The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1910-02-04
GENERAL NEWS.

That Gen. Chamorro had defeated
the Madriz troops under eGn. Vasquez
at Acoyapa in a battle that had con-
tinued since Wednesday was the def
mite news received from Rama, Mica
ragua. confirming previous dispatches.
The losses were heavy.
Following conviction and sentence
in the federal court at Toledo, o., ten
members of a Sicilian BLACK Hand"
organization were FASTENED to the fed
eral prison at Leavenworth, Kan, to
serve sentences ranging from two to
sixteen years.
Pennsylvania flyer No. left behind
it in two Ohio towns a trail of dead
and dying. At Loudonville the train
ran down Roy Covert and his wife, in
stantly killing Mrs, Covert and fatally
injuring her husband. An hour later at
Crestline the same train crashed into
an automobile, wrecking 1t and killing
two of the occupants. while a third
member of the party was fatally in
jured.
More startling disclosures and accu-
sations against Secretary of the Inter
Tor Ballinger were made by Louis r.
CLAWS, ousted land department official,
in closing his testimony before the
Ballinger-Pinchot congressional inves-
tigating committee. The witness will
be recalled for cross-examination on
behalf of the long list of persons
against whom he has made charges.
A resolution of protest has been ap-
proved by Woodbury. post No. As, G.
A. r., of Adrian, Mich, against con-
gress allowing statue of Gen. Rob-
ert +. Lee to be placed by Virginia in
the Hall of Fame in the national CAPT
toll.
The report of State Examiners L. G..
Tatsman and r. A. Tallman filed
with the state auditor of Ohio shows
officers and former officers of Column
biana county to have received ille-
gal fees aggregating s21,33S.9O. A to-
tai of $5,129.2S has been refunded.
After taking his one-year-old baby
from its mothers arms and sending
his six-year-old child to the home of
neighbor, Claude Fred, a wealthy
farmer of Charleston, ILL.,, shot and
killed his wife and, turning the revolver
on himself. committed suicide.
Seven pupils and a teacher were
hurt when a cyclone demolished the
Two Mile Swamp schoolhouse, 70
miles from Orangeburg. s. c. The
schoolhouse was reduced to a mass of
splintered timbers.
A bill providing a suffrage amend
ment to the Maryland state constitu-
ton has been introduced in the legis-
lature. It is similar to the amend
ment defeated at the last popular cleo
ton, but lacks the grandfather"
clause.
Representatives Fowler of New Jer-
sey, one OF the house insurgents. in
troduced a resolution to add FIVE new
members to the rules committee. Civ
ing the majority six members and the
minority three, and to removing the
speaker from the committee.
A corporation which will devote its
energies exclusively to raising pole
cats is being organized by Connecticut
men with b. M. Mills of New Boston
at its head
Fire destroyed the First Church OF
Christ, Scientist, at Kansas City. The
loss is estimated at $4,000.
Receivers were appointed by Fed.
eral Judge ]. e. Safer at Columbus.
o., for the three companies compris.
ing the Columbus and Hooking Coal
and Iron group OF interests. To pre.
serve the assets IL was declared the
receivers we're necessary. No allie
cations OF insolvency were made.
A seven-year-old child with hair as
gray as that of an old woman Is at.
tracing the attention OF physicians
at Atchison. Kan. Recently Fred
Jones. while playing IN hay loft. fell
30 feet and the fright so acted upon
his nervous system that his hair be-
gan TO turn white.