The Yale expositor., 1912-09-19

The office OF secreIs4y .~r-
ward educational committee, Il body In
charge Of the educational work OF the
Illinois conferences, was created in the
Illinois Methodist conference at Deca-
tur, H., Saturday. The two organiza-
tions have agreed to raise 100000
in five years. and in the last year OBJ
tanned $4,000 for educational work.
Rev. j. G. Nate of Champaign was
appointed to the secretaryship with a
salary of $4,000 yearly for fouryear
term.
Six boys were drowned when the
recreation cutter of the United States
naval station, near Lake Bluff, H., was
swamped on a sand bar 800 yards of
shore. The fatalaccident occurred with
in view of a number of men and wom-
en-. The furious gale that was blow
ing from the northeast had whipped
the water of the lake into such bill
lows that rescue was impossible.
Every effort by the police of Buffa-
10, North Tonawanda and Niagara
Falls to solve the mystery Of the
shooting of Mr.. and Mrs. George Han.
ner of Buffalo while they were motor
ing through Tonawanda Thursday
night has SO far been unsuccessful.
Mr.. Hammer, who was wounded in the
head, will recover, and Mrs. Hammer
may undergo an amputation of leg
Part of the money out of which the
people of Oberlin, o., were fieeced by
the late Cassie Chadwick has come
back to them. The United States FL
deity and Bonding company of New
York paid into court at Elyria, o.,
$22,S75, which represents the $4,000
bond, with interest, of the late Cashier
A. b. Spear of the National Bank OF
Oberlin, which was wrecked through
it's dealings with Mrs. Chadwick. The
payment followed long litigation. The
money will be divided among stock.
holders OF the bank, who were assessed
100000 to pay the depositors' losses.
A mysterious tunnel just discovered
under the street in Court square. Bos-
ton, is thought to have been made by
prisoners attempting to escape from
Jail cells of three-quarters of cen.
fury ago in the old court house, re.
Gently demolished to make way for a
city hall annex.
In revenge for the attention their
husbands are alleged to have be.
slowed on Miss Minnie Lavally, a
pretty twenty-two.year-old girl Of
GAINESVILLE, near Norwalk, o., eight
wives Of that place, all dressed in
mems clothing, took the young wom-
stripped her and applied a coat of
tar and feathers.
The jury which heard the evidence
against Victor Allen, charged with
firing the shot that caused the death
of Commemorative Attorney w. NJ.
Foster, in the Hillsville, Va, court
house tragedy Of March ID, returned
verdict Of mot guilty" at Wytheville
This ends the Allen cases, except as
to Sidna Allen and Wesley Edwards,
fugitives from justice
The liner Lusitania, about which
there was much anxiety because of
its failure to get into wireless com
munication with United States sta.
tons, passed Nantucket lightship
It's delayed arrival is thought due to
heavy weather or arrangement OF
machinery.
Reused from their beds at an early
hour in the morning, two students
were dragged to the parade grounds
OF the University Of North Carolina
at Charlotte by a band of hazers and
subjected to such severe indignities
that one died in few minutes while
the other has badly cut leg.
That Mrs. Jack Johnson, wife of
the pugilistic champion, who commit
ted suicide in Chicago did so while
temporarily insane, vas the verdict of
coroner's jury.
The financial embarrassment of the
United States Motors company came
to a head when receivers were ap-
pointed for the s42,500, 900 corporation
by Judge Hough in the United States
district court at New York. w. f S.
Strong and Roberts Walker, former
president Of the Rock Island railway,
were named as receivers.
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