearst, Independ.
ent League and Democratic candi-
date for governor, certified to the Sec
rotary of state that he had spent 1885,
$40 in promoting his canvass.
Mrs. Frank r. Stockton, widow of
the novelist, is critically Ill at her res
idence in Washington.
The Bank of Henderson, Ia, was
dynamited by robbers. They secured
nearly $4,000 and escaped.
The grand jury at San Francisco
brought five indictments against Eu-
gene Schmitz and Abraham Ruef on
the charge of extortion. On each
charge the bail was Fixed at $4,000
and bond Mt $4,000.
A small fire occurred in the Ameri-
can embassy at st. Petersburg. Start
ing at the fireplace in Ambassador
Meyers office. It crept beneath the
flooring for a considerable distance.
Firement tore up the floor and extin-
guished the fire.
The deep water ways convention,
which held its opening session at st.
Louis, passed resolution calling on
congress to appropriate $31 100000
for a water way between the great
lakes and the Gulf of Mexico. Ii
was evident from the start that the
delegates were emphatically opposed
water Chicago may turn into the
drainage canal.
Several lives reported lost. the
town of Catlin swept away by the
Cowlitz river, railroad traffic between
Puget sound and Portland at a stand
still. the railroads of western and
northwestern Washington in the same
condition, the Union Pacific and Ore
gon Railroad & Navigation track tenn
porarily blockaded by land slide at
Dodson, briefly summarizes the known
destruction wrought by the storm in
Washington.
The insurance department OF the
state of Connecticut has issued an of
fetal statement giving the figures of
the net amount of fire insurance paid
out by Connecticut companies by rea-
son of the San Francisco disaster.
The total amount is SIT 1868, 100.
Six Columbus, o., ice companies
and firms alleged to be in combina-
ton to control prices were indicted
for the third time, the first and Sec
ond indictments having been dis
missed by the court as defective.
Rev. DIR. James Mason Hoppin, pro-
fessor emeritus of art at Yale univer-
sity died in his eighty-sixth year from
disease incident to old age. He was
retired from active connection with
the art school in 1899
Official returns from county can.
vassing boards in Iowa gave Cum
Minis (Rep.) 20,453 plurality for gov.
ernor over Porter (Dem.) The total
vote was: Cummins. 2l6,505; Porter.
196,052 Cummins' plurality in 1903
was 1907.
Embodying a membership of over
million, claiming to represent more
than one-seventh of the entire popula-
ton of the country. the American So
ciety of Equity, the recently formed
national farmers union. Thursday be-
came affiliated with the American
Federation of Labor, now in conven-
ton at Minneapolis and agreed to an
interchange of labels.
Representative Bourke Cochran and
Miss Annie Ide, daughter of Henry
Clay Ide. formerly governo: general
of the Philippines, were married in
New York by the Rev. Father Nc
Kinnon of st. Ignatius church.
T. E. Larry pleaded guilty TO the
ENLIGHTENMENT of $1,000 funds belong
ing to the First National bank of
West, McLennon county, Texas,
where he was cashier, and was sen.
fenced to five years in the federal pen
.itentiary.
Thirty-eight kegs of dynamite ex-
ploded at the surface workings of the
DOotCh COPPCi IN
Bingham camp, near Salt Lake City.
The dead: Mike Coglietta. Fatally in
jured: Samuel Coglietta, N. Coglietta
Hurt seriously: John Monahan; may
lose both eyes; George Telegrino,
bead and face cut.
The Oregonian received a telephone
message that Seattle is cut of from
the surrounding county by floods.
Three lives have been lost The dam
age will run into the hundreds of thou
sands.
Harris Swimmer. grand foreman
of Illinois Ancient Order United Work
men, past president of B'nai Birth of
the middle west and prominent mer.
chant, died at Quincy, ILL.,, aged 81
years.
Mrs. Margaret Bottome. president
of the International Order OF the
Kings Daughters and Sons, and of
the women's branch of International
Medical missions. died at New York,
aged 79 years.
Colonial officials boarded the Amer.
lean herring schooner Ralph Hall at