The Yale expositor., 1910-04-22


cided to offer a resolution by way OF
making amends for the discourtesy
shown the president. The resolutions
were adopted unanimously.
Warrants for payment of more than
$4,000,000, awarded to nearly 10000
Cherokee Indians by the court of
claims, will be forwarded from the
treasury department at Washington.
Clinton st. Clair was hanged at
Rockford, H., for the murder of Mrs.
Mary Mcintosh. ST. Clair entered the
home of Mrs. Mcintosh, an aged re-
cluse, January 20, and stabbed her to
death. The motive was robbery.
"The Captain of Koepernick," the
cobbler who set all Germany laughing
by impersonating an officer and rob-
bing the little German town, is under
arrest at Ellis island, New York, and
will be deported.
In delivering a scathing denuncia-
tion of the American Sugar Refining
company in the house of representa-
tives Representative Rainey of Illinois
did not hesitate to make bold sugges-
tions concerning that most corrupt
and rotten trust ever created by the
protective tariff system" and President
Taft, Attorney General Wickersham
and Henry w. Taft, brother of the
president.
President Taft was Kissed while de-
livering an address of welcome at the
convention of the American Woman
Suffrage association. The manifesto
tion of disapproval was not unani-
nous. but it was pronounced. 1t inter
rupted the presidents speech, but did
not discomfort him. He waited few
seconds for the feminine sibilant OF
reproach to subside and then finished
what he had to say.
A series of earthquakes varying In
intensity has swept over Costa Rica.
doing vast damage. the extent of which
can only now be estimated at more
than $1,000,000 So far there has
been no report of loss of life, but the
people in the cities are panic-stricken
and are abandoning their homes for
the hillsides.
Three men are dead, six are miss
ing and six probably mortally injured
as result of a freight wreck on the
Northern Pacific railroad three miles
west of Spokane, Wash.
Under conditions that could not
have been greatly improved upon.
even If the fans" had their shaping.
the baseball season OF 1910 opened in
a most auspicious manner in the Ma
tional and American leagues and
American association.
Sam Langford, the negro fighter,
knocked out Jim Barry in the six
teenth session of their scheduled 25-
round contest at Vernon, Cal. II was
the ninth time the two had faced each
other and in none of which has Barry
ever been declared the winner.
Charles Revelee, 10 years old, is
under arrest at Richmond, Ind,
charged with numbering Mrs. Charles
Allison at her home near Cambridge
City. The police say the boy has con-
fessed that he beat the woman and
burned her to death.
Demonstrations continue at Melrose.
Mass, by crowds of those who sympa-
thize with the Dickinson IN. d. man
whose claim to heirship in the Russell
estate was denied. Three policemen
were injured when the mob paraded
| the streets.
The Nebraska railway commission
will attempt to influence President
! Taft against the appointment of any
! person who has been a railroad attor-
ney to fill a vacancy in the United
States Supreme court.
In an expedition to the mountains of
Walker county, Alabama, in search of
moonshiners, Federal Deputy Marshal
Anderson was killed ten miles below
Oakman and Marshal Putnam was
shot through the hip.
Theodore Roosevelt and his son,
Kermit. reached Venice in special
car which was placed at their dis
posal by the government and later
continued their journey to Vienna
The demonstration given Colonel
Roosevelt on his departure from Porto
Maurizio was as impressive as was
that rendered him on his arrival.
A letter from William j. Bryan. writ
ten in Brazil and read at the Jefferson
day banquet at Washington, says:
AN item of news has just come to
my attention. President Taft, in his
Lincoln speech at New York February
IL. attributes the present high prices
mainly to an increased production of
gold and consequent enlargement of
tie volume of money. This unexpect.
ed Endorsement of our party's PROPOSE
tion in 1896. when we demanded more
money as the only remedy for falling
prices, is very gratifying"
Six New Haven (Conn.) flremen
were burned to death and score Sc
riously injured in fire which par
TALLY destroyed the county jail and
destroyed the adjoining factory of the
New England chair factory, in which
so convicts were employed.
Exposure of an alleged conspiracy
through which the Illinois Central rail-
road has been defrauded out of hun
dreds of thousands-some say a mil
lion-of dollars Is expected soon ac-