The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1907-11-08
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Busy Man.

Financial conditions in New York and
the east generally were nearly normal
again. The need of currency to move
the cotton crop developed in the south
and a committee from New Orleans
conferred with Secretary Cortelyou'
The California Safe Deposit & Trust
company's bank in San Francisco
closed but was believed to be solvent
Bankers in the state of Washington
ignored the holiday proclaimed by the
governor.
Indications that the available sup
ply of cash would be materially In
creased within a short time, both by
imports of gold and the increase o.
the bank note circulation, and that
the movement of cotton and grain
crops would be facilitated in every
way possible with the result or IN
creasing our credits abroad. were the
salient features of the financial situa-
ton.
Relief from monetary stringency
can only be secured by a system OF
credit currency which shall meet the
requirements of trade and be re-
deemable in gold, according to Con
gresham Charles Fowler OF New Jer'
sey, chairman of the banking and
currency committee of the house.
AS a result OF the murder OF Tom
Thompson, assistant chief OF police at
Talladega. Ala, Fred Singleton, a
negro, was Tiddled with bullets by q
posse.
A lone highwayman armed with a
knife entered IiVc hotels in Prescott.
Ariz. fatally wounded one OF the
guests who offered resistance, and
made his escape after robbing ii score
of people.
Fire destroyed the plant Of the
Grand Rapids mich Clock and Man
tel company. The loss is $4,000
Joseph Walker. United States Sc
cret service man, was shot and in.
stantly killed by an employe of the
Ilesperus mine. located several miles
west of Durango Col.
Rattle RulranO aud his wife An.
tonette were murdered III Garfield, n.
j.. by unknown persons
Rev. Daniel X. Lucas. "a national fig
died suddenly al his home In lndianap-
oils.
Homer II. Green. president of the
bloomington Busluess Meus associa-
ton, aud one OF the best-known resi-
dents OF that city. died suddenly. He
nd N tho
Knights Templar of Illinois
Capt. Edward j. Lewis. aged 70. died
at Bloomington, III He WAS pioneer
editor of the Bloomington Paragraph,
postmaster at Normal. ILL.,. for eight
years, and commanded a company in
the Thirty-third regiment. Illinois vol
unteers. during the evil war.
Albert Trostel. among the best
known tanners OF the United States
died in Milwaukee.
Three trllnmen we're killed in
collision between two freights on the
Baltimore & Ohio road on the Gran.
berry grade in West Virginia. One
man was killed and two others were
injured by the wrecking of the Quaker
City flyer on the Jersey Central rail.
road about half mile north of Pitt.
ston, Pa. Three men were killed
and nine severely injured In II col.
lision between passenger train and
n freight on the Queen IL Crescent
near Morganville, Ga. An Alabama
Great Southern passenger train
crashed into a freight, two men being
killed and seven hurt.
Lieut.. Gov. Jared Y Sanders, of
Louisiana, having refused To fight a
duel with him, Donelson Caiferey of
that state, son OF the late Senator
Cafferey. covered the billboards of
New Orleans with huge posters in
which he calls Sanders "a common
liar and poltroon."
Jefferson Polk. president of the
Des Moines street railway, an in
terurban magnate and multi-million.
aire, died at his home in Des Moines
John Sweeney, married man, IS
years old, narrowly escaped being
lynched by mob ut Marietta, o.. for
an assault on Anna KUou. l4-year.
old girl.
Isaac Surratt. whose mother was
executed for completely in the assas
sination of Abraham Lincoln, died in
Baltimore, aged sc Yeas.
Hugh B. Ely. superintendent OF the
insurance department OF the Pennsyl
vania Railroad company % years. died
at his home in Beverly. n. j.
John ID. Rockefeller is reported &c
have cornered all available laborers
i'm the Tarrytown district to work on
his new home on PUcantico hill.
Elmer II. Deartb, former Minneap
oils insurance commissioner, who was
indicted by the grand jury on IA charge
OF accepting a bride from w f. Bech.
tel, former president of "A Minneapolis
life insurance company. was acquitted
of the charge la the district court at
Minneapolis.
Raymond Hitchcock. indicted in
New York for alleged misconduct with
three little girls. disappeared and the
district attorneys men say that he
either has fed To Europe or has com