The Yale expositor., 1908-08-28


Standard Oil Company of Indiana,
filed at Chicago
OF $4,000 in decayed greenbacks
sent to the treasury department for re-
iemption by o. ID. Earl of Morrillton,
Ark, all but $25 was identified and a
check for s9,975 was mailed to Mr..
Earl. Fearing the banks were unsafe,
Mr.. Earl buried his savings in an old
pail in 1904.
Having been defed by the Indiana
state executive board of the organiZa-
ton, President T. l.. Lewis of the Uni
ted Mine Workers issued from head
quarters a letter advising all miners
on strike in Indiana to return to work
Immediately.
The regimental championship rife
shoot of the United States was won
at Camp Perry for the third successive
year by the Sixth regiment of Massa-
chusetts.
Persian revolutionists captured Ain
ed Dowleh, who had advanced on Tab
riz at the head of 1900 government
troops.
j. ID. McCreary. aged 65. a coal mer.
chant of Louisville, committed suicide
in a boarding house in Lexington, Ky.
Mrs. Jack" Gardner and Mrs. Emily
Crane Chadbourne are not to be pros
ecuted on criminal charge by the
United States government in connec-
ton with their alleged attempt to
smuggle $4,000 worth of art goods
into the country.
One man was killed and four per
sons injured when an automobile
turned turtle in Sar Francisco.
Fourteen horses were shot TO pre-
vent their being burned to death at
Carroll. la
William Finney. colored patient in
the insane asylum at Peoria, ILL.,, who
was attacked by white lunatic, died
of his injuries.
Theodore Norman of Avon-on-the
Sea. y. Y, removed a piece of glass
three-quarters OF an inch in length
from his forehead, which, unknown TO
him. had been imbedded there ever
since he fell downstairs with a bottle
in his hand % years ago.
The bride of a week of Prof. Ru-
dolph Splitter of Sternberg, Mecklen-
burg-Schwerin. threw herself from the
top of the Bismarck tower at Herings-
dorf. Prussia, falling 200 feet to the
bottom of the cliffs upon which the
tower is built
H. ~ xr,I
killed her husband and wounded her.
self, ended her life by leaping from
a hospital window.
The Belgian chamber Of deputies
adopted the Congo annexation treaty,
assuring the annexation of the Free
State and the end of King Leopold S
misrule in Africa.
Announcement was made that a cor.
poration is being formed to be known
as the Commonwealth Fuel company.
embracing 1853 Illinois coal mines with.
in a radius of SO miles of st. Louis,
supplying practically all the coal con.
sumed in st. Louis and in East st.
Louis.
After drugging three watch dogs
that guarded the summer home OF
Frederick w. Woerz, a wealthy New
York brewer, burglars entered the
house at Belle Haven park, Conn, and
stole $4,000 worth OF jewelry and 500
In money.
The National Editorial association
elected w. II. Mayes of Brentwood
Tex, president and decided to meet
next year in Seattle.
The Pennsylvania pure food law OF
1907 was declared unconstitutional in
decision rendered by Judge Martin
Bell in the Blair county court.
James s. Sherman, Chairman
Hitchcock and other Republican lead
ers, conferred with President Roose
welt on the New York situation anG
1t seemed settled that the party must
renominate Gov. Hughes.
The design of William G. Potter fol
an equestrian statue of Gen. George
Il. Custer, who was killed in the battle
of the Little Big Horn, to he put VI
at the Custer home in Monroe, Mich.
has been accepted.
The Minnesota Democratic state
, convention met in Minneapolis anC
after a scene of indescribable tumult
caused by the mention of his name
and which continued for "a minutes
Gov. Johnson was nominated for re
| election.
The home of Wofford Tweed near
Marshal, N. c.. was destroyed by fire
and his wife. their three children and
Mrs. Murray Tweed were burned tc
death.
T. w. Burgess, a blacksmith, wa.
in the water more than 20 hours in al
attempt to swim the English channe
and gave up a mile from the French
+, coast.
Edward II. Hacker, travelling
salesman employed by the Mccall Pat
tern company. and his young wife, Il
whom he had been married only tel
months. shot and killed themselves II
their New York home after a quarrel
Hague diplomats expect that Hol
land will declare war on Presiden
Castro of Venezuela TO vindicate tn,
national honor. and work on the war
ships meanwhile is being rushed.