The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1907-01-18

institution TO be insolvent.
George c. Wapp, supposed to be In
sane, killed Mrs. Frederick Freund,
his mother-in-law, in Milwaukee. by
cutting off her head with razor.
Representatives of 81 OF the largest
traction interests operating between
Maine and Missouri met at Cleveland
and began the organization of four big
Insurance companies
The two licorice paste companies on
! trial in New York as parts of to-
bacco trust were found guilty. but the
individual defendants were acquitted.
The Honduran revolutionists were
defeated at FL Carrigal by Gen. Car
Gallo, who captured their positions and
compelled them to fee to Nicaraguan
| territory.
The residents OF Berwick. Pa, were
greatly alarmed over the outbreak OF
some 40 cases of typhoid fever, which
was believed to be due to the use OF
water taken from the Susquehanna
river.
The crater on the summit of the vol
cano of Mauna Loa, Hawaii, broke out
and the eruption forms a magnificent
spectacle, which is visible a for hun
dreds of miles at sea.
Albert Lindsay was frightened to
death and two men were severely
burned by an explosion of molten
metal in the finishing plant at Bald
wins locomotive works, Philadelphia.
The fact that President Roosevelt
has accepted membership in the Sim
plified Spelling Board. whose list OF
simplLfed spellings he adopted last
summer, was announced.
Nearly 100 terrorists were arrested
in Warsaw by the police, who seized
also many rifles and revolvers. Five
terrorists were tried by drum-head
court-martial and condemned to death.
San Francisco is on the verge of
great coal famine, having only a seven
days supply of fuel on hand.
Col. Patko Andrieff. chief of gend-
armes at Lodz, Poland. was slain by
an assassin who escaped.
Congressman William Alden Smith,
Of Grand Rapids, Mich. was nomi-
mated to succeed United States Sena-
tor r. A. Alger. This is equivalent to
an election
The interstate commerce commits.
sion inquiry into the Hartman sys-
tenn may result in the taking of steps
by Attorney General Bonaparte to dis
solve the combination of railroads.
The navy department is planning to
equip warships with bells for subma.
rine warnings to other ships in thick
weather on or after nightfall.
Rear Admiral Charles ID. Sigsbee
will be retired January 16 on account
of age
George w. Burnham. known as the
father of spiritualism in Connecticut,
died at Willimantic OF rheumatism of
the heart, aged SO years.
Cuba's vast sugar crop is reported
imperiled because big bankers refuse
to make loans to planters while the
island is in such a chaotic state po-
litically
Earthquake shocks were felt in
parts of the United. States, Russia,
Sweden and Norway.
Runaway freight cars wrecked the
Union hotel at GAINESVILLE, Wis.
The miners at Goldfield, New, voted
to end their strike by accepting the
operators schedule.
Bob Lankswert, well known ball
player, committed suicide in Louis
Vile, KY.
Ed Smith, manager of the washing
house in the nitroglycerin plant at the
Vigorit Powder works at Point Isabel,
near Berkeley, Cal, was killed by an
explosion of 5000 pounds of nitro
glycerin.
Suits to dissolve the alleged Gould
merger of railways and other concerns
were filed by Attorney General Had
ley. of Missouri.
Gov A. b. Cummins ordered imme-
date prosecution of as many as pos
sible of the mob that lynched a muir
derer at Charles City. Ia.
James Cullen. who had murdered
his wife and stepson, was taken from
jail at Charles City, Ia, and hanged
by mob that included four ministers
and several women.
Judge Carnes, who was to try feud
case in Jackson, KY. asked the gov
ernor for a guard as the town was
full of armed men. The court OF APP
peals ordered the trial stopped.
Lieut.. Gen. Vladimir Pavloff, advo-
cate general of the Russian army, was
killed by an assassin at st. Peters
burg.
Twenty-seven men were enveloped
in molten metal and killed and seven
others fatally hurt by the explosion
of a steel furnace in Pittsburg, Pa.
David Overmyer, probably the most
prominent Democratic politician in
Kansas, died at his home In Topeka,
aged 60 years.
Exposures of the methods of the
transcontinental railroads of America
in distributing the nations traffic we're
made in Chicago when j. G. Stubs,
traffic director of the great Hartman
railway properties, become a witness
before the interstate commerce COM
mission.