The Yale expositor., 1907-04-05

There are now nearly 8,000.00t
: more people in continental United
. States than there were six years ago
The above estimate is based upon fig
ures compiled by the census bureau
In special report. The estimated
population for 1906 was S3,941,51O.
Executive officials OF railroads op
Grating in Missouri and Arkansas de
cided to contest the two-cent fare
laws passed in those states.
Twenty-six persons were killed and
about 100 injured when the Southern
Pacific's Sunset express ran into an
open switch near Cotton, Cal. The
victims were nearly all Italians.
The Minnesota supreme court up
held the Great Northern railroad In
it's contention that II had the right to
issue $60.000.000 OF additional stock
which was authorized by the board of
directors.
At South McAlester. l. T., seven
prisoners overpowered their guards
and escaped from the United States
Jail. One man was recaptured.
bur Winship. at Carmel, ~ Y, was
found not guilty by reason of insanity
and the court committed her to Mat
teawan asylum for criminals.
Fire in South Boston, Va, destroyed
tobacco factories and other buildings,
threatened the destruction of the en-
tire town and entailed loss estlmat-
ed as high as 100000.
Miss Bertha McNally, 2S years old,
committed suicide at Canton. o.. by
taking carbolic acid, on the day set
for her wedding to Emil Knolle,
Pittsburg policeman. who died six
weeks ago.
All danger of infection having
passed. the quarantine placed upon
the room in the White House occu-
pied by Archie Roosevelt during his
illness from diphtheria was raised
Gen. Kuroki will represent the Jap
anese army at the jamestown cele-
bration.
Fire at Savannah, Mo-, destroyed
two stores and damaged a lumber
yard. Loss. 100000; insurance, $780,
900. Savannah has no fire depart
ment and 800 citizens fought the
flames with buckets .
A small tornado slightly damaged
the suburbs of Chanute, Kan. No one
was hurt. \
A locomotive attached to an ore
train on the Pittsburg Youngstown &
Ashtabula railroad, branch OF the
Lake Shore line, exploded at Lock.
wood. o. Engineer II. +. Watson of
Mahoningtown, Pa, is supposed to
have been blown TO pieces. A
President Roosevelt has decided TO
increase the American delegation to
the coming peace conference at The
Hague. 4
New York fires in 1906 entailed a
loss of $5.679,69 q
Chick" Stahl, well known ball
player, committed suicide at West
Baden, Ind, by drinking carbolic acid.
The Corbin Banking company OF
New York assigned for the benefit of
creditors. Assets, 100000 liabili-
ties, s1,700,000. o
Fire in Iroquois. Ontario, destroyed 7
two hotels, four stores and two dwell.
ings, the loss being 100000
Five of the seven trustees of the
Foundation for the Promotion of In.
dustrial Peace authorized by recent
act of congress to take over and ad-
minister the $4,000 Nobel peace
prize awarded to President Roosevelt,
met and effected an organization, with !.
Chief Justice Fuller as president.
Judge Mcmahon decided the plant
Of the Laporte (Ind) Water Supply
belonged to the city of La
porte.
William A. Proctor, president of the
Proctor & Gamble company and son
Of one OF the firms founders. died I.
from a bullet wound, self-inficted, at
his home in Glendale, suburb OF 4
T.
Thirty sacks of gold, valued at &c.
300. said to have been stolen from the
mines at Rhyolite, New and shipped
into Pueblo, was seized by a United
States marshal II
Mayor Schmitz of San Francisco de-
MED the story that he had profited
10 the extent of 1862. 900 from particl-
pating in boodling operations, and in
timated that as soon as he was well,
ne would sue the papers for libel. 81
James Henry Smith, of New York,
Who inherited over $4,000, 900 from his {
lncle, George Smith. died in Kioto, y
Japan He was on his bridal tour. X
An explosion in fireworks factory ,
IN Staten island killed one man and
atally injured boy and two girls. ~
A. l.. Sutton, chief of the bureau OF
exploitation of the jamestown EXPOSE
ion company, rendered his resignation !
1t the request of the board OF govern :
'rs upon charges filed by a tourists. 1
IT
William West, of Montgomery, Ala
hot and killed Engineer Fraser and,
hiding escape impossible. turned his
'istol on himself. dying a few mo-
nents later. West was accused OF
stealing diamond ring from Fraser.
The federal grand jury at Chicago ,