The Yale expositor., 1910-08-05


Peace Congress opened in Stockholm.
Sweden.
At the conclusion of a conference
between King Alfonso and Premier
Canalejas, II was announced that the
Marquis Emilio de Ojeda, Spanish am
bassador to the Vatican, had been re-
called. At the same time the opinion
was expressed that rupture with the
Vatican was inevitable.
Jurors at the inquest over the body
of Ira Rawn, the late slain president
of the Monon railroad, at Winnetka.
ILL.,, returned a verdict finding that he
was killed by a bullet fired from his
own revolver, held in his own hand"
and that circumstances in connection
with the death made the theory OF
suicide seem probable.
Edwin Johann Wider, the $25a-week
cashier who admits having stolen Sc
curities to the value of S6S0,00O from
the Russo-Chinese banks agency,
where he was employed in New York.
was arrested and committed weeping
to the Tombs in default of $4,000
bail.
Senator w Murray Crane of Massa-
chusetts has been requested by Presi-
dent Taft to take a trip through the
west to the Pacific coast to make a
confidential report to the president
upon political and other conditions of
Importance to the administration.
The state supreme court handed
down a decision to the effect that
Oklahomas capital shall remain at
Guthrie until the legality of the cleo
ton recently held is determined.
Thirty passengers of a st. Clair
death when the Pittsburg flyer on the
Pennsylvania railroad crashed into the
car on a grade crossing Twenty were
injured. several fatally.
Following the purchase of the so
called Pearson syndicates holdings OF
securities in the Rock Island. Lehigh
Valley, Wabash, Denver and Rio
Grande and Western Pacific systems,
the new combine, made up chiefly OF
American interests, will soon put into
operation the coast to coast railroad.
This scheme in transportation involves
over 10000 miles of railroad and total
capital aggregating $3,000,000,000.
Mr.. and Mrs. Melville Brooks and
Mrs. c. H. Thoring were killed mile
east of Etna Green. Ind, when fast
Pennsylvania freight train. east-bound,
struck the automobile in which they
were riding. Mr.. Thoring was severe
ly, but not dangerously, hurt.
The Keystone party was formed at
Philadelphia to oppose the nominees
of both the Republican and Democrat
ic parties in Pennsylvania. The con-
vention. composed of III delegates
from So counties, denounced both the
old parties as being under the domino
ton Of the liquor industries. William
II. Berry was nominated for governor.
While Governor Harmon h..ScteneS
to Columbus, o., to take charge oil a
menacing situation in the street car
strike, officers of the Ohio state guard
took over the virtual government OF
the city and the streets bristled with
armed men marshaled to prevent an
outbreak which has threatened for
several days.
President Taft sent the following
dispatch to Warren G. Harding, Re-
publican nominee for governor of
Ohio: II sincerely congratulate you
on your nomination and earnestly
hope that you will be elected"
High officials of the Illinois Central
railroad, who were interested In car
repairing plants. entered into an agree
ment among themselves to divide
profits grated from the railroad.
These profits amounted to as high as
40 per cent. of the total amount paid
by the railroad company" That is the
charge made on the witness stand by
Harold A. Sims, in his testimony con-
corning the grating from the Illinois
Central railroad.
A sweeping general strike order, In
volving 3S locals and $4,000 men en-
gagged in the building trades was is
sued by the business agents of the
Chicago Building Trades council aft
er long conference.
That conditions in the west are bet
ter than they have been for years,
that the crops, in spite of the droughts,
are going to show excellent returns
for the farmers, are some of the con-
illusions reached by President w. G.
Brown of the New York Central rail-
road. after ten days Of personal OBJ
servation in Iowa, Minnesota. the two
Dakotas, Nebraska and Kansas.
Not a single complaint by the police
of the illegal sale of liquor In New
York city on Sunday was recorded
during the twenty-four hours ending
at midnight. This condition is unpre-
cedented and is the climax to three
months of the operation of Mayor
Gaynor's plan for enforcement of the
excise law.
Chief OF Police Steward has placed
the Jeffries-Johnson fight pictures un-
der the official ban In a sweeping or
der. which hit at all moving picture
houses in Chicago and may bar many
plays from the melodramatlc and even
first-class theaters.