The Yale expositor., 1909-12-17
1t is learned at Bluenelds. Niicars-


qua. from an authoritative source that
a reign of terror Is being maintained
in Managua and that not less than
500 persons, identified with political
affairs, are in chains in the prisons,
A Catholic society has been ordered
to cease sending food to the prisoners,
and these are in fair way to starye
to death, as they are allowed only two
cents day for food.
Extension of American citizenship
to Porto Ricans for those who desire,
and without forcing II upon those who
do not; is recommended for Porto
Ricans by Gen. Clarence r. Edwards,
chief of the bureau of insular affairs
in his annual report to the secretary
of war.
The big plant of the Racine (Wis.)
Manufacturing Company, manufacture
ers Of automobile tops and piano
stools, the Dania Brotherhood hall,
the Mitchell wagon works and sew
eral residences, were destroyed by
fire, entailing a loss estimated at
$650,000. All but $4,000 of this is
borne by the Racine Manufacturing
Company's plant.
One of the important recommends
tions made in the annual report of the
secretary of commerce and labor is
for newer and tighter laws, with an
appropriation of $4,000 to enable the
stamping out the white slave trade
which Secretary Nagel says is an or
ganized and extensive business.
With her flag at half.mast, the state
fisheries boat Commodore Perry,
Capt. Gerry Driscoll commanding,
brought to Erie, Pa, the dead and
frozen bodies of nine of the crew of
the Bessemer and Marquette ferry,
No. 2, which left Conneaut, O., Tues
day morning, carrying 32 men, and
which probably foundered in the mid
die of Lake Erie.
Disobedience of orders on the part
of an engineer cost the lives of two
immigrants, resulted In the serious
injury of score of persons, and
caused damages amounting to over
100000 when the north-bound Mil
waukee limited on the Chicago &
Northwestern railroad, running over
forty-five miles an hour, plunged over
an embankment at Chicago. The
train struck a defective switch and
was thrown off the rails.
julius Gillemo, a Swiss. while riding
on west-bound train near Reno. New,
became suddenly insane and made
headlong plunge through a window
while the train was gonig 40 miles an
hour.
Three men died of suffocation and
FL others were overcome and rescued
with difficulty as a result of an acct
dent at a mine of the Shoemaker Min
ing Company, near Johnstown, Pa.
John Duley, SO years old, formerly
president of the National State bank
of Maysville, KY, committed suicide
in boarding house at Lexington, by
shooting himself through the head
and heart.
Estill county remains dry" as re-
suit of local option election held in
Kentucky. Every precinct in the
county voted against a return to sa.
looms, which were abolished by an
election held three years ago.
Steve Moskier, giving his residence
as Chicago, was arraigned at Pontiac,
charged with burglarizing the post Of
flee at Ancona, Ill, on the night of
December 9. Thirty dollars worth of
stamps were found on his person.
More than $4,000 banks with an ex-
cess OF 25,000,000 deposit accounts,
capital aggregating $1,S55, 9s7 1868 and
individual deposits of more than $14,-
OO0,000,000 IRE the stupendous figures
revealing the vast extent of the bank
ing business of the United States as
shown In the annual report for the
year ending October 81, of Lawrence
o. Murray, comptroller of the cur
rency, laid before congress. The ag-
gregate deposits on April 2S last were
about $14 425.523,165.
Inquiry by the coroner's jury into
the causes of the st. Paul mine dis
aster at Cherry, H., came to an alb
rupt close without a verdict being
reached or any steps being made to
fix the responsibility for the attending
loss of life. The jurors refused to con-
slider the finding Of a verdict until two
missing witnesses were produced.
CONSERVATION reigned in d. A. r.
circles at Washington when the
Daughters learned that Miss Sarah B.
MacLay, one of the most prominent
and respected members of the organi-
zation, for ID years curator of the so
ciety, had confessed that for years
past she has been systematically rob-
bling the mail of the organization. The
amount Of Miss MacLaay's populations
is not known and is estimated at from
$1,000 to $4,000.
To avoid arrest after holding his
family In terror, o. e. Boley shot and
killed Sheriff Jacob Bell at Shreve, o.
Secretary Wilson intends by means
of the federal inspection OF dairy
herds to make Washington serve as
an example to other cities in the pre-
vention of the sale Of infected milk.
Thirty-hve passengers on a street
car were injured. none fatally, and