The Yale expositor., 1911-10-12

Wis.,, rendered many people homeless
and caused an estimated property loss
of $1,200,00O. Two companies OF state
militia patrol the town to prevent loot
ing.
Dragging them from their beds and
loading them into the streets, nuns
saved the lives Of $50 girls when the
home of the Good Shepherd at Edg-
ington Lake, near Wheeling, w. Va,
was destroyed by fire. The flames are
believed to have originated from a
spark in incense used at benediction
In the chapel.
Southwestern Colorado and northern
New Mexico are devastated as a re-
suit of the heaviest storms and most
severe floods this section has expert
enced since 1884. Miles OF railroad
track, several railroad bridges, many
scattered houses, and at least two
towns have been washed away.
Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Kraft, proprie-
tors of a roadhouse seven miles from
Detroit, Mich, were murdered. A
daughter claims Charles Fuller, a for
ner employee, shot at her and missed.
and then killed her parents.
After an hours running revolver
fight Frank Amos, believed to have
been one Of three bandits who held up
4 Missouri, Kansas & Texas passenger
train near Bartlesville, Okla, on Octo-
Der was killed by a sheriff's posse.
Delegates Of the United Mine Work
ers Of America and the Western Fed
Grafton Of Miners at Denver, Colo.
will ask Samuel Gompers to resign
from the National Civic federation.
! Postmaster General Hitchcock in his
estimates for the next fiscal year in
cludes an item for S150,000 for expert
mental parcels post in cities and coun-
try districts and for an investigation
| FOR the establishment Of general
parcels post on all railway and steam
boat transportation routes.
Each citizen of the United States
would have $34.35 under an equal d.
vision, that being the per capita circu-
Iation October 2, according to the
statement of the treasury department.
The total money in circulation amount
ed to $3.242. 1915.
Jononaea corvonto Of ba Nauy.
port Or. ~ naval station have been
dismissed, following the discovery
that various service plans had disap-
peared coincident with the departure
Of two Japanese.
/ The commission In charge OF the
illinois farmers hall Of fame has &C.
cepted the name Of B. F. Harris. for
merly of Champaign, H., for a place
In the hall Of fame at the University
Of Illinois College Of Agriculture.
Governor Baldwin OF Connecticut
has asked the attorney general to pass
upon the validity of law recently
passed over his veto, giving every
Civil war veteran in Connecticut a
yearly pension of $50.
Capt. John Bradie, giving exhibitions
at the South Georgia fair at Triton,
Ga, was killed when he fell from his
balloon and plunged 700 feet to earth
Senator Stephenson must make a
satisfactory showing as to exactly
what became of every dollar of the
| $107, 900 expended in his campaign
| for the senatorial nomination in 1908
| This ruling was made by Senator
| Hepburn. chairman OF the senate in
vestigating committee, at the hearing
in Milwaukee.
The innovation Of picking cotton
by moonlight has been introduced by
farmer near Americas, Ga, because
of his desire to harvest the crop
quickly as possible The unusual sight
of pickers in the field at night has at
tracted wide attention.
The legal contest to determine
whether new t1dLupSulTe Ut MaSSdCHu
sets is entitled to the inheritance taa
upon the estate OF Mrs. Mary Baker
Eddy, valued at 100000. is being
waged before Justice Morton in the
supreme judicial court OF Boston.
James Leonard. eleven years old,
and his brother, Henry, fourteen,
were brought to Washington, ID. c..
by Marshal Tyree of West Virginia
to serve two years in the government
reform school for making coins. The
boys are said to be clever counter
| letters.
Eight Indictments against four wall
paper manufacturers and four wall
paper jobbers, members of the so.
called wall paper trust" charging
them with o. conspiracy in restraint
of trade in violation of the Sherman
antitrust law, were returned by the
federal grand jury at Cleveland. o.
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