The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1909-08-27

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Harry Holcomb, driver and mechan-
lean of Knox car, which crashed
through fence in the 250-mile race.
A bulletin issued by the United
States census bureau shows that out
of a church membership of nearly 49,
100000 In this country, males form
considerably less than half the total.
1t is estimated that the wealth OF
John ID. Rockefeller, whose income
now is $2.4O0 an hour, will reach the
billion dollar mark when he is 80
years old. which is only ten years on.
With one of it's pastors, two girls
and two men reported missing within
five weeks, the town of Williamsburg,
Kan. is greatly wrought up.
William H. Wright, a former mer-
chant of Neosho, Mo-. who had been
declared dead after his disappearance
eight years ago. has returned to the
hospital at Nevada, from which he es'
capped.
Abolition or curtailment of general
delivery was the principal feature dis
cussed in the first days session by the
National Association of Postmasters
at Toledo, o.
Terre Haute, Ind, council commit
tee will exonerate City Attorney F. S.
Rawley at least from corrupt motives,
for delay in the suit involving the
traction company's franchise.
To test the automobiles value for
fighting purposes Malcolm E. Parrott
of the New York National Guard,
started from New York to San Fran
cisco. bearing dispatches from Mai.
Gen. Wood to Gen. Weston.
The end of the gambling war be-
tween the state of Indiana and Tom
Taggart and Lee Sinclair, owners of
the resorts at French Lick and West
Baden. occurred when $4,000 worth
of gambling paraphernalia was burned
by the authorities.
Gov. Conner of Alabama signed the
bill providing submission of a consti-
tutional prohibition amendment to a
vote of the people within 80 days. !
A uniform bill of lading is one OF
the demands made by the conference
on uniform laws in session at Detroit,
Mich.
A tugboat of the Bayane River Com
pany, bound from San Francisco for
Panama, is long overdue and is be-
lieved to have been lost.
At Colon the first public play
grounds ever established on the 18TH
mus of Panama are about to be
opened.
Engineer William Bradley and Fire
man Fred l.. Graves were killed when
the boiler of a westbound Pere Mar
quette passenger train exploded near
Grand Ledge, Mich, wrecking the
train.
Postmasters to the number of $50,
representing as many cities through
out the country, are at the annual
meeting of the National Association
of Postmasters of the first-class, which
opened in Toledo, o., to-day.
Half a pound of meat per day per
person is the estimated average con-
sumed by the 10000 people in the
isthmian canal zone.
The highest price paid for cotton in
Montgomery, Ala, in 20 years was
reached when the first new bale of
the season was sold for 80 cents
pound.
Secretary Wilson of the department
of agriculture in his year book shows
how, during his IL years in office, the
American farmer has increased the
agricultural balance of trade from
1924, OOO,O 900 to SAIL, 100000.
The court of inquiry decided that
Lieut. Sutton of the United States
marine corps shot and killed himself,
either by accident or with suicidal in
tent. !
The Greek flag over the fortress at
Canea, Island of Crete, was shot down
by marines from the warships of the
four protecting powers, and the trou-
BILE which nearly led to war with Tur-
key was removed.
Ashley Deneen, son of the governor.
is able to be about the executive man.
sion at Springfield, after weeks ILL
ness, which has caused his parents
considerable concern.
After being on for four months, the
lid" in Wichita, Kan, has been pried
loose and the town is again wide
open. But one restriction is placed on
the dealers, and that is they must OPP
crate only on the second floors of
buildings.
Following the shooting of an on
locker during a fight between strike
sympathizers and imported workmen
OF the Pressed Steel Car Company,
near Pittsburg, special precautions
are being taken by the state constabu-
larry to prevent a recurrence of trou-
BILE.
James Shaw Maxwell. senior magis-
trate Of Glasgow, Scotland, who had
made trip over America, declares in
an interview in New York that Cana.
dian cities are ahead of those In this
country. He finds them cleaner.
One man was shot and several in
jured by stones in riot at the
Pressed-Car Companys works at Nc
KEGS Rocks, Pa. Strikers attempted
to keep an alleged strike-breaker from