The Yale expositor., 1909-11-26
GENERAL NEWS.

There is a possibility that Presi-
dent Zelaya of Nicaragua may attempt
further high-handed action toward the
United States and show his contempt
of President Taft's refusal to receive
the new Nicaraguan minister by CIV
ing the American consul at Managua
his passports before he can act fur
Their on behalf of this government.
"The safety Of a ship going to
fact or in theory is a question for the
interested parties to determine and
act on and not a question for determ-
ination by the officials concerned in
clearances."
Two heroic men, r. Y. Williams and
F. M. Morris, descended into the st.
Paul mine at Cherry, H.. and paved
the way for fight against the flames,
and 1t is confidently believed that the
entombed men dead or alive will
soon be reached. They went down
through the air shaft and found that
the fire was raging at the foot of the
shaft but in other portions of the
mine the temperature was nearly
normal, this gave the stricken women
and children renewed hope.
John Mitchell. in a speech before
the American Federation of Labor, in
dorsed a report of the committee on
boycott and declared that he intended
while at liberty to declare for the
rights guaranteed him by the organic
law of his country.
The body of Hedwig linda, the
young Polish girl who had been miss
ing several days, was found in an
abandoned Office at Milwaukee. She
had been assaulted and murdered by
unknown fiends.
A whole family is dead as the result
of a three-cornered duel that was
fought at Pioneer. La, between Clar-
ence Compton and Sylvester and AL
bert Owen. Compton, his wife and his
little daughter were all killed and
Sylvester Owen was slightly wounded.
After the killing he and his brother
surrendered to the sheriff. The trou-
BILE grew out of an unkind remark
made by Compton to the boys sister.
Mrs. Compton with her child stepped
into the line of fire during the shoot
ing.
Rumors are current In New York
that the government will halt, temper
arily at least, the merger of the
Western Union Telegraph and Amer
lean Telephone G. Telegraph Com
panies, and determine whether the
law prohibiting combinations in re-
straint of trade is not being infringed
upon.
Rev. J. c. Hathaway, rector OF St.
Paul's Episcopal church, at Maryville,
Mo, committed suicide by hanging.
No reason can be assigned for the
deed.
The National Association of Rail-
way Commissioners have adopted a
uniform code of demurrage rules ap-
plicable alike to state and interstate
transportation.
Dowager Duchess Consuelo of Man
chester, formerly Miss Consuelo
YZnaga of New York, who has been
seriously iii for some time in London.
is in a critical condition.
The laymen's missionary movement
for evapgelization of the world opened
its session In Baltimore.
President Gompers, Vice-President
Mitchell and Secretary Morrison of
the American Federation of Labor,
have been granted a stay until Novem-
Der 30 by the appellate court at Wash
ington of the issuance of mandate
sending them to jail for contempt Of
court.
Fifteen hundred hotels in Missouri
and Kansas lose $3.50 each every year
in bad bills, total of $4,000. The
question Of curbing this evil will be
discussed at the annual meeting OF
the Kansas-Missouri Hotel Mems as
sociation, which opened in Kansas
City: