Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1883-08-02


lamentable statements received daily |
from Egypt show the ncapacity OF the |
native Government to grapple with tie |
epidemic. There are pressing demands |
for the English foreibly to take the adj |
ministration into their own hands. |
There are serious quarrels between the
English and the Egyptian officials.
The rolling mills in South Chicago
are still shut down. and 1000 men are
idle.
New Orleans is be5tirring itself to
prevent the introduction of yellow
fever.
The New York striking dress and
cloak. makers return to work at 20 per
cent. increase.
The reunion OF the Grand Army OF
the Republic, held at Denver, recently,
was an immense success.
Cetewayo's reported defeat in the
field is confirmed. but the safety of his
precious person is assured.
The rolling mills in South Chicago
remain idle and the demands of the
1000 striking employees are unsatisfied.
st Louis, Mo-, has water famine.
that fluid being SO scarce that the mayor
has forbidden the sprinkling OF streets.
1t is reported that Japan has declined
the proposition to enter into an alliance
with France in order to oppose China.
A LOSS of $500, 1000 was caused by fire
in the business quarter of Memphis,
Tenn, the other day.
Dauphin of the Louisiana lottery
scheme has sued the postmaster general
for 100000 damages for refusing the
lottery the privileges of the mails.
Cholera has broken out among the
British troops stationed at Suez. In
the "a hours ending July "a, 800 deaths
are reported from the various cities and
villages.
Charges affecting the official integ-
rty and moral character of Collector
Finnell of the Covipgton, Ky, Internal
revenue district have been disproved,
but certain of his subordinates have
been found guilty of cxacting exorbi-
tant fees without the collectors knowl.
edge.
Capt. Webb, the daring and fool
hardy Englishman who came to this
country to swim the Niagara river
whirlpool rapids and perform other
equally hazardous feats, made the at
tempt to swim the rapids the other day,
and was drowned. His body cannot be
found.
They have summary way of dealing
with wife-beaters out in Dakota. In
the Turtle mountain region the other
day, party of men threw man, who
had beaten his wife, into the river,
fished him out and then soused him into
ice water until he promised never to
strike his wife again.
The Zulu chief Cetewayo, is dead
Deaths July % in the plague-smitten
cities of Egypt, 81.
Five thousand alligator hides were re-
Gently shipped from Orange, Texas.
One of Barnum's performing cle-
plants died in Hamilton, Ont the 9TH
er day.
Chicago has made an appropriation
of $40, 900 to improve its sanitary con-
dtion.
a German syndicate wishes To pur-
chase 100, 900 acres of land in Tennes.
see and Kentucky.
Henry l.. Kendall of Providence, II.
l., bequeathcd 100000 for public Ii.
brary for that city
Seven persons We're seriously injured
. in railroad accident at Schenectady
n. Y, the other day.
Mancelona claimes the largest broom.
handle factory in the world. 1t turns
out 100000 annually.
, Denied that there is cholera in Lon
don. A physician has been appointed
to inspect all vessels going TO America
The French Chamber of Deputies i:
, discussing the feasibility of sending 9
commission to Egypt to investigate the
cholera epidemic.
IL is stated that Ex-congressman Will
Its sent through the Monroe post office
one day recently, seven 400-pound sack.
of books and pamphlets. One day hs
, sent % sacks of matter.
, The Jersey City aldermen have pass
: ed an ordinance prohibiting the sale tc
; persons under the age of 16. of any ale
cider. beer or spirituous liquors OF
mixed liquors part of which is intoxi
eating.
. A boat containing eight men and two
: young girls, all colored, who were
crossing the James River at Claremont
/ Virginia, TO attend prayer meeting al
: Sandy Point, upset and eight of the
party were drowned.
Troy Gentry, a colored man living
, near Boone, N. G., became cnraged al
his little boy because of disobedience
: and deliberately hanged the little one
, To q rafter in the barn. The inhuman
father fled TO Tennessee.
, General Ord, who had faced death in
many battles only to he cut down by
yellow fever at last. had soldierly blood
in his veins, his father having served as
an officer in the war of 1912. He had
I been almost bali century in the ser.
vice of his country.
Richard O'Connor, n private watch
, man, in Chicago shot and MORALLY
J wounded Myer Franks. 13 years old,
} and gave as an excuse that the boy was
in too close proximity to railroad car
|. containing watermellons. The watch
man is under arrest.
At the state convention of Virginia
Democrats held in Lynchburg the other
day, the question of mixed schools was
holly discussed, the convention oppos-
ng the system. believing it to be for
the best interest of both the whites and
blacks that the two races be educated
separately.
A three year-old son of John