Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1883-04-26

delphia convention cannot be postponed. We
regret you cannot be with us, but everything
indicates the convention will be the largest and
most important ever held by Irish Americans.
A petition for an injunction has been
filed In the District Court of Iowa, by nineteen
heavy taxpayers of Des Moines, asking that the
city be restrained from mourning further debt.
The petition alleges that the city has been in
debted In excess Of the constitutional limit
since 1877 and that the $275, 900 bonds issued
In 1878 and 1882, as well as debts for the new
buildings, gas warrants and other city expenses
ought to be set aside and the city discharged
from liability. The suit is the outcome of Bit
ter feelings between the council and water
works, the city having as yet refused TO pay
nearly two years rent earned by the water
company, and the suit is evidently being used
as club to force asettlement with the water
company.
The Connecticut house have passed a
bill forbidding the employment OF women and
children In factories for more than ten hours in
any one day.
The Parliament building at Quebec
was destroyed b, fire a few days ago. When
the fire was first discovered half the structure
was In flames. The firemen were quickly at
work, but the flames had the mastery and were
soon bursting from every window IN the main
block. The whole city was lit up and thou
sands of people thronged the streets. The
Quebec cavalry drilling at the time, and bat
terry from the citadel marched to the scene and
saved perhaps half tho library. The west wing
of the building containing the committee rooms
was alone saved, but much damaged. All the
walls of the burnt portion are standing. The
building was insured. A new stone Parliament
House will be erected contracts for which were
given out few weeks ago. The government
pays In perpetuity, however, to the Archbishop
ground rent OF $4,000.
The international polar commission
announces that all expeditions now in the Arc
| tic regions will return In September next.
A fire occurred in Sacramento the
other morning, and the roof of the building fell
| In, burying number in the ruins. Six bodies
| were taken from the ruins so badly crushed
and burned as to be beyond recognition. The
others were seriously, and some, perhaps, fatally
| injured.
Indians in Washington Territory COM
| plain because part OF the reservation occupied
| by them has been returned to the public do
main
The body of Maggie Hennecke. who
| disappeared from Milwaukee, Wis, very mys-
| teriously in October last, was found in the
| river at that place the other day. Various
| theories are adduced as TO the sad affair, but
| nothing is known beyond the mere fact that
| the body has been found
Gen. Crook, whose headquarters are
| in Wilcox, Arizona, says the reports Of the
ravsges of the Indians have been greatly exag-
gerated by the press Of that territory in order
| TO provoke an attack on reservation Indians.
The decision rendered some time ago
| by an Iowa court that the prohibitory amend
ment was null and void, has been sustained by
| a supreme court decision
A heavy snow and wind storm, accom-
panied by thunder and lightning, prevailed
generally throughout Colorado the other day.
| 1t was most severe In mountain towns. Houses
were unroofed, miles of telegraph poles blown
| down, and there was a heavy fall OF snow
throughout the whole mountain region.
The Toronto Globe says no less than
$40, 900 Canadians have removed to the United
States within the last ten years, and that II c
province OF Ontario alone has lost 100, 900 from
the exodus within the last four years.
| The exports to the United States
from the ports of Toronto and Whitby for the
| past three months amounted to only $672, 501
as against nearly 81, 100000 for the same quar-
ter Of last year, falling off of about $500, 900