The Yale expositor., 1906-07-20
SUMMARY OF A
WEEKS EVENTS
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.

tlOnal nOllday was marked Dy the Oln-
cial Journal publishing decree an
nouncing Dreyfus reinstatement and
promotion, and the inscription of hil
name on the list of chevaliers of the le-
oign of honor.
The scene of tumultuous disorder
which marked the enactment OF the
law restoring Alfred Dreyfus to the
French army was followed by a bloody
duel at night, in which Under Secre-
tary of State Sarraut was dangerously
wounded by the sword of Nj. Pugliesi-
CONT
At Nikolayev, Russia the represent
alive of a sugar fact Dry while going to
the bank was waylaid and robbed OF
$4,000 One of the robbers was cap
tured and the soldiers shot another.
The remainder of the band escaped.
Mrs. Edmund w. Pettus. wife OF
United States Senator Pettus from AL
ALBANIA, died at her home at Selma,
aged So years. She has been vi since
her return from Washington at the
close of the session Of congress.
At Mimi Novgord a fire which
broke out ragged for six hours before it
was checked. When it was finally eX'
tinguished 275 houses had been de-
stroyed and more than 5000 families
had been rendered homeless.
During drunken revels among Sla'
vonian laborers at Fogelsville, Pa, an
oil lamp was upset, setting fire to a
boarding house. Eight frame houses
were DESTROYED and Stefan John Evon'
&c, aged So, his son Michael Evonic,
aged %, and Michael Tebuth, aged 33,
were burned to death.
The battleships Illinois and Missouri
have had important changes made in
their mechanism, with a view to safe
guarding the officers and crew from
the liability of explosions of ammuni'
ton during gunfire.
A remarkable instance of the feeling
of Buddhists and Shintoists towards
Christians is furnished by the action
of their leaders, who have decided to
contribute voluntarily to the cost OF
rebuilding the Christian church, which
was destroyed during the disturbance
IN lOhlO last september.
An imperial trade calls 1900 re.
cruits to the colors for service at Ye'
men.
Consul General George r. Anderson
in a report to the bureau of manufac
lures from Rio Janeiro, charges that
while some bona fide Brazilian dia
mond mines may result profitably
that country is full of schemes which
are either out and out frauds or which
are based upon claims and facts sc
slight as to make them little less than
frauds.
The council of the empires accept
ance without amendment of parlia
ment's bill appropriating $7,500,0O0 fol
famine relief came as a surprise, but
has occasioned the greatest jubilatioI
in the camp of the lower house, as II
is regarded as a vote of lack of conf
dence in the Goremykin ministry OF
the part of the upper chamber.
Both Guatemala and Salvador have
accepted the tender of the good office.
of this government. looking to a settle
ment of their differences.
San Francisco is arising from IT!
ashes with a rapidity that surprises all
and building is progressing on al
sides.
Secretary Taft will return to Wash
ington before the beginning of October
but will leave again in the course of
week or two to enter into the Ohio
campaign, and early in November will
accompany the president to Panama.
The bureau of manufactures ha!
called attention TO a decree issued by
the president of the French republi,
June 13 reducing the duty upon cod
fish imported into the Island of Quad
eloupe from 1919 to $3.50 per 22t
pounds, this reduction to be effectiv,
until May 81 next.
The Salvadorian army attacked tn,
Guatemalan forces at Platanar and OBJ
tanned a victory over them. The Qua
temalans suffered loss of 1000 men II
killed, wounded and prisoners.
A former sailor named Shetenko
who was arrested confessed that h,
was the murderer of Chouknin.
An international swimming contes
at a distance of nine miles in the Sein,
was won by the French swimmer Roug
min In three hours and six minutes.
A train of two trolley cars, west
bound from Lockport on the lines o
the international railway, ran into an
open switch at a siding just east o.
Martinsville, N. Y. and crashed into
a trolley freight motor. Five passen
gers were killed outright, and a scor,
injured, some of whom may die.
In the United States appellate cour
at st. Louis, former Attorney Genera
Crow, of Missouri, for the government
began a searching investigation int,
the methods by which rates on Goa
are made and maintained by the rail
roads on the east side of the Misslss
ippi river.
The automobile bearing Vice Pres
iden Fairbanks and party from Dan
vile. ILL.,, to Champaign crashed into
a buggy driven by Joseph NJ. Dough
erty. The two vehicles came together
with a loud crash at a curve in tn
road, and Mr. Dougherty was thrown
mt and nafnfullv bruised