The Yale expositor., 1910-12-16

There are heavy floods In northern
Portugal. The Souza river, normally
small stream, is a raging torrent SO
feet deep.
The state department decided that
Italy is entitled to the extradition OF
Porter Charlton, which was demanded
on a charge of murder and who con-
fessed to the murder of his wife near
Lake Como, Italy.
After a battle with the censor last
ing FIVE years, "Salome" was produced
at Covent Garden theater in London.
The name of John the Baptist was not
mentioned, being replaced by the eu-
phemism THE Prophet"
According to the terms Of the Will
of the late Mrs. Mary Baker Eddy, the
Christian Science church, the source
from which 1t came, will get the ma
jor portion of her estate, including the
value of copyrights. which is about
$1,500,000.
A revolutionary outbreak is threat
ened in Honduras and intense excite
ment prevails throughout the country.
Martial law has been proclaimed and
the larger cities of the republic and
the jails are filed with political pris-
oners.
In a shooting match in which two
boys used each other as targets, AL
bert Perrin, fifteen years old, was
killed by his playmate, Jesse Osborn.
sixteen years old, at Indianapolis.
/ Of "a
scope of the national banking laws. If
there are no immediate general
changes In the monetary system; civil
service retirements; a customs service
free from practical politics; business
like methods in the daily transactions
Of the government and abolition of red
tape wherever it clogs the wheels of
the governments business are among
the recommendations in the annual re-
port of Secretary Of the Treasury Mac
Veagh, presented to congress.
The United States district court for
he eastern district of Pennsylvania de-
sided that there is no general conspir-
acy among the anthracite coal carry
ing railroads or coal companies to re-
strain trade or commerce, or to mo-
aopolize the trade or to maintain GER
tain prices. but it did decide that the
Temple Iron company is combination
Of anthracite coal carrying railroads in
violation of the Sherman antitrust
aw.
Information reaches ST. Paul, Mimi,
from Menominee, Mach, that Nan Pat
.erson, who was tried three times on
the charge of murder, was married to
Sumner Prescott, young manufacture
or Of Marinette, Wis, at st. Paul on
October "a last
1t costs so much per capita to edu-
cate the children of Montclair, n. j..
that the school board has engaged
Prof. Paul II. Honnis of Harvard uni
versity at $50 day to investigate
and report as to how the expenses of
the schools may be reduced.
Five votes elected W. N. Ruby to
the Colorado supreme court because
the parties neglected to put up candi-
dates to fill the unexpired term of
the late Chief Justice Robert w.
Steele.
George d. Horras, formerly bank
er of Sioux Falls, S. D., was released
from the Leavenworth federal peni-
Tertiary after serving three years for
violation of the national banking laws.
Horras was only twenty-six years old
when he went to prison.
Seven Chinese girls brought to San
Francisco in the steamer Manchuria
assert they were kidnapped for the
slave trade in Hongkong and confined
on the ship in a locker IA feet square.
into which no light was let during the
whole voyage.
Exonerating Secretary of the In
terror Ballinger on all the charges
brought against him and condemning
his accusers as having been inspired
by a deep feeling Of animosity, built
upon a supposed difference in policy
respecting conservation, a majority of
the congressional committee which in
vestigated the so-called Ballinger- Pin
chot case submitted its report TO con-
gress.
Juan Sancho Azcona was arrested
at Washington by direction of the de-
partment Of justice on request Of the
Mexican government. Azcona 10 a
member Of the inner council of the
Mexican reyolutionists. He was
known to be closely associated with
Francisco I. Madero. leader of the in
surrectionists. Azcona is a former
member Of the Mexican congress and
a journalist
Fire destroyed the Fendrich cigar
factory, the largest independent fac
tory In the world, and several other
business buildings on Main and First
streets, Evansville, Ind. The losses
will run over one million dollars,
partly covered by insurance.
Duveen Bros. the greatest art and
unique dealers and connoisseurs In
America, owe the United States gov
eminent s5.000,000. according to an
announcement made by Collector
Loeb of the port of New York.
DR.. Simon F1exner, director Of the
Rockefeller Institute for Medical Re-
search, underwent a successful oper
alton for appendicitis at the Presby-
terrain hospital In New York His
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