The Yale expositor., 1908-05-01

to have persisted and % are missing.
IL was stated in London that two
bags of mail from there, whose con.
tents were valued at 100000, were
stolen in New York.
Fire In Joliet, ILL.,, destroyed the
Boston store and damaged an ONCE
building Loss, 100000.
Robert Harrison and his six-year
old son, Thomas, were killed by light.
ming at their home near Huntington,
w. Va.
Catholics of the New York archdio-
cese began a weeks celebration Of
the church's centennial In New York.
e. F. Carly, one of the aldermen Of
Rockford, ILL.,, accused of boodling,
was arrested and two other council.
men resigned.
Herman II. Peters of Port Huron,
Mich, committed suicide because he
lost $4,000 by the failure of the
United Home Protectors fraternity.
At Lordsburg, N. NJ, Oliver CARR.
son shot and killed his wife, shot
George Allen through the abdomen,
wounding him fatally, and then com.
mitted suicide.
About 225 persons, mostly negroes,
were killed and nearly 500 were in
jured in a tornado that swept over
parts of Louisiana, Mississippi and
Alabama. Dozens of small towns
were wrecked.
The battleship fleet sailed from Los
Angeles to Santa Barbara for a Ave
days stay
Capt. F. B. Hart, Minneapolis at
torney who severely criticised the Min
nesota supreme court, was disbarred
for six months.
Many buildings in Eagle River,
Wis, we're shattered by the explosion
of 600 pounds of dynamite in a burn.
ing warehouse.
T. A. Mcintyre & Co., members Of
the New York stock, cotton and
produce exchanges, with branches in
many cities, failed for about $1,000
600.
An attempt was made to burn the
| Allis- Chalmers plant at West Allis,
Wis.
Burglars dynamited the safe Of
Scion Kugler's store in Pinckney-
vile. ILL.,, taking about 81 900.
Joseph Miller a wealthy oil opera
tor of Butler, Pa, was shot by a
burglar.
Winston Spencer Churchill Just
made president of the board of trade
In the Asquith cabinet, was defeated
for reelection to parliament from
Manchester.
Charles d. Pierce of New York, a
prominent engineer. committed sui
eide by inhaling gas.
Tornadoes in Texas, South Dakota
and Nebraska resulted in several
deaths and great destruction of prop
erty.
The Illinois Democracy adopted the
unit rule and instructed its delegates
to the national convention at Denver
to vote for William ]. Bryan and to
use all honorable means" to secure
his nomination.
President Cabrera of Guatemala is
authority for the statement that Is Of
the ringleaders in conspiracy
and that probably more executions
will follow.
The supreme court Of Illinois
handed down an opinion holding that
the local option law which was passed
by the legislature last year is consti-
tutional in every respect.
Mouris Bengston of Belvidere, H.,
dangerously wounded Miss Sigrid APP
| pleholm, to whom he was engaged,
and then committed suicide.
Four men were killed by an explo-
sion in a coal mine at Ellsworth, Pa
A hundred others narrowly escaped
death.
The murder of policeman In Lub-
lin, Russian Poland, was followed by
the arrest Of 300 workmen in local
factories where the police found stores
of arms, ammunition and mellenite
bombs.
A remarkable woman's rights petit
ton has been received by the Rus
sian duma from the Mohammedan
women Of Orenburg province, demand
Ing that the Mohammedan deputies
take steps to free them from the "des-
potism" of their husbands and give
them their share of the privileges
granted by the emperor to the peo-
pie.
The North sea and Baltic treaties
were signed by Germany, Holland,
Sweden, France and England.
Residents of Skidoo, California
mining camp, lynched Joseph Simp-
son for murder.
Fire at Cape May Point, N. j., de-
stroyed a dozen buildings, the loss be-
Ing over 100000.
Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., with Capt
F1tzhugh Lee, the presidents military
aide, and Capt. Chandler of the signal
corps, in charge of the experiments
with army balloons, made an ascen-
sion from Washington, landing safely
near Wilmington, Del.
Six hundred editors and publishers
gathered at the Waldorf-Astoria In
New York to attend the joint banquet
| Of the Associated Press and the Ameri-