The Yale expositor., 1911-11-02

SUMMARY /
Of 4
Weeks EVENTS;
Latest News of Interest
Boiled Down for the
Busy Man.
XsuIian-TurkiSh War

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Sixty thousand Turks and Arabs are
pressing back the Italian lines around
the city OF Tripoli and the inhabitants
of the town fear an attack at any mo-
ment and a massacre II the movement
is successful Maltese and other
British subjects In Tripoli are asking
for warships to protect them.
According to a news agency dis
patch received in London from Tri-
poll which escaped Italian censorship.
the situation at Tripoli is serious.
European residents fear massacre,
as n holy war has been proclaimed
by the natives.
Domestic
The Atlantic squadron, 102 vessels,
with combined displacement or
ST., 599 tons, assembled in New York
harbor to be reviewed by Secretary
of the Navy Meyer. At the same time
the Pacific fleet of "a vessels assem-
bied at Los Angeles.
Mrs. Laura Stannard was found mot
guilty at Ontonagon, Mich, Of muir
dering her husband. Charles S. Stan
nard of Greenland, last March by
strychnine poisoning. The jury was
out one hour and ten minutes.
The pope will create seventeen card
inals at the consistory to be held No
yember 81. Most Rev. John M. Farley.
archbishop of New York, and Most
Rev. William II. O'Connell, archbishop
of Boston, are among those who will
receive the red hat Mgr. Diomede
Falconio, apostolic delegate at Wash
ington. also will be elevated.
Joseph Pulitzer, proprietor Of the
New York World and the st. Louis
Post-Dispatch and for many years one
of the most powerful journalistic
forces in America, died suddenly
aboard his yacht, The Liberty" off
Charleston, s. c. Heart failure. fol-
lowing an illness of 4S hours, is given
as the cause of death.
BY large majorities two Ohio coun-
ties shifted from the dry" column as
a result OF elections held in Scioto
and Lawrence counties. including the
cities of Portsmouth and Ironton.
The federal department of justice
started an investigation at Indianap-
oils, OF the so-called Mcnamara dyn-
amiting cases A subpoena has been
served upon Frank p. Baker, county
prosecutor, to appear before the fed
eral grand jury. and to bring with him
all evidence seized in a raid on the
Offices here of the International AS
sociation of Bridge and Structural
Iron Workers at the time of the arrest
OF John J. Mcnamara.
President Taft spent his first day in
Chicago addressing the American
Mining Congress, lunching with the
Chicago Bar association, dedicating
the Great Lakes training station at
Lake Bluff and attending the annual
banquet of the Chicago Association OF
Commerce.
Following close upon the institution
OF the federal governments prosecu-
ton OF the Steel trust, President Taft,
speaking to a Chicago audience, an
nounced his determination to enforce
the antitrust law to the letter against
every monopoly or other unlawful
combination.
At the concluding session OF the an
nual conference OF the sanitary Off
GERS OF the state OF New York DIR. ST.
mon Flexner. director OF Rockefeller
Institute for Medical Research. de-
clared that as a result OF many ex-
periments with serum he was able to
say that epidemics OF spinal menin-
gifts can now be controlled.
Samuel M. Butler. chairman OF the
American Automobile association and
one of the best known men In the
United States. was instantly killed
about three miles south Of Triton, Ga.
when the car in which he was riding
was overturned In a ditch. r. J Walk |
er of San Francisco and his wife were
badly injured
Capt. Klaus Larson of Detroit made
his second Niagara river trip from the
to Lewiston in n motor boat |
Is feet 6 inches long. He completed |
the 16-mile trip through the turbulent |
water In Is minutes, coming through |
without a scratch.
The Progressive Republican cam |
paign committee, which is pushing |
from Washington for the nomination |
of Senator La Toilette for the presi. |
dency, IS arranging 10 meet the de- |
mands from various states for Pro |
Republican orators.
Henry q. Coll, former cashier OF |
he Milwaukee National bank, wrecked |
,y Frank G. Bigelow. was released |
rom the federal prison at Lcaven'
worth Kan. on parole. He entered
ne prison May IL. 1906, to serve |