The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1909-11-12


mission, said that a comprehensive,
scientific plan for changing OF the
American monetary system is TO re
suit from the work of the committee.
The preparation of the plan, he SAID
could only come after the completion
of detailed study of the worlds
banking system and minute consid-
GRAFTON of the financial needs of the
country, which was now being made.
United States Senator Albert b.
Cummins in an address at the banquet
of the Marquette club, at Chicago,
made his answer to Speaker Cannon's
recent attacks upon him and other in
surgents." The speech was lively
from start to finish and was vigorous
defense of those senators who refused
to vote for the Aldrich tariff measure.
The general committee of home mis-
stone and church extension work or
the Methodist Episcopal church, in
session at Wilkesbarre, Pa, decided to
fix the amount to be asked from the
churches for home missions and ex-
tension work at $1,500,000.
Notices posted in the cotton mills of
New Bedford, Mass, informed more
than 1900 operatives that the
production of cotton cloth would
be curtailed two hours in the week.
The curtailment will result in reduc-
ing the output 31s per cent. while 1T is
in force.
Loss to the Atchison, Topeka G. San
ia Fe railroad in Oklahoma, due TO the
two-cent passenger law. was $130,309
for the year ending November 30,
1908, on interstate business alone. is
the contention set forth in an affidavit
filed by James Peabody, statistician
for that company.
Problems of city management and
betterment were taken up by the
American Society of Municipal I'M
provements which began its sixteenth
annual meeting in Little Rock, Ark,
James owen of Montclair, N. j., pre-
siding.
The Central Conference of Ameri-
can Rabbis began an eight days ses-
sion in New York. Rabbi David Phil
ipson of Cincinnati is president.
United States Senator Albert B.
Cummins of Iowa, addressing the Mar
quette club of Chicago, vigorously de-
Tended himself and the other "insur-
gent senators against the attacks Of
Speaker Cannon.
The Chicago police are searching
for f. ]. Goshorn, a prominent bust.
ness man of Charleston, w. Va, who
| disappeared from his home on Octo-
Der 20 with about $4,000 in his pos
session. On the day he vanished
Goshorn wrote letters to his wife and
several confidential acquaintances
stating that he had left home never to
return
Theft of a mail pouch, which it is
estimated contained between $4,000
and $4,000 in express and post office
orders, was revealed through the cash.
ing of several of the stolen orders in
Chicago. The rifled bag was discov-
cred by a farmer boy in q cornfleld
near Tolono, III. Scores of secret
service men and post office inspectors
are searching for the robbers.
Government troops defeated the
Nicaraguan revolutionists in a sharp
engagement. Many of Gen. Estrada S
followers were killed, wounded or cap
tured. The government lost Is men,
including Gen. Castillo Chammoro.
John Stewart Kennedy, one OF
Americas little-known rich men, who
recently died of whooping cough in
his New York residence, left requests
of more than $25,000,000 to 60 reli.
gious, charitable and educational in.
stitutions in his will. The gift is the
largest single contribution of its kind
ever made.
Former President Roosevelt has lost
his record as the highest paid author
For the narrative of his hunt in Africa
it is generally understood he is to re
ceive dollar a word, but a compare
lively new magazine announces 1t has
contracted to pay Commander Robert
E. Peary $1.20 word for a north
pole story of about $4,000 words
Following the donation of 81 900 ,O0C
by John ID. Rockefeller to be used in
fighting the hook worm disease in the
south, Washington officials have re
ceived information that two other 81,
100000 donations are likely to be
forthcoming very soon-one from Mrs
Russell Sage, to be used in extend
ing the work for the eradication oil
tuberculosis, the other from Andrew
Carnegie, for fighting pellagra.
Jesse James, Jr., son of the famous
bandit, now living in Kansas City, has
been sued by his wife for divorce
The couple were married in 1900, q
few months after James had been &C
quilted on a charge of robbing a Mis-
souri, Pacific train.
Cholera has invaded the German
side of the Russian border and the
consular agent at Koenigsburg has re
ported to the state department al
Washington 20 cases, including sever
deaths, so far.
Twenty-Five persons were killed
and "a seriously injured by automo
biles and horse-driven trucks in New
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