Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1882-08-10
MISCELLANEOUS,

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been arrested with five girls who live wit
her on Newbury avenue and whom she used a
shoplifters.
Frank r. Webb, one of the principa
business men Of Massillon, O., formerly bro
prietor OF the Union hotel in Philadelphia
Saturday of hemorrhage of the lungs.
The directors of the Home insuranc,
company, Columbus, O., have decided 10 max,
an assessment OF l2s per cent. as required b.
the state department and not have a receiver
appointed. j. B. Hall resigned the presidency
and ID. j. Jones OF GAINESVILLE was elected.
Saturday evening a foot bridge owe,
the canal at Mapayunk, near Philadelphia
crowded with people witnessing tub race, fell
precipitating the people into the water. A
number Of persons were badly hurt.
During the terrible rain storm Fri.
day evening near Loomis Ill, two men, George
Miller and Hiram w. Hartley, were instantly
killed by lightning.
A lively time is reported in the grain
market. Those short on July wheat are out
some 100000. OF Detroit firms j. s. Lap.
ham is the shortest"
Lawyer Reed thinks his services in
defending Guiteau We're worth $4,000, wants
the government to foot the bill and the amount
has been included in the suudry civil appro-
priatioD bill.
The President has approved the act
permitting the shipment of a suitable supply
Of liquors to Sitka, Alaska, for medicinal pur-
poses during the prevalence of measles and
scarlet fever.
Charles II. Reed, a well-known bus
mess man Of Boston. fell through hatchway
at bis store In thateity and was instantly killed.
Great excitement prevails in st. LOU
is, Mo-, over a corner in oats. Some, 100000
bushels were defaulted. TIE receipts were
l74,OOO bushels, the heaviest ever known. The
receipts of wheat were also large, $4,000
bushels. The stocks in the elevators were:
Wheat, l,O2S,Ss2 bushels; corn, 800, 4O7 bushels;
oats, S,22s.
Hecker's Touring mill in New York
was burned with fifteen buildings adjoining,
aggregating loss OF over $l,0O0,0OO. Two
fremen lost their lives by falling walls.
A fire in the rag warehouse of Pat
rick McNulty, Philadelphia, spread so rapidly
that McNuity and two other men had to Jump
down hatchway from the third to the first |
floor. They were badly burned and bruised. |
During the "a hours ended at noon |
Monday 1853 deaths from heat were reported in |
New YORK. During the afternoon and evening |
4 cool and refreshing breeze sprung up.
The special committee of the Detroit |
Board Of Trade announced the selling price of
July wheat at $l.S per busheL The market
had been oversold and the decision was les
'on to some spectators who got bitten.
A rise in the Licking river opposite
Jincinnati swept everything from swift's land
ng and destroyed barges, lumber, etc. to the
Imount Of $4,000.
Two freight trains collided Aug. 1st
N the Lake Shore r. r. west of South Bend.
lxty cars were piled upon the engine and
urned. The engineers were rescued alive
rom the debris, but four tramps out OF seven
Vho were stealing ride are supposed to have
cen burned.
There are over four hundred cases of
elbow fever at Metamoras, Texas.
At Vineland, N. j., the hands of
harles Keeigley's shoe factory are on strike
nd demand he unemployment of two women
ismisssd for joining the Knights of Labor.
In regard to the convention of the
malgamated Association, now in session at
hicage, a member Of the association said: II i.
lakes no difference what Is said by some of |.
le ironw0rkers. The present strike will be
le principal subject for consideration at Chi.
'go. Many Of the delegates were there fully
'termined to have the question handled there
I'd when once taken up it will be virtually
tiled by them.
The coinage at the minis of the Unit
States for July was s31ss,S5O, of which t
100000 were standard dollars.
The sugar refining firm of John Hill. y
rt's Sons, Philadelphia, has failed. Chas. M. n
Ilgert who has conducted the business can. q
It be found. A mortgage amounting to over !,
S~fS"V AeSOudy toirCioSou ny heI0eou ~ Lar / n
on the estates precipitated the failure. il
The hands in Keigley's shoe factory
neland, N. j., are on strike, demanding the
nstatement Of two women dismissed for y
ming the Knights OF Labor. %
The Keith paper mill, Turner'S Falls, :,
'ss, was damaged BY fire from $4,000 to $780, 10
Farmers along the Licking River, be- pl
cen falmouth and Lovengood, four miles, Cd
70 lost all their crops by freshet In that tn
ice the loss of crops is estimated at $4,000: tn
'ides number Of cattle and horses drowned. To
loss at other points along the Licking is
rally heavy. w
Judge Wylie of Washington informed bi
who applied for naturalization re
I the recent enactment Of the Chlnese bill an
olutely forbids 1t. di