Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1883-09-06
THE NEWS.
DOMESTIC.

Pension warrants to the amount of
S26,OOO,OOOwere issued during August.
Aggregate amount of claims for re-
bate revenue taxes, filed up to August
26 $3,500,000
Senator Sherman opened the Repub-
lican campaign in Ohio with an able
and telling speech in Toledo.
De Molai Commandery of Louisville,
KY, won the first prize at the COMPETE
tive drill held at the Knights Templar
conclave in San Francisco.
A Negro was lynched by a mob at Og-
den Utah, after he had shot the CITY
marshall and the city water-master,
killing the former and wounding the
latter.
A party of German statesman, war
riors, professors and journalists have
arrived in New York. en- route to the
northwest to be present at the opening
of the Northern Pacific road.
A sensational story comes from Hail
cy, Idaho, that band of Texas cow
boys, about 65 in all, have started for
the Yellowstone Park for the purpose of
capturing President Arthur and party
and holding them until heavy ransom
is paid.
The Democratic county convention
held at Wichita, Kansas, adopted a SER
les of resolutions, partly by way of sug-
gestion to the party's state convention,
and one of them read: 1--WE are oppos-
ed to a protective tariff and in favor of
tariff for revenue only"
Charges of swindling are brought
against revenue collectors in South Car
DINA. These trusted officials of Uncle
Sam have been in the habit of bribing
men to set up stills. and then the officers
would seize them and collect the $50 re-
ward offered by the government.
The department of state and the In
, dian bureau have received from the war
department copies of letter from Gen.
, Crook in which the statement is made
that his eaptives surrendered with the
understanding that they should go I'M
, punished. He further states that the
cut-throats who are terrifying the set
3 tiers will remain quiet if their crimes
are condoned.
, Frank James, the noted bandit. is now
on trial at Gallatin, Mo, for train rob
berry. The defense are making vigor-
, Gus attempt to prove an abb.
Henry Mitchell and an unknown man
who were stealing ride on top of 8
4 sleeper on the Hudson River road haG
their skulls crushed while passing
through Rosbook tunnel.
The color of the new four cent stamp:
e will be shade of green a trifle darker
: than the three cent stamps now in use
v | A 9 ctar xuil hn IN
use after October lst no trouble will
a arise from their similarity.
: Prince Hohenlohe, who has just arriv
!, ed in Canada, says the story that h
y comes to arrange for German colonies
u in Canada is without foundation. Hi
government has no notion of encourag
G ing emigration te the Dominion.
5 The inquest on the ~ children
D bodies found in the London undertak
er's establishment showed that the,
G had been left there for interment. ant
L though the parents had paid the expen
:, SEES in advance, the undertaken hat
:, neglected to bury them.
u A passenger train ran over an EN-
: bankment 10 feet high near Waco, Tex
!, as, and landed upside down. All tn,
II lights were extinguished and passen
gers crept out through the windows. Al
Il were badly shaken up, but strange t.
Y say nobody was fatally hurt.
= The tenement house of Denis Dolan
J. of Boston, occupied by eight families
u took fire q few days ago and the flame
II spread so rapidly that Thomas Nc
Laughlin, aged IL, Mrs. Fred Savage
i aged 40, and her two children, Kati
G and Mamie Savage, aged IS and 81,
u months respectively, were suffocatet
n before they could be rescued. Georg,
J, Mclaughlin, aged IA, was killed b,
l. jumping to the ground, and his mothe
was probably fatally burned while try
o ing to rescue her other son Thomas
@ The fire is believed to have originate,
q in the room of the Savages where figh
3 was in progress and the belligeren
n threw lighted lamp at another.
d The postoflice department has mad,
> arrangements whereby, after the secont
r of September, there will be contipuou
0 railway mail service from st. Paul
. Mimi, to Portland, Oregon.
Angered by defeat in petty law sui
e at Indianapolis, Jacob Bush. ther
n wounded Samuel Campbell, who hat
no connection with the suit, and finally
shot himself with fatal effect.
q There are now 40.049 postoffices il
= the United States, of which number 2,
q 176 are presidential offices and 6,27:
! money order offices. Since the yeal
Z 1876 the number of postoffices has beer
! increased so per cent.
Z Two young men of Missouri, named
Louis Phillip and Jacob Rosenbrook
settled an old grudge by fighting due
in secluded spot in Bowling Greer
: township, st. Louis county, in which
. the former was killed instantly and the
latter received mortal wound.
Another case of alleged attempted
swindling of pension claimants has just
been brought to light by the arrest OF
Gould p. Austin. discharged clerk OF
the pension office, who it is said had
, been writing to applicants for pension,
I representing himself as still connected
with the department and able to secure
favorable action on their claims. A
quantity of official paper and envelo-
pes and mass of correspondence were
found at his room when arrested and
) he was held in 81 500 bonds to appear
in court. The SPECIFIC charge against
him is that he opened a corspondend-
} ence of the character described with
, Mrs. Helen r. Richardson, Tecumseh,
, Mich.
, Plans have been completed for the
new silver vault in the New Orleans
mint. Capacity 500, 000,00