The Yale expositor., 1907-12-13

Five companies OF the Twenty-sec-
Dowell in San Francisco and four COM
panies of the same regiment at Mon
terey, were dispatched to Goldfield,
New, by Brig. Gen. Fred Funston, COM
manding the department of California,
in compliance with orders received
from the war department.
Capt. William Cox, the representa-
tive of Gov. Sparks in Goldfield, stated
that he had information from the
Mine Owners association that an at
tempt would be made very soon to
reopen the mines with nonunion men.
Nine companies of regulars went into
camp at Goldfield.
Ambassador Bryce has been sum-
moned to England for a conference
and is not expected to return to
America.
The late George F. Porter, million
aire of Minneapolis in his will left
100000 TO Miss Stella NJ. BleIhen, his
confidential stenographer.
Joseph and Floyd Randall, brothers,
aged ten and eight, and Ernest Dou-
telle, aged -, were drowned at Flint,
Mich, while crossing Flint river on
the ice.
Four hundred miners are known to
have been killed by an explosion of
black damp, or methane, in mines Nos.
6 and of the Consolidation Coal COM
pany of Baltimore at Monongah, w.
Va. Five men escaped, more dead
than alive, through air shafts.
Carvings restaurant in ST. Paul was
partly destroyed by fire and a woman
employe was burned to death.
Flames destroyed the big implement
warehouse of David Bradley G. Co. at
Council Bluffs, Ia, the loss being $685.
600.
The sentence of the three Ameri-
cans, Richardson, Mason and Hare,
who were to be shot at Chihuahua for
the murder of two other Americans
whose insurance they attempted to
collect, was commuted to 20 years
Imprisonment.
James Bartlett Hammond, head of
the Hammond Typewriter company,
was declared sane and given his free
dom.
The jury which will try the case of
George A. Pettibone for completely in
the murder of former Gov. Frank
Steunenberg was completed and sworn
in at Boise. Idaho
Mrs. Mary Stet of Altoona, Pa, was
murdered by burglar.
Maj. William l.. Geary, U. S. A., died
in the army general hospital at the
Preside, San Francisco. He was the
first American child born in San Fran
cisco, his father having been the last
alcalde and the first mayor of that
city.
President Roosevelt entertained at
dinner number of bear hunters from
the Louisiana cane brakes.
The secretary of the treasury has ac-
copied bids for the Panama canal
bonds to the amount of $25,000,00
The average price of all the bids ac-
cepted is 1913.
The Southwest Bridge company of
Joplin, Mo-, with a paid-up capital
stock of $265,000. one of the largest
manufacturing enterprises in the dis
trict, went into the hands of a re-
ceiver.
The Fort Pitt National bank, one of
the older financial institutions of Pitts
burg, Pa, was closed by order of the
comptroller Of the currency.
The State bank, of Admire, Kan,
and the Bank of Stotesbury, at Stotes.
bury, Mo-, closed as a result of the
failure of the National Bank of Com.
merce of Kansas City.
d. II. Perry, of Salt lake City,
prominent capitalist and Democratic
national committeeman from Utah,
died at Los Angeles, Cal.
The Jim Crow" bill passed the
Oklahoma senate and will become eff
fective in 60 days after being signed
by the governor
Twenty bandits attacked a monas-
tary near Pskov, Russia, but were re.
pulsed. Six monks were killed.
The steamer st. Marys of the Mary.
land, Delaware & Virginia Railroad
company, was burned at Hallowing
Point, on the Patuxent river, in south.
ern Maryland.
In the federal court at Topeka, Kan,
demurrer to the indictment of Secre,
tary II. II. Tucker, Jr, charging him
with using the mails to defraud in
his efforts to promote the Uncle Sam
Oil company, was sustained, and
Tucker was freed
Rice hall, at Washburn college, To
peka, Kan, was destroyed by fire, the
loss being 100000.
Murdered by BLACK Hand" enemies
it is believed, Gottlieb Voegeli, So
years old, was found shot TO death in
a freight doorway of the La Sale
street station at Chicago.
The British turbine torpedo boat de
stroyer Tartar has beaten all records
for her class by steaming 1882 knots
an hour against the tide.
Encouraged by the success of other
Russian artists in America, Mile
Arzheffskaia, the foremost actress in
Russia, has decided to bring a com