Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1883-05-10

on the opinion OF the Supreme Court and that
the next General Assembly should re-cnact a
prohibitory law In harmony with the expressed
will of the people.
The opening of the great Brooklyn
bridge has boon postponed until the 30th inst.
IL was at first decided to have the ceremonies
on the oath inst, Queen Victoria's birthday,
but 1t was thought better to postpone II until
the latter date.
The Mexican government has made a
contract with Buette, Casee a. Co., France, for
harbor improvements at Vera Cruz. The
northwest brsakwater will be completed In
five years, and all the work will be finished in
IL years The government will pay the con-
tractor slO.047,0O0 In Mexican silver dollars, in
weekly payments OF $4,000 as the work pro-
ceeds. The official journal, in connection with
the proposed foreign loan, defends vigorously
the financial policy of the government, main
tanning that 1t would be false economy to sus-
pend productive public works, especially the
Tehauntepec railroad, which is of national Inn
portance and making satisfactory progress
since the government undertook its construc-
ton.
Work has been commenced on Eads'
The hauntepec ship railway
The bill prohibiting free passes being
granted to any one but railroad officials and
employees has passed the New York assembly.
Threatening letters continue to be
sent to the Dukes jurors signed by vigilence
committees Molly Magulres, etc, but no vol
lence has as yet been offered. II any yihgenco
committees exist they are of the most guarded
and secret kind and will do their work In such
. way as to render detection very difficult
The Connecticut legislature has adj
journed after the longest session on record.
The closing act Of this august body was to
hn mi na1 ma Tna N
for biennial sessions. This will require a two
thirds vote of the next legislature, and the APP
proval of the people.
Myra Clark Gaines has gained q
| judgement in the United States circuit court I'm
New Orleans for 81 ,925 ,667, with five per cent.
interest and costs, against the city OF New Or
! leans.
BY some miscalculations in surveying
the lands for Zuni Indians in New Mexico, the
| Indians have been cheated out of a good many
acres OF land. Several spectators have taken
| up land in that section of New Mexico, and
| should their claims be sustained by the general
| land office, the water supplies OF the Zunis
would be entirely cut OIL.
A number of high officials of the
Japanese Empire are doing Washington.
Frederick M. Ker, the confidential
clerk of the banking house of Preston, Kean &
| Co., of Chicago, who stole S20,500 from the
bank and 49,, 250 from special deposits and
| government bonds, has been arrested In Lima
Peru. David Preston, of Detroit, the senior
| member OF the firm says that the stealings OF
/ the prisoner have been variousv stated and ex
| aggerated at different times. The above
| amount is correct. The eXtradition was effect
ed through Senator John A. Logan. Wher
Ker fled 1t was placed in the hands OF tn,
Pinkerton Detective Agency, who, after
careful search, learned that the prisoner wa
| in Panama, under the name of Alfred Perrott
| A detective was sent there and learned tina
Ker had gone further, under the name Of War
rem Stuart. The officer had photographs of TIN
fugitive in his possession, and showing then
to the purser of the steamship Santa Rosa OF
which 1t was ascertained Ker had taken pas
sage, was told that man apparently the sub
ject of the photographs, was stopping a
the Hotel dc France ct Angleterrc in Lima
where he thought of remaining. Ker wa
found engaged in studying the Spanish Ian
guage. IL was found that no extradition pro
cess could be readily had, and the detectiv
concluded to keep watch of the fugitive unit
he should hear from home. He made his &C
quaintance without disclosing his identity, an,
the two became apparently warm, persona
friends. In the meantime the necessary step
were taken to extradite the thief. Papers wer
gotten out and forwarded, and Gen. Lynch
commanding the Gillian forces which capture
the Peruvian Capital, honored them. The iden
tity OF the prisoner being duly established
number OF soldiers were detailed TO make III
arrest, and surprised Ker in his room, an
escorted him to the United steamer Essex
where he was locked up TO await the sailing @
the steamer for home. How much of the stole
money was recovered Is not known. The pris
oner Is 3G years old, and Mr. Preston says, CT
tered their employ in Chicago in 1873. He 1
the son of Rev. Peter Ker, Presbyterian mir
lister Of Brantford Ont, who has been dead 70
ten years. The detective who tracked him
Peru is II. q. Julian, who will receive a larg
portion of the $4,000 reward offered for til
prisoners apprehension.
Advices from Van Buren, county
Ark, say that that section of the country
being held in terror by two escaped convict
named James Miller and Thomas Katharir
who have made the almost inaccessible Bosto
mountains their refuge, and from which the
emerge to commit all manner of depreciation
7 on property, not even stopping at murde
! Theser cts have CONT nued until almost the Ell
! tire population of that region have becon
aroused and at last accounts party of 20 mel
including some of the best citizens Of Van b
I rem county under the command of Col. Richar
Poe, have started to hunt down the outlaw
; Should they be found they will be killed @
sight, but as Miller and Katharin are we
armed and most desperate men, il is feare
, some of their pursuers will be slain befol
> they are exterminated.