The Yale expositor., 1907-09-27

the Shakespearean productions OF
Richard Mansfield from the estate.
DIR. Charles A. Whitney, wealthy
New Yorker, and his son Lloyd be-
came reconciled when the latter had
been arrested on a begging charge.
The young man left home year ago
and was taken back.
News has reached the Vatican OF
the death OF Frederick Zadox Rocker.
the first American Roman Catholic
bishop of Jaro, Philippine Islands,
from paralysis of the brain.
A dispatch from Progreso. Mexico,
says the entire coast of Yucatan, ten
miles seward. Is strewn with dead
fish, presumably from submarine
eruption.
w. p. King, a Chicago railroad man
who was sent to the asylum for the
insane at Jacksonville, H.. was being
taken from that city to Bloomington
on a Chicago & Alton train when he
leaped through car window while
the train was going at full speed and
escaped. He had been discharged
from the asylum for shamming insan-
ity.
President Roosevelt announced the
appointment of Walter c. Noyes or
New London, Conn. as United States
circuit Judge to fill the vacancy
caused by the death of William X.
Townsend.
That the Standard Oil company Is
operating under the name of the Cor
scana Refining company in the state
of Texas, which has forbidden the oil
combine to operate within the state,
was indicated when Wesley II. Tilford,
treasurer of the Standard Oil company,
under examination in the govern
ments suit against the company, tes-
tilted that II. G. Folger and G. M.
Payne. who Frank Kellogg, the at
torney for the government, states con-
troll the Corsicana company, are prom
inent in the conduct of affairs of the
Standard Oil company. 1t was also
brought out that John ID. Rockefeller
personally owns more than one-fourth
of the Standard company and that his
personal profits in eight years were
nearly 1925, 100000.
Republicans of New Jersey nominal
ed Supreme Court Justice j. Franklin
Fort for governor.
Korean insurgents were reported to
be gathering to attack Seoul and Mar
quis Ito intimated that the continued
hostility of the Koreans might force
g. fhnfr
Plans were announced for President
Roosevelt's trip to the Mississippi
valley, which will include II days in
camp in the cane brakes of northeast
ern Louisiana, where game abounds.
The Canadian Pacific railway has
posed invasion of its territory by the
Grand Trunk and the Canadian North
ern by running an extension OF its
own north from Lethbridge into the
heart of the wheat country that the
other roads are preparing to cross.
An entire family in Allegheny, Pa,
was poisoned, presumably by homi-
cidal maniac who has killed a large
number of dogs and horses there.
Mrs. Elizabeth NJ. Holmes, who
WIS elected from the White House in
January, 1906, after a series of at
tempts to interview the president, was
adJudged insane in Brooklyn.
Thirty-four persons were killed and
many injured in a collision on the
Mexican Central railroad at Encar-
nacion.
Because she had persistently re-
fused to marry him Henry Fischner,
New York baker, shot and instantly
killed Miss Johanna Hoffman and ia
tally wounded himself.
Joseph Harrison, convicted of alb
duction in North Carolina and denied
a new trial, committed suicide In
Norfolk. Va. as the police were about
to arrest him.
Droga Seigel, an heiress, 20 years OF
age, and daughter of a colonel In the
Austrian army, now dead, was fatally
shot in New York by julius Hoffman,
a married man and formerly a lieu
tenant OF Col. Siegel's regiment. The
tragedy was the outcome of jealousy
on the part of Hoffman, who. after
shooting Miss Seigel, tried to shoot
himself but was prevented by the dy-
ing girl.
The two-cent fare law, enacted at
the recent session of the Pennsylvania
legislature, was adjudged invalid. I'M
constitutional and void in its applica
ton to the Susquehanna River & West
ern Railway company.
The governor general of the Philip.
pines has issued formal proclama.
ton converting the national assembly
on October 16. Plans have been made
to render the inaugural session of the
assembly a brilliant function.
Trouble has arisen over the extra
dition Of w. H. Adsell, accused OF
murder at Hongkong. He took refuge
on the American warship Galveston at
Chefoo and the American authorities
insist on trying him themselves.
A Japanese steamer, the Tafoo
Maru, has been burned three miles
off Ching Kiang. on the right hank of