The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1907-05-31

secretary COrtelyOu, In addressing
postoffice officials, said he placed fit.
ness and merit above party service as
a recommendation for Office.
President w. IL. Corey, asked to va
cate his job with the steel trust,
dumped his stock in order to depress
the market.
r. p. O'Connor in an address to the
United Irish League of Great Britain,
declared that the defeat of the Irish
bill will result in renewed efforts for
the cause.
Evansville street car strikers lost
their fight. the company being able to
run all its cars.
Deposed school trustees of Chicago
gained a partial victory when Presi-
dent Ritter declared a quorum present
at a board meeting. Executive then
sends in his resignation.
Henry c. Frick lost $30,00000 in
the recent stock slump, after an amaz-
ing career as plunger, Wall street
hears.
Railroad officials presented argu-
ments before Gov. Deneen urging the
repeal of the two-cent fare bill.
Two men attacked and murdered
the 15-year-old daughter of Long Is
land farmer and escaped.
Alleged agent of China disappeared
from New York with gems valued at
| $4,000 and sent back pawn tickets.
Nineteen women. the first legisla-
tors of their sex ever to be elected in
Europe, took their seat in the new Fin
nish diet, which assembled at Helsing-
fors.
Five lives were lost by the burning
of the steamship Naomi during trip
| from Grand Haven. Mich, to Milwau-
kee. Four stokers, imprisoned, died as
the rescued passengers looked on
One passenger was burned fatally. the
others being saved through heroic
| deeds performed by the crew.
Because they have been denied the
privilege of bringing beer into the
shops during working hours. and also
because the company refused their de-
mand that an unpopular foreman be
removed. $50 men employed in the
blacksmith shop OF the Rogers loco
motive works at Paterson, n. j.,
walked out
Heavy frosts fell over the eastern
half of Kentucky, damaging gardens,
and is believed TO have about complet-
ed the work of killing fruit.
Bank examiners refused TO let a
mysterious bank open at Philadelphia.
Pittsburg, angered by increase in
the price of gas and by street car
abuses, will ask the courts to annul
grants to the utility company.
One man was killed. seven fatally in
| jured and 10 others received minor
hurts and bruises in a wreck on the
Panhandle railroad at Holidays
Cove, w Va. near Steubenville, o.
Five men were killed and four fatal
! iy injured at the Eliza furnace of the
| Jones & Laughlin steel company at
! Pittsburg.
The steam yacht Pantooset. one of
the finest vessels in the New York
Yacht club fleet, has been sold to the
Cuban government, the price being
about $4,000.
A cablegram from President Ze-
| laya of Nicaragua, stating that a rev.
olution broke out in Salvador was re-
ceived by the Nicaraguan consul at
New Orleans.
The National Association of Manu-
facturers will raise 81, 100000 to fight
oppression of labor unions on both
industrial and political affairs.
John Thompson Hargrave, former
Methodist exhorter and Episcopal cler-
gyman, was arrested at Richmond, Va,
on charge of swindling.
Rudolph Spreckels criticised Mayor
Schmitz' committee of seven and the
supervisors of San Francisco.
Howard Could his wife and many
oChers must appear at hearing on
scandal in New York police depart
ment.
Secretary Root says the world Is
growing better, that railroad and cor
porate abuses were once so common
that nobody noticed them.
Fairbanks, Cannon and Knox are
making bids for delegates in the east,
and the presidential race, writes a cor
respondent, resolves itself into Taft
against the field
A great Irish convention at Dublin,
/ led by John Redmond, unanimously
rejected the British governments linn
tied council bill and demanded COM
plete home rule.
Fearing an increase in freight rates
If the railroads are forced to carry pas
sengers for two cents a mile, the Ma
tional Association of Manufacturers,
in session at New York, came out
against compulsory fare reductions.
A negro and his mother were
lynched and three other persons killed
and seven injured in fight in Georgia
on account of the attempt of a negro,
who escaped, to assault a white
woman.
ABE" Hummel, broken in spirit by
the disgrace of being behind iron bars,
collapsed physically at Blackwell, and
was unable to assume the duties as.
signed TO him at that prison.
The general assembly of the Presby.
terrain church at Columbus, o., decided
| that 81 100 600 must he raiaed for