The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1907-07-12


pion, was knocked out In the first
round by Tommy Burns at Colma, CAL
Martin j. Sheridan, of the Irish
American Athletic club of New York.
won the all around championship of
the Amateur Athletic union at Celtic
Park, l.. /.
Seventeen persons were killed and
many injured by storms in western
Wisconsin.
Meyer Goldberg, 40 years old. said
to be a well-to-do horse dealer Of
Chicago, was locked up in New York
at the request of the Chicago police
on a charge of larceny of $4,000.
The customs authorities of. Venice
searched j. Pierpont Morgan's yacht
Corsair, having been informed that a
number of pictures from the StroZzi
collection were concealed on board.
The search, however, was without re-
suit. The protests of Mr. Morgan, who
was on board at the time, were dis
regarded.
DIR. Albert e. Carrier, prominent
physician of Detroit. widely known as
specialist on skin diseases, dropped
dead of heart disease.
Maj. Charles r. Knowles, of Albany,
N. Y, dropped dead at the Pittsfield
County club while playing golf.
The Hotel Gordon, Kingwood. Va.
was totally destroyed by fire. The
guests had narrow escapes.
Francis b. Thurber, one of the or
ganizers of the New York board of
trade and transportation, died, aged &C
years. He was widely known as a
grocer. publicist and lawyer.
The 100-kilometer bicycle race for
the championship of the world was
run at the Pare DIES Princes. Paris,
and won by the Englishman Meredith
Marquis Ito questioned the emperor
of Korea about the complaint made
to The Hague conference by Koreans
and gave him 10 understand that his
intriguing against Japan must stop.
Rexford Dew, of Wilson, n. c., shot
and instantly killed his young wife
and his brother He made no denial
OF the tragedy.
President Roosevelt appointed Orms-
by McHarg, clerk of the senate COM
mittee on pensions. to investigate
alleged frauds in New Mexico.
Frank Schneider, of Silverton, Col,
who was elected a member of the
executive board OF the Western Fed
Grafton of Miner was killed by jump
ing from a moving train while on his
way to give important testimony in
the Haywood trial at Boise.
Alarmed by reports that strike
sympathizers planned an attack on
them under guise of Fourth of July
celebration, most of the ice men with
the American Ice company in New
York abandoned their wagons.
William w. Johnson, wealthy lum-
herman of Petoskey, Mich. was killed
while racing with dummy train with
his automobile. While trying to turn
his machine at a dangerous crossing
he was thrown under the wheels of
the train.
A tornado in western Wisconsin
partly wrecked several towns and in
jured a number of persons.
An automobile driven by William ].
Fortune, millionaire brewer, ran down
and killed C. A. Cornish in Lincoln
park, Chicago.
Raisuli the bandit chief of Moroc-
co, captured Caid Gen. Sir Harry
MacLean, commander of the sultan's
bodyguard, and said he would hold
him until the SULTAN paid 100000
and appointed Raisuli governor of
Tangier and commander of police.
A riot occurred at the jamestown
exposition, following an attempt of
500 members OF the South Carolina
and Kentucky regiments to take
charge of the WAR PATH" which at
tempt the Powhattan guards resisted.
Several were injured.
Charles Murray, who shot and
killed his wife, Nellie Murray, Octo-
Der 2, 1906, because she refused to
return home with him, was sentenced
at Peoria, Ill, to 20 years in the peni-
Tertiary.
The jury in the trial of former AS
sociate Statistician K. S. Holmes, Jr.,
Of the department of agriculture, on
the charge of conspiring to defraud
the government by giving out the de-
partment's crop information, failed to
agree and was discharged.
Philip X. Green, instructor of Eng
lish and mathematics, and Prof David
A. Durward, assistant in the agricul-
tural department at the Mount Her
mon school for boys, were drowned
while canoeing in the Connecticut
river.
Gov. Deneen, of Illinois. appoir ted
Gen. G. M. Moulton as major general
commanding the Illinois National
guard, under the reorganization law
Col. J. e. Stuart, of the Second in
fantry, succeeds Moulton as brigadier
general of the First brigade.
A man giving the name of G.. u.
Hall and claiming to be from st. Jo-
seph, Mo-, but recently a practicing
physician at Lennox, Ia, was arrested
at Albuquerque. n. NJ, while in the
very act, it is charged, of making
counterfeit money.
Mark Twain I'm london danfad tho