Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1883-07-19

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Cairo, ILL.,, experienced shock of
earthquake few days ago.
Telegraph operators throughout the
country arc organizing for strike.
Forty million dollars is the sum the
British government proposes to invest
in the new Suez canal.
The gold coinage held by all the banks
of England, Ireland and Scotland
amounts to 121 million dollars.
The Marquis of Lansdowne sails Oc-
duties of Governor-Ge
The entire business portion of Belle
vile, New, was destroyed by fire the
other day. Loss nearly 100000.
Several Jews have been tortured and
murdered in the town of Ostrog in the
Government of Vothy, Russia.
Pere HyacintLe Loyson and his wife
will visit this country in about amonth,
and will remain nearly all the fall and
winter.
There are strong probabilities that
the agreement between the British gov
eminent and DeLesseps concerning the
Suez canal will be rejected.
A Constantinople dispatch says The
Porte proposes to impose tariff of 10
per cent. on articles imported for con-
sumption, and tariff of from to 20
per cent on other importations.
A fire broke out in the hotel at Cock
atoo, Ill, the other night. and three rail
road men were burned TO death. Their
bodies were so badly charred, that the
three only weighed GO pounds.
Frederick Schuldt, of Reading, Pa,
threatened to kill his father, and was
locked up in the county Jail. During
the night he committed suicide in his
cell
Reports from Arizona go TO show that
q number of the Indians whom Crook
did not capture are leaving trail of
blood behind them. A little wholesale
hanging is needed in that country.
Mrs. Grace Courtney, known in New
York as the witch of Wall Street,
publicly cowhided q young man named
Will Jones in Milwaukee, whom she ac-
cused of having scduced her daughter.
The affair occurred on the principal
street of that city.
Mrs. Lena Stem attempted to drown
her three children in the East River,
New York She had the oldest one
tied hand and foot, and ut midnight was
about to pitch it into the river, when a
policeman interfercd. After drowning
the three she intended TO throw herself
in
Reported that the German govern
ment will allege impurity rs a new pre-
text for prohibiting the importation of
American pork. A Berlin paper repro
duces an article from a Cincinnati pa
per in which it is declared that half the
lard manufactured in America consists
of cotton seed oil, tallow, clay and wa
ter.
Judge Blodgctt of the United States
district court of Chicago decides that
the Pittsburg bridge company is equita-
bly, entitled TO remove bridge built by
them across the Illinois river, between
the towns of Utica and Deerpark, for
which the supreme court of Illinois, has
held the towns named need not pay, al
though they agreed TO do so.
The London Times says it is intimat-
ed on good authority that renewed at
tempt is about TO be made to obtain an
international copyright convention be-
tween England and America. The
Times advises the promoters of the pro-
ject TO remember the power OF the less
scrupulous of American publishers to
retain their alliance even if they have to
sacrifice the benefits of the scheme.
During a heavy thunder storm in
Burlington, VT, school house was
struck by lightning and all the chi ldren
were more or less injured. The floor of
thu school room was torn up and the
walls and ceilings wrecked. Several
children were hnrt by splinters. The
lightning rendered one girl deaf. A boy
had the sole torn from one shoe and the
upper from the other. The lightning
plowod great holes in the school yard.
A storm swept over Missouri, Kansas,
Iowa and Illinois the other night, doing
great damage. The velocity of the wind
was about 80 miles an hour, and seemed
to come from all directions. No serious
individual losses are reported, but many
minor ones in the way of damage to
roofs, chimneys, signs, trees, crops of
all kinds, which will aggregate loss of
many thousand dollars.
The Hon. William S. Howells, for
nine years American consul at Toronto,
Canada, has resigned his position He
is about to settle upon a small farm in
Virginia, and earn his living by the
''sweat of another mans brow" Con-
sui Howells believes that Canada will
be annexed to the United States, and
that the Canadians will do honor TO
the name of American citizens.
Chinese in considerable numbers are
being struggled into Washington terri
tory from British Columbia. Acompa-
ny of 80 recently entered. IL is said
that many of the arrivals from the ce-
lestial empire suffer from IN Oriental
disease, caused by the consumption of
decomposed vegetable food. The vic
Tins lose entire control of their limbs,
and blood poisoning appears. The dis
case is incurablc.
The new department of the Indiana
University was destroyed by fire the
other day. The laboratory was soon
in flames and shortly afterwards the Ii
brary and museum. The latter contain
ed the famous Owen collection, and
DIR. Jordans collection of fishes. The
library had $4,000 volumes. The new
building was entirely destroyed. The
fire caught by lightning striking n tel
ephone wire. Loss, $500, 1000; insur-
ance, $4,000. The heaviest loss is on
tho contents of the building. The celc-
brated Owen collection, valued at S40,-
600. cannot be replaced. The library