The Yale expositor., 1911-02-16

Hiram Americas futile, former
governor of New Hampshire, died at
his home in Pittsfield, Mass, aged 49,.
He was governor from 1891 to 1898.
Senator Lafollette Young has an
nounced himself as a candidate for
United States senator from Iowa
Qong term at the primary to be
held June, 1912.
Seventeen lives were lost in the
explosion that wrecked the Cokedale
mine OF the Carbon, Coal & Coke Co.,
at Trinidad, Col. All the bodies have
been found
James Elverson. Sr., proprietor and
editor of the Philadelphia Inquirer,
died at his home in PHILADELPHIA,
aged 73 years. He had been i'll for
several weeks.
The recall for state officers was de-
feated in the Kansas senate by the
decisive vote of % to Is. This was
one OF the pledges made by both
parties in their platforms
The treasury department bill pro-
hibiting the use of Panama canal
bonds as security for national bank
notes was passed by the senate. 1t
has not been acted upon by the house.
A dispatch from Melilla states that
four Europeans travelling from Gran
Algeria to Melilla were assassinated
and decapitated by Riff tribesmen. A
fifth member of the travelling party
made his escape.
A religious procession held in Lis
bon, Spain, despite the prohibition Of
the governor, led to a series of street
conflicts. No casualties are report
ed in the official account, but 20 ar
rests were made
Senator Lafayette Young has an
nounced that he will vote TO unseat
Senator William Lorimer and that he
will vote for the constitutional
amendment for the election of sena-
tors by direct vote.
The Kansas senate passed the res
olution to submit the amendment to
the constitution giving women the
right to vote in all elections. The vote
was % 10 II. The resolution had pre-
viously passed the house.
The United States Steel corpora
tion announces an increase in the
price of tin plate from $3.50 to 1910
per 100 pounds. This follows a sim
liar advance made by manufacturers
in the Pittsburg district.
Knoxville, Tenn, police have under
arrest a man whom they believe is
NJ. A. Schmidt, v-L,ca Gil the charge
of completely in w~eo,..rg the Los
Angeles Times building. He claims
to be Charles Donald, of fountain
City, Tenn.
Two vessels sent to the rescue of
the fishermen who were swept ont to
sea on an ice foe in a gale found the
foe stranded near the Island of Sci
taskar. The fishermen, who numbered
253, were in no danger and refused
to be taken off.
In spite of the fact that it has been
twice defeated at the polls, the leg
islature of Oregon adopted a resolu-
ton submitting to the voters the
question of granting equal suffrage to
women. 1t was rejected last Novem-
Der by a majority OF $4,000.
Count Albert Apponyi, one of the
foremost statesmen of Hungary, has
arrived in New York He comes TO
this country at the invitation of the
Civic Forum and the American Peace
society, and will deliver a series of
lectures on international arbitration.
President Taft has withdrawn Al
791 acres of land in New Mexico and
905 acres in Utah TO be classified with
respect to their coal value. An eX'
animation made by the geological sur
vey, it is said, indicated that these
lands contain valuable coal deposits
The condition of Miss Clara Bar
ton, the venerable founder Of the Red
Cross, who has been i'll with bron.
chitis at her home in Glen Echo, Md =,
& suburb of Washington, has so great
ly improved that Dr. J. B. Hubbell, OF
Glen Echo. regards her out Of danger
The hight of buildings in Chicago
after September / next will be linn
tied to 200 feet. The city council
passed the amendment to the build.
ing ordinance after a heated debate
by a vote of AZ to 20. At present
the hight of buildings is limited to
$50 feet.
DR.. S. Kitasato of Toxic, accom-.
panied by the chief of the colonial
ton department, will leave for Man.
churia on February IL to investigate
the plague situation. The govern.
ment has requested an appropriation
of 100000 by the Diet to defray the
expenses of fighting the epidemic.
Fire in Constantinople nearly de.
stroyed the buildings occupied by the
council of state, the ministry of the
interior and the prime minister Part
OF the archives and some of the fur.
niture OF the Offices were saved The
headquarters of the grand vizier and
the foreign Office adjoining escaped
In fulfillment of a compact made
with her husband during his lingering
| illness, which death ended. Mrs. Lyn-
wood S. Keene, of Oxford, Me-, took
| her own life after having fatally shot
her 14-year-old son Gerald The com
pact, dated about month back, was
| found by the coroner in a sealed en-
| velope in the woman's room.
AT the annual meeting of the stock
holders of the Howard City fair. held
in Howard City, an entire board OF
directors was elected, comprised OF
younger men, all active in local bus
/ inpec life They are. ID w CLAIM