The Yale expositor., 1907-02-01
MISCELLANEOUS.

Following a conference at the White
House it was officially announced that
the contract for building the Panama
canal would be awarded to William J.
Oliver who, with Arson M. Bangs,
was the lowest bidder in the recent
competition, provided that within the
next ten days he associates himself
with at least two independent contrac-
tors whose skill and experience, COM
bined with his own, shall cover the
field of the work to be be performed
under the contract.
The necessity for the restoration of
the canteen in the American army was
strongly set forth in letter from DR..
Anita Newcomb McGee to Capt. J.
Walter Mitchell of the Spanish-Ameri-
can War Veterans association.
1t was understood in Kingston, ia
maica, that Gov. Swettenham had
sent his resignation to Lord Elgin,
secretary for the colonies. The people
of Kingston were relieved of all rates
and taxes for Is months from Janu-
airy /.
Harry Thaw was so angered by
newspaper stories about a dissension
in his family that he refused to see
reporters and to attend Divine wor-
ship.
Thirty thousand people passed by
the bier of the late Senator Alger,
whose body lay in state in the Detroit
city hall.
Zion City is to be deserted by Will
bur Glenn Voliva and all those over
whom he holds sway. A new Zion is
to be founded, probably on the Pa
cific coast, and DR.. Dowie and his
creditors will be left to fight out the
question of supremacy at Chicago.
Mrs. Patrick Rice rescued her IL
year-old son from her burning home
in Chicago and len was fatally
burned in vain effort to save another
son, aged eight.
Alton Cameron, aged % years, a
brotherin-law of Judge William +.
Connolly, of the Detroit recorders
court, was shot and instantly killed
in a saloon by Joseph Schultz, the bar
tender, after a quarrel
James Wade, one of the Oldest and
best known members Of the bar of
Cleveland, o., is dead.
Every able-bodied man in Shawnee
town, ILL.,, helped repair break in the
levee and the city was saved from
flood.
A mysterious explosion occurred at
the palace of the king of Servia which
shattered many windows of the
building. It was stated that the ex-
plosion resulted from leaving a guam
tity of gunpowder and cartridges too
near a stove in the private apartments
OF the crown prince.
John f. Wagner, associate editor of
the Star-Chronicle of st. Louis, died
suddenly at his home from hemor-
rhage of the stomach.
II. E. Ager. a member OF the Indiana
legislature, was drowned In the Wa
bash river.
High water in the Ohio river caused
a Baltimore a Ohio freight train on
the Marietta branch to plunge through
a bridge and the engineer, fireman and
two bralTemen we're killed.e
The central part Of the city OF Po-
lotsk. In the province Of vitbsk. one Of
the most ancient cities of the Russian
empire, was destroyed by fire.
1t was officially announced by the
Colorado Fuel and Iron company that
"a men were killed by the mine explo-
sion at Primero. Col.
Henry Ball. negro. was lynched at
Greenwood, Miss, the home Of Gov.
Vardaman, Tuesday night, by un-
known parties.
Four men we're killed and several
injured in a freight wreck on the
Ohio division OF the Baltimore & Ohio
railroad near Letart. w. Va