The Yale expositor., 1908-11-13
An express train was derailed near |

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ILL.,, wrecked the shaft. and as result
four shot firers were entombed and
probably killed.
! Vice resident-elect Sherman for
warded to Albany for filing with the
secretary of state, statement OF his
expenses In the campaign Just closed.
1t showed his expenditures to have
been $500.
The second squadron of the Amer
lean battleship feet left Annoy for the
Philippines.
The freight steamer b. M. Whitney
of the Metropolitan Steamship line
was sunk in the East river while on
her way to Boston. The loss on ves-
sci and cargo is about 100000.
The Union Telephone & Telegraph
Company, having a telephone system
in Rock Island and Moline, ILL.,, and
Davenport, Ia, and capitalized at
| $550,000 went into the hands of a re-
ceiver on an application filed by the
American Trust and Savings bank Of
! Chicago.
A small steamer carrying 600 pas
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sank and 200 of the passengers were
drowned.
Thrilling escapes and heroic work
by a Costa Rican student, Rubena
Herrera, marked a fire which burned
to the ground the Bliss Electric school
in North Takoma, suburb of Wash
ington.
James T. Mulhall was sentenced to
Is months at the federal prison at
Leavenworth, Kan; Edgar McConkey
TO one year and one day at Leaven-
worth. and Felix Williamson to six
months in the county Jail by Judge
Milton Purdy at Minneapolis for
fraudulent operation of the Nicollet
Creamery Company.
Talk of the election of Theodore
Roosevelt to the United States senate
TO succeed Senator Plat of New York
was revived in Washington.
The Japanese steamer Taish Maru
sank in a storm and $50 persons were
drowned.
The general committee of foreign
missions of the Methodist Episcopal
church, at it's session in ST. Louis, be-
gan the work of itemizing the appro-
priations for the year 1909, after vot-
ing to appropriate a total of $1,000
SIS.
John Cooper, a student at the Uni
versity of North Carolina, and a mem
Der of the varsity football eleven.
who was injured during the prelimi-
nary practice of the team in Septem-
Der, is dead.
Two women and five children per-
ished in a burning farmhouse near
Swan Lake, Man.
Chancellor e. Benjamin Andrews of
the University of Nebraska resigned,
to take effect January 1.
The people of Plauen, Germany,
were terrified by a violent earthquake
shock
The Citizens and Farmers State
bank of Arkansas City, Kan, closed its
doors.
The suit to Gust the Western Trust
and Savings bank of Chicago as trus-
tee of the $4,000 900 bond issue of the
Chicago & Milwaukee Electric Rail-
road Company was begun in Milwau-
kee by Alexander Beaubien, a bond
holder.
Boston's park system fund has been
increased by more than $4000,000 by
the terms of George F. Parkman's will,
made 80 years ago.
Mount McCulloch, which last year
thrust its head up from the center of
Bogaslov island. 60 miles west of
Unalaska, has disappeared in the
throes of another volcanic change.
Many mills and factories that have
been running on half time have begun
operating on full time.
While attempting to arrest Jesse
Rice, negro. at Riverside, Pa, Con-
stable George Brown shot him dead
and was himself fatally shot in the
abdomen by the negro.
Phil Short, one of the best known
newspaper men in North Dakota, was
shot and killed by Clayton Yeakins
while they were hunting deer in Nc
Kenzie county. n. ID.
John Hagen. a hotel keeper at
| OSld nAOIs hiiith MS wiz INV
son and attempted suicide.
Nine laborers we're killed by pre-
mature blast on the Grand Trunk Pa
cific road near Dryden. Man.
Prince Louis d'Orleans BraganZa
and Princess Maria-Pia of Bourbon
Sicily, were married at Cannes,
France.
Business property valued at $500, 900
was destroyed by fire in Pembroke.
Ont.
Near Jefferson City, Tenn, Victor
Mcmahon, a prominent farmer, prob
ably fatally shot Mrs. John Wilkes,
the wife of tenant on his farm, while
shooting at her husband. Wilkes then
emptied the contents of a shotgun into
McMahon's breast.
Israel JAMESON, former cashier OF
a bank in Lindersburg, Sweden, who
was arrested by detective at Yankee
Bush, Pa, has, 1t is alleged, made a
complete confession, admitting he alb
stracted $4,000 kroners of the banks
funds.
Mrs Catherine Louis Lynn Of Chi