The Yale expositor., 1906-12-21

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Judge Robert r. Lewis on DR.. James
d. Eggleston, son of President Eggles-
ton. OF the Pacific Express company.
who was convicted OF scounterfeiting
and making Photographic negatives Of
$40 bill.
Jesse Clyde Rumsey, the Chicago
boy who robbed the Alton burlington
train on November % and the Rock
Island limited on November 8. both
near Glasgow, Mo, pleaded guilty and
was sentenced to 20 years in the peni-
Tertiary.
The Cummings Commission COM
pany, one of the largest and best
known brokerage houses in st. Paul
and Minneapolis, suspended business.
Prof. Henry Fairfield Osborn, Of
New York, who a few days ago was
elected SECRETARY of the Smithsonian
Institution by the board of regents,
has informed the regents that he will
be unable 10 accept the office.
Former United States Senator Ar.
! thur Brown, of Utah, who was shot in
! his apartments at the Hotel Raleigh,
Washington, by Mrs. Anna NJ Brad
ley of Salt Lake City, died at the
Emergency hospital.
President Roosevelt was criticised
in caustic terms by Senator Rayner,
of Maryland. for his threat to use
force to open San Francisco schools
to the Japanese.
The clergy of Paris issued special
! appeals to their parishioners to be
present at the churches at the first
mass celebrated outside the pale of
the law. The government purposes to
proceed gently.
The divorce case brought by Au-
gustus Hartje, millionaire paper man.
ufacturer, of Pittsburg, was decided
in favor of Mrs. Hartje. The children
remain with their mother. Hartje
must pay all the court costs.
It is reported in Honolulu. and de-
MED in Washington, that two regi-
ments of japanese, completely Off
cered, are in Honolulu disguised as
laborers.
The vegetable canning factory of
]. p. Polk & Co. at Greenwood, Ind,
burned down. the loss being 100000.
Former Postmaster Gilbert Meeks.
Of Nichols, Ga, was sentenced to one
year imprisonment and to pay a fine
of S2,06S for embezzlement.
The jury in the case of 9. +. How
ell. president of the Omaha Coal Ex-
change, charged in company with the
70 other members with maintaining
a trust, in violation of the state law,
returned a verdict of guilty
The Farmers and Drovers' Nation
al bank, of Waynesburg, Pa, was
closed by direction of the comptroller
Of the currency, and National Bank
Examiner John b. Cunningham has
been appointed receiver. The assets
and liabilities are s2,367,474.
Six armed men held up the Interna-
tional bank at Petersburg. Russia,
and escaped with $14.500
Representative of the orthodox and
reformed Hebrew congregations of
New York joined in protest before
the committee on elementary schools
against the observance of Christmas
festivities in the public schools
Lord Curzon, of Kedleston, former
viceroy of India, will not be the next
British ambassador to America, ac-
cording to a statement made by Lady
Curzon's brother-in-law, the Earl Of
Suffolk.
Samuel Dodd president of the In
ternational Silver company, whose
principal Office is in Meriden, Conn,
died very suddenly at his home of
valvular disease of the heart.
One hundred and twenty additional
American teachers are wanted in the
Philippines for the next school year,
according to a cablegram received
from Manila by the bureau of insular
affairs.
Christmas boxes and parcels for the
enlisted men of the navy serving in
Cuban waters will be delivered with
out cost If they are addressed in
charge of the depot quartermaster,
Newport News, Va.
The Infanta Maria Teresa, sister Of
King Alfonso, of Spain, and who was
married January IL to Prince Ferdi-
nand of Bavaria, gave birth to a son.
DR.. Royner S. Paddington, pastor
of the Herkimer street Methodist
church, Brooklyn, died of heart fail
ure. aged 20 years. For 20 years he
was member of the Detroit NJ. f..
conference.
Fourteen merchants and business
men. of East st. Louis, entered pleas
of guilty to charges of violating the
Illinois child labor laws, and were
fined
bat" Masterson and two editors
of the New York Telegraph were ar
rested on charges of criminal con-
tempt of court because of the reports
of the Gillette trial printed in that
paper.
Joseph g. Kearns, who was captured
after robbing a Great Bend, Kan,
bank in broad daylight. confessed to
J having robbed the Midland Natl nal
bank at Newton, Kan, November 3.
San Francisco proposes to have a
worlds fair in 1913. The Pacific