The Yale expositor., 1911-04-06
NEWS IN BRIEF.

Senior Antonio Martin Rivero, the
new Cuban minister to the United
states, was received by Secretary of
state Knox. He will present his Gre
dentials to President Taft within a
few days.
President Taft has added to the
Fish Lake national forest, Utah. 141,-
l2S acres OF land as being valuable
mostly for forestry purposes, and
eliminating 1,276 acres. regarded as
Agricultural.
Because his reform plans were not
accepted by the town council, Mayor
Shafer Sigler, of Hackettstown, n. j.,
Killed himself, first cutting his throat
and then hanging himself. He was
elected last November.
The military tribunal which has
been sitting at Cape Haitien, Haiti,
hearing the cases Of political prison
ers charged with connection with the
recent rebellion has condemned to
death % of the accused men.
Wage differences between the ILL
nois Central railroad and its teleg-
raphers have been adjusted and the
key men win an advance in wages
approximating $50 a year. The total
increase granted is $79,204 a year.
Efforts made to raise the age for
the employment of minors in factor
les and mercantile establishments
from IA to 1G years failed in the
Massachusetts legislature. The house
killed a bill designed to effect the
change.
The strike of dock laborers in Sa-
lima Cruz, Mex, is causing serious in
reference with the traffic of the Ma
tional Tehauntepec railroad across
the isthmus. Steamers now in port
are unable to have their cargoes I'M
loaded.
Suit has been filed by Attorney
General John S. Dawson against all
the casualty insurance companies do
ing business in Kansas, on account OF
alleged increase in insurance rates
for liability of employees. A temper
airy injunction is asked.
The Dean-Fulton bill, giving cities
of 5000 and over the right to decide
on the admission of saloons regard
less Of the vote in the county in
which the cities are situated. was de-
feated by the Ohio house. The vote
was Sc to co.
Eight hundred persons who arrived
in Philadelphia on the Italian steam
ship Verona from Genoa, are detained
on board because of smallpox. Among
the hundreds on the pier waiting for
the release of the passengers are
five prospective bridegrooms.
In an open letter to President Taft,
n. j. Bachelor, master of the Ma
tional Grange, who is opposed to Ca
madam reciprocity, practically threat
ems that if reciprocity is adopted the
grange will withdraw it's support of
a permanent tariff commission.
Mayor Gaynor, in letter read at
the City club, where he was unable
to appear for an address, said the
great body of New York police now
is honest faithful and intelligent. No
more inspectors and captains will re-
tire as millionaires, he declared.
Speaker Joseph G.. Cannon an
nounces that he will not be a candi-
date for minority leader in the com
ing congress. This removes the fear
of many that anti-Cannon sentiment
would be kept alive If he continued
as congressional head of his party.
Albert Ulrich, the carpenter who
was arrested two weeks ago in New
York on the charge that he had as
saulted Booker T. Washington, the
negro educator, pleaded not guilty to
the charge of assault in the third de-
gree. No date was set for the trial.
Letter carriers in New York will
wear Panama hats this summer.
Postmaster Morgan figured that
lighter hat would be a boon to car
riers, and after inspecting models of
various styles found that the Pan
ANA type answered the purpose best.
The presence Of the plague in east
ern Java is officially confirmed. In
the vicinity of Malang. in the east
ern part, alone there have been 46
cases, 26 of which were fatal. Ac-
cording to a cablegram from Batavia,
the capital, the total of deaths is in
the neighborhood OF 100
BY decision of the Missouri SUI
preme court, fraternal beneficiary So
cieties are made liable for the pay
ment of policies of members engaged
at the time of death in occupations
prohibited by the bylaws of the So
ciety, where it is shown dues were
accepted from the insured.
After several years negotiations a
parcels post convention between the
United States and Haiti has been con.
cluded. and another country added to
the 40 to which parcels up to II
pounds in weight may be sent by
mail from the United States at the
rate of IL cents pound.
DR.. German l.. Martinez foreign af-
fairs minister and Fernandez Alonzo,
Bolivian minister, have signed
protocol assuring amicable relations
between Peru and Bolivia, pending
the submission to the Hague tribunal
of the points at issue over the boun-
dairy between the two countries.
The Pennsylvania and the Pitts.
burg, Cincinnati, Chicago e. st. Louis
railroads have filed petitions in COM
mon pleas court in Pittsburg for the
annulment of the two-cent passenger
fare law. They declare they are
authorized by their charters to charge
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