The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1907-12-06

the minister OF pubic instruction ana
fine arts, M. BRAND. has decorated
Mary Baker c. Eddy as "Oficer
]. Academie." Mrs. Eddy was first
awarded a grand prize for her work.
and was also given diploma of honor
as founder of the Christian Science
movement
Lieut.. Crawford, secretary to Adj
miral Dewey, who disappeared leaving
a note saying he was going to drown
himself, was found in a western town.
His action has not been explained.
Many bankers in the west plan 10
transfer their exchanges TO Chicago
because they saw in financial reports
and newspapers of New York maps in
dicating by dark spots that Omaha
and other western cities are in sore
financial straits.
Trinidad Vasquez, a secret service
officer in the employ of the Mexican
government, the chief witness for the
government in the cases of Magon,
Villareal and Rivera. alleged revolu-
tionists, was poisoned at Los Angeles.
Frank Mccoy, 40 years old, was shot
and killed and his father, Joel Mccoy
was fatally wounded by Edward Ford
on their farm near Bloomington, Ind
b. Fulton French was acquitted at
Beattyvile, Ky, of completely in the
murder of James b. Marcum
The police of Ufa Russia, heard
there was a plot to blow up the train
on which Secretary Taft was travel
ing.
Florence Nightingale, the English
phlanthropist. has been decorated
with the order of merit by King Ed
ward. She is the first woman to re-
ceive this distinction.
Mrs. Catherine Shay has passed her
one hundred and sixth birthday at her
home in North Oxford, Mass. She is
bedridden, almost blind and one side
has been paralyzed for years. Mrs.
Shay has smoked pipe since she was
ten years old.
Two convicts, James Ware and Al
bert Bunch, were burned to death in
a fire which destroyed stockade at
the state convict farm in Lincoln
county, Ark.
James b. Bradwell, former county
Judge, publisher of the Chicago Legal
News and picturesque pioneer, who
lived in Chicago since 1884 died, aged
20 years.
During a family quarrel. Carl Farina
shot and killed his brother-in-law,
Philip Mundon, at Bass Lake, Ind.
The total value of the country's farm
products for 1907, according to Secre-
tary of Agriculture Wilson's report, is
slap ,000, 900.
Prof Albert A. Nicholson, head of
the department of physics of the Uni
versity of Chicago, has been awarded
the Nobel prize for physics for 1907.
John b. Obermeyer inventor of the
time lock for safes, died at his home
near GAINESVILLE. o.
Senator j. b. Foraker made it clear
ly known that he will contest the Ohio
delegation to the Republican national
convention with Mr.. Taft.
The fireworks plant of Louis Wolter
in ST. Louis was destroyed by an eX-
plosion.
John d. Archbold, vice president of
the Standard Oil company, speaking
to the alumni of Syracuse university,
denied that his gold was tainted.
William j. Bryan presented a
marble fountain to the city of New
Haven, Conn, on behalf of his friend,
the late Philo S. Bennett.
Mayor John Van Fossen of Ypsilan-
H. Mich. committed suicide by shoot
ing.
Ricardo Castro. the leading pianist
and composer of Mexico, died of
pneumonia.
George F. Porter, millionaire attor-
ney and theater man of Minneapolis.
died of heart disease in Omaha.
Gen. Leon Jastremski, a confed er-
ate veteran, candidate for the Demo
cratic nomination for governor of
Louisiana and formerly a grand chan
cellor of the Knights of Pythias of the
United States, died at Baton Rogue,
La.
Fire destroyed several business
blocks in Cody. Wyo., and three
fourths of the mining town of Granite,
Col.
Five factory employees were killed
at Waterbury, Conn, when a freight
train struck trolley car.
Four men armed with corn knives
waylaid and robbed an automobile
party near Riverside, N. j.
Former Lieut. Gov. Joseph H..
Tucker of Massachusetts died in Pitts
field. aged 70.
Judge Kalligar of Beatrice, Neb..
sentenced r. Meade Shumway, con-
victed of the murder of Mrs. Jacob
Martin, to be hanged March 10.
President Roosevelt and family
spent Thanksgiving day at the old
home of President Madison near Mont
pelier Va. Secretary Taft celebrated
the day on his train in Russia. Amer
leans resident in London, Berlin
Vienna and other foreign countries had
their customary banquets and recep-
tons.
II. Meade Shumway was convicted