The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1907-08-23

| proven lHdl the Oulltu oldlSS pOSSCo-
ses the secret of an explosive more
powerful and destructive than any
other ever invented.
The International Socialist congress
opened at Stuttgart, with over 900 del
egates, representing 25 nationalities,
present.
A large meteor fell into the sea off
Amagansett, l.. l., causing an upheav-
al of water that did considerable dam
age.
Five miners were killed at Seaman,
Pa, by the tipping of cage in which
they assembled from the bottom of a
shaft.
Theodore A. French, an aeronaIt,
was killed at LAWN Rock, Conn, by
the failure of his parachute to open.
There have been five cases of bu-
bonic plague in San Francisco, four
of them resulting fatally.
Federal Judge Mcpherson at Red
Oak, Ia, ordered the Mutual Life In
surance company to pay a 100000
policy on the life of Lucius II. Per
kins. refusing to permit the exhuma-
tion of the mans body.
A shortage of $4,000 was found in
the accounts of former treasurers of
Ashtabula county, Ohio.
John E. Owens, a well-known news
paper writer and traveller, committed
suicide in Cincinnati.
A coroner's jury freed Mrs. Made
line Washer Langlotz. who shot and
killed her father after he had killed
her mother in New York.
Criminal and civil proceedings
against all persons concerned in the
fraudulent transactions in connection
with the construction and furnishing
of Pennsylvania $13,000,000 capitol
were recommended in the final report
of the capitol investigation commits
sion. made to Gov. Stuart, who prom
Used that action should be prompt
and vigorous.
That the practices of the Marathon
County Railroad company, owned by
Lieut.. Gov. w. d. Conner, are 'un-
lawful, inequitable and socially and
economically parasitic was the con-
clusion of a decision handed down by
the Wisconsin railroad commission.
]. Warren Hastings, since 1864 a
trusted official at the United States
subtreasury in Boston, was arrested
on the charge of embezzling $4,000
from the government.
Several thousand gallons of gasoline
in the Standard Oil company's tank
at Brodhead, Wis, exploded, destroy
ing the tank and causing panic in
the town.
A suit to annul the franchises of
1900 which were granted to the Mil
waukee Electric Railway & Light COM
pany was begun in the circuit court
at Milwaukee by Attorney General F,
L. Gilbert on behalf of the state of
Wisconsin.
A fake check for the exact amount
of the fine recently imposed upon the
Standard Oil company by Judge
Lands at Chicago was received at the
treasury department in Washington
from an unknown sender. 1t was
malleu at lOleuO, ".
Miss Elizabeth Gallighan, of st.
Louis, leaned too near fast revolving
ny wheel in the shoe factory in which
she is employed and her entire scalp
was torn from her head The scalp
was removed from the fly wheel intact
and surgeons performed rare opera
ton by sewing it back in place.
Attorney General Bonaparte, reply
ing to criticisms of Wall street, as
serted that his department would con-
tinue to prosecute wealthy men and
corporations that violate the laws, and
that honest business men should be
glad of it.
The Burlington Railroad company
was found guilty of violating the eight
hour telegraphic law and was fined
5000 by Judge Grail at Chillicothe, Mo.
During an excursion of the Vermont
Association of Boston, to South Hero
island. Lake Champlain, George Cou-
ture, of Burlington, was drowned and
Mrs. Fletcher ID. Proctor, wife of the
governor of Vermont, narrowly es-
capped death.
Assessor Henry Alexander of Abse-
con, n. j., has raised the taxes of
wealthy bachelors in lis district 500
because of the fact that they are
bachelors.
Receivers were appointed for the as
signed estate of Alexander Crow, Jr.,
mill owner of Philadelphia. The liza
bilities are placed at $597 1913, but ii
is believed the assets will nearly
cover this amount.
The Republic Iron and Steel com
pany and the Western Bar Iron asso-
citation at Pittsburg have agreed to
the scale approved by the board of
cancellations
Lipman's dry goods store at Beloit,
Wis, was robbed of $4,000 worth of
silks and furs.
j. ogden Armour has bought two
English gray shires and will exhibit
them in Chicago.
Diamonds and other precious
stones, valued at $4,000, were stolen
| from the mansion of Count Secken-
/ dorf, at Ramseys, n. J.
Three big thread factories at New