The Yale expositor., 1907-04-05
MOST IMPORTANT HAPPENINGS
AT HOME TOLD IN CON-
DENsED FORM.
LATE FOREIGN DISPATCHES
Interesting Items of News Gathered
from All Parts of the Globe and
Outlined in the Briefest Manner
Possible.

hear the testimony of the alienists for
the prosecution. and its report to the
court was corresponding delayed.
Former Congressman Galusha A.
Grow died at his home in Glenwood
Pa, as a result of general break
down attributed to old age.
Fire in the Palazzo del Drago, Am
bassador Griscom's house in Rome,
did about $4,000 damage. Mr. Girls
com was slightly burned.
Victor l.. Berger announced the
plans of the national executive board
of the Socialist party for spreading So
cialism in 26 states of the union where
interest is lukewarm. He said Presi-
dent Roosevelt had stolen many of
the ideas of the socialists.
ChilfG failure to send a minister to
Washington is due to the failure of it's
plan to raise the CHILEAN representa-
tive to ambassadorial rank.
Druzsaninnikoff. an ex-policeman
who was sentenced February II to
years Imprisonment for torturing Rus
sian peasants during punitive expedi-
ton, has been killed by peasant pris-
oners in the jail at Kursk
1t is currently reported that ]. Pier
pont Morgan, of New York has ac-
quired for $1.20O.O00 the unique col
lection of Jules Van Den Poreboom, of
Brussels, which comprises furniture,
pictures. arms, brasses, ancient en-
cravings and chimney pieces.
William b. Thayer. member of the
Emery, Bird Thayer Dry Goods com
pany, conducting a department store
at Kansas City Mo, died, aged So
years.
The dead body of Paul J. Weller, of
Chicago, a clothing cutter, was found
In swamp near Johnstown, n. Y.
There was bullet hole in his head
and revolver lay beside his body.
Two Kansas City men and their
wives were killed when a train hit the
carriage in which they were riding.
Mrs. +. s. Loveland, a niece of the
late Coils p. Huntington, was killed
while operating new automobile, at
Oneonta, n. Y.
f, Jim Williams (colored), charged
with attacking Lille Mizener (white),
near Colbert, |, T., was lynched at
9urant by mob of a thousand, peo-
pie.
Another attempt to wreck train on
the Pennsylvania railway was made
near Youngstown, o., a telephone pole |
being tied across the tracks.
Mrs. Otto Drifting of Milbrook, N. j., |
oh
dren.
A Russian student killed two police |
men who tried to arrest him as he was !
entering a revolutionary meeting place |
in Moscow.
William X. Niver former mayor OF |
Syracuse, n. Y. died, aged 70 years.
Secretary Taft accepted Senator
Foraker's challenge by declaring him
self candidate for the United States
senate as well as for the presidency, |
and proposing that the one who lost |
at the primaries should retire from |
Ohio politics
The city OF Bitlis, Turkey, was
wrecked by an earthquake
Mrs. w. II. Ogden, of Ripon, Wis.
shot justice of the peace in the chest
because he fined her husband one dol
lar for theft.
The attorney of Cook county, ILL |
nois, began suit against the estate of !
the late Marshall Field for 81 ,76S. 946
in back taxes on personally
The North Jersey Street Railway
company was indicted at Newark for
maintaining dirty cars, providing use
less tenders and allowing its cars to be
overcrowded.
Mrs. Russell Sage Is the largest in
dividual tax payer in New York city.
being assessed on $7.5O0,000.
II. E. Bowman an insurance agent
representing himself to be from Co
lumbus, was found dead in a Delphos
co. hotel.
A hundred passengers were jolted
and bruised in a collision between a
passenger train and freight on the
Baltimore & Ohio near Fairmont. w
Va.
Most OF the business district of VOL
cottville, Ind. was destroyed by fire.
The chatham mill at Howard and
Berks streets. Philadelphia, occupied
by a number OF textile concerns. was
damaged 100000 by three fires that
were discovered within a period of ~
hours.
The British war Office has removed
the ban from Chicago meats.
Sixty thousand tailors in Germany
demanded a wage increase OF from 40
to 100 per cent. and are threatened
with a lockout
Dynamite exploded at the Southern
railway station in Atlanta, Ca, killing
two, negroes and a white man and hurt.
Ing others.
The first distribution by the gen.
eral education board OF John ID. Rock
efeller's $S2.OOO,OOO was made as fol
lows; Yale university. 100000:
Princeton university, 100000; Bow
ioin college. Brunswick. Me-, $4,000; 4
college. Jackson, Miss, s25..
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