The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1907-09-06

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Joshua Kay, an aged inmate Of the
Soldiers and Sailors home at Erie,
Pa, committed suicide by jumping
from a fast express train at Fishers
Ferry, near Sunbury, Pa. He was a
sufferer from cancer.
A section of the new bridge across
the st. Lawrence river five miles be-
low Quebec collapsed carrying scores
of bridge workers and mechanics into
the water. 1t was estimated that the
loss of life was S4. The bridge was
about a mile and a half in length and
half of it, from the south shore to mid
stream, crumpled up and dropped into
the water. IL was to be the longest sin
gle span cantileyer bridge in the world
and was being built nv the Phoenix
Iron company of PhoeniXville, Pa.
The surgeon general of the marine
hospital service and the authorities
of San Francisco co-operated to stamp
out the plague, several cases of which
appeared in the California city.
Harry Harmon and Eddy Quinn,
convicts, escaped from the peniten-
tiary at Joliet, H.. and eluded posse
of 100 men.
Nearly 5000 persons at the Barn
stable County Fair saw Professor"
Maloney, a balloonist. drop 1000 feet
to earth, strike on top of a cedar fence
post and escape probably with his
life. His parachute failed to work.
In the presence of number OF
boarders in the New Jersey House,
Ocean Grove, N. j., Of which he was
the proprietor, Robert S. Gravatt shot
and perhaps MORALLY wounded his
wife, Irene; seriously wounded his
nine-year-old daughter, Mollie, and
then killed himself.
Paul Atkinson, 10 years old, OF
Youngwood,- Pa, and Harry Miller, is
years old. of Buffalo, n. Y, made a
daring escape from the Morganza Re-
form school.
The Photographers Association of
New England awarded the gold medal
in the grand portrait class to L. c.
Dotey of Belding, Mich.
Fire destroyed the big Louisville
Courier-Journal building at Louisville,
KY.
A passenger train on the Southern
railway collided with an engine in
Asheville, n c., and 80 persons were
injured, none fatally.
The French schooner Violette went
down in the English channel and is
men on board of her were drowned.
National President Small said he
would not be surprised if there would
be a general strike of the railroad
telegraphers.
Suits for damages aggregating half
million dollars will be instituted
against the steel trust and st. Louis
who have been shot or imprisoned by
sheriffs.
Prince Naisut, son Of the King OF
Siam, arrived in New York on his way
to Harvard, where he is to become a
student.
Judge Jones of the United States
/ district court at Montgomery, Ala, is
sued an order directing the Louisville
/ & Nashville and the North and South
| Alabama railroads to obey the maxi
mum-rate bill passed by the last Ala
bama legislature.
At the dedication of the Mckinley
obelisll in Niagara square, Buffalo
Sept. 5, Gov. Hughes will speak and
| 1000 Canadian troops VIII take part
The New York, New Haven & Hart
ford railroad will not submit to arbi
tration the question of demurrage rate
on detained foreign cars, as proposed
by the American Railway association
aid is likely soon to withdraw from
that body
Four men were killed in a dynamite
explosion at the camp of w. T. Par
SONS, contractor on the Grand Trunl
Pacific construction near Vermillior
Bay station, in Ontario.
Gov. Hughes has refused to gran
papers for the extradition of Julius
Eller oil Syracuse, N. Y, wanted il
Colorado on the charge of being impli
Gated in a robbery at the Rio Grand,
railway at Alamosa.
The American officers, Brig. Gen. w
S. Edgerly, Maj. c. Dewitt Wilcox
Capt. Robert e. L. Niche and Capt
George H. Shelton. designated by tn,
United States government to atten,
the autumn maneuvers of the German
army as guests of Emperor William
arrived in Berlin.
A windstorm struck the Iowa stat,
fair grounds at Des Moines CAUSING
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