Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1883-11-15
THE NEWS.
DOMESTIC.

Surveys have been completed for narrow |
guage railroad to the top OF Pixies Peak. A |
company will build the road at once. 1t will |
start at Manitou, at the foot of the mountain, |
and by divergences and curves and steep
grades ascend to the top. The length of the
road will be thirty miles, with a maximum
grade Of 200 feet to the mile.
Forty million dollars are needed to pay pen
sioners for the neyt fiscal year.
Secretary Frelnghuysen says it is out of the
province OF his department to ask moGifica-
ton OF British rules IN order that American
counsel may act for O'Donnell.
Corkhill wants help to prosecute the pension
| frauds.
| While there Is no lack of evidence that Orrin
| A Carpenter, OF Lincoln, ILL.,, was unduly intl-
mate With Fora Burns, and was furnishing her
with money to prepare for her marriage with
| Dukes, there is nothing to fix her murder upon
him. The feeling continues very bitter against
him, however.
Leave to start national bank by Indians In
the Indian territory has been refused the ap-
plicants were not citizens.
A whale CO feet long and IL feet thick went
ashore at Burnett's island, Chesapeake bay,
last week, and houndered around for two days
before being killed. About 100 gallons Of oil
J were made from him.
BY an accident on the Panhandle road near
, Newark, Ohio, the engineer and fireman of one
Of the colliding trains were instantly killed,
| anu Iuose Ol Tue OJucT trdln were Dduly uuTt.
As amended, civil service rule No prevents
any determinations in selections for appoint
} ments by reason of any political or religious
2 opinion or utilization.
: The CHEF signal officer in his annual report
complains Of the Gripping OF the service by
!, the shortage la appropriations and gives 1t al
. his opinion that the service ought to be ex
i tended.
d The commissioner of pensions estimates
/ hot will he needed N N
pensions, but IN account Of a probable over
plus he only asks for t40 DOC, 900 for next year
q Between 300and 400 Mormons arrived in New
York from Europe the other day. Most o
them were from Scandinavia.
Nathan D. szkolny, the Prussian banke
arrested at New York, Is aged 90. He confess
ed to forging $500 900 OF accepted drafts an
fleeing to America to escape detection, leavin
>, his family destitute A son, aged %, Is wit
% him. BotE were held for further examination
v The suit brought by Prof. Willard Fiske I
a secure the property left by Jennie McGra
d, Fiske to Cornell University, came up for tri,
at Ithaca. n. Y, on the 9th inst. Some test
- mony was taken, but 1t was found necessaI
to adjourn until January next in order to secu
% other important testimony.
% Gov. Rusk Of Wisconsin has ordered searcl
GO ing inquiry into the cause Of the accident
DO the capitol building A mechanic tells The s.
80 cret of its downfall, the substance Of which
so palpabe defects In the brick work supportiI
25 tn iron coluInns.
80 The suit brought by the heirs or Mrs. Dors
90 of Louisiana, for the purpose Of breaking d
et will by which jeff Davis gets Mrs. Dorsey
or property, is on trial in the supreme court
he the United States.
A meeting Of the Republican national cor
ps mittee will be held at the Arlington houf
. Washington, ID. c., Wednesday, December |
1853, at IL o'clock for the purpose of decidil
'el upon the date and place of holding the nc
90 national Republican convention.
,ts IIallet Kuhournc is awarded ~, 900 damag
In his suit against exssergeant at arms Thorn
-. son. Thompson appeals.
no A fire at Sioux Falls, OAK, the other moi
ess ing, destroyed 500, 900 worth of property.