The Yale expositor., 1908-02-21
BRIEF REVIEW Of
A Weeks EVENTS
RECORD OF THE MOST iMPoR.
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.

Man for man, gun Tor gun, anu sup
for ship, the American navy is secohu
to none in the world, according 10 the
report of Admiral Converse, calleu
forth by the many criticisms recently
made in magazines and otherwise.
Charles w. Morse, financier and
promoter of many large combinations
returned from his brief trip to Europe
was arrested in his stateroom Wheh
the steamer Etruria reached quarah-
tine in the lower bay at New YORK.
and was released on $4,000 bonds
He issued statement declaring his
innocence.
Cant. n. b. Thistlewood of Cairo
Ill, Republican candidate for congress
in the Twenty fifth Illinois district
was elected to fill the vacancy caused
by the death of George w. Smith last
November.
The navy department was officially
advised of the arrival of the American
torpedo boat flotilla at Talcahuano'
Chile. four days ahead of the schedule.
In the Democratic primaries in Okla
homa to elect delegates to the state
convention w. j. Bryan was indorsed
by every one of the rs counties.
Following a fight on the tug Annie
r. Wood of Providence, bound from
Newport to Fort Greble, Benjamin
G. Stevenson, son of Congressman
Stevenson of CTookston, Mimi, tell
or was pushed overheard and drowned.
Bert Hendersliter, son of Mrs. Bel
TAYLOR and stepson of Nathan Taylor,
who was murdered in the rear OF his
confectionery store at Creston, Ia
confessed that he fired the shot which
ended Taylor's life.
On the steamer Crispin, which ar
rived in the roads, three miles out
from Galveston, Tex, from Para
Brazil, there were two cases OF yellow
fever.
Peter Gruener, aged 40, a copper
smith of Cincinnati, shot and instantly
killed his wife, and then shot hlmselr'
dying shortly afterwards.
Night riders 800 strong visited
Eddyville, Ky, and whipped ten men,
four of them white and six negroes.
A new American ski record was
made at Duluth when John Mangseth
jumped III feet.
The flood at Pittsburg receded after
causing great damage to property and
intense suffering among poor people
High water stopped railway traffic in
many parts of southern Ohio.
Harry Arthur McArdle, who painted
Dawn at the Alamo" and THE Battle
of San Jacinto," and other famous his
torical pictures, died at his home IN
San Antonio, Tex
Henry ID. Sellers, real estate
broker and prominent citizen of Pitts
burg. Pa, committed suicide by shoot
ing. just as did his son some months
ago.
While one masked robber held III
the cashier. his two companions looted
the vault of the bank at Granite Falls
n. c., secured all the cash in the in
stitution-S2 ,700-forced the cashie
TO enter the vault and after locking
him in made their escape.
Marian Grey, affinity finder, wa
convicted in the federal court at CHI
cago of using the United States mail
10 defraud while conducting the Elgi
Searchlight club.
Smallpox appeared in the Universit
of Illinois. and all students were Of
dered vaccinated.
Seven persons were killed and
dozen injured when a Big Four pa
senger train struck Toledo & Yves
ern electric car at the Michigan Gel
trail crossing in West Toledo, o.
Miss Theodore Shonts, daughter {
Mr.. and Mrs. Theodore p. Shonts, Wa
married in New York to the due
Chaulnes in the presence OF 81
guests.
Frank Murdoch, a well-known X
publican politician, died at his hon
I'm Oneida. ILL.,. of heart disease,
duced by an attack of pneumoni
aged &c years.
Attorney General Bonaparte direct'
the immediate prosecution of Il
Southern Pacific on los charges OF I
batting, involving $4,000 to $4,000
each case.
Michael Devalo OF South Chicago
under arrest charged with scalding
Laby TO death because the child
mother refused to elope with him.
Lincolns birthday was celebrat
with banquets and orations by d
tinguished men in many cities.
While exercising in the Philli
Exeter academy gymnasium, Fosi
Holmes of Minneapolis, Mimi, s.
tanned injuries which were declar
to be very dangerous
Six men were killed by an explosi
in starch factory at Providence.
l.. and the building was wrecked
burned.
Chauncey b. Geiger. president OF
Illinois state board of arbitration d
ing the administration of Gov. Rich'
Yates, died at his home in Ashley,
Gov. Davidson appointed Freder
Thwaites and James +. Trottman
Milwaukee as regents of the Univ
sity OF Wisconsin.
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