The Yale expositor., 1907-09-27
BRIEF REVIEW OF
A WEEKS EVENTS
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was wrecked on a reef on the south
shore of Lake Superior and the cap
tain and six men were drowned.
Eleven men escaped death.
Samuel Sloan, for many years presi'
dent of the Lackawanna railroad and
one OF the best-known railroad men
in the country, died at his home at
Garrison on the Hudson, aged 80
years.
Negotiations for the cessation OF
hostilities having failed, Gen. Drude
resumed the offensive and burned the
Moorish camps at Sidi Brahim, south
Of Casablanca, and dispersed the
tribesmen, who offered but little re-
sistance.
J. N. C. Shumway, former state
senator and president of the National
Building and Loan association, died
of a paralytic stroke at his home in
TayOrville, Ill. He was 81 years
old.
The Gulf Compress company was
declared an illegal trust by Chancel-
Tor r. S. Hicks, of the Mississippi dis
trict court. He gave the company
one year to wind up its business in
that state and withdraw.
Thirty-two passengers were injured,
none of them seriously, on the Chatta-
nooga & Washington limited train
on the Southern railway, just north
of Ryan's Siding.
Frank J. Constantine was found
guilty of the murder of Mrs. Louise
Gentry by a jury in Judge Marcus
Kavanaugh's court in Chicago. His
punishment was fixed at Imprisonment
in the penitentiary for life.
Col. Robert E. Withers died at his
home at Wytheville, Va. aged IS
years. He was at one time a United
States senator from Virginia. and had
been in the diplomatic service.
The transatlantic liner Princess 70.
lande was launched at Genoa, but
turned over and sank as soon as she
reached the water.
William Bruce, the explorer, for
whose safety much anxiety has been
entertained, arrived at Tromsce
aboard the sloop Backe.
The body of an unknown girl about
Is years old, was found in trunk on
the beach about two miles south OF
Elliot Bay. near Seattle. Wash.
Nose Dossett, a negro, was lynched
at Pritchard Station, Ala, for an at
tempted assault upon Mrs. J. Breeder,
4 white woman, 80 years old.
Two prisoners in the county Jail
ut Chicago overpowered a guard,
locked him in a cell, sawed through
the bars of a window and escaped.
The mining plant of the Tennessee
company, situated in East Joplin,
Mo-, was blown up by dynamite.
The big coal pockets of the Erie
railroad at Hornell, N. Y, headquar.
ters of the .Susquehanna division,
were destroyed by fire, causing loss
Of about 100000.
Miss Marguerite Morgan, daughter
OF j. Pierpont Morgan, has rejected
the suit of Marquis Norbonne Lara, S
FrCnchman of proud lineage.
United States Senator S. H. Piles
of Washington, telegraphed President
Roosevelt asking the executive tC
send revenue cutter to Bristol bay
TO rescue 160 white fishermen and 20(
Chinese said to have been wrecked
there when the fishing boat John Cur
rier went ashore on the rocks or
Aug. 8.
The King of Siam invited all HON
burg, Germany, to join in celebrating
his birthday, and caused wine anC
beer to be distributed free.
Eddie Walsh, aged nine years. o.
Kewanee, ILL.,, accidentally shot anC
killed his four-year-old brother.
Ex-senator William e. Chandler o.
New Hampshire. has resigned al
chairman and member of the Spanish
treaty claims commission.
New York Masons, long housed in an
old-fashioned building at Twenty
third street and Sixth avenue, are I,
have new eighteen-story home
which is to cost 100000.
Five men were killed and four mel
and two women were injured through
the explosion at Wilhelmshaven, Ger
many. OF shrapnel shell while
quantity of ammunition was being I'm
loaded in the artillery depot.
The British admiralty has decided
to substitute oil for coal as fuel TO
the navy. and already has made heavl
purchases of oil in Texas and Europ,
and will develop the Nigeria fields.
Two prisoners in the jail at Laporte
Ind, knocked down the sheriff's wifi
and escaped.
Forty thousand dollars. mainly II
large bills, is declared to have beef
secured by the robbers who held NJ
the Great Northern train near Rex
ford. Mont, September IL.
Directors of copper companies con
trolled by the Amalgamated orderet
the output reduced so per cent.
The Shipbuilders' Federation o
England announced that between 40
900 and $4,000 members of the Boiler
makers society would be locked out