The Yale expositor., 1907-02-01


Rev. Alexander Gilchrist. d. d., sec
rotary OF the Home Mission board of
the United Presbyterian denomination
and one OF the most prominent fig-
ueres OF the church. died at his home
IN Pittsburg. Pa.
Pearl Lowry, 16, and Forest Eide.
u. were drowned while skating at
Portsmouth, o.
Dr. Charles Wilmot Townsend, a
well-known physician of Staten island,
New York, was shot by a man as he
lay in bed. and died refusing to tell
who his assailant was.
Representative A. d. Dulaney of Lit
tie Rock county. Arkansas, was indict-
ed on the charge of accepting bride
of 5000.
Rev. DIR. Henry Martin Field, for Al
years editor of the Evangelist, of New
York, and brother of Cyrus W., David
D.. and Stephen j. Field, died, aged
S5 years.
Twelve miners were killed by an ex-
plosion of fire damp in mine at Lor-
entz, W. Va, and nine men were killed
by a dynamite explosion near Pearls
burg, Va.
Harry Alt, alias John Ryan, a con-
vict in the Kansas penitentiary, has
confessed that he killed Edward Still
con, the station agent at Tuscan, H.,
on Sept. 90, 1902 Ats term will ex-
pire next month and he will be taken
back to Illinois for trial on the charge
of murder
two little stepdaughters with a hot
iron because they were noisy.
An unknown young man and young
woman at Camden, n. j., committed
suicide by letting an electric train
strike them.
Attorney General Young. of Mime
sofa, made another attack on the
Great Northern railway by beginning
quo warranto proceedings TO compel
the ST. Paul, Minneapolis & Manitoba
Railroad company to show cause why
it's charter should not be forfeited.
This company is really the parent of
the Great Northern Railway company,
and the Great Northern was Joined in
this issue, as it is the owner of the
Manitoba companys stock.
The German government won a def
mite victory in the general election for
a new reichstag. The liberal, radical
and conservative parties. supporting
Prince Won Buelow's colonial policy,
won at least 20 seats and the socialists
lost II or Is seats.
Dr. Augustus V. l.. Brokaw, aged
A, one OF the most prominent sur
geons in st. Louis and having national
repute, died from ptomaine poison
ing.
Editor James II. Mccartney. of the
Hillsdale Qll.) Post, and Frank A.
Walker. of the same place, were ar
rested by United States officers for
classifying rural free delivery examina-
ton papers.
People living near Sanford. Ind,
asserted that a meteor caused the ex-
plosion of the powder car at that town
that wrecked a train and killed many
people.
Peter Schlef, OF Detroit, shot and
killed his wife as she lay asleep in bed
and then fired bullet into his own
breast
A commission appointed by the Gu
ban government has turned in re-
port to the effect that DR.. Matias
Duque probably has discovered a cure
for leprosy.
Frba Hon4o~o c1noto Jafaatoa
pass and anti-gambling bills.
F. A. Sterling, formerly assistant
forester in the department of agricul-
ture at Washington, was appointed
forester of the Pennsylvania railroad.
Senator Platt's wife sued two Wash
ington papers for 100000 libel.
Admiral Beranger. former Spanish
minister of marine, died suddenly.
Advices received at Antwerp say
that a revolt has broken out in Man
yanga in the Kongo Free State and
additional troops have been asked for.
Two hundred men forced the ring
ing down Of the curtain at Victoria
theater. New York, when the Russell
brothers put on an act ridiculing the
| Irish race.
Several cargoes of coal are on the
way from Japan to Tacoma. Wash, to
relieve the fuel famine in the far west.
There was fierce collision at Van
mes, France. between the populace and
| 500 troops over a seminary eviction.
The Marquise de Cuverville knocked
out the eyes OF police commissary
| with her umbrella.
Fred Marriott was badly injured
when his racing automobile was
wrecked at Ormond- Daytona Beach,
Fla, while going at tremendous speed.
! John p. Quirk was found guilty Of
manslaughter for killing w. A. Dowell.
newspaper man, at Minneapolis.
John l.. Hart, aged 18 years. hanged
himself in Stowe. Pa, because a girl
| said she didn't like him.
United States Senator Russell A.
Alger died suddenly in Washington of
oedema of the lungs. Though he had
been in poor health for a long time,
his death was quite unexpected.
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