The Yale expositor., 1907-04-26

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William T. Ravens, messenger OF
the Independent Packing company OF
Chicago, disappeared with $1,000 civ,
en- him to deposit.
William January, who was sent to
the penitentiary at Leavenworth IL
years ago for robbing a post Office
and escaped three years later, was ar
rested in Chicago. lie had married
and become a prosperous business
man.
The Chinese government has or
dered 100000 rifles through a Ger
man firm in Shanghai, with the object
of arming the troops throughout the
empire with the same type OF wea-
pom.
Fire destroyed a large part of the
native quarter of Manila
Sir George Armstrong, proprietor
of the London Globe, died at his resi-
dence in London.
The British torpedo boat Ariel
struck breakwater at Valetta, Malta,
and sank, one man being drowned.
John b. Bundren of Tennessee, who
was 101 years old April l, announced
that on August 20 he will marry Miss
Rose Mcclure of England, who will
be 100 years old on that day. They
were lovers in their youth, but were
parted by Miss McGure's parents.
DR.. Kennard, writing from Russia,
said 20000.000 peasants will starve be-
fore the next harvest unless they re-
ceiye aid, and many will have to be
fed for much longer time.
Former Judge Abner Smith OF Chi
cago was found guilty of conspiring to
defraud stockholders and depositors
of the Bank of America, OF which he
was president while it existed, and his
penalty fixed at Imprisonment and
81, 900 fine. G.. f. Sorrow, vice presi-
dent, was given the same penalty, and
j. V. Pierce. cashier, was fined $500.
Secretary Root in an address at
Philadelphia denied that there ever
was danger of war between America
and Japan over the San Francisco
school question.
Miss Mary +. Tomlinson, a we'll
known Christian Science healer of
Concord, n. H., committed suicide by
leaping from a window of the Parker
House in Boston.
Sarah Ropes, who died at Salem,
Mass, left $500, 900 for Swedenborgian
churches and institutions in Ohio
Jasper Mason. serving a life sen.
tence for murder in 1876, was released
by order of Gov. Cummins of Iowa
under permission granted by the legis-
lature, and given conditional par
don.
Thomas Longboat, Indian runner, of |
Toronto, Canada. broke the record for |
the Boston Athletic associations 25. |
mile Marathon road race from Ash !
land to Boston, aud defeated field OF |
ia.
A. G. Hunt of Elizabeth, II. j., fore.
man for the Hall Signal company, was |
killed when his motor car
was run down by fast Chicago &
Northwestern train at Marshalltown,
la.
Coal miners of eastern British Col
umbia and Alberta quit work, leaving
the Canadian Pacific railway almost
fuel.
A Canadian legislative committee
reported that there was lumber
in western Canada and that
prices were too high.
The American Academy of Political
and Social Science began its eleventh
annual meeting in Philadelphia, the
general topic for discussion being
American colonial policy and admins
tration
The constitution framed for the pro-
posed state of Oklahoma was adopted
by the convention.
L. f. Ford, of Philadelphia, super.
intendent of construction of the Penn.
sylvania railroad, committed suicide
by jumping overheard from the Clyde
line steamer Comanche off Jackson
Vile, Fla.
Mrs. Aggie Myers was taken TO the
at Jefferson City, Mo. to
begin her life sentence for numbering
her husband.
Ex-Congressman John V. L. Findlay
died suddenly of heart disease at his
home in Baltimore, Md. He was 81
years old.
The town of Iloilo, Island of Panay.
Ind the second city of the Philippines.
vas totally destroyed by fire, with the
'esult that 10000 persons are home.
ess.
Thomas NJ. Huntington, Ami b.
Todd and Fred Hoyt were convicted
n the United States court at Omaha
)n charges of conspiracy to defraud
he government of about half a mil
ion acres of public lands. II
The volcano Puyehue i'm the prov.
nee of Valdivia, Chill, is yet in active
eruption, and new craters have
opened. The losses in the neighbor.
ng country are enormous, and the
are panic-stricken. Show
RS OF hot ashes are falling and there
ire continued earthquake shocks ac.
'ompanied by subterranean explo- Z
ions. Earth shocks were felt I'm the
sland Of Luzon. Philippines; in
s. c., and in Algeria. On I
no Atlantic fharo xxyac n.