The Yale expositor., 1907-08-16

congress, which was LED IN the
academy of medicine at Paris, elected
Prof K. s. Talbot, of Chicago, to be
first honorary president.
Gov. Conner of Alabama and officials
OF the Southern railway reached an
agreement by which the company Is
to put the new laws into effect Sep
TENDER 1. pending court decisions. and
the state is to restore its license.
The Democratic executive commit
tee of Mississippi announced that Con-
gresham Williams was the nominee
for senator by majority of GAS votes,
and Gov. Vardaman accepted the re-
suit.
An enormous amount of damage has
been done to the grain crops, orchards
and vineyards in many parts OF Aus
tria by heavy storms, and several vii
lagos in eastern Bohemia have been
devastated by cyclone.
N. F. Frazier president of the Citi-
zens' State bank, a pioneer and one OF
Kansas wealthy men, died at his
home in FL Dorado. Kan, aged 81
years.
Four trainmen were killed and
three seriously injured in a head-on
collision between a local freight and
an extra freight train on the Western
& Atlantic railroad, near Dalton. Ga.
The joint convention of the United
Mine Workers of America and the
operators representing every mine in
Wyoming reached an agreement which
means permanent peace in the Wyo-
ming coal field.
Mrs Russell Sage has given $4,000
for a new building for the Long Island
railroad employees branch of the Young
Mems Christian association at Long
Island City.
The American Spice Trade associa-
ton, the first organization ever known
in the spice trade, has been effected
in New York. Fffty-six of the most
important concerns of the various Gen.
ters were represented.
Since the San Francisco fire, accord
ing to the figures given out by the
California promotion committee, q
100000 barrels OF cement. or about
OOO,OOO NOnc, nave UCCh uoCu III lC-
building operations.
At the funeral of Anna Markowitz,
the Dayton CO., girl who was mysteri-
ously murdered near the scene of the
Dona Gilman tragedy, the officiating
rabbi cursed the ground where the
crime was committed.
Edward Mulvaney of Brooklyn
knocked down and killed Robert Sea-
lander. a contractor, his prospective
father-in-law. The killing was the out
come of an effort as peacemaker by
Mulvaney in a quarrel between Sea-
lander and his son.
Western Union operators at Los
Angeles struck because the company
refused to reinstate a discharged
man. The boilermakers in the South.
ern Pacific's shops walked out Brick.
layers of Washington voted to join the
other building trades in their strike.
Miss Katherine Eddy, daughter Of
Mr.. and Mrs. Augustus N. Eddy. of
Chicago, and niece of Mrs. Marshall
Field, was married to Senator Albert
]. Beveridge, of Indiana, in the Amer.
lean embassy at Berlin. The religious
ceremony was preceded by a civil one.
Mounted on a white palfrey and
decorously clothed in masses of hair,
pink fleshings, and clouds of gauze,
a modern Lady Godiva gave repre-
sentation of the historic ride through
the streets Of Coventry. England.
Cyclones struck Clear Lake, Lake
Mills and Hanlontown, Ia. causing
one death and great damage. WI
mona, Mimi; Springfield. Ill, and 9TH
er places suffered severely from furi-
Gus wind and transforms.
Threefourths of the Golden Cycle
Mining company's million dollar re-
duction plant, in the foot hills south
of Colorado City, Col, was destroyed
by fire. Loss estimated at $750.000.
Insurance, 100000.
A race between two big automo-
biles from Milwaukee to Okauchee
ended in a frightfu1 accident to one
of the cars. which resulted in the
death of two of it's occupants and
painful though not fatal injury to two
others.
Venezuela advised Belgium that In
recognition of the principle of arbitra-
ton she would pay the disputed claim
of Belgian creditors, amounting to
81, 200. 900. in conformity with the deci-
sion of The Hague tribunal.
Michele Berardinelle of New York.
special agent of the department of JUS
tice, has begun an investigation Of
Italian peonage in st. Louis.
AT a conference of representatives
OF more than 40 silk mills in Scranton,
Pa, it was unanimously agreed that
1t would be impossible to grant a
shorter work day to silk workers, g.
600 OF whom are now on strike.
The grand jury Of Perry county
Alabama, returned an indictment
against the Southern Railway COM
pany for doing a business as foreign
company without a license. This ac
ton was taken as a result of Secretary
Of State Julian's action in revoking
the charter of the company.
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