The Yale expositor., 1908-01-31

Thieves In New orleans nelu up u
United States mail wagon and were
reported TO have secured about $4,000.
George l.. Thomas, a freight broker
of New York city, and l.. b. Taggart,
his clerk. pleaded guilty in the United
States district court at Kansas City,
to the charge of conspiring to pay
rebates to shippers. Judge Smith
Mcpherson then fined Thomas $1,000
and Taggart $4,000.
The Central hotel at Pontiac, ILL.,,
was destroyed by fire, the guests es-
Gaping in their night clothes.
The greater part of two business
blocks in Madison. H., was burned,
the loss being over 100000.
The Haytian revolution has eeen
suppressed. Jean Juneau, the leader
of the movement, was captured at
Dessalines, and was at once shot to
death by the government troops.
Gonaives has been occupied by a gov
eminent force.
Believing that a restoration of the
old passenger rate law in North Caro-
lima will prevent the reduction ex-
pected in their salaries, the en-
ployes of the combined railroads of
the state will petition the legislature
to repeal the present PA cent per
mile law.
Capt. Charles F. Brown, aged "A,
civil war veteran and well known MIN
eralogist, died in a St. Louis hos
| pital a pauper.
The Minnesota board of pardons
committed to life imprisonment the
sentence of Merton S. Mum, who
was to have been hanged at Bemidji
on February for the murder of Au-
gust Franklin.
a fire which caused a property dam
age of $1,000,O00 destroyed the city
hall and police buildings in Portland,
Me, and endangered the lives of more
than 700 persons.
| Andrew Jackson Detsch, who was
charged with numbering Harry Ferree
! in a boarding house in Philadelphia,
was acquitted on his plea that he
thought Ferree was a burglar. The
police asserted Detsch had discovered
an intrigue between his wife and Fer
ree but he denied this.
Emily Yznaga mother of the dow
ager duchess of Manchester and of
Lady Lister-Kaye of England, died at
/ NatcheZ, Miss.
After administering a huge dose OF
! laudanum to her young son Kenneth,
Mrs. George Stetson of Burlington
Wis, drank the remainder of the vial
| in an attempt at suicide Friday. The
| boy, aged nine, is dead.
w. Leo Bockemohle, cashier of the
suspended Bank of Ellinwood at Film
wood, Kan, under arrest for making a
! false statement of the banks condi-
/ ton in December, shot and killed him
self when his bondsmen surrendered
him.
Gilman Milton was burned to death
near Kewanee, Ill.
Charles Bradley, a fire captain of
Minneapolis. Mimi, was run over and
killed by his engine.
A fierce blizzard swept the Atlantic
coast, endangering and delaying ship
ping, and doing great damage in
y
snow fell and the storm caused four
deaths.
The International Harvester COM
pany of Milwaukee was indicted at
Frankfort, Ky, for violation of the
Kentucky antitrust laws.
S. r. Hamill of Terre Haute, Ind,
associate counsel for John r. Walsh,
died in Chicago Of pneumonia.
Paul Kelly, the motorman who was
indicted for homicide in connection
with the New York elevated wreck in
which 16 people lost their lives on
September l, 1905, was found guilty Of
manslaughter in the second degree.
A drastic prohibition proposal was
unanimously and favorably reported
in the Michigan constitutional conven-
ton by the committee on liquor af-
fairs.
Rev. DR.. P. F. Dissez, a member of
the faculty of ST. Mary's seminary,
Baltimore and who was one of the in
structors of Cardinal Gibbons when he
attended that institution, died, aged so.
Aurel Batonyi began suit in New
York against Frank Work, his father.
in-law, and two others for $1,000, 900
for their alleged alienation of the af-
fections of his wife, Mrs. Burke Roche.
Margaret Fulton, aged Sc, and Jane
Fulton, aged 80, sisters, were burned
to death in their home near st. Glars
vile, o.
Miss Georgia A. Smythe, waitress
in Boston lunch room, has received
news from her home in New Bruins
wick that she is entitled to fortune
of 100000 by virtue of being a great
great-grandaughter of Maria Fitzher-
bert, celebrated in history as having
been married to King George Nv. of
England.
Hooking, Ia small mining town,
was partly burned. The powder house
Of the mines exploded and started the
FIRE.
DR.. Farmano Lopez, who was con-
nected with the recent conspiracy to
blow up Premier Franco of Portugal
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