Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1883-07-26


Seven cities of Egypt report 275
deaths from cholera in one day, 14O of
this number being credited to Cairo.
Nine persons were killed ard several
others severely injured by an explosion
in powder mill at st. Petersburg, Rus
STA.
Mrs. Williams of Terre Haute, Ind,
shot and killed her unfaitbful husband,
having found him asleep in disreputa-
BILE house.
Mr.. Robert G.. Blaine, a brother of
Mr.. James e. Blaine, has been appoint
ed Curator of the Agricultural Depart
ment at Washington.
The London Times correspondent at
Paris says there is every appearance
that the differences between France and
England will be easily settled.
The head of Washington has been
adopted as the design on the new two
cent postage stamp, and the head of
Jackson for the new four cent stamp.
+. III. Carson, of East Rochester, N.
H., has accomplished the remarkable
feat of riding down Mount Washington
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one hour and so minutes
1t is stated that the reason England
objects 10 the annexation of New Gun
lea, is that the white colonists are sus-
pected of desiring to acquire colored
labor for the sugar industry.
Workmen digging in gravel pit near
Syracuse, N. Y, came upon the re-
mains of an extinct animal, fully Is feet
high, one tusk of which measured II
feet. Prof. Boynton, an eminent scien-
fist, is of the opinion that the animal
tiary age. and must have weighed fully
one-thrd more than Jumbo.
The receipts of the great Brooklyn
bridge have fallen from $4,000 to 3d.
500 a week, while the cost of maintain
ance is much greater than was estimat-
ed. Financially it is tremendous fail
ure, and should the numerous suits for
damages in the Decoration day panic
be decided against the bridge and au-
thorities, all pride in the structure, on
the part of the taxpayers ut least, will
have vanished.
News has just been received 10 the
effect that DR.. Shaw, who was acting
temporarily rs American consul at
Monterey, n. M, was beaten nearly to
death while sitting alone in his Office.
The furniture and papers belonging to
his Office were destroyed by the mob.
Citizens Of Laredo greatly deplore the
act of the Mexicans, as they fear it will
inevitably lead to rupture between
that government and the United States.
The body of a young man was found
in the Potomac river, about so miles be
low Washington, which was found to
be that of Henry w. Lord, Jr., son of
ex-congressman Lord. The young man
has held an important position in the
patent Office, but was discharged be-
cause of his dissipated habits. He left
a letter, in which he deplored the use
lessness of his life, and said that whis-
key was the cause of all his trouble.
George Mcmillan, the wife murderer,
was hanged at Canton, o, a few days
ago. The trap was sprung at 11:15.
and he died without a struggle, his neck
being broken. He was limp and
lachrymose on the scaffold, begging his
friends to pray fol- him and his murder
ed wife and children. He had an affect
ing interview with his four children
about an hour before the execution,
His last words were: THAT his last
moments are true; that he should die
innocent, sacrificed by his father and a
prostitute"
A general election occurs in Utah on
the 9th of August.
Hon. James Al. Priest Justice of the
supreme court of Liberia. is dead. He
was a native of Kentucky.
1t is seriously said that the new civil
service rules have nearly ruined the
boarding house business in Washington.
One hundred and twenty-three bodies
have been taxed from the sunken steam
er Daphne. Only one body is now
missing.
Wang Ching Fo, editor of the Chi
uees-American newspaper, has chal-
lenged Kearney, the California sand
lot" agitator, to fight duel. Kearney
declined.
Chas. Fisherman, an insane patient
at an Insane hospital in Rochester,
Mimi, escaped from his keeper, and
going to the boiler jumped into the fur
mace of glowing Goals
The death roll in Egypt for the "a
hours ending Saturday July 81, was as
follows: Damietta. z; Mansurah, %;
Chonbar, IA; Samanoud, ~; Chirbn, Al;
Ghizeh, 28,.and 600 at Cairo.