The Yale expositor., 1907-11-29
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Greatest Interest from All Parts of
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eiqn Items.

William NJ. WINS, while investigat
ing the affairs of the Brooklyn RAPID
Transit company for the New York
public service commission, declared
that Mayor Tom l.. Johnson OF Cleve
land and his friends, who formerly
owned the Nassau Electric Railway
company of Brooklyn, had waterec
it's stock to the extent of S6,25O,OO'
and then sold it to the Brooklyn Rapic
Transit company.
Lieut.. John w. Crawford, secretary
of Admiral Dewey, disappeared and II
is believed he committed suicide.
Railway Commissioner Joseph A
William and II. G. Powell, rate expert
in the Office of the Nebraska commits
sion, were seriously injured while
making an inspection of the Missouri
Pacific tracks.
Physically wrecked through eX
cesses, George p. Miller, aged 4s
years, once a brilliant law graduate
and private secretary to Samuel }.
Randall of Pennsylvania, committed
suicide in st. Louis.
Prince Salmon of Tahiti was ar
rested in San Francisco on charges
of defrauding an automobile livery
company and falling to pay board
bill.
The Jury in the case of Edward e.
Lewis of st. Louis, who was charged
with having used the mails fraudulent
~ in organizing and establishing the
Peoples United States bank, dis
agreed.
Louis NJ. Dyke, president of the
former Atella (Ala.) National bank
charged with misrepresentation OF
funds of a national bank, entered a
plea of guilty and was sentenced to
five years in the penitentiary.
o. X. McCutcheon, a wealthy mer
chant of Turtle Creek, Pa, was
crushed to death in Pittsburg.
Patrolman George Gusrang was
murdered at Burlington, n. j., by an
unknown man, evidently an Italian,
who then shot himself, inhicting a
fatal wound. The shooting was the
direct result of the assassination Of
Z. S. Jefferson, a grocer. 1t is
thought both crimes may have been
committed by the same person.
j. Pierpont Morgan and George F.
Baker, the latter president of the
First National bank of New York city,
conferred in Washington with Secre-
tary Cortelyou and later with the
president.
The works of the Aluminium Com
pany of America at st. Louis were
closed indefinitely.
o. r. Nattinger was killed and
Frank Getchell was seriously in
jured in an automobile accident at
Des Moines, Ia. Miss Ruth Wilkinson
and Miss Isolde Benny were severely
hurt.
The eighteenth annual meeting of
the Trans-Mississipp Commercial
congress adjourned at Muskogee,
Okla, to meet in San Francisco next
November.
Christian workers representing
many lands gathered in Washington
in attendance upon the thirty-siXth
international convention of the Young
Mems Christian Association of North
America.
= The resignation of w. w. Howe,
United States district attorney for
the eastern district of Louisiana, was
announced.
Among the relics disclosed by the
opening of the metal box which for
more than 20 years rested in the
cornerstone of the old Consolidated
Exchange building at Broadway and
Exchange place, New York, now be-
ing torn down, were particles of the
bones of Christopher Columbus. They
were in a gold mounted urn.
DIR. w. c.. Whitney, member of the
Ohio legislature from Franklin coun
ty, died of burns received while at
tempting to rescue a horse from a
burning barn.
The marriage of Prince George OF
Greece, second son of the king oil
Greece and high commissioner for the
powers in Crete, and Princess Marie
Bonaparte took place at the Marie al
Passy, France.
Andrew Carnegie placed Ida Lewis
keeper of the Lime Rock lighthouse
on his private pension list for $50 q
month.
The Nebraska supreme court has af
firmed the five-year sentence imposed
on III. II. Hendee, former judge, who
was convicted of embezzlement.
G. +. Bennett, for many years one
of the best known grain dealers in the
northwest, died at La Crosse, Wis.
aged 65 years.
The resignation OF Railroad Com
missioner Andrew M. Wilson was re
ceived and accepted by Gov. Gillette
of California. Wilson was a member
of notorious doodle" board of super
visors OF San Francisco and confessed
several times under oath that he hat
accepted brides.
A receiver was appointed for the
effects of Mrs. Leslie Carter Payne
the actress, on petition of hei
creditors.
w. j. Bryan heads the Lincoln
Neb., delegation to the national con