The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1912-09-05
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Miss Julia C. Lathrop of Chicago.
chief of the new children's bureau,
took up temporary headquarters in
the department Of commerce and la
Dor at Washington preparatory to
organizing the bureau office staff and
working force.
Postmaster General Hitchcock an
nounces that on January l the post
ONCE department will put into gen.
eral operation the parcels post sys-
tenn authorized In the postal appro-
priation bill. The governments postal
express business will be extended to
more than a million miles of rural
delivery and star route service.
All government civil service EN-.
ployes are exempt from removal ex-
cept on charges, after due notice, and
with fair opportunity to be heard in
their own defense, under a provision
OF the post office appropriation bill.
Colonel Roosevelt again declared
not only his willingness but his eager
ness to make public every scrap Of
evidence in his possession In regard
to any action concerning the cam
paign funds raised for his election to
the presidency in 1904 and the Stan
dard Oil interests.
Senator Clapp, chairman Of the spe-
cial senate committee now investi-
eating the subject Of campaign contri-
buttons, said that he and his associ-
ates were looking forward to a most
strenuous series of hearings when
they reassembled in Washington on
September 80 TO take up the inquiry
along the broad lines laid down in
the Penrose resolution adopted by the
senate
Brig Gen. Frank Mcintyre, the new
head of the bureau of insular affairs
of the war department, will have as
his assistants Maj. Charles G. Wal
cult Jr., and Capt Irving L. Hunt,
Sixth infantry. Maj. Walcutt assumes
rank of colonel and Captain Hunt
that of major
Domestic
A penny which he swallowed
caused the death Of Childs r. Stew
art. sixteen months old, following an
operation in a Pittsburg hospital.
After being rescued from drowning
Edward A. Striley went out on the
river at Pittsburg in a canoe, upset
and was drowned before help could
reach him.
Provided with two pocket knives.
cred" and which she wanted to pre-
sent to the president, Mrs. Carolyn
Beers of Greenville. o., was arrested
at Columbus, O., in the Southern
hotel Just as Mr.. Taft was going to
breakfast. The woman, who is be-
lieved to be insane, tried to crowd
her way into the elevator with the
president.
William M. Wood, president of the
American Wooden company, one OF the
largest wooden manufacturers in the
United States and the most promi-
nent figure in the recent big textile
strike in Lawrence, Mass, has been in
dicted on q charge of conspiracy to
plant the dynamite that was found in
Lawrence at the time of the strike.
for the purpose of discreditinC the
cause of the strikers.
The use OF ST. Paul schools and
churches as polling places at cleo
tions in place of the booths now
erected in that city is advocated by
the Women's Civic league.
Charles Merz, in Stutz; Hugh
Hughes. driving a Mercer and Harry
Endicott, plotting a Mason, were the
winners OF the Illinois, Aurora and
Jencks trophy events at the Elgin
md automobile races.
President Taft declared in a speech
from the rear platform of his private
car NJ opTlHBueIu, MdSS., ludl ne ulu
not intend to take any further part In
active politics.
A severe storm which ragged over
northwestern Wisconsin played havoc !
with buildings in many villages and
damaged farm property TO large ex.
tent, besides demoralizing telephone
ard telegraph service.
Federal incorporation Of the Grand |
Army of the Republic probably will |
lie the leading question to be consid |
cred at the national encampment, |
which will begin at Los Angeles, Cal. |
September 0.
President Taft has restored tc |
entry ISL ,691 acres In Colorado, here