The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1909-08-20
GENERAL NEWS.

President Taft, in a letter to Secre-
tary Nagel of the department OF COM
merce and labor, declared any of the
persons employed in taking the census
next year who engages in politics
will be dismissed Immediately.
New Yorks Chinatown was stirred
almost to the panic stage by the dis
covery of the murder of Bow Kim,
wife of a former San Francisco Chi
nese.
Mimic warfare in which militia and
when a force of 5000 attempted to
take the city which was defended by
1000 men,
The people of South Dakota are be-
ginning to get indignant because sill
yer service they purchased five years
ago for the armored cruiser South Da-
kota is still in New York unlocked and
never has been claimed by the com
manding officer of the vessel.
An earthquake in Japan caused the
loss of many lives, destroyed hundreds
of buildings and made mountain
crumble.
Lillian Russell, an actress and one
of Americas greatest beauties, re-
turned from Europe with the word
that women are no longer to use the
rat" in dressing their hair, but are to
part it in the middle, drape it over
the ears and then coil it around the
head.
Tho cifYaffnp hot Grnnaa
and Turkey became worse when
armed peasants occupied the fortress
at Canea and declared the Greek flag
should not be taken down.
John F. Seybold, world famous
philatelist and well-known merchant
of Syracuse, n. Y, shot himself to
death in his store. Mr.. Seybold' g
stamp collection is said to be worth
100000.
Ten persons were killed and 35 in.
jured in head-on collision at Hustled
Col, on the Denver & Rio Grande rail
road.
While at confession in St Pauls
Catholic church, Burlington, Ia, James
Nichols died from the heat
Prosperous times have cut down the
mortality lists and a coffin factory at
Winsted, Conn, has been closed.
The Cunard liner Lucania sank at
Liverpool after being badly damaged
by fire.
William Graulich shot and killed his
wife and then committed suicide with
carbolic acid at Lansing, Mich. Each
was 10 years old.
Summer house cleaning is now in
progress at the national capitol in
Washington. The seating arrange
ment in the house is being changed.
Five officers and two enlisted men
have been awarded medals of honor
for gallant conduct while under fire in
the Philippines.
The French bark Mareschal de Tu
renne, which has arrived at New York
picked up an American red can buoy
and $50 miles north of the Azores
The marker NO 2" is one of six that
had slipped its moorings. the light
house department reports.
King Alfonso has ordered all OF
SPANS warships to Melilla to save
the army of $4,000 men from defeat by
the Moors.
Marguerite Haley, ~ years old, mys
teriously disappeared from a summer
school at Lake Geneva, Wis. Her
home is in Chicago.
Friday the thirteenth was marked
all over the country by an unusual
number OF murders and suicides.
According to a report in New York
the Standard Oil Company is planning
TO erect factory ro make butter out
of petroleum. Do you think you will
relish such butter?
The fisheries question which has
agitated the Americans and New.
founders for years is to be settled by
the Hague tribunal.
Fifty-two dray loads of liquors have
been moved from points in Alabama
TO Columbus, Ca, in an effort to de
feat the Alabama liquor law.