Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1883-11-08

DOMESTIC.

Washington, has been suspended from practice
before the interior department, charged with
Irregularities In pension cases. Belva is mad.
President Arthur has set apart Thursday,
Nov. 20, as day of National thanksgiving.
David Adams, aged IS, of Washington county,
New York, starved TO death with $3.50 in the
house. The old miser starved his wife to death
10 years ago.
Eight members OF the Ku Kux In Georgia
were convicted the other day and sentenced to
six years Imprisonment. This Is the first con-
viction OF ku Klux ever secured In that stale. |
Secretary Folger has ordered Collector Bell !
of Detroit to advertise In the Detroit papers for
the sale OF the buildings on the site purchased |
by the government for the new postofficc. The |
buildings must be removed as soon as sold and |
excavation will be begun at once. Mr.. Church |
OF Detroit Is the superintendent OF the new
building.
A fund is being raised for the bene6G of the
family OF Maj. Gen. Steedman OF Toledo,
monument is also to be erected to his memory.
Shoemakers of San Francisco to the number
Of 600 have constituted themselves into But
lei Democratic club to work for the Domina-
ton Of Ben Butler as President of the United
States.
Mrs. Belva A. Lockwood, the suspended lady
lawyer at Washington, addressed a letter to
Justice Coleridge asking his influence for the
admission of lady lawyers to the English bar,
her wishes in England,
United States District Attorney Corkhill at
Washington estimates that soldiers and their
relatives have been defrauded out OF 81 ,00O
600 by dishonest attorneys and renews the
request that all soldiers or others having
copies OF deceptive circulars from agents In
that city or knowledge Of any fraudulent
transactions on their part will mail him full
information upon the subject iE order that he
| may bring the guilty parties 10 justice.
The immense wagon factory at Springfield
Mo-, burned a few days ago at q loss OF $50,
| 000
Charles Lorenzen, farmer near Egin, ILL.,,
has died OF CHAMBERS contracted from horse.
| Ills sufferings were terrible His wife has
since died Of the same disease.
Mary Churchill, who disappeared from her
home in ST. Louis In July last, has written
to her father telling him that she has not be-
come an actress, but not disclosing her
| whereabouts.
Negroes in Milan county, Texas, organized
| for the purpose Of expressing their indigna-
| tion at the decision OF the supreme court as to
the unconstitutionality Of the civil rights bill:
Gov Ireland was teleRraphed TO fer aid, and
Immediately issued a proclamation ordering
the militia 10 be In readiness for any emergency.
An explosion of FIRE damp is reported from
PENNSYLVANIA coal company's shaft No. Z, three
miles from Pit;ston, Pa. Thirty men were In
|
the fate Of the others unknown.
The publication that 300 children died re-
Gently ct and about Greenville, n. c from diph-
liberia, is untrue The mayor and practicing
physicians know OF only one case of diphtheria
within the Iast six months.
Mifiln Elmer Bell OF Des Mones Iowa, is
the new supervising architect.
Hon. John c. New will not resign his posi-
ton as assistant secretary OF the treasury.
Five thousand dollars in one and two dollar
dominion notes has been stolen from the Cana
dian government. Banks are notified not 10
accept them. The numbers missing are one
dollar bills from 505000 to 10000 and of two
from $4,000 to 10000 and from $4,000 to 1885,.
ND.
| A fire broke out In Garfield, Col, and soon
reached n store which contained about Coo
pounds Of giant powder. The powder explod-
ed with fearful force, totally demolishing 9
| number OF buildings, aud before the fire could
be gotten under control the entire business
portion of the town. The LOSE, financially, Il
about $4,000 but the people OF the town are
in sad plight majority OF them being home
less, and without food or clothing for the win
ter.
A fire In cotton warehouse at Savannah
Ga, destroyed both that and other property
valued in the aggregate at about s., 100000.
The estimated reduction In the public debt
last month is sl05c0,000.
Army pension agents in the last fiscal veal
disburscd 1896, sol.
An unknown person has been personating
postofiicc inspector In Montana and collecting
money from postmasters.
Secretary Teller holds that courts in Iudiar
territory are no. courts Of record.
Citizens Of Che rokee Indian nation propos,
to establish a national bank at Vinita, Indiar
territory, with capital of $4,000
O'Donovau Rosa states that the explosion.
| on the undo rground railway at London wer,
the work Of the fenian brotherhood of who's,
movements he Is apprised. London he SAID
would lie In ashes before long unless England
gave NJ Ireland New developments might b.
expected at any moment for It was now tn,
purpose Of the brotherhood TO reduce England
TO submission.
A tragedy resulted from game of crooue
three miles from Woodbury., n. j. The play
crs were two men and two women, Germans
Rudolph Hines became angry because his wife
beat him ard kicked her with a heavy cowhide
boot She became unconscious and died soor
after.
Gov Ordwsy of Dakota wants congress "a
provide for holding legitimate constitutional
convention to prepare one or two constitutions
or else pass az enabling act to be submitted Il
the people for ratification.
In the universal postal union this country
raLks fret In the number Of postofiices, second
in the number Of letters and first in the mum
Der oil newspapers carried.
Train wreckers on an Iowa road derailed en-.
CINE, bsggage-car, and coach of an express
train, killing the engineer and seriously in
Juring the fireman and express messenger.
Ir the cast of Grace M. Allison versus the
baltimore and Ohio railroad at Townsontown,
Md, to recover $40, 600 damages for killing her
father, the jury returned verdict awarding
Is 900.
The cCroner's jury at Troy, N. Y, inquiring
into the falling of the Ford Edward bridge
| while Passenger train was crossing, resulting
| In the death Of two persons and injurinp %
others, after 40 ballots rendered verdict cen.
suriDR the engineering department for negi-
gcnce, and the railroad superintendent for al
Loving heavy trains to cross at Is miles an
hour, and the chief engineer for permitting
the bridge to go without inspection.
The annual report Of the Paymaster. Gener-
al of the army To the Secretary Of war shows
| the receipts for the last fiscal year to be s'5,
4So,3lO; disbursements, sl8,3S2, 164.
Surveys have been completed for narrow
guage railroad to the top OF Pixies Peak. A
| company will build the ROAD at once. 1t will
and by dvergences and curves and steep
grades ascend to the tor. 'rhe length of the
road will be thirty miles, with a maximum
grade Of 200 feet to the mile.
Drowned Before Their Mothers Eyes.
| Three children OF Mr.. Ipgus, the oldest a
( girl OF IL years, were drowned In pond at
| Elkhoru, Manitoba. The girl was on the pond