The Yale expositor., 1907-11-29

laSe, was almost ueSlrOySu ny hIS.
The American Federation of Labor
declared a universal eight-hour day
paramount to all labor questions.
Edgar N. Jennings, for IL years a
coachman for John C. Stevenson, a
capitalist of Bloomington, H., and a
brother of former Vice President
Adlai Stevenson, attempted to shoot
his employer
A riot occurred at Joliet, ILL.,, as the
result of the strike which followed
an attempted wage reduction among
stone quarrymen.
Col. Kaighn, close friend of former
Senator Brown, testified for Mrs.
Bradley in her murder trial and pro-
duced Browns written acknowledge
ment that he was the father of the
woman's two youngest children.
Gov. Cummins of Iowa ordered out
4 company of the state militia to stop
the Northumberland prize fight at
Davenport, but the men fought with
out decision, and Capt. Kulp is in dan
ger of being court-martialed.
William Jennings Bryan suggested
as a financial relief measure that the
government guarantee the deposits in
all national banks.
Officers and crew OF the steamer
Dick Fowler, charged with reckless
navigation that endangered the life of
President Roosevelt during his trip
down the Mississippi river, were found
not guilty.
Mrs. Mary Hartje won complete vic
tory over her husband in the superior
court at Philadelphia and then col
lapsed with joy. Hartje said he would
carry the case to the supreme court.
William Randolph Hearst was held
to the grand jury in New York on
charges of criminal libel preferred by
William Aston Chanler.
Mrs. Evelyn Romadka, of Milwau-
zee, was taken from Chicago to Joliet
TO begin her sentence of from one to
20 years for burglary.
Edgar Grub, his wife and baby
were cremated in their home near
Beverly, o., and it was believed they
we're the victims Of foul play.
The Kings county grand jury,
| which investigated the recent manage
ment of the suspended Borough bank
| of Brooklyn. returned indictments
/ charging larceny and other offenses
! against Howard Maxwell, who was
president of the institution when its
! loors were closed; Arthur ID. Camp
/ oell, the deposed cashier. and William
| CIV, a director who holds a controll-
! Jig share of the banks stock.
Nearly $4,000, 600 of new business
has been placed on the books of the
Westinghouse Machine and the West
! inghouse Electric d Manufacturing
companies by concerns west of Chi
oago and the receivership may soon be
ended.
The village of Chain, Ia. was wiped
ont by fire, but one building being
saved.
Five children of Thomas Zuver per-
sized in fire that destroyed his home
ear Titusville, Pa.
Miss Maggie Sawyer, of South Mills,
y, c., was married to Edmund Daily.
Tho forcibly took her away from John
FALL when she and Hall were on their
gay to be married.
Percy Zimmerman, right end for
Eastern Illinois Normal school, was
dangerously hurt in football game,
suffering concussion of the brain.
The door of the Buchanan county
Jail at Independence was blown open
by a charge of nitroglycerine or dyna-
mite and two prisoners escaped. One
was recaptured.
Three thousand barrels of beer, val
ued at $4,000, will be dumped into
the sewer by a brewing company of
Guthrie. Okla. unless a special dis
pensation be granted and the brewery
allowed to ship it out of the state and
sell it.
The corporation commission of Okla
homa issued an order notifying all
Oklahoma railroads that a 60 per cent.
reduction in coal rates would go into
effect January 2.
William w. Atwood, aged 20 years,
a prominent resident of Peoria, ILL.,,
committed suicide by tying a shotgun
to tree and using a leather strap to
pull the trigger.
Charles F. Caswell, associate justice
of the Colorado supreme court, died
of paralysis of the heart.
John d. Rockefeller declined an in
vitation to a banquet in his honor by
the Commercial club of st. Paul.
A rush of natural gas from an ex
cavation in the southwest land tun
mel at Chicago, $50 feet below the
ground, caused the death of one mar
and the partial suffocation of sever
others.
The federal grand jury at Sal
Lake returned indictments against the
Union Pacific Railroad company, the
Oregon Short Line, the Union Pacific
Coal company, J. NJ. Moore, genera
agent of the Union Pacific Coal com
pany, and Everett Buckingham. as
sistant general superintendent o
the Oregon Short Line, for violation!
of the Sherman antitrust law.
John Moissant, fugitive from Sal
vador, is back in San Francisco, aftei
escaping his enemies by pretendiny