The Yale expositor., 1907-02-15

The South Dakota house killed the
two-cent rate bill.
Col. w. Warder. poet, novelist and
builder of the Kansas City Auditori-
um, is dead.
Congressman-elect George X. Fav-
rot was indicted at Baton Rouge. La,
for the murder of DR.. Harry Aldrich.
Smiley n. Chambers. who was fed
eral district attorney for Indiana dur
ing President Harrison's administra-
ton. died in Indianapolis.
James Stillman, president OF the
National City bank, New York, is Sc
riously i'll in Paris.
Three Cinnamon were convicted in
Philadelphia of numbering another
oriental.
Rear Admiral William w. Mead was
retired on account of age.
Fred G.. Gilman, the Goodland Qnd)
banker who was arrested for embez-
element, was sentenced to the Indiana
state prison for a term of one to three
years.
John d. Rockefeller announced a
gift of 1000, 900 in income bearing
securities to the general education
board He had previously given the
board $11 100000.
Three men were killed and four
badly injured when the Great West
ern Omaha fast mail jumped the
track at German Valley, Ill.
Pittsburg citizens were forced TO go
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supply short.
BY a party vote of 20 to IL the
Jim Grow" bill was passed in the
Missouri senate.
Edinburg, N. d., appealed to the in
terstate commerce commission. say
ing il was In urgent need of fuel and
trains in three weeks.
Thomas Lowry, president of the
Minneapolis, st. Paul & Ste. Marie
railroad, donated $4,000 to the Lom-
bard Universalist college at Gales
burg, III. This completed an endow-
ment fund of 100000.
The house committee on the Dis
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report on the Murphy bill which
makes it unlawful to either give or
receive tips in any hotel or eating
house in the District of Columbia.
Troops and gendarmes participated
in the expulsion of the students from
seminary at Nice, France.
]. w. Simpson. the dentist of Riv-
erhead, L. l., was acquitted of the
murder of his father-in-law.
Six Japanese were drowned at Sac
ramento. Cal, when a gasoline launch
struck the draw of the railroad bridge
across the Sacramento river and cap
sized
In high quarters in Stockholm the
statement is made that King Oscar in.
tends to abdicate in favor of Crown
Prince Gustaf June 6.
Eight employees of the Insurance
Stove, Range & Foundry company,
Covington and Cincinnati, were terri
bly, burned by a shower of molten
iron, following a gas explosion.
John M. Egan, president of the
Union Depot company of Kansas City,
has resigned his position, to which a
salary of $4,000 was attached, and
has accepted a position with South
American railroad company.
Fifteen woodcutters were over
whelmed by an avalanche in the Mus.
eel district of the Pennsylvania noun
tains, Roumania. All the men were
dead when they were dug out of the
snow.
Ex-Congressman BENJAMIN w. Har.
ris died at his home in Bridgewater,
Mass, aged SO years. He was known
as the father of the new navy"
Rt. Hon. George ]. Goshen wis
count Goshen), former chancellor Of
the exchequer, died in England.
Preston H. Leslie died at his home
in Helena, Mont, aged IS years. He
had been governor of Kentucky and Of
the territory of Montana.
An unknown three-mastcd schooner
was lost with all hands on the Dia-
mond shoals off Cape Hatteras.
1t was reported that John F. Stew
ems, chief engineer of the Panama
canal, threatened to resign II the gov
eminent decides to build the canal by
contract.
The London Pilgrims gave a fare
well banquet to James Bryce. new am.
bassador of Great Britain to the Unit
ed States.
Senator Richard w. Morgan was ex.
PEELED from the Colorado senate for &C.
cepting a bride.
France conferred on Edward p. AL.
lis, Jr., of Milwaukee, the knighthood
Of the Legion of Honor for his re-
searches in science.
Frank p. Nantz, of the firm of
Lane & Nantz, Minneapolis lawyers.
has been appointed collector OF rev.
enue of Porto Rico. with headquarters
at San Juan, at salary Of $4,000 per
year.
The Gloucester schooner Gleason
rammed a liner on the Newfoundland
banks. smashing her own bow. and
her crew of Is was rescued by the
steamer
Prof. William G.. Pickett, one of the
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