The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1907-11-15
MISCELLANEOUS.

The leading New York banks were
exerting themselves actively to meet
the demands of their country CORE
spondents and depositors for currency.
They declared that the suggestions
made from several western sources
that they were not meeting legitimate
demands for currency from the west
were entirely unfounded and that
they were, on the contrary, taking
every practicable measure to aid the
west and south.
Albert Krippendoffer, missing son
of a Cincinnati millionaire, has been
found at the ST. Francis hotel in San
Francisco.
The series of crimes in Berlin re-
sembling the Jack the Ripper muir
ders in London in 1SSS-1SS9, only that
the victims were little girls instead Of
women, has been cleared up through
the confession of an epileptic printers
apprentice named Paul Minow.
A terrific earthquake occurred at
Unalaska and Mccullough peak, which
was created by an earthquake nearly
a year ago, and extended over 3,4OO
feet above the sea, has dwindled to al
most nothing as a result of submarine
disturbances.
Fire on the docks of Superior, Wis,
destroyed a number of big elevators,
mills and other buildings, the total
loss being estimated at $3,00O,000
Crazed by the death of her mother,
Miss Helen Schwab, % years old,
drank a half pint of poison, and then
cast herself from the roof of the sew
en-story apartment house in New
York. She was almost instantly
killed.
The warehouse of the Northern
Cooperage company at st. Paul, Mimi,
was destroyed by fire. Two men are
missing
Chief Wilkie, of the secret service,
reports the discovery of new coun-
terfeit ten-dollar national bank note.
The counterfeit is on the Wells Fargo
Nevada National bank, of San Fran
cisco.
Charles Frary and his wife, an aged
couple Of Saybrook, o., were killed by
Lake Shore passenger train near
Ashtabula, o.
The building occupied by the whole
sale grocery firm of Ruffner Bros. in
Charleston, w. Va, was destroyed by
fire, entailing loss of 100000. Capt.
J. j. Foley, of the fire department, and
John Dewey, shipping clerk, were
burned to death.
Rear Admiral Henry w. Lyon re-
tired from the navy on account OF
having reached the age limit of serv-
fee.
David ]. Hill, American minister to
the Netherlands, will succeed Mr.
Tower as ambassador to Berlin.
Edward II. Hall, cashier, died at
New York of myxoedema, a rare dis
ease caused by handling paper
money.
The commercial telegraphers' unions
IN Chicago, New York and other cities
called off the strike.
An insane woman, nursing a fancied
grievance, deliberately fired the Kane
county almshouse at Batavia, ILL.,, and
40 demented patients narrowly es
capped horrible death.
BY the explosion OF dinky engine
boiler at the La Belle Iron works al
Steubenville. o., FIVE men we're killed
Gray Gables, formerly the summer
home OF Grover Cleveland at Buz-
yards Bay, has been sold, according to
reports at Fall River, Mass, to George
Flynn, brewer.
The boilers of the German school
ship Butcher exploded and 1t was re
ported that eight men were killed and
many injured.
Raymond Hitchcock, the indicted
comedian. who had been missing. ap
peared in court in New York. pleaded
not guilty and was released on bail.