The Yale expositor., 1910-05-27
GEN ERAL NEWS.


The trial of Countess Tarnovska,
Doctor Naumoff, Lawyer Prilukoff and
the countess maid, Elsie Perrier, at
Venice, all accused of completely in
the murder of Count Komorowski,
ended in the conviction of the three
first named, the maid being acquitted
Representative Butler Ames, Repub-
lican, Massachusetts, sprung sensa-
tion in the house when he read
series of letters which passed between
himself and Representative Serene Z.
Payne, chairman of the ways and
means committee, in which he scored
Mr.. Payne.
Many persons were injured in the
crush along the route Of the process
sion attendant upon the funeral OF
King Edward, in London, and hun
dreds fell from exhaustion. At some
points the crowds became so unruly
and boisterous that the police and
troops had great difficulty in main
tanning semblance of order.
With all the testimony to be pre-
sented before it, the Ballinger-P
investigation committee took steps to
bring to a speedy conclusion the con-
gressional inquiry which has been in
progress for four months. May 27 and
rs were allotted the lawyers in which
to make their closing arguments,
when the public hearings will end.
George Mcdonald, thirty-one years
old, baseball writer of the Chicago
Journal. was injured, probably fatally,
and John j. Evers, second baseman
OF the Chicago Cubs, and third man
were bruised when Evers' automobile
in which they were riding was struck
by a street car at Chicago.
Maysville, Okla, a small town,
was wiped off the map by tornado
and several persons were killed. The
town of McCarty, near Maysville, was
nearly swept away and three persons
were killed.
The joint convention between the
United Miners and operators, at Pc
oria, adjourned sine die. A strike was
declared by the miners.
The summer home of the late James
ii. Eckles near Oconomowoc, Wis,
was sold at administrators sale to
the Redemptorist Fathers, a Roman
Catholic order of st. Louis, for
$4,000
With one hand John A. Hall, for
years treasurer of the South Bridge
Savings bank at Worcester, Mass,
reached into the banks funds and
stole large sums and with the other
he gave It to charity and religion.
Hall says he has appropriated $780,
900. Experts say the defalcation will
reach 100000.
Following the publication of al
legged offensive articles in his paper
Il. N. Bryant, a negro, was driven out
of Brookhaven. Mass, and his paper
plant and residence burned.
The seventh annual session OF the
National Conference on Education OF
Backward. Truant. Delinquent and De-
pendent Children began In st. Louis
New York city has saved $3,9S5, 400
in the first three months of Mayor
Gaynor's administration, compared
with the corresponding period a year
ago.
The National Probation Oficers' as.
sociation opened their convention in
st. Louis In connection with the Ma
tional conference of charities and cor.
rection.
While in conference at Buffalo. N.
Y, with Norman f. Mack, William
Jennings Bryan said criticism of Pres
ident Taft was due TO a misunder-
standing-that the west believed him
to be a radical and the east that he
was conservative; adding that he
could not be both"
Rev. Charles Little of Wabash, Ind.
was elected moderator of the Presby.
terian general assembly of the United
States at Atlantic City. N. j.
Vie Chain Yong. the Korean who
stabbed Premier vi, in an attempt AT
assassination December %. 1909. was
sentenced to death at Seoul.
While A. Holland Forbes, the bal.
loonist, and his wife, Jessie Livingston
Forbes. we're celebrating his mirac-
nlous escape from death in Kentucky
at their home near Bridgeport, Conn,
deputy sheriff served Jail writ on
Mrs. Forbes, following Mrs. Ernest
G. Rowley's damage suit for $4,000.
Fortyseven workmen were drowned