The Yale expositor., 1909-12-03

Ave days and the national convention
to occupy four days.
Secretary of Agriculture Wilson In
his annual report said that 1903 was
the most prosperous of all years for
the farmer, the value of farm products
being sS,760000,000. He gave the re-
suits of an investigation into meat
prices which showed the stock raiser
did not get his share of increased
prices.
The Iowa Implement Dealers asso-
citation met in its fourteenth annual
session in Des Moines.
Tribute to the memory of the late
Gov. John A. Johnson Of Minnesota
was paid by President Taft, Gov.
Hughes, former United States Sen
ator Charles A Towne and others at
meeting In New York city under the
auspices of the MISUNDERSTANDING
Wan society.
Not since the downfall of the adj
ministration has the political atmos-
phere Of Cuba had such troubled out
look as at present. Vice-President
Zayas and his faction of the Liberals
are endeavoring to secure the retire
ment of President Gomez through per-
suasion or compulsion.
Three hundred families we're made
homeless at Ludlow, Mass, when they
were evicted by the Ludlow Manufac-
turing association and at least rs of
them slept in the open. Many women
and children had neither shoes nor
stockings.
Walter Wellman, in a statement
issued at Washington, analyses the
claims of Commander Robert e.
Peary and DR.. Frederick A. Cook and
declares that of the former is cred
ible in every particular" but stamps
that of Cook as "self-evident and
deliberate imposition"
A man, believed to be insane, shot
and seriously wounded Gen. Verand
on the steps of the Hotel Continental,
Paris, Just after President Fallieres
had left King Manuel of Portugal upon
whom he had been calling.
According to the blue book" for
1909 $4,000 persons are employed
by the federal government This is
an increase of 20 per cent as COM
pared with 1907.
1t is officially reported at Bluefields,
Nicaragua, that President Zelaya is,
willing to resign and leave the selec-
ton of his successor to congress. The
proposition is absurd, for the reason
that congress in reality does not exist
and his statement is regarded as
~
American diplomacy.
One human being is killed every
hour and one injured every ten min
utes of the day on American railroads,
according to a statement Of w. l..
Park, general superintendent of the
Union Pacific Railroad Company, at
the annual meeting of the New York
and New England Association of Rail.
way Surgeons.
In a gas explosion In the Scott
shaft, near Shamokin, Pa. seven an
thracite mineworkers were badly
burned.
Thomas C. Giddings, assistant
weigher of the New York customs
house, has been arrested on charge
of conspiracy in connection with the
importation of figs. Collector Loeb
discharged ten more employees, making
| SO men dropped since March 9.
President Taft has not written his
message to congress nor any part of
it, although that body will assemble in
a weeks time.
Constable James H. Dobbs narrowly
escaped lynching at Columbus, ILL.,,
after he had shot and killed William
Thompson, his neighbor, during
quarrel of their children.
In a speech at Chicago Mrs. Emme-
line Parkhurst, the noted English suf
fragette, advised her audience to win
womans suffrage by force and advo-
Gated stone-throwing and other dras-
tic measures to secure to women the
ballot.
The Philadelphia National Baseball
club has been sold to a syndicate head
ed by Horace S. Fogel, sporting
writer, and it is reported that John
King, the star catcher, formerly of the
Chicago team, was secured by the new
management in the deal.
Ghouls stole the body of the infant
son of Harfield Conrad, banker,
from its grave In Highland cemetery,
near Great Falls, Mont, and are hold
ing it presumably for ransom.
Maj. H. d. Bulkey, for more than
twenty years prominently connected
with the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad
Company, and for IS years it's comp
| troller, died in Baltimore, aged 79
years.
Mrs. Margaret Smith, aged 35 years,
and Mrs. Minnie Wright, aged SO
years. were killed by gas explosion
in boarding house In Rochester, N.
Y. Mrs. Wright had applied match
to leaking jet in their bedroom.
Accused OF being a leader in the
white slave" trade, May Won der
Guyhte is on the way from Winnipeg,
Man, to Montreal in irons to be de-
ported to Belgium.