The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1907-03-08

theirs e. Guthrie, and rated as a NIL.
lionaire. died at st. Paul, MINI.
Charles Simpson, a rich farmer,
hanged himself near Litchfield, III.
Amor Smith was appointed surveyor
OF customs at Cleveland, o.
Charles l.. Romberger, secretary OF
the Leslie e. Kelley company in
Dwight, ILL.,, died. He was AZ years Of
age.
Matthew Powderly, recently APP
pointed member of the police force
at Bloomington, H., was found dead
in an alley on his beat with a bullet
laid five feet away.
Advices from Panama are to the
effect that there will be general
conflict throughout Central America
unless the United States or Mexico
intervenes.
Maj Seely OF the British army de-
clared before the house of commons
that his experience in the Boer war
taught him that married soldiers were
the bravest.
Thomas Baldwin. a rich farmer and
former merchant of Colfax. H., shot
and killed Charles Kennedy and wife
and Mrs. Sim Eisman and daughter
Cora
The seed house of the Buckeye Oil
company at Jackson, Miss. burned. the
loss being 100000.
| Wendell Phillips Garrison. son of
William Lloyd Garrison. the abolition.
list, and for more than 40 years editor
of the New York Nation, died at
hospital at South Orange, n. j., at the
age OF sc.
The Porto Rico assembly passed
bill abolishing the death penalty.
William WEIGH, believed to be the
Oldest citizen of New Hampshire, the
Oldest member of the G.. A. R., and the
oldest Mason in the United States,
died at East Lampster, n. H., aged
nearly 107.
E. II. Hartman told the interstate
commerce commission that Stuyves.
ant Fish was deposed from the presi
dency of the Illinois Central because
he used the company's funds to fur
Their his own interests.
+. II. Hartman was before the in
terstate commerce commission all
day. partly explaining and trying to
| justify the financial transactions OF
himself and others in connection with
the Chicago & Alton railway deal.
Charles w. billiard. controller of
the Alton road. told the interstate
commerce commission the company's
xrhn
was turned over to the Rock Island.
Col. Hams and Benjamin Harrod
are to retire from the Panama canal
| commission.
Second Assistant Postmaster Gen.
eral Shallenberger resigned and 1t was
| given out that his successor would be
Representative T. j. McCleary, of Min
nesota.
Two clerks in the Hamilton Ma
tional bank of Chicago were arrested
for the embezzlement OF $4,000.
Two officials of the Lost Bullion
Spanish Mine company were arrested
in Denver, Col, for fraud
Senator Bailey was exonerated by
the Texas house and bitterly excori-
ated his accusers.
Nine. Robineau said TO have been
the oldest person in Paris, is dead.
| She was born in 1900 and had been
i'll but twice in her life.
The municipality of ST. Petersburg
decided TO open IS meat markets
where the poor may buy meat at cost.
Six rurales were murdered in their
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rious Mexican bandit.
James W. Conner, president of the
New Louisiana Jockey club and prom
| inent in st. Louis cotton and stock ex-
change circles for years, died follow.
ing an operation for intestinal trouble.
The Des Moines, Iowa. street rail.
way was declared in court decision
to have a perpetual franchise.
The district court of Minnesota de-
cided ths electric trolley lines Of the
state had no right Of eminent domain
Baron Charles V. Bendetti of Flor
ence, Italy. and Miss Jeanette Locke,
grand opera singer of Lexington,
KY. were married in New York.
During a heavy fog an accommoda-
ton train on the Wabash railroad
and freight train came into collision
near Mexico. Mo-, resulting in the
death of the passenger engineer and
injury to 20 others.
The plant Of the old vincennes Dis
tilling company at Vincennes, Ind,
was partly destroyed by fire. The loss
is estimated at $4,000.
The Indiana house OF representa-
tives passed a bill appropriating $5,-
600 for a. statue Of Gen. Lew Wallace
to be placed in Statuary Hall at
Washington.
Gov Hanly, of Indiana, signed the
two-cent railway fare act.
Attorney General Hays, OF Ken.
lucky, took steps to have the Southern
Pacific Railway company pay s6,000,.
900 into the state treasury for taxes.
President Roosevelt will address
the students of the Michigan Agricul.
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