The Yale expositor., 1907-10-04

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With the murder of Mrs. Lillian
White Grant in Chicago. by strangling
her, was arrested in Springfield, Ill.
A ferryboat crossing the Tombigbee
river, near Jackson, Ala, was cap
sized, drowning one white boy and 13
negroes.
Cone Hagan, farmer living near
Statesboro, Ca, and eight children
were poisoned by ice cream in which
condensed milk had been used.
Fire in Port Limon, Costa Rica,
caused three deaths and the loss or
$4,000
Sir Thomas Upton said he would Is
sue revised challenge for the Amer
icas cup If Fife, the boat designer,
thought it wise.
The report of the currency commits
sion of the American Bankers associa-
ton, recommending the credit cur
rency bill. was adopted despite the
vigorous opposition of western bank
ers.
The post was hello up few miles
from Tobolsk, Siberia, and the post
man in charge killed by band of rob-
bers who got away with $4,000.
S. E. Crawford, of Cincinnati, o.,
died at Naples of angina pectoris. He
was "a years old.
Arthur Traynor, an aeronaut from
Minneapolis, was drowned in Lake
Pepin while making a balloon ascen-
sion and parachute drop.
The warehouse of Byrd, Douglas &c
Co., grain dealers of Nashville, Tenn,
were destroyed by fire. Loss, 100000,
with SOS, 900 insurance.
The Lusitania arrived at Queens
town, having made the eastward pas
sage in five days, four hours and -
minutes, record time for the Cunard
line
We're st. Leger Goold has confessed
to the Judge at Monte Carlo that he
and Mrs. Goold murdered Emma
Levin.
Moorish rebels numbering about
5000 defeated a force of imperial!
troops in a battle which lasted day
| and half. The rebels cut off the
heads of 2S of the sultan's soldiers.
State Architect George L. Keens OF
New York died at his summer home
at Lake Mohegan, Westchester coun
ty, of meningitis.
Frank Halliday, alias Halfraak, and
| John Lane, alias Laurence, were ar
rested in New York at the request Of
the authorities in Minneapolis. 1t is
charged they got $1,500,000 from
farmers of the northwest by selling
fraudulent crop reports.
Henry f. Maiwurm Of Chicago was
reelected president and Michael j.
Mccarthy of Chicago was reelected
secretary of the Liquor Dealers Pro.
tective association of Illinois.
The New York board of education
has ordered an investigation to deter.
mine whether the abolition of cor.
poral punishment has been beneficial
or detrimental to the system.
Reports received from several
towns in the district near Malaga,
Spain, indicate that the loss of life
by the floods may reach $50.
One of the new 20,000-ton battle.
ships is to be called the North Da
kota.
John Hoffman was dropped into a
five-foot sewer in New York by the
breaking of a rope and was hurled
through the sewer at tremendous
speed into the Harlem river, but came
out alive and was rescued.
The rear coach of the second sec
ton of the special train car.
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from Paris to Cherbourg to en-
bark on the White Star line steamer
Adriatic for New York, was tele
scoped by the regular Rouen express
at the mouth of the Brevel tunnel, just
beyond Nantes. None of the passen
gers, most of whom were Americans
was killed or even badly injured.
New York striking telegraphers
voted to call out all the leased wire
men employed by brokers and the
press If the national officers approved
Walter Scott, a Great Northern fire
man, was scalded to death in wreck
near Boyleston, Wis.
President Roosevelt and family re
turned to Washington from Oyster
Bay.
The New York Yacht club declined
the challenge of Sir Thomas Upton
for race for the Americas cup next
year because it sought to limit the
size of the racers to 6S feet.
Albert X. Nugent, a government
witness against Senator Borah in the
land fraud trial at Boise, admitted he
committed perjury in taking out q
timber land claim and that he had
been promised absolute immunity by
an officer of the federal government
for testifying.
officers and seamen of the liner Ma
jestic had a terrible battle at sea with
crazy and murderous stoker, sub
DUNG him with pepper and bullet
in the thigh.
William II. Rockefeller and John ID
Archbold were accepted by Judge
Grosscup and District Attorney Sims
in Chicago as sureties on the two
bonds of the Standard Oil company o.