The Yale expositor., 1907-11-01

lagos was done by the earthquake In
Italy, but the loss of life was believed
not to be great.
The Illinois supreme court affirmed
the convictions of John A. Cooke for
embezzlement while circuit clerk OF
Cook county and of George S. Nc
Reynolds for embezzlement.
M. Inber. political editor of the
Odessa Novasto, was sentenced to
four months Imprisonment in fort
ress by the court at Elizabethgrad on
the charge of having published an un-
true statement
Ensign Charles b. Ulmo, of the
French navy, was arrested at Toulon.
charged with being spy. He con-
fessed to having distracted a secret
signal book and the naval cipher.
1t was estimated that 600 persons
lost their lives in the Italian earth
quake.
Morris Paul. Chicago store keeper,
confessed that he set fire to his place
so that he could have fire sale"
A mixing mill of the Atlantic Dyna-
mite company, about six miles from
glycerin exploding. Four men were
killed and many injured.
Miss Helen Miller Gould was ac-
corded the honors of general officer
of the American army by the officers
and soldiers at Fort Leavenworth in a
review of the troops.
Eighteen thousand dollars in gold
and currency, supposed to have been
shipped by Chicago bank to a bank
in Oshkosh, Wis, was stolen from the
Office of the United States Express
company in the Union station at Mil
waukee.
Ruth Anderson, OF Vincennes, Ind,
disappointed in love, drank poison,
walked to the morgue, lay down on a
slab and died.
Ute Indians on the Cheyenne river
reservation threatened an outbreak
and troops were called for. but the In
dian police quoted the uneasy red
skins.
The Hennepin canal was opened
with ceremony at Sterling. Ill.
Counsel for Count Won Moltke in his
libel suit against Editor Harden, of
Berlin, said he would ask Emperor
William to testify.
Ten thousand striking levee cot
ton handlers at New Orleans agreed
to resume work pending arbitration.
Miss Catharine Cullom Ridgely.
elder daughter of the comptroller of
the currency, and Phelps Brown, of
indianapolis, Ind, son of the late
Sevellon Brown, for many years chief
clerk of the state department. were
married in Washington.
Thomas G. jenkins, well known in
the wholesale grocery and flour trade
of the central west for nearly half
century, died at his home in Ale
gheny. Pa.
Four hundred Chinese who had just
landed near Santa Cruz, Mexico, made
an attack on the English ship Wool
witch and fatally injured several sail
ors. The Chinese were incensed be-
cause 200 of their number were being
held on board the ship by the sanitary
inspector.
Federal Judge Dayton at Wheeling,
w. Va, issued an injunction restrain
ing John Mitchell, president; T. L..
Lewis, vice president. and the district
officers of the United Mine Workers
of America from organizing or inter
fering in any way with about 1000
nonunion miners employed by the
Hickman Coal company, Glendale
Coal company and the Richland Coal
company, located in the Wheeling dis
trict.
An involuntary petition in bank.
ruptcy was filed at Birmingham, Ala,
against the Southern Steel company.
William Lepper an aged resident of
Laramie, Wyo., shot and perhaps fatal
ly wounded ex-Judge Charles w.
Brammell, then killed himself. Bran.
NELL had been his lawyer in some
long-drawn-out litigation.
The employees of the New York Cen.
trail railroad, 1t is reported, will strike
unless given raises in wages.
Miss Helen M. Gould was present
at the dedicatory services of the new
army Y. NJ. c. A. building at Fort
Leavenworth, given to the soldiers by
Miss Gould.
A census of the high buildings in
New York shows that II all the sky.
scrapers were piled one on top of an.
other the pile would be 5000 stories
high. The highest Is 4S stories.
Embarrassed by the stringency OF
the money market. four Westinghouse
companies at Pittsburg and one trust
company went into the hands of re
ceivers. All were said to be solvent.
The German balloon Pommern
which landed at Asbury Park, $50
miles from st. Louis, won the inter
national aeronautic cup. The French
balloon LIsle de France was second
with S75. Lincoln Beachey, of To
ledo, o., won first prize in the dirigi
BILE airship race.
President Roosevelt reached the
White House from his southern trip
He expressed himself as thoroughly
pleased with his trip but glad to be
at home again.