The Yale expositor., 1907-06-07
RECORD OF THE MOST lMPoR-
TANT HAPPENINGS IN ITEM.
lied FORM.
HOME AND FOREIGN NEWS
information Gathered from All Quar-
tiers Of the Civilized World and
Prepared for the Perusal of the
Busy Man.

civic ceremonies and a monster
parade.
Willis Smith, an old resident of the
left prong of Shoal Creek, Tennessee,
is spending hoardings of years, fear
ing robbers may be tempted to MUIR
der him.
John d. Rockefeller heard Rev. DR..
Charles F. Aked preach a sermon at
the Fifth Avenue Baptist church. New
York, in which he says man shall not
live by stocks and bonds alone"
The coroner at Lawrence, Kan, be-
lieves Lawyer L. II. Perkins, who was
killed by fall from roof and who car
ried 100000 life insurance, commit
ted suicide.
President Roosevelt is said to feel
certain that Republicans will name a
man who will carry out his policies
and is more firmly fixed than ever in
his determination not to accept a
third term.
Signboards reproducing famous pic
lures in the Carnegie institute but
with advertisements on them for bath
tubs and beer, raise a protest in Pitts
burg from people who think true art
should not be debased to the level Of
commercialism.
P. H. Morrissey, head of trainmen's
order, denied that labor unions were
subversive of discipline or con-
tributing cause of train wrecks.
G. G. Thorp, of Chicago, may be
chosen president of United States
Steel corporation to succeed w. L.
Corey.
One passenger was killed and
score injured, some of them fatally,
when an eastbound train on the South
ern Pacific was wrecked near Lozier,
Tex, June 8.
Fire destroyed the repair shops OF
the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe
Railway company in Argentine, Kan.
Loss, $4,000.
Recent rumors that Richard Croker
was ambitious to enter the British
parliament as an Irish nationalist are
declared baseless by friends, who say
the former Tammany chief will never
give up his American citizenship.
While attempting to escape after
stealing a horse from Arthur Smith,
five miles north of st. Marys, o., a
man believed to be Marvin Kuhns, the
notorious outlaw, was shot in the
right shoulder and the groin, and the
end of his nose was shot off. He died
from his wounds a few hours later.
Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific pas
senger train No. 81 was wrecked
near Union, Mo. No one was in
jured
Mrs. Griscom, wife Of Lloyd G.
Griscom, American ambassador to
Italy, gave birth to son.
j. Pierpont Morgan arrived at
Arezzo Italy, from Perugia. He visited
several churches and inspected the
works of art and antiquities for which
the city is famous. Later he left for
Florence
Rabbi Hirsch, of Chicago, was elect
ed to the board of governors of the
Hebrew Union college at Cincinnati.
The Berlin statistical bureau draws
attention to the decline in the birth
rate in that city, which has been al
were $40 births for every 1000 mar
ried women. In 1906 the rate was
only 109. Legitimate births have
steadily increased until now they near
ly are II per cent, as compared with
Is per cent. in 1901 and IL per cent.
in 1875.
Lawson Lane, who disappeared
!, &c T.,
found in Zeigler, I'll.
Pastor and old friends of Mrs. Nc.
Kinley joined in memorial services in
church
The Pullman Sleeping Car company
has been ordered by the interstate
commission to prove an upper birth
is worth as much as lower one.
There are wild rumors of clashes to
be prevented by policy of delegates to
peace conference.
Encountering a wreck on his first
run, George Paul Kramer, 3S years
old, passenger conductor on the Iron
Mountain railroad, was frightened to
death when his train struck a light
engine at Tioga, La.
Oficial government bulletin de
scribed rats as worst pest in exist
ence, which costs the country millions
annually.
Bertha Beilstein, matricide, who
escaped from an insane asylum, sailed
from New York, leaving statement as
to how she got away from institution
Wealthy clubwomen, of Rockford
Ill, aided the escape from a hospital Of
a mother accused of numbering one o.
her twin babies, an automobile beinl
provided for a wild dash to the train.
The loss of valuable art treasur,
from church at Perugia, Italy, is laiC
TO an American.
Discrimination against the blu,
Jacket OF the navy has led to com
plant to naval secretary, jamestown
exposition management claiming
has no Jurisdiction.
Attack on Japs in San Francisc,
may be settled by cabinets explana
ton that the strike was responsible.