Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1882-06-08

Academy of Sciences, and ex-President
of the Massachusetts Institute of Tech
nology, dropped dead on Tuesday in
Boston while addressing graduating
class ..... The death record of Tues
day included obituary notices of Enoch
Emery, for twenty years editor Of the
Peoria Transcript,of Richard Mortimer
wealthy manufacturer of New York,
leaving an estate of 100000, the
grandfather of the Countess Oriola of
Berlin, and of Hon. M. A. Ottro, of
Santa Fe, prominent in the political
history of New Mexico. =. q. The WyOm-
ing Valley Hotel, at Wilkesbarre, Pa,
was burned on Tuesday. Loss 100000;
insurance 100000. Judge Houston,
of New Orleans, has rendered de-
cision in favor of James Mcconnell for
$5.700, besides interest and costs, for
services to the city in the Gaines cases
| The South Carolina State Super
visor of Registration has been arrested
for refusing to allow United States
Deputy Marshal to remain so near
him, as in his judgment to impede the
free registration of votes.
Thursday, June /. The Mackey-Dib-
BILE contest in the House ended on We'd
nesday by seating Mackey, $50 TO 3d..
| The internal revenue receipts for May
| were $16,574,273, more than for any
month in ten years Strikes and ru-
more of strikes prevail. Thirty six
mills in Pittsburg and vicinity were
expected to be closed June /, and 49,
| 500 men to be out of employment there
hxy rxua fnd Of
Viotors college at Bourbonnais, Kan
kakee, ILL.,, have left the institution be-
cause they were required to attend
classes as usual on Decoration Day 80.
The remains of Thomas Jefferson are
TO be removed TO Washington, and
buried in Glenwood cemetery The
shares of the Pacific Bank stock of Bos-
ton, on which the assessment has not
been paid, were sold at auction We'd
nesday, al one cent per share John
Brown, city chamberlain for London,
Ont, for quarter of a century, fatally
shot himself ON Wednesday, his mind
being temporarily unsettled by a charge
OF crookedness in his accounts. A
shortage of $4,000 is alleged. Peter
Cooper has just passed his9lst birthday
The decrease in the public debt for
May is about $10,o00,000, which is less
than was anticipated, on account of the
heavy pension payments during the
month A majority OF the Senate
military committee will report favor
ably for the relief of John Fitz Porter.
Messrs. Logan, Hawley and Harrison
will dissent.
Friday, 2.-In the election case
of Bisbee vs.. Finley, the House by
vote of lat to gave the seat to con-
testant Bisbee E. Lead in paying quar-
titles has been found on the farm of
Mr.. Maxwell in Stockbridge, Mo. 80.
Lieut.. Danenhower is in Washington,
where he meets with a warm reception,
and the heartiest congratulations. -.
The coinage for May amounted to So
S7S,400, including $500 double eagles,
100000 eagles, $4,000 half eagles, and
100000 standard silver dollars ...
Two hundred mineral land patents
were issued during May, the largest.
number ever issued in one month go.
Strikes were inaugurated on Monday,
quite generally. At Cleveland, Pitts
burgh, Cincinnati, st. Louis, Chicago,
and other manufacturing places, with
here and there an exception, work ceas-
ed, to await more definite settlement
Of the wages question. A few manu-
facturers who had contracts to FL,
signed agreements; others will take adj
vantage OF the present state OF things
TO repair their works, and others will
employ non.uniOn men and defy the
strikers Judge Blddle of Philadel-
phia has imposed fine Of $1,000 upon
the n. Y. Herald for libel on Senator
Mcpherson. The fine was promptly
paid =. England ana France agree to
invite the other powers to a conference
for the settlement OF the Egyptian
question .. Gov. Crittenden denies the
reports of his having offered Frank
James a pardon, or that he has made
proposals to the governors of other
states asking them TO join him in ex-
tending clemency to James, aud adds
that the latter has never made appli-
cation for pardon The gamblers OF
st. Louis, now that the anti-gambling
law of Missouri is declared constitu-
tional are at their wits end, ready 10
"throw up the sponge"
STANDARDIZATION. Galibaldi died a.
Caprera, on Friday evening =. Bishop
Gilmour, of Ohio, writes to all the
Catholic churches of his diocese, TO
say that he will excommunicate any
Catholic lady who shall hereafter at
tend any meeting of the ladies' branch
of the Land League, or become men,
ber thereof He thinks membership
in such body, calculated to make
brawling politicians of women, and
incompatible with womanly modesty.
-. The Malley trial has been post
poned to June 10, on account of the
sickness of a juror :. Seven miners
imprisoned in the Alta drift at Vir.
ginia City, were found in the cooling
off house, and the only 4ives lost were
those of two men who, in attempting
to 20 into the drift with boat, were
stifled with heat and gas -. The stock
holders OF the Boston Pacific National
Bank, who subscribed S750,000 as their
assessment at the time of the re-or-
ganization, combine to combat any
suit to receive the 100000 they rep
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