Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1882-11-23
ADDITIONAL NEWS.
RESTING LAND BUSINESS.

o'clock that morning over boo attorneys as
sembled In front of the building In readiness
for business at O'Clock, when the doors
opened. There was such rush that doors
and windows were broken and several fights
occurred In eagerness to file applications
first. The receiver was compelled to make
the announcement that all applications would
be regarded as having been filed simultaneous
y. Over $4,000 worth Of land was sold for
cash the first day, 100000 acres were entered,
and with protests and applications it was the
largest days work perhaps ever done at any
land office In this country.
COLLISION.
Off Beachy Head, on the English
coast, early the other morning, the westphalia
collIded with an unknown steamer. The
Westphalia was damaged considerably and
the unknown" went down.
INDIANS PUNISHED.
Insolent Indians at Hochinoo, on the
coast Of Alaska, were reduced to obedience and
punished for bad behavior by the crew OF the
Corwin, when that vessel was up north.
INDIGNANT OFFICERS.
Army officers in Indian Territory
ara indignant because a quantity Of liquor
designed FOR their use has been seized by the
United States marshal, who seeks TO enforce
the law against the importation Of liquor into
the territory, except for medicinal use.
DYNAMITE IN A DIsTIILRRY
A profound sensation was caused at
Des Meines, Iowa, ~ finding dynamite in
hazardous places at the International Distil-
lery. 10 the morning letter was received by
w. N. Smith, enc of tue f0remeH, handed him
10y his SOL, another foreman, which read:
Mr.. Smith:
DEAR SIR-There are fifty pounds OF dynam-
ite 10 the masher. 1t will explode at l4o de-
grees Fahrenheit, or slight jar will explode
IL. Notify the men, but don't show tho letter
to any one. This Is 20 boys play. We mean
business. Ii you follow Instructions there
will be no danger 10 no one when 1t IL all
taken out, but Babsitt.
KIDD, the owner, was notified and search
party found several cylinders OF dynamite In
the iugress and egress pipes Of the engine
The whsle building was carefully gone
over and nine more packages found, weight
eight aud half ounces each. Various warn-
ings were also scrawled with chalk on the
walls. One arrest was made and warrants
issued for others. 1t seemed Kidd and the
Rabbit Company (the latter owning The mash
srs and leasing them to be used on percent
age)had dispute about the yield of the distil-
lery and Rabbit Il Co. undertook 10 remove
the Washers, bat tho difficulty was understood
TO have been smoothed over. Kidd suspects
Babbitt as being In the plot and has sworn out
a warrant for his arrest. A good deal Of mys-
terry surrounds the affair and the end Is no
yet.
WITHOUT FOUNDATION.
John G. New says the reports about
his intended resignation OF the assistant sec
retaryship of thu treasury are wholly unfound.
cd.
AFArAL DOSE.
AT Saline, Ontario, VIM. Trimble and
two daughters 81 and Is, partook OF supposed
herb tea TO relieve cold. ALI were taken sick.
Trimble and one daughter died soon after.
The other daughter is not expected to recover.
FATAL COLLISION.
News is received of disastrous
wreck which occurred on the Alton Road uear
Oak Grove, twenty miles east of Kansas City.
as construction train was backing up from
Grain Valley TO Oak Grove 1t collided with a
hand car on which were four men. The men
OF the car jumped and escaped, but the con-
struction train Of Eve or six cars and caboose
was ditched and brakeman. named Corcoran
and Ave section men killed and eight or ten
others wounded.
CANADIAN FAILURE.
Arnott g Co., wholesale dry goods,
Of Toronto, have assigned. The principal
creditors are the Ontario Bank, direct and in
direct, $4,000; Forestant warehouse, Lon
don, England, $4,000; Barber Il Co., Toronto
and Georgetown, $4,000; Peter Agan, Toron-
to, $4,000; Glasgow, Scotland, house, 80
600. The assets are net expected to realize
twenty cents on the dollar. Lessening OF
credits by the Ontario Bank Is said to be the
cause OF the failure.
DROWNED.
Two brothers named Halan, aged %
ana 20, OF PASSPORT, Nova Scotia, were drown
I'd from fishing boat
DISSATISFIED.
There is much unfavorable comment
at tho capital respecting the award for dredg-
ing the Potomac flats, which was granted to
P. Sanford Ross OF Jersey City, at 2lk cents
per yard for the whole work. William H.
Adams Il Co. were the lowest bidders at 1917
cents per yard, but 1t was decided not 10 in
trust the work to this firm. There are l,7OO,-
900 cubic yards of material TO DO dredged out.
and the difference between the bids of Adams
and Ross amount TO about $4,000.
DETERMINED 10 srRIKE.l
The railroad coal miners of the Pitts
burg district In convention unanimously re-
solved to strike on November 20 unless opera
tors concede them an advance Of one half cent
per, 'bushsI for mining. The strike which
failed last summer was against a reduction of
from 4 to 81 cents and the miners now be-
lieve that the ready demand for coal at this
season OF the gear will compel operators 10
grant the increase.
NEW MAP.
A new map of the United States has
bssn prepared and Ia now in the hands of the
printer. 1t lie said te be tbs most complete Of
any ever compiled By the government, con.
tanning 1900 places not on the old map. These
additions are mostly In the west; and the
rapid strides indicated In that section render |
the map nowin uss Of little value. ]