The Yale expositor., 1907-01-25

er part OF Cooktown, Australia, in
ruins.
Severe earthquake shocks were re-
ported from Alexandrovsk, the port Of
Sakhalin and Elizabethpol
BY the explosion of the boiler Of
Reading engine attached to one Of
the Atlantic City flyers at Blue An
Choir. n. j., the engineer Edward Nc
Conaghy. the fireman, Frederick Ar
thur, and an eXn a fireman named
Clark were instantly killed.
Joseph N. Good. motorman, was
killed and Willard Bradhurst, conduc-
tor, was severely injured at Bryan, o.
when a passenger car on the Toledo
and Indiana Traction line ran into a
box car
Railroads are practically at stand
still in Oregon and Washington be-
cause Of the inability of the companies
to obtain fuel for locomotives.
An appropriation of $2,600,000 will
be asked from the legislature by the
] University of Illinois. or this sum,
81 500, 900 is for running expenses and
the remaining $1,OO0,000 for new
buildings.
Frantic because she believed her
husband was dying, Mrs. Walter
Mills rushed from her home at Zanes-
VILE. o., and her body was found on
the banks of the Muskingum river
Her husband died
The dreaded nun butterfly is appear
| ing everywhere in Bohemia, threaten
ing the devastation of the forests. The
woods of Saxony and SILICA are also
threatened. The ministry of agricul-
ture has appointed a commission of
investigation.
Many persons are dying in Indian
Territory of a strange disease that re-
| sembles meningitis.
Plantations in the Salto district of
Uruguay have been laid waste by a
plague of locusts.
Mohammed Ali Mira was crowned
shah of Persia. the ceremony being
most elaborate.
The Illinois board of charities has
condemned the insane asylum at Ches-
ter, used for demented criminals.
The Dundee steamer Naworth Cas-
tie was run into and sunk by the Red
Star liner Vaderland off the British
coast.
Five large steamers were driven
aground and $1,50OOOO damage done
by a terrific gale that swept Buffalo,
n. Y, for many hours.
Fire destroyed several large build
ings in Youngstown, o., the loss being
about 100000.
Five Indians were burned to death
in the Jail at the Umatila agency, in
Oregon.
The Atlantic Creosoting works at
Norfolk. Va. second largest in the
world. was destroyed by fire.
The secretary of the treasury Sc
lected for the site of the new post of
fee building in Pittsburg the prop
erty at the corner of Fifteenth and
Penn avenue.
David P. Dyer, Jr., son of the United
| States district attorney at st. Louis,
and teller in the sub-treasury there,
was acquitted by a jury in the United
| States district court on a charge of
having embezzled SCI 500 of govern
ment funds.
The federal grand jury at Chicago
presented its report on the indict-
ment of John r. Walsh, the indictment
covering 1872 different counts, chief of
which is the alleged misapplication
of funds of the Chicago National
bank.
The chief of the rural adminlstra-
tion at Smolensk, Russia, was killed
| By a schoolhoy.
Senior Coronado and members of his
staff in Havana were challenged to
fight duels because of the publication
by Senior Coronado's paper, Discus
sion. of police raid on a cock fight
at Marianao, Cuba, Sunday
| G.. II. Grub, of Macon, Mo-, and p.
B. Robinson. of Cameron, Mo-, en-
ployed as linemen on the Burlington
railway were struck by train No. 80,
near Cola. III. Grubb cannot live.
The Idaho house in committee of
the whole voted to pass an anti-pass
bill effective Immediately after it's
passage and approval by the governor.
About 1000 feet of the Franklin
tunnel on the main line of the Santa
Fe road in California caved IN follow
ing the burning out of the timbers by
a fire which is supposed to have been
started from the sparks of a locomo-
tive.
The training squadron which sailed
for Honolulu January Is, turned back
to Yokosuka. The squadron encoun-
tered a severe storm lasting three
days. The masts of the vessels were
broken and other damage was sus-
tanned.
Business men of Finley, n. d., have
sent an appeal to the Great Northern
railway for coal The town had not
had local freight train since De
cember 81, although there we're
freight trains on the road nearly
every day.
Santa Fe passenger train No. 4,
east-bound, the Chicago Limited was
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