The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1910-04-08
WIRE BULLETINS.

Mrs Robert Louis Stevenson, who
went to Mexico City recently from
Santa Barbara, California, has recov.
cred from her recent Illness
Switchmen of the northwest get an
advance of three cents an hour be-
ginning Friday. April /, according to
an announcement of the st. Paul rail
road
President Taft has accepted an in
vitation to attend the meeting of the
Farmers union in ST. Louis, May -.
at which il is predicted there will be
an attendance of $4,000 delegates.
Samuel A. Cook, of Neenah Wis,
former congressman of the sixth Wis
consin district, has announced himself
a candidate for the United States SEN
ate to succeed Robert NJ. Lafollette.
The government has filed suits in
the United States court at Cheyenne,
Wyo.. to recover title to thousands
of acres of valuable lands in the Elk
Mountain district in Carbon county.
The sealing steamer Iceland. oper
ating in the Gulf of st. Lawrence,
was crushed in the ice and went to
the bottom The sealer Florizel res
cued the 1853 members of the crew.
A boom for Prosecutor Pierre p
Garven, of Hudson county. for the
Republican nomination for governor
of New Jersey. was launched at a
dinner of the Bayonne. n. j., Republi-
can general committee.
Twenty-eight insane foreigners left
Stockton. Cal. on special cars for
New York. whence they will be de-
ported to their native countries under
a recent federal law Eleven attend
ants are in charge of the patients.
Two Japanese caught bribing a sol
der to make photographs of Corregi-
dor and Cavite Notifications are being
held at Manila. They will probably
be ordered to leave the country. The
soldier, after being caught taking
photographs, helped the authorities
capture the two.
One Of the most highly prized
scholarship honors at Columbia uni
versity has been awarded this year
to a negro student. George w. Scott,
1911. southern negro, is the winner
of one of the two Curtis medals for
oratory. His Grafton was on the sub
ject, as the Negro Fitted for Full
Citizenship"
In referring TO the Allds-Conger
bribery case, Governor Fort, of New
Jersey, said at banquet of the New
York Real Estate exchange that the
man who handed over the envelope
is just as bad as the man who re-
ceived it, IL there Is any difference
In the morals of the two II is in favor
Of the man who was poor and accept
ed the money"
On account Of the increase in the
cost of living, officers of the police
and fire departments of New York
city are TO receive increases in pay
which will cost the taxpayers abuu,
S35O,000 year Police sergeants are
raised from $500 to $1,750 and fore
men in the fire department will here
after get $500 instead of $2,1G0. The
increases are effective July 1.
Gov. c. n. Haskell, of Oklahoma
signed legislative resolution sub
hitting to the voters of the state an
Initiative" petition for constitu.
tional amendment which, 1t is said
will disfTanchise many Negroes, so
far as voting on constitutional amend
ments is concerned. The disfranchise-
ment is brought about under the
grandfather" clause.
A threatened strike Of 500 car
penters in New Haven, Conn. and
oeighboring towns has been averted
oy the signing of two years agree
nent whereby the men get an IN.
;rease in wages and a Saturday half
! .oliday the year around.