The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1910-08-26

.ern Italy and the king has given or
ders that he be keIt constantly IN
formed on conditions in the infected
regions The queen is especially
touched by the stories Of the distress
among the people and has ordered
that assistance be rendered them. Tor
which she will pay from her private
purse.
With the Illinois coal strike dispute
as the underlying cause. John Mitchell,
former head of the Miners union, ana
President Thomas L. Lewis clashed
at the Miners convention at Indian
apolis. Mr.. Mitchell came out fatty
in favor Of the Illinois miners In their
fight for the demands of the Peoria
convention. President Lewis, In not
reply, severely criticized the acts OF
Mitchell in the anthracite coal strike
in 1902.
Special grand jury investigation OF
wholesale charges Of tampering with
members of the Browne bribery jury
and fresh attack on the jury COM
missioners' office were promised I'M
mediately after the discovery that sew
en- more veniremen drawn for service
in the bribery case had been APP
preached by investigators"
Returning home from shopping
trip, Mrs. e. H. Fortmiller of Chicago
found her mother, Mrs. Dorothy Bart
lett lying on the floor of her bath
room with her throat slashed. BE.
side Mrs. Bartlett was nestled the
body Of her little granddaughter,
Katherine, nine months old, dead APP
parently from strangling. Mrs. Bart
lett told the police that her grand
daughter had been brutally murdered
and she herself attacked by man who
was concealed in the building.
II IS believed that the r. j. Reynolds
Tobacco company of Winston-Salem,
N. c., has bought all or nearly all the
1909 pooled crop of the Burley Tobac-
co society, amounting to 120,000,000
pounds.
In a collision of Pennsylvania freight
trains at Plymouth, Ind, the tracks OF
the pennsylvania, Vandalia and Lake
Erie & Western railroads were blocked
by the debris of 80 cars.
Late reports from the province OF
.Baridelle Puglie, in Italy, show that 80
persons have died from cholera since
the outbreak some time ago.
Governors or their representatives
from nine intermountain states met at
Salt Lake City to outline plans where
10 lob ~ IL,
natural resources may be preserved.
Arrayed only in night robe and
stockings, Miss Columbia Cheek, a
society girl, was married at three
o'clock in the morning in Atlanta, Ca,
to Guy H. Buchanan. Earlier in the
night Miss Cheeks parents learned
that the couple had planned to elope
and they locked the girl in her room
after taking away her clothing.
The supreme lodge, Loyal Order OF
Moose, in session at Baltimore, dis.
cussed the plan to establish a big
school for boys at Muncie, Ind.
The congressional committee which
has been investigating the Gore brib
cry charges in connection with the
so-called McMurray contracts with
| the Indians, have issued a statement
at Sulphur, Okla, saying that there
was no warrant for any person to
use the names Of Vice-president Sher
man and Senator Charles s. Curtis
in connection with any improper re
lations with any Indian contract what
ever.
The startling charge that present
officials of the Illinois Central road
were the central figures in the famous
Coughlin jury bribing case, and put
up the money to get big Dan
Coughlin out of the country, came as
the first move on the part of the
lawyers of Frank B. Hartman
Charles l.. Ewing and John M. Tay
lor former general manager, genera
superintendent and storekeeper of the
Illinois Central, arrested in connection
with the $1.500O0O car repair frauds
An uproar that lasted Is minute:
broke out in the miners convention
at Indianapolis when the report o
the special committee was made EN-
bodying recommendations and an in
dorsement of the Illinois coal strike
President Thomas L. Lewis was de
feated by a big majority on a risins
vote on a motion to sustain his de
cision ruling out of order a substitut,
for the committees report.
The record of the cholera epidemi,
for one week in Russia shows 23.99.
new cases and 1923 deaths. which
brings the total number of cases To-
the year up to the tremendous tota
Of 112,9S5. The percentage of NOR
talities is placed at 44.5.
The support of the negro electoral,
Of the United States for a possibl,
third term was pledged in behalf O
Colonel Roosevelt by the LOO dele
gates of the National Negro Bust
ness Mems league in convention a
New York. The negroes indorsemen
of the former president came afte
he had addressed the delegates on tn
opportunities for advancement ope,
TO the negro race in this country.