The Yale expositor., 1910-07-22

I
dent of the Brotherhood of Railroad
Trainmen, rests the question whether
the $4,000 conductors, trainmen, bag
| gagemen and yardmen employed by
the Pennsylvania railroad lines east OF
Pittsburg, Erie and Buffalo. will go out
on a strike or not.
Following stormy session Of the In
surgent and standpat conservation fac
tons, held at Chicago. President Taft
was invited to make the principal ad-
dress to the conservation congress in
st. Paul September 6.
Trapped on burning, sinking
steamer, log men, women and children
persisted near Kherson, on the Black
sea. After collision with the steamer
Wampoa, the passenger steamer
Levki, crowded with passengers,
foundered.
IL is estimated that 100000 people
witnessed the Elks' parade at Detroit
More than 900 OF them were Frustrated
and the police and the Red Cross re-
lief stations were kept on the jump
getting the victims out OF the way.
Papers, claimed to be personal prop
erty by II. y. Gardner at st. Louis,
head Of two insurance companies,
were taken from him in court by an
attorney, who declared he resorted to
psychological replevin."
Whitefish, Mont, is threatened by
forest fires. Lumber camps in the
same vicinity have been destroyed.
Elaborate preparations are being
made at Washington and other cities
TO entertain President-elect Hernes
Fonseca of Brazil, who will arrive in
this country August 8.
Chinese pirates have been dislodged
from their post in Colowan island by
the Portuguese gunboat Patria, &C
cording to cables from Hongkong.
A brick wall of the postofice was
all that saved Clinton, Wis, from de-
struction by fire.
Doctor Spears, the Jail physician at
Louisville, Ky, says that August
Ropke. alleged embezzler of funds of
the Fidelity Trust company, is on the
verge of a nervous collapse, and re-
Quires extreme quiet.
John Struble, chief of police of
Clinton, ILL.,. while graphing with
man, was shot and killed. The man
who did the shooting escaped amid
hail of bullets from revolvers of the
chiefs subordinates. Bloodhounds
from Decatur were put on the trail.
The indictments found by the fed.
eral grand jury in the United States
circuit court at New York on June Is
last in the cases against James A. Pat
ten, William p. Brown. +. r. Haynes,
s. I. Harmon, c. A. Kittle, +. G.
Scales, Morris Rothschild and r. M.
Thompson, accused of being parties to
a conspiracy In restraint of trade In
their cotton operations, were dis
missed because they were defective.
Theodore Roosevelt, in his first au-
thoriEed declaration defining his atti.
tude with respect to the national and
state political situation, conveyed the
idea that above all else he Is working
for complete solidiflcation Of the Re-
publican party. He said he is sound
Ing out" the sentiment of party lead
ers throughout the country and that
whatever he has done must not be
construed as an expression of his feel
Ing toward the administration.
Since January eighty-six railroads
and Industrial corporations in this
country have increased their disburse-
ments or declared initial or resumed
dividends 70 the extent OF s57,625.0
d fear. Twenty.three OF these cor
porations are railroads, their increase
alone representing $15.000.00o.
Oscar Erbsloeh. a brilliant young
inventor and balloonist, who made his
greatest popularity by winning the In.
ternational balloon race in America
three years ago was hurled to death
with four companions In balloon
named Erbsloeh near Cologne, Ger
many. The balloon fell 3S5 yards, as
nearly as can be calculated-mors
than one-ffth Of mile.
The Rock Island Qll.) county grand
jury, which has been In almost contin-
uous session for the past two months
investigating the alleged looting OF the
reserve funds OF the Fraternal Trib-
unes and dozen other fraternal In
surance societies, made its final re-
port to Judge Gest in the circuit court.
Seven true bills were returned, in
which indictments against II men and
one woman were included.
A. Rawlinson, an American aviator,
fell with his biplane In Bournemouth,
England, In making a fight at the
aviation meet. One OF his legs was
broken and the machine was smashed.
Supreme Court Justice William ].
Kelly of Brooklyn, N. T.. handed down
decision In which he holds that the
supreme council of the Royal Ar
canum cannot raise its assessment
rates without permission from the
members of the organization.
BY jumping into a clay-mixing ma.
chine and allowing the steel blades to
cut and mangle him William Moore
committed suicide at the Toledo (O)
workhouse, where he was a prisoner.
Woodrow Wilson. president of
MI