The Yale expositor., 1906-12-28
Frank B. Sargent, commissioner Of

cisco. The Nippon Maru was fined
81 900 for violating the law prohibit
ing a foreign boat from carrying pas
sengers between American ports.
Thieves looted the residence of G..
V. Stein. at Hinsdale, near Chicago.
Of $4,000 worth of silver and jewelry.
About 100000 ballots were cast in
the election of trustees of the New
York and Mutual Life insurance com.
panies and both sides claimed the
victory.
Proceedings brought by the state
of Missouri to GUST the Standard OIL
company, of Indiana, the Waters
Pierce Oil company and the Republic
Oil company from Missouri were re-
sumed before Commissioner Robert
A. Anthony in New York.
The interstate commerce commits
sion received reports from 20 towns
in the northwest revealing fuel fam.
inc which imperls scores of lives.
George s. McReynolds of Chicago
was convicted of fraud ulently remov-
ing grain from warehouses.
Charges have been preferred by a
conductor of a train from Pensacola
10 Fort Barrancas, alleging thai SOL
diers at that post fired on his car
from ambush.
Mrs. Howard Powers, wife of the
manager of The McFadden's Flats"
company, committed suicide in Col
dmbus, O., by shooting. On the stage
she was known as Dollle Powers.
George Sutton defeated Willie
Hoppe at 1872 balk line billiards In
New York, retaining the champion
ship.
The Interstate Commission COM
pany. which has headquarters in Col
umbus, o., and brokerage houses in a
number of cities in northern Ohio,
closed its doors.
Harry Kendall Thaw will be put on
trial January 81 for the murder OF
stanford White.
The emperor of japan has ex-
pressed his desire to decorate Am
bassador Mccormick for his services
to Japan in st. Petersburg.
Gov. Folk of Missouri has sued st.
Louis for 1888 back salary as circuit
attorney.
Arthur A. McKain. of indianapolis,
president of the Indiana Manufacture
ing company, placed his business af-
fairs In the hands of three trustees
for the benefit of his creditors. His
assets, according to one of the trus-
tees. amount to 100000. with liabili-
ties of $4,000.
The body of Sir John Long. Scotch
member Of parliament, who died at
Oakland, Cal, last week, was cremat-
ed and the ashes win be taken home
by his widow.
Col. Andrew Jackson, son of the
adopted son of President Jackson,
died in Knoxville, Tenn. He was born
in 1884 at the Hermitage, the home
of "Old Hickory"
The Ann Arbor railway and the To.
ledo Ice and Coal company have been
indicted for giving and receiving re-
bates.
The Butler opera house and two
other structures were burned at Pat
erson, n. j.
New York police are searching for
Gabriel Hit and a woman named
Louise Luoys, who are charged with
stealing $4,000 worth of jewelry.
Fire that broke out in Marysville.
CAL, destroyed the warehouse and
barn Of White, Cooley & Cults. A dy-
Mantle explosion injured a number OF
persons, ]. ]. Bradley, chief of the fire
department, being one OF the most
seriously hurt. The loss was $4,000.
Lord Dunmore, of England, visited
Mrs. Mary Baker G. Eddy at Concord,
n. H. He said he was struck with the
remarkable vigor of her mind.
Secretary Taft intimates in a re-
port on Cuba that the island republic
will be absorbed by the United States
II there is another insurrection.
A hundred half frozen passengers
were forced to ride a locomotive for
IL miles late at night, because of a
wreck on the Detroit, Toledo & Iron
ton railway, south of Ottawa, o., when
broken rail sent all the coaches
plunging into an embankment.
In the first six months of 1906 near.
ly 10000 Italians arrived at Ellis
island, New York, of whom 1888
we're assisted by the society for Ital-
ian immigrants.
Justice Stafford, in criminal court In
Washington, named Monday, Febru-
airy 4, as the date for the beginning
of the trial OF Representative Binger
Hermann, of Oregon, charged with
the destruction of certain letter press
copybooks when he retired from the
Office of commissioner of the general
land Office.
Japanese Ambassador Aoki said the
Idea that Japan and the United
States would fight was too absurd to
be considered.
Cardinal Richard vacated his palace
in Paris and his friends made a great
demonstration.
Cotton mill operatives numbering
10000. employed in different sections
of New England, received an advance
in wages, or a promise of advance at
an early date.
During a heavy fog on the British
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