The Yale expositor., 1906-12-21


court will hereafter wear a uniform
dress coat on the bench. 1t is Prince
Albert in cut, somewhat long and
with silk-faced lapels.
Antonio Cassiamano, an Italian OF
Irvington, n. Y, is seriously Ill from
having eaten a porous plaster, which
the doctor prescribed for pain in his
chest.
Four hundred persons have typhoid
fever in Pittsburg. Doctors have
been forced to send patients to the
municipal hospital because of the
crowded condition of other hospitals.
Two officers of the negro troops who
took part in the Brownsville riot were
ordered before a court-martial for
trial
Strife between the Roman Catholic
church and the French government
may be ended by the announcement
of Cardinal Richard, archbishop of
Paris, that. while members of the
clergy are forbidden to do so. laymen
may conform to the terms of the sep
: aration law.
The Belgian chamber of deputies
voted to accept the terms of King
Leopold's will for the annexation of
the Congo.
The Standard Oil company advanced
the wages of all employees receiving
less than 500 a month 10 per cent
William A. Heron, for "a years
president of the Peoria Savings bank,
died at the age of 81 years.
The interstate commerce commits
sion sent an appeal to presidents of
western and northwestern railways to
relieve the suffering due to the car
shortage.
Cardinal Gibbons declared the
French separation law was tremen-
dous injustice TO the Roman Catholic
church, and asked the sympathy of
America in the crisis.
Roman Catholic priests in France
held services in defiance of the sepa-
ration law and many were summoned
| in court.
A boy was killed in the gallery Of
the Majestic theater, Chicago, with
an umbrella by a man who was an
gered by his applause.
Andrew Carnegie. speaking before
the National Civic Federation in New
York, said the major part of the es-
tates of enormously wealthy men
should go to the state at the death of
the owners of the fortunes. Melville
E. ingalls, spoke in favor of income
and Inheritance taxes.
w. X. Vanderbilt, while speeding
his big racing automobile along the
shore Of Lake Success, Long Island,
was hurled into the ice-coated lake by
the swapping of the front axle of the
machine, but escaped without serious
injury.
King Oscar, of Sweden, critically i'll
with heart affection at Stockholm, was
reported to be failing fast.
German emperor dissolved the
reichstag and ordered new elections
following defeat of the government
on the African bill.
The female suffragists of London
made another attempt to hold a meet
ing within the precincts of the house
Of commons, and as a result five wo-
men and one man were arrested after
an exciting fight with tho police.
Fire, probably of incendiary origin,
destroyed the Charles II. Mears e Co.
lumber yard at Chicago, drove several
families from their homes, and caused
$4,000 damage.
The majority report of the commit
tee appointed by the last Wisconsin
state senate to investigate the feast.
bility of establishing a state life in
surance department in Wisconsin, is
not in favor OF having the state go
into the life insurance business be-
cause it does not find it feasible al
this time.
Brazil has granted to a New, York
syndicate a concession for building
and carrying on large harbor works
at Para, one of the principal CONNER
cial centers in North Brazil The to
tai cost of the work will be about SIS.
600. 900.
The lifeless bodies of Father G. S
Quinn, formerly assistant pastor of st
| ASutS thulCu OF AlldHNlC T1lSDldnOS
N. j., and Miss Bridget Kiley, until
recently housekeeper at the st. Agnes
parish house, were found in a room
at New York boarding house. The
room was filled with gas, which was
escaping from a half-open jet
Letters patent were issued by the
British government, granting a con
stitution to the Transvaal Manhood
suffrage is provided and the assembly
will be elected for five years.
William l.. Brown, formerly publish
er OF the New York Daily News, diet
at his country home in Great Barring
ton. Mass. He was Ga years of age.
The United States Steel corpora
tons improvements to existing plant!
planned and the construction Of the
steel city" at Gary, Ind, call for an
expenditure of 100000, 900 in 1907, &C
cording to an oficial statement giver
out in New York
Edouard Muller, vice president O
the federal council, was elected presi
dent of the Swiss confederation, IL
| succession To M I, Eerrer whose for !