The Yale expositor., 1908-10-23


of Metz, and the the cars were burned.
IL women and children and four men
perishing. The forest fires in North
ern Michigan were reported to be
raging with most disastrous results.
Hundreds made homeless by Michi-
gan forest fires need shelter and food
and Gov. Warner issued an appeal for
help. Relief work was started prompt
ly in Detroit and elsewhere.
Capt Peter c. Hams and his
brother, T. Jenkins Hams. were in
dicted in New York for the murder
of William e. Annis.
Judge David b. Howell of Newark,
N. j., committed suicide by shooting.
e. II. Gay & Co., bond dealers of
Boston, went into the hands of re-
ceivers, the liabilities being estimated
at $S,000,O00
Turkish troops massacred Armen-
ians in the village of Viran- Shehr and
brutally abused the women and chill
dren.
The German balloon Plauen, which
left Berlin in an endurance contest,
was picked up in the North sea by a
trawler. Clinging to the balloon were
the two aeronauts, Hackstetter and
Schneider, in an almost exhausted con-
dition.
One man was drowned and IS per-
sons were thrown into a panic when
the steamer New York of the Albany
Day line was rammed by tug in the
North river.
Fire destroyed two big salt ware
houses in South Chicago, ILL.,, the loss
being about S150,000.
Fire caused $5OO,OOO damage in the
yards of the Rock Island Qll.) Lumber
Company and the Rock Island Sash
and Door works.
Clara Watland, Is years old, com
mitted suicide at New Sharon, Ia,
because her mother scolded her, it is
said, for tardiness in returning home
from school,
1t is feared there will be an out
break of the Sioux Indians at Fort
Yates. s. D., if the government order
providing for the removal of the In.
dian graves in the military cemetery
there be carried out
The Union National bank of Sum-
merville, Pa, was closed by the bank
examiner.
William Randolph Hearst was
served with papers notifying him that
suit for 100000 had been brought
against him for slander and libel by
Gov Charles N. Haskell of Oklahoma
in the Douglas county (Nebraska) dis
trict court.
The German balloon Busley came
down in the North sea. The two men
on board were rescued by a passing
steamer. This is the fourth air craft
in the international race to fall into
the sea.
The American battleship fleet ar
rived at southeastern Japan but bad
weather delayed its entry into Yoko-
hama harbor.
Forest fires broke out again in
northern Michigan the towns of Metz
and La ROGUE being burned and
others threatened.
John Cook, aged 7S years, in Jail at
Champaign, ILL.,, awaiting trial for the
murder of Mrs. Edna McLennan, COM
mitted suicide by hanging.
Reports of the murder of ]. o. Cur
wood of Detroit by Indians in north
ern Canada were untrue
The Hindu colony in British Colum-
bia, 1000 persons, will be moved to
British Honduras.
About 140 of the students and teach
ers of the South Lancaster academy at
South Lancaster, Mass, are suffering
from ptomaine poisoning. believed to
have resulted from eating some canned
corn.
The plants of the Barber Asphalt
Company and the Barber Roofing Com.
pany at North Venice, H., were de-
stroyed by fire. The loss is about
$50. 900.
Frederick S. Baird, a Chicago law
yer, was found guilty by a jury at
Omaha of conspiracy to defraud the
government of public lands in Ne
braska.
A memorial tablet to mark the
place where the debate between Abra-
ham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas
occurred on October 15, 1858, was un-
veiled at Alton, III.
Gov. Deneen appointed John r. Mar
shall Of Chicago commanding the
Eighth infantry, Illinois National
Guard. as commissioner to the ma
tional negro fair at Mobile, Ala, in
1909.
Two more OF the balloons in the in
ternational race for the James Gordon
Bennett trophy have descended in the
North sea, and one, the German entry
Busley, manned by DIR. Niemeyer and
Hans Hiedemann. has not yet been
heard from.
Chicago's National league team
the Cubs-are still champions OF the
world. They captured the fifth game
of the series from the Detroit Tigers
b. a score of to 0, thus winning four
games. to one for the Detroits.
Chancellor Andrews of the Univer-
sity of Nebraska forbade class fights
and other students pranks on pain of