The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1907-07-26

steamships have drilled their stew
ards into choral bands for the edifi-
cation of passengers. Other ships
employ brass bands and orchestras.
Mrs. Lucy S. Noble, Detroit, Mich,
travelled alone through 80 countries
in Europe and Asia.
Mrs. Josephine Leslie, who claims
to be a friend of j. Pierpont Morgan,
has been committed for trial for
fraud in London.
The Rech, a St Petersburg news
paper, was confiscated because 1t
printed an article predicting war be-
tween Russia and China.
Louisville is in the midst of po-
litical upheaval as a result of Gov.
Beckham's appointment of the city
and county officials and the lid is be-
ing put down tight
Secretary Russell of the telegraph
ers' union predicted a general strike
of operators. The Chicago operators
called a meeting to take vigorous
action.
Four Of the Italians tried for the
murder of the Lamana boy in Louisi-
ana were found guilty. without capital
punishment, and mobs began to or
ganize at once to lynch them.
Several thousand persons were
Frustrated by heat in Philadelphia
during the parade Of the Elks.
w. W. Rape of Milwaukee, accused
of completely in Colorado land frauds,
admitted his guilt and promised to
testify for the state against others.
The naval court of inquiry decided
the disaster on the battleship Oregon
was due to a bareback.
Herman Billik, selfadmitted faker
and mixer of mysterious potions, was
found guilty of numbering Mary
Vrzal, 20 years old. by arsenical poi
soning, and his punishment fixed at
death by jury in Chicago.
Announcement was made of the
engagement of Frank T. Hamilton.
vice president of the Merchants Ma
tional bank of Omaha, Neb., to
Countess Louisa de Cistue, of Grana-
da. Spain.
Gov. Vardaman of Mississippi grant
ed an unconditional pardon to Mrs.
Angie Birdsong, Monticello slayer of
DR.. Thomas Butler.
An unknown man, who walked with
a crutch and cane, leaped into the
rapids above Niagara falls and was
carried over the American cataract
William A. Paxton, ST.. pioneer and
millionaire business man of Omaha,
Neb., dropped dead at his home.
J. w, Shake, SO years old, was
burned to death by an explosion of
gasoline at Carlisle, Ind.
William Roberts, aged As, engineer
at the water station at Milan, o. was
found dead with a bullet hole in his
head. Two hours later George Bit
ner, his bitter enemy, shot and killed
himself
James II. Wood. district passenger
agent, and o. c. Wilson, ticket agent
of the Southern railway at Asheville,
n. c., were found guilty of selling
passenger tickets in disregard of the
new rate law and each sentenced to
80 days in the chain gang.
The seedhouse of Woods. Stubs &
Co.. Louisville, KY, was destroyed by
fire, causing a. loss of 100000.
Automobiles are to take the place
OF the old-fashioned police patrol
wagons in New York.
The famous Schihau shipyard at
Dantzig excluded Commander w. L.
Howard, the American naval attache
at Berlin.
P. o. Milford, former cashier of
the defunct American bank at Ma
Mia, was sentenced to Imprisonment
for eight years and ten months on
conviction of having falsifed notes
purporting to be part of the assets of
the bank.
The premier of Korea demanded
that the emperor abdicate and go to
Toxic to apologize to the emperor for
sending delegation to The Hague.
Karl Hau, formerly professor of
Roman law in George Washington
university, Washington, d. c., was
brought before the bar at Karlsruhe,
Germany, on the charge of having
murdered his mother-in-law, Frau Mol
itor. wealthy resident of Baden
Baden, in that city on November 6
last. The first days evidence was
decidedly unfavorable to Hau
Fourteen persons are reported to
have been drowned at Marstand,
Sweden, by the capsizing of sail
boat
Mrs. Harry Miller of Bucyrus, o.,
was killed by lightning while stand
ing in church.
George Lightcap, an aged and in
firm ex-treasurer OF Starke county,
| Indiana, went to work as a day labor
er to get money to repay bondsmen
who paid a shortage lost by specula.
ton. The amount is $5,633.14.
The Pennsylvania state board of
pardons has refused to recommend a
pardon Tor James b. Gentry, the
actor, who was convicted of the muir.
der Of Madge Yorke, an actress, in
Philadelphia in 1896.
Bureaus of the war department al