Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1883-08-30
THE NEWS.
DOMESTIC.

oon-on-Iyne district, Eng, throws 90
OOO persons out of work.
Disclosure is made that John Jarrett
declined reelection rs president of the
amalgamated association of iron and
steel workers because of disgust at the
lngratltude OF the members. He is of
fered $4,000 position in a Chicago
mill.
A novel case under the civil rights
act was recently decided by Washing
ton Judge in favor Of the Negro. A
restaurant keeper who had refused ac-
commodations to q colored minister of
the gospel was found guilty of INSIDE
meanor, under tie criminal provisions
OF the act in question.
Samuel Gompers, president of the
amalgamated trade and labor unions of
the metropolis, was witness the other
day before the United States sub-com-
mittee on education and labor. He de-
MED the statement recently made to the
committee, that the ma ority of strikes
are failures As q rule he claimed they
redounded to the benefit of the laboring
classes. MIR. Gompers urged the enforce
ment of the national eight-hour law and
the act legalizing the incorporation of
trades unions.
Albert Ramsdell, farmer living near
Elkhart, Ind, slid down q stack and
struck against pitchfork and the tines
ran into his entrails, injuring him ter
ribly and fatally.
Nearly the entire Presidential party
have been suffering with cholera NOR
bus, caused, it is supposed, by the aka
line water found in that section of the
country The president, it is said, has
been the worst sufferer, and is seriously
unwell.
Capt Rhodes says he will swim the
Niagara rapids in spite of the efforts of
the authorities to prevent it, and that
no one but his wife and brother shall
know when the attempt will be made.
! If successful, he promises TO build q
handsome monument to Capt Webb.
A fearful thunderstorm broke over
Listowell, Ont, the other morning.
The business portion of the town was
! flooded with water from foot to 20
inches deep. Severa! bridges, build
ings and docks were washed away. 1t
is impossible ut present to estimate the
damage to the town, but it will be
| heavy. There was no loss of life, but
there were many narrow escapes report
ed. Reports from the surrounding
country say great damage has been
done to grain.
Leprosy has broken ont among Chi
namen at Reno, New.
Forest fires are spreading with
frightful rapidity in various localities in
Maine.
For the week ending Aug. Is, 424, 499
silver dollars were issued from the
United States minis.
Two million acres of public lands
were sold at auction ut the st. Cloud,
Mimi, land office the other day, at 49,
80 per acre.
j. b. Gardner of Boston, recently de-
ceased, willed 1891, 900 to the govern
ment, TO be applied to the payment of
the public debt.
Capt. VIM. L. Howell, formerly as
sistent quarter-master of the United
States army, was foung drowned near
Baltimore, the other day.
The startling news has been received
at Matamoras, Mexico, that 160 persons
have died of cholera in the little town
of San Dionesto. The disease is not
Asiatic cholera, but q local disease
which exists in Mexico every summer.
Some employe of the Pittsburg and
Lake Erie railroad Numbered few days
ago ut Hazelton, o., and the result was
a collision which wrecked several cars
and locomotive and injured three
train men. All the passengers escaped
unframed.
Gov. Crittenden of Missouri, has adj
vised certain officers in that state to take
steps to enforce the statutes forbidding
preparations for prize fights and prize
fights themselves within the common
wealth. His eXcellency has Mitchell
and Slade in mind.
A. nj. Sydes of Philadelphia, follow
ed his father to Portsmouth, Va, where
he shot and dangerously wounded him.
The son says his provocation was the
desertion and determination of his moth
er. The father says the son is and has
been spendthrift and a sot
Mary, aged II, The daughter of Col
James o. Churchill, vice president and
manager of the western anthracite coal
company of st. Louis, has been missing
from her homo for several days. The
high social standing of the family causes
general interest the mysterious disap-
pearance.
Fire and water wrought confusion
and caused about 100000 damage in
the building at the corner of Washing
ton and La Sale streets in Chicago, &C.
cupied by the Western Union telegraph
company, the associated press and sew
eral banks and commission houses. The
telegraph company was badly crippled
for n time, but new arrangements for
continued service were made with COM
mendable pIomptness.
DR.. Thickstun, physician of con-
siderable prominence, died at Erie, Pa,
the other night from the effect of in
juries sustained by falling through the
Lake Shore railroad bridge at Angola.
The train stopped on the bridge, and
the doctor, thinking it was the depot.
stepped off the platform and fell
through to the road beneath. He was
president of the Erie county medical
society and president of the Pennsylva-
MIA state society.
The largest grain fleet that ever sail
ed out of Chicago in single day left
that city on Saturday the 18th inst, 20
craft in all, besides which were num-
Der of others that waited until daylight
of Sunday morning. The following
vessels comprised the fleet which left
during Saturday, day and night Com