The Yale expositor., 1909-01-29

western Ski tournament at Chippewa
Falls, Wis, by Oscar Gunderson.
An insane convict in the peniten-
tiary at Pittsburg. Pa, fatally stabbed
nurse and guard and was killed
by the latter.
Two Russians, in an attempt to rob
the pay wagon of a factory in Totem
ham, a London suburb killed three
persons and wounded about 20. after
which both shot themselves, one dying
instantly.
The Swiss Aero club has selected
zurich as the starting place for the
international balloon race for the
James Gordon Bennett cup next fall.
Floods that are general throughout
the Transvaal and the northern part of
Natal caused 173 deaths.
Several persons were killed and
many hurt in a collision between two
sections of a Pennsylvania railway
train near Johnstown. Pa.
The death sentence of Herman Bill
Xix of Chicago, convicted Of poisoning
Mary Vrzal, was committed to life i'm
prisonment by Gov. Deneen.
A large pier and quantities of mer-
the loss being $425,000.
Ruth Bryan Leavitt, daughter of VIII
liam j. Bryan, filed suit for divorce
from William II. Leavitt, in Lincoln,
Neb., alleging non-support.
The first national convention of the
unemployed met in st. Louis.
San Francisco business men who re-
Gently made trip to the Orient sent
a strong protest to the California leg
islature against the proposed anti
Japanese legislation.
What are believed to have been
earthquake shocks were felt in
Cincinnati and its suburbs.
Persons venturing on the unusual
forms of amusement devices at
Coney Island do so at their own risk
ard cannot expect to recover damages
for injuries sustained under general
conditions, according to q ruling of
the appellate division Of the supreme
court of New York.
J. H. Brooke, an English explorer,
of Thibet.
Jay Gould, champion amateur court
tennis player of the world and son of
the millionaire railroad director,
George J. Gould, is likely to become
a probation officer in New York po-
lice court.
A pair of surgeons forceps, acct
dentally sewed up in the abdomen
after an operation IL years ago, caused
the death of Miss Mary G.. Donovan
of Philadelphia. The operation in
which the unfortunate mistake &C.
Cured was performed by surgeon Of
that city of high reputation, who has
since died.
The number of dead in the crib fire
horror at Chicago was estimated at
20. II was believed the disaster was
caused by a workman dropping a
torch on dynamite.
Gompers, Mitchell and Morrison
published a statement declaring they
would not ask for clemency in the con-
tempt of court matter and severely de.
nouncing Justice Wright and his de-
cision against them.
Fire of unknown origin destroyed
the mems building of the Mahoning
county infirmary at Garfield, o., and
Is of the aged inmates received burns
more or less serious.
The prohibition forces of Tennessee
scored another victory when the house
passed the bill prohibiting the manu-
facture of intoxicating liquors in this
state after January 1, 1910.
Alvin Boline of Ottawa, ILL.,, shot his
wife and fatally wounded her mother
in the latter's home at Galva, Ill, and
then committed suicide.
An alleged conspiracy of stockmen
To arrive stock company from South
Dakota was revealed by the confess
sions of men under arrest.
Mrs. Susie NJ. Burdette, widow of
the late Joshua Burdette, a wealthy
pioneer merchant of Greek county, Ok
lahoma, who was the victim of a mys.
FERROUS assassination at Eufala, Okla,
in 1906. filed suit for the recovery of
100000 insurance upon Burdette's
life.
The Union Tobacco society after
months of preparation and preliminary
meetings received the final touches of
the promoters at Louisville and as
result the tobacco growers of Ken
lucky, Indiana and Wisconsin are
welded into one body with a central
administration.
Gov. George e. Chamberlain Of Ore
gon, Democrat, was elected United
States senator by a Republican legis-
lature, and Charles J. Hughes, Jr., was
elected senator by the Colorado legis-
lature.
Consideration of the bills denying
Japanese the right to own land or to
be directors of corporations was de-
layed for one week by the California
assembly at the request OF President
Roosevelt and Gov. Gillett.
Eight persons we're killed by a
sharp earthquake which occurred at
Phocaea, 25 miles northwest of Smyr-
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