The Yale expositor., 1909-01-08

Foreign ministers to China were
greatly disturbed and vexed by the
dismissal from office of Yuan Shi Kai,
grand councillor and commander-in'
chief of the forces. 1t was asserted
the action endangered peace and was
an affront to the powers.
Francis j. Heney of San Francisco,
who prosecuted the graft" cases in
that city, in a speech at the City club
of Philadelphia, declared that e. H.
Hartman of New York, through his
control of the Southern Pacific rail-
road, was responsible for the graft"
and corruption in Frisco.
Three persons in Denver. Col, were
almost killed by poisoned candy sent
through the mails.
Samuel T. Warfield was convicted In
Chicago of defrauding Mrs. j. A. Pat
ten in "de luxe" book deal.
Ralph E. White, Is years old, son Of
a wealthy merchant of Lena, Ill, COM
mitted suicide by shooting.
Charles Weatherhead of Peoria, H.,
was drowned while skating.
With his wife and 12-year-old son as
horror-stricken witnesses, Rudolph
Witte, 80 years old, an electrical work
err, was stabbed to death at his home
in Chicago by Daniel Rogers, 46
years old, boarder.
Arizona's output of finished copper
for 1908 was 274,000,000 pounds, Mich
igans 22O,OOO,OOO pounds and Mon
tana's 244,OOO,000.
The steamship Texas, on her maid
en- voyage from Christiana. Norway,
to Havana, put in at Savannah, Ca,
with her cargo of paper and carbides
afire. The passengers were landed
safely, but it was feared the vessel
would be destroyed.
Great anxiety is being felt by the
inhabitants Of Greenbank, small
town in West Virginia, over the stead
fly increasing appearance of burning
crater of seemingly volcanic nature.
on the side of a neighboring noun
tain.
The Park opera house at Erie, Pa,
caught fire during a performance and
terrible panic was barely averted.
No one was seriously injured.
The two masked highwaymen who
held up 25 men near Tulsa, Okla,
were captured.
The Tom Jones restaurant in Chi
cago was totally wrecked by an ex-
plosion of gas.
An aerial warship 700 feet in length
with accommodations for 100 passen-
gers. food and fuel enough for a voy-
age across the ocean, and a full COM
plement of guns, Is to be built immedi-
ately at the Nixon yards, according to
Lewis Nixon, the designer and con-
structor of many warships.
Capt Harvey G. DAILY of the schoon-
er Freddie w. Alton, and Philip M.
Springer, a Boston florist, were found
guilty in the United States district
court at Boston of conspiracy to Snug
gle Chinese into the country.
About so miners were entombed by
an explosion in a colliery at Lick
Branch, Va, and II was feared many
of them we're killed.
The executive council of the G.. A..
r. fixed August to 10 as the dates for
the national encampment in Salt Lake
City.
David f. Moloney, a wealthy bust
ness man OF st. Louis and prominent
in club life, killed himself at the home
of a relative.
/. Fire in the wool warehouse district
of Philadelphia caused a loss OF
100000.
Fearing that the governor OF Ken
lucky would send troops to Breathitt
county 20 preserve order, the Callahan
and Deaton factions agreed to a truce
and disbanded.
A. W. Troutman, an employee of a
Kansas City, Mo-, produce company,
committed suicide after confessing
that he had embezzled $3.50 OF the
firms money.
John Emerson Stone, aged %, high.
ly connected in Boston and New York.
graduate of Holy Cross college, Wor-
cester, Mass, was shot and killed in
Washington by May Woolard, who
then shot herself twice and may die.