The Yale expositor., 1912-08-01

Seven thousand shoe worhers OF
Lynn. Mass, paraded the streets and
held field day at Cliftondale for the
benefit of striking shoe workers at
ST. Louis.
Eugene b. Grace, helpless on a cot,
will be brought to Atlanta, Ga, to at
tend the trial of his wife, Daisy Opie
I Grace, who Is charged with shooting
him March 5.
Six summer homes were burned at
Narragansett Pier, r. l., causing
loss of approximately 100000. Sew
: eral other cottages took fire. but the
firemen extinguished the flames.
Six persons were killed and two ia
tally injured south Of Alexis, Mich.
| IL miles north of Toledo, Ohio, when
Lake Shore & Michigan Southern
train struck an automobile containing
nine people Two women. a man and
three boys were killed outright. Their
bodies We're horribly mutilated. The
automobile belonged to the Cousino
family of La Sale. Mich.
Claude Allen, one OF the Hillsville
(Va.) outlaws, was convicted Of muir
der in the first degree for the killing
of Commonwealth Attorney William
M. Foster. At former trial he was
found guilty Of murder in the second
degree for the killing of Judge Thorn
ton l.. Massie.
Frederick p. Vose of Chicago was
elected president at the final session
at Colorado Springs of the CONNER
cial Law League Of America conven-
ton.
Eight aldermen and the secretary OF
common council committee were
placed under arrest at Detroit on
charges Of accepting brides and con-
spiracy to accept a bride for their
vote and influence In the passing OF
measure affecting city property re-
Gently transferred to the Wabash rail-
road At least six other arrests of al
ueT1nen are expected.
The body of a man found floating
in East river under the Brooklyn
bridge by seamen from the Brooklyn
navy yard was identified later as that
of Abraham ID. Harris. a we'll known
theatrical man, formerly treasurer OF
the Globe theater, New York. Mr..
4 f,Af
aphasia
Two white men-George Sheldon
and John Bailey-were hanged at
Nashville, Tenn, for the murder OF
Ben Pettigrew an old negro, and his
two children.
Harry X Thaw, in the eyes of the
law, is still insane and must remain
In Matteawan asylum, where he was
placed on February /. 1908, after he
had killed Stanford White. Justice
Martin J. Keogh Of the New York SUI
preme court denied Thaw's application
for freedom, taking tho ground that
Thaw's release would be dangerous to
public safety.
During a general riot on Paint creek,
near Bucklow. w. Va, where several
thousand miners have been on strike
since spring, William Springer. de-
tective, and William Phaup, head Of
the detective forces in the coal fields.
was fired upon by armed miners.
Springer was killed and Phaup seri-
ously injured.
The aftermath of the great floods
bring out the facts that sixty-one
lives were claimed by cloudbursts in
southwest Pennsylvania and West
Virginia and hundreds of homes and
business houses destroyed. Union
town, Pa, leads the list OF known
dead with fifteen.
ploded under a street car in Boston,
wrecking the car. injuring two passen-
gers and frightening so others.
Politics
Former senator Albert J. Beverage
will be temporary chairman of the
Progressive national convention at
Chicago, August s. This was an
nounced by Senator Joseph NJ. Dixon
Judge Edmund b. Dillon Of Column
bus, o., chosen by the state conven-