The Yale expositor., 1908-11-27

to quarantine Pennsylvania and New
York. The East Buffalo stock yards
were closed.
Several children at Danville, Pa,
were reported to have contracted the
foot and mouth disease, an outbreak
of which among cattle caused the
states of New York and Pennsylvania
to be quarantined.
Fire in a mine at Red Lodge, Mont,
caused the death of nine miners.
Scores of others were rescued with
great difficulty.
The state having rested its case in
the trial of Ray Lamphere at Laporte,
Ind, the defense opened with a state
ment to the jury by Attorney Worden
and the hearing of several witnesses
whose evidence tended to disprove the
sIpposition that the body of an adult
found in the ruins of the farmhouse
was that of Mrs. Guinness.
Juniors in the Grand Rapids, Mich,
Veterinary college struck because two
colored students were admitted in &C
cordance with court ruling.
Robbers in Attica, o., held several
citizens at bay, blew open the safe Of
a store and escaped with $4,000.
Following a two days run, receiv-
er was appointed for the First Nation
at bank of Fort Scott, Kan.
Lewis Fletcher was hanged at Char
lotte, N. c., for the murder OF George
Boyd. Both were negroes.
One man was killed and five were
fatally injured by dynamite expo
sion in the Simpson coal mine near
Brownsville, Pa.
The Cairo Qll) city council granted
a 50-year interurban franchise and a
20-year street railway franchise to the
Mckinley syndicate. An interurban
line will be built to connect Cairo
with Mounds, Mound City and Villa
Ridge.
Hugh Thompson, wealthy young
farmer living near Danville, KY, be-
came suddenly insane and shot and
killed his nephew, Frederick Garrison.
aged IS years. The boy after being
shot seriously wounded his uncle.
Eileen Orme, a musical comedy ac-
tress, was married in London to Hon.
port.
The greatest transaction in leaf to-
bacco ever made in America was
closed at Louisville, KY, when the
Burley Tobacco society sold to the
American Tobacco Company the crop
Of 1Q0E nnH ri ~ fhot nf 1On7 Tho
American company pays an average
of 2Oh cents a pound for the former
and II cents for the latter, the total
being about $14,OO0,000.
Malcolm Stewart, who was wanted
in Duluth on a charge of being short
$1,700 in his accounts with the Uni
versal Milling Company, 'leaped head
foremost through a lavatory window
on the Omaha's Twilight limited and
escaped.
Mrs. Mary Harbour, accused of the
murder of Miss Rose Adams, her
foster daughter was found guilty of
murder in the second degree at Sioux
City, la.
John Krauss, said TO have been con.
nected with the Pacific State and Sun
set Telegraph Company of San Fran
cisco, committed suicide on the steam
er Adriatic as it was entering Queens
town harbor.
The balloon Yankee, which sailed
from st. Louis in an effort to win the
Lahm cup, failed to do so, landing
near Tiger, Ga, after travelling 375
miles.
j. B. Walton, representing the Corn
Products Company, known as the
starch trust" had most uncomfort.
able time trying to answer the ques.
lions of the house ways and means
committee at the tariff revision hear.
ing and to explain why his company
sold its products much cheaper in
England than here.
Herbert Grigg, alleged accomplice
of Cline Wheeler and Walter Zeller
in the murder of William Read at
Vineland, n. j., was arrested in Phila.
delphia.
The supreme court of South Dakota
granted a new trial to Mrs. Emma
Kaufman, wife of the Sioux Falls
brewer, who was found guilty in the
circuit court of manslaughter on a
charge of causing the death of ser.
want through beating.
Mrs. Alpha M. Shevalier. convicted
of perjury in connection with the Horn
will case, was sentenced to FIVE years
in prison by Judge Lincoln Frost at
Lincoln, Neb.
In view of the fact that an interest.
ing event is expected next spring.
Queen Wilhelmina of Holland has
been forbidden by her physicians to
hold her customary private audiences.
The body of Brent Woodall, secre-
tary of the University of Cincinnati.
and former newspaper man of that
city, was found in the Ohio river at
Louisville, Ky.
Fifty state convicts employed in the
mines at Pratt City, Ala, formed a
conspiracy to set No. mine afire and
escape during the confusion, and as
result eight OF them were burned to
death. one is missing and the other
Al were safely locked in the stockade.
AT an interview between Emperor
William and Chancellor Won Buelow