The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1907-03-08

TO gruelling cross-examination by
yhief Wilkie and Capt. Porter of the
secret service concerning the $4,000
robbery, attacked a reporter in the
federal building and threatened to
kill him.
Dr. Claudio whitman was elected
president of Uruguay In succession to
Jose Battle y Ordonez.
The whipping post was revived in
Maryland, Sadler Brooks. colored. be-
Ing sentenced TO receive nine lashes,
in addition to a Jail sentence OF two
months. for brutally beating his wife.
Frank M. Mabry, well-known bank
er OF McGregor. Tex. was sentenced
to five years in the Leavenworth peni-
Tertiary for embezzlement from a ma
tional bank.
The Y. M. C.. A. building at Utica. N.
Y, was destroyed by fire. The loss
will be upward of $4,000.
At the annual meeting of the Wash
ington Alumni association of Andover
academy. Sir Chentung LANG Cheng,
Chinese minister to the United States,
was elected president of the associa-
ton.
Orson d. Num- head of Mum & Co..
publishers of the Scientific Americon,
died at his home in New York in his
eighty-third year.
Sir Henry Hozier. formerly secre-
tary of Lloyds, London, died at An
con, Panama. after 4 long illness.
The gasoline schooner Bessie X.
of San Francisco. has been reported
bottom up 10 miles northwest of Cape
Blanco, off the coast of Oregon.
The Dutch mail steamer Konigin
England, went ashore during a thick
fog on a dyke near Flushing. She
had 80 passengers on board.
Sir Francis Plunkett, former Brit
fish ambassador at Vienna. died in
Paris. He was born in 1885.
The town of Washington, Ark, was
partially destroyed by tornado and
two persons were killed.
Wilhelm Rapp, editor OF the Illi-
nois Staats-Zeitung, died in Chicago,
aged 80.
The mixing mill at the Rand Pow
der company's plant at Dossett, Tenn,
blew up. killing four men.
Joseph Letter, owner of the town OF
Zeigler, ILL.,, and coal mines at that
place, was found guilty OF allowing
his mines to be inspected by a per-
son not having a certificate of COM
potency. The case grew out of an ex-
plosion in one of Letters mines, kill
ing 81 miners.
The Nebraska house passed the
anti-pass bill.
Six persons were injured in a rush
to escape from a burning trolley car
in Brooklyn, N. Y.
Street car traffic and telegraph and
telephone service in Des Moines. Ia,
were tied up by heavy sleet storm.
A Baltimore & Ohio passenger train
went into the ditch near Connellsville,
Pa. and was entirely burned. The
engineer was killed, the fireman fatal
ly injured and the baggagemaster, ex-
press messenger, conductor and six
passengers were seriously injured.
About 80 passengers were more or
less cut and bruised.
The lower house of the California
Legislature passed the "anti-alien prop
erty holding BILL" intended to prevent
Japanese and Chinese from acquiring
and holding property for longer than
five years.
The Salvation Army opened anti
suicide bureaus in the large cities, to
assist and advise those who are con-
templating self-destruction.
Senator Bailey was denounced as
an abusive. insulting liar by the
Texas legislators whom he scored
after his generation
J. A. Pitkin, bank president, manu-
facturer and capitalist. died at Kala-
mazoo, Mich.
Eddie Tate, under arrest, implicated
three Peoria residents in the robbery
of the school board vault when evil
dence against N. c. Dougherty was
stolen.
Samuel Beatty. of Wellston, o., was
awarded SOL for the loss of luxuriant
whiskers in a gas explosion.
Three trainmen were killed In a COL
lision on the Burlington at Charlton,
la.
The San Francisco board of super
visors declared forfeited to the city
and county of San Francisco the fran
chise and works Of the Spring Valley
Water company
Rev. Joseph NJ. Ardia, the Oldest
member of the Society of Jesus in the
world, died at Loyola college, Balti-
more, aged 81 years.
A Michigan Central engine blew up
at Hammond Ind, killing the fireman
and injuring the engineer
A bomb exploded in the cathedral
1t Madrid while service was being
held. There was great panic among
the congregation and ten persons sus-
tanned serious injuries.
BY an explosion Of dynamite at
Carmi. ILL.,. Rev. J. b. Title, his father,
his wife and baby were killed, and two
children of the family were fatally in
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