The Yale expositor., 1908-05-08

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the members of the railroad commits
sion of Indiana to enjoin them from
reducing express rates.
Harvey Hinkle of Bloomington, Ind,
who killed John r. McClintock be-
cause of jealousy, was acquitted of
murder on the ground of insanity.
Six men were killed by the ex-
plosion of a naphtha tank in a Chi
cago reduction company's plant.
Police Sergeant James Boyle of To
ledo, O., was fatally shot by a man
whom he had arrested.
The Atlantic battleship feet arrived
at Monterey, CAL
A supposed attempt of the lawless
element in the little town of Verden,
Okla, to take revenge on City Mar
shall Gillespie for his policy of strict
law enforcement resulted in an in
cendiary fire which destroyed the prin-
cipal business section of the town.
Attorney General Bird of Michigan
filed a bill asking for a receiver for
the American Health and Accident as
sociation of Detroit.
Robbers took $4,000 in Mexican
currency from a Wells-Fargo express
car near Torreon, Mexico.
The National Prosperity association,
to uplift business interests generally,
was organized by st. Louis merchants.
Conductors and motormen in Cleve-
land began voting on proposition to
strike because they were refused a
wage increase.
1t was reported in Panama that
Honduras was preparing to attack
Guatemala.
The Michigan supreme court az
firmed the conviction and sentence of
Philip A. McHugh and Charles P.
O'Neil, two prominent young attorneys
of Detroit, who were held in contempt
by Judge Connolly of Detroit for fail
ing to proceed with murder trial at
the time set by the court.
President and Mrs. Roosevelt re-
ceived 600 New England working
women who were in Washington sight
seeing.
A receiver was appointed for Will
liam A. Stetson of Boston, one of the
best known leather dealers in the Uni.
ted States.
Miss Georgia e. Bible of North Caro-.
lima, arrested in Chicago, confessed to
the theft of $4,000 worth of diamonds
from Herbert Loeb of Philadelphia.
Fred Auterburn, prisoner at Allan,
tic, Ia, locked the jailer in Gel. and
escaped.
Two train robbers boarded the New
York & st. Louis express on the Pan
Handle railroad at Pittsburg, over
powered the express messenger and
got away with four bags of currency
More than 200 men, including the
captain and many other officers, per
ished when the Japanese training
cruiser Matsushima was sunk by the
accidental explosion of a projectile.
Mirror Lake, fine fishing place
near Baraboo, Wis, was ruined wher
high water destroyed two dams.
Heavy frosts In southeastern Iowa
northeastern Missouri and western
Illinois badly damaged strawberrie:
and other fruits.
The mayor of Fort-de-F France, Mar
Unique, and several other men were
killed in a political fight.
DR.. ]. ID. Garrison shot and killed
j. d. Williams, an electrician, at Fla
Creek, Ala, in a duel.
Eleven thousand pounds of greer
coffee which was confscated by the
United States government on the
ground that it contained deleteriou'
and adulterous substances, wa!
burned at Nashville. Tenn.
An attempt was made to destroy the
quarters of the fashionable Phoenil
club in Cincinnati with a bomb.
Ray Lamphere of Laporte, Ind, wa!
held on charge of numbering Mrs
Della Guinness and her three children
who were burned to death.
Ambassador Reid announced the en-
gagement of his daughter Jean Il
Hon. John Hubert Ward, brother o
the earl Of Dudley.
Two seamen of the German battle
ship Elsass were killed and six Others
| were WOuuueu dJ Mel, as the result o
the explosion of a mine.
Three thousand Christian Al
menians are reported to have beef
massacred by Kurds in the province
of Persia recently invaded by Rus
sian troops on punitive mission.
Several of the buildings on tn
jamestown exposition grounds wer
destroyed by fire.
Two leopards leaped among tn
spectators in the Baltimore zoo, bad
ly injured a boy and caused a panic.
The plant of the John A. Bum Chair
company at st. Paul, Mimi, wa
burned, the loss being $4,000.
The private bank of Malone & Sol
OF Cayuga, Ind, was closed by tn
state bank examiner.
Republican conventions in Marylan
and North Carolina instructed 70
Taft and that in Maine declared hiI
its choice without instructing the dele
gates.
Serious damage was done in Leo
county. the tobacco section of F1orids