The Yale expositor., 1908-09-18

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OF New York, killed himself because
of financial and domestic difficulties
and on learning of it, his friend
George Crouch, a stock operator, com
mitted suicide
! Harry X. Thaw was transferred TO
the Jail at White Plains, N. Y.
Mrs. Ella lsbester of Salem, Wis,
saturated her clothing with kerosene,
set herself afire and burned to death.
George Sands, 70 years old, was ar
rested at his home in Kansas City,
Kan, on a charge of making counter
felt money. Five glass fruit jars con
tanning 33S spurious silver dollars
were dug up in his back yard.
A government crop report estimates
the total Canadian wheat yield at
124 100000 bushels, an average of 81
bushels per acre. The total yield of
oats is estimated at 269, 904 900 bushels.
and the total barley yield 49,4SS,000
bushels
The towns of Grand Marais and
Beaver Bay were reported to be burn
ing and many other places were en-
dangered by the forest fires of Michi-
gan and Minnesota.
A hurricane of great fury swept
over Turks Islands, B. w. l., and the
town of Grand Turk was devastated.
A number of lives have been lost, but
just how many cannot yet be said.
Emperor William disappointed the
general expectation that he would set
foot on French territory in the course
of sightseeing voyage along the
Vosges range.
In fight lasting one hour, ten min
utes and 26 seconds, Orville Wright
surpassed all his exploits for a time
and distance flight for a heavierthan-
air machine.
The number Of unemployed In Lon
don, England, was strikingly illus
trated when 5000 men surrounded and
attempted TO make their way into
hospital which had advertised for a
porter at a wage of $3.50 a week and
meals.
Warm praise was given President
Roosevelt by Judge e. H. Gary, chair
man of the board of directors of the
United States Steel corporation, at a
banquet given for him by Sir Hugh
Bell. president of the Iron and Steel
institute, and others.
The plant of the Cosmosdale Cement
Company, located at Cosmosdale. II
miles southwest of Louisville, burned
with loss estimated at $4,000, 900.
American workingmen and working
women, represented by the American
Federation of Labor, will cooperate
with the coming worlds congress on
tuberculosis to prevent the spread of
consumption in workshops, homes and
public buildings.
The formal notification OF John Tenn.
pie Graves of his nomination as vice
presidential candidate of the Independ-
ence party took place at the Ponce de
Leon Casino in Atlanta, Ga.
Descendants of Maj. Gen. Alexander
Macomb, first commanderin-chief OF
the United States army, gathered in
Detroit from many parts of the United
States for the unwilling OF a statue
of Gen. Macomb, erected at the site |
of his birthplace under the auspices of |
the Michigan Society of the Daughters
of 1912.
Twelve hundred employees OF the |
Great Northern Paper Company at Mil |
linocket, Me-, went on strike.
The commodities clause of the Hep |
burn railroad act was declared uncon-
stitutional by the United States cir |
cult court for the eastern district of
Pennsylvania.
Judge Kenesaw Lands, who fined |
the Standard Oil Company of Indiana
$29 900, 900, is charged with having |
permitted outside influences to govern |
his decision by the attorneys for the
company in their answer to the appli-
cation for a rehearing filed in the |
United States court of appeals.
County Attorney English at Omaha,
Neb., filed a complaint against Charles
E. Davis, charging him with murder
in the first degree in connection with
the shooting of DR.. frederick Rustin.
In a flight requiring great skill on
account of ten-mile wind, O-ville
Wright in his aeroplane circled around
the drill ground at Fort Myer So times
in So minutes and So seconds, break
ing his own worlds record
Jacob Hernesniemi with his two
sons, respectively IL and IA years old,
met death while trying to fight off the
forest fires that swept their homestead
on Otter river near Calumet, Mich.
Falling a victim to its policy of over
extension and poor management the
well-known fish, oyster and sea food
house of A. Booth & Co. of Chicago,
the largest in this country was forced
into the hands OF receiver.
The supreme court of Oklahoma up
held the validity of the depositors'
guaranty law, denying the injunction
prayed by the Noble State bank to re-
strain the state from levying a one per
cent. assessment upon the deposits OF
the bank.
Miss Patricia Sgan. daughter of
Maurice F. Egan, the American minis
ter to Denmark, was married in Copen-