The Yale expositor., 1909-09-24
GENERAL NOTES.

Gov. John A. Johnson of Minnesota
was operated on for an intestinal abb
scess at Rochester, Mimi, and his
condition was reported as critical He
was on the operating table nearly
three hours.
Eight men were killed in a wreck
of passenger and freight trains on the
Nashville, Chattanooga and st. Louis
railroad near Pegram Station in Ten
nesee.
Miss Gerda Sebbelov, a Danish girl,
who is attending college in New York,
claims to have received letters from
Eskimos in Greenland. where she
spent three years. saying DR.. Cook did
discover the north pole.
President Taft decided in favor of
Secretary Ballinger in the controversy
with Clifford Pinchot and ordered the
discharge of L. H. CLAWS, chief of the
field division of the general land Of
fees.
The convention of the Yeomen OF
America rescinded at Springfield, ILL.,,
its action making the temporary or
ganization of the convention perma.
nent.
Commercial fishermen along the Illi-
nois river in central Illinois are fav-
ored by a decision of Circuit Judge
Higoee in refusing to grant an injunc-
tion asked by wealthy members of
Chicago, st. Louis and indianapolis
clubs controlling lands in that section
Besides electing James Sweeney of
the Chicago and Eastern Illinois rail-
road as president, the Roadmasters'
and Maintenance of Way association,
in session at Washington, picked Chi.
cago for the meeting place in 1910.
By an agreement between the attor-
ney general and counsel at Union.
Tenn. in the indictments against 100
men as night riders, the cases are
continued until November and bonds
of $4,000 are allowed.
The twentythird annual convention
of the Association of American Gene.
terry superintendent is in session at
New York. Their hosts are enter
tanning them with trips to the metro
politan cemeteries.
Virginia has obtained from the fed
eral government the large figure-head
which formerly adorned the prov of
the battleship Virginia, but the state
officers are at a loss to make proper
use of the ornament now that they
have it,
Mrs. Will Nowling was slain near
Pollard, Ala, by Mrs. Henry Nowling
her nephew's wife, who used a shot
gun. The women had quarreled about
the use of storehouse. The victim
was wealthy
Gov. Haskell of Oklahoma has ten
tative plans looking to the calling of a
special session of the legislature to
ask for an appropriation for installing
state oil pipe line to the gulf
John K. Gibson, who killed a fellow
soldier at Fort Brady, has been sen.
fenced at Marquette. Mich. to a life
term in the federal prison at Leaven-
worth, Kan.
Lord Tweedmouth, former first lord
of the admiralty in England and
whose correspondence with the kaiser
caused sensation in 1908. is dead.
j. c. Harbert was shot and killed on
the street at Frankfort, Kan, by c. w.
Humberd. Both were railroad con
tractors.
The controversy over the boundary
line between Bolivia and Peru. which
has threatened to. cause war. has
been settled by the signing of a pro
tocol.
Peru and Bolivia will sign a proto.
col for the settlement of their dif.
ferences.
Count Leo Tolstoy, whose eighty.
first birthday recently was celebrated
is visiting Moscow for the f,rs,
time in several years.
Governors and merchants of fon,
states will attend the convention =.
the Ohio Valley Improvement associa
| ton at Cincinnati October IA and 1s