The Yale expositor., 1907-05-17
BRIEF REVIEW Of
A WEEKS EVENTS
RECORD OF THE MOST IMPOR
TANT HAPPENINGS IN ITEM
lied FORM.
HOME AND FOREIGN NEWS
Information Gathered from All Quar-
tiers Of the Civilized World and
Prepared for the Perusal Of the
Busy Man.

Thirty-one persons were killed and
more than a score injured in the
wreck of a special train on the South
ern Pacific at Honda, Cal, bearing
Shrlners from Reading. Pa, and Buff
falo. N. Y, and their families. The
train was derailed by a defective
switch and the cars smashed.
Tree fruit crops in the southwest
were reported to be practically des-
troyed by the late frosts and other
fruit and berries badly damaged.
Senator Foraker issued a statement
saying that he was making no deal
with anyone, but he would accept the
results of the Ohio Republican conven-
ton.
The city jailer of Newport, KY, was
arrested in a raid on crap game and
was locked up in his own Jail.
Ninety Mexican miners lost their
lives in a fire in the Lenares copper
mine at Velardena, in the state OF
Durango.
State Senator Charles II. Hughes, of
Illinois, died at Excelsior Springs, Mo.
He was thrown from his horse recent
", and sustained the injury which
caused his death.
Services commemorative the TWEEN
tieth anniversary of the Inauguration
of the Salvation Army of st. Louis
were conducted by Commander Eva
Booth.
Mrs. Agner Barlow Houser, wife of
Daniel NJ. Houser, of st. Louis, presi-
dent of the Globe Printing company
publishing the be-Democrat. died
from the effect of a self-infiicted bullet
wound in the right temple.
Engineer n. b. McGinnis and Fire
man Sullivan were killed in a wreck
of passenger train on the Southern
Pacific in New Mexico.
Fire in Perry, Ia, destroyed four
business buildings, the loss being $685.
600.
Rev w. M. p. Richards, colored
pastor of Carlisle, KY, was shot and
killed and his alleged murderers. a
man and woman, were threatened
with lynching.
Unknown persons set of charge
of some high explosive under the
house of Samuel Cook, a negro, at
Ruston, La, blowing the house TO
pieces and killing Cook and four other
negroes.
Joris Karl Huysmans, the celebrated
author, is dead in Paris, He was born
in 1S4S.
Tho distillery and grist mill of the
II. Corby company at Belleville, Ont,
were destroyed by fire, originating. it
is believed from spontaneous combus-
ton. The loss. is placed at $250,OOO.
Mrs Matte Connally, of Maysville,
Ala, killed her son-in-law, Frank Al
bright, because he went home drunk
and drove out his family.
The extra session of the Missouri
legislature came to an end after the
passage of IL important measures.
The supreme court of Kansas grant
ed a writ to GUST Peter Everhardy,
mayor of Leavenworth, from office
for failure to enforce the laws against
saloons and other resorts.
Thieves stole a searchlight weigh
ing 200 pounds from the top of a
building in Chicago.
The grand jury at Youngstown, o..
reported frightful conditions existing
in the Mahoning county infirmary.
Lieut. Gov. Sherman, of Illinois
was appointed by the president as a
member of the Spanish treaty claims
commission.
Elias HartZ. a famous "goosebone'
weather prophet, of Reading. Pa.
whose predictions usually came true
died at the age of 90 years.
Edward Kemeys, noted sculptor o.
wild animals, died at his home il
Washington.
William Quinn, chief of police o.
Greenville, Miss, Committed suicide.
James r. Palmer, aged 81, who op
Grated the first bus line in New Yorl
city, was present at the laying of tn,
first rail of the first railway in thu
United States and was once an init
mate friend of Henry Clay, died II
Chippewa Falls. Wis.
Writs of custer were issued by thu
supreme court of Kansas against TIL
Western Union Telegraph compan.
and the Pullman company for no
complying with the Kansas corpora
ton laws.
1t was announced in Baltimore tina
the Susan b. Anthony memorial fun,
of 100000 for the cause of equal sui
frage had been raised.
The National Association for tn
Study and Prevention Of Tuberculosis
in session at Washington, elected d.
Frank Billings. of Chicago, president.
III. Clay Pierce, head of the Waters
Pierce Oil company, surrendered him
self in st. Louis on the indictment re
turned against him in Texas chargin
perjury. and was released on bonds.
Shriners at Los Angeles selected s
Paul for the conclave Of 1908, tn
dates being July 13 to 1S.
Gov. Magoon appointed Cuban DELE
gates to the second peace conferenc
at The Hague as follows: Antoni
De Bustamente, Gonzalo De Quesedi
the Cuban minister to the Unite
States. and Manuel Sanguily. Ovel