Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1883-01-25
GENE RAJ ITEMS.

The latest advices from Alaska state
that quiet and good order prevails throughout
the territory.
The western pig iron association at
Pittsburg, adopted resolution against any re-
duction on iron and steel below the rates pro-
posed by the tariff commission, and have re-
qucsted Mr.. Sherman to present TO congress a
remonstrance to that effect.
The latest from the Milwaukee horror:
Nincty-6ve are known to be saved, % dead have
been identified, 10 are beyond Identification and
| il is believed there are 43 bodies yet in the
ruins, making the total loss Of life So. The
work of removing the debris is being pushed as
rapidly as possible.
Col. Greenbury l.. Font, ex-member
of congress died at Lacon, H., recently.
The failure of I. f. Hooker, whole
sale dealer in cigars, Chicago, he t, says is due
| to delay OF congress in acting on the revenue
| bill and to passage of the prohibitory liquor
| law in Iowa, where he had large trade with
| saloon keepers.
Fire broke out on Sunday morning
| the 18th inst, in the kitchen Of the Planters
| House at st. Louis, Mo-, and soon extended to
| the store room and servants quarters. The
| fire spread so rapidly that four persons lost
| their lives. The widest confusion prevailed
when the alarm was sounded. The guests re-
| Numbering the Milwaukee horror, and that
| perhaps the narrowing details of that scene
were to be repeated, escaped in their night
clothes. The flremen were promptly on hand,
| andby the most vigorous efforts the fire was
| soon under control. Loss to hotel about $780,
| 600. The four bodies have been taken from
| the ruins.
Jay Gould has given $500 to the Mil
| waukee relief fund.
The carelessness of q switchman at
| Chicago caused a collision by which seven en-
ployes were terribly injured
The Ohio supreme court has decided
| that the reinsurance reserve fund of fire COM
panies must be listed for taxation.
| Mrs. Emma Stillwell, the woman who
| confessed the murder of so many of her rcla-
| tivcs, died at Mt Vernon, Ohio, on the 10Th.
To the last she maintained the truth of her con-
| fession.
The Tweddle hall block of Albany,
n: T., including the opera house, county bank,
retail stores and officers, was totally DESTROYED
by fire on the 10th inst. The total loss is esti-
mated at 700; insurance about $4,000.
| Geo. Scheller, proprietor of tho New
hall house bar, was arrested at noon on the
| 10th on warrant sworn out by Officer
Hannifin, charging him with setting the fire
which destroyed the Newhall house on Wednes
day morning The arrest was made bv Lieut..
| Janson and Officer Hannifn in Roths 'quiet
house," corner OF Mason street and Broadway.
| Scheller did not seem very much surprised aud
made no statement. He looked pretty badly
broken up. He has been drinking heavily
since the fire, and his face shows the effects Of
| the spree. The prisoner was locked up on
| charge of 'arson," and was Immediately trans
| ferred to the county Jail, where he was locked
| up In an upper CELL He did not speak 10 the
jailer. The officers are very roticent about the
| details of the arrest 1t Is reported that Sche-
Ter was arrested principally on the statement
| q lIuclun CmDlOyp I'm
| they saw Schellcr In the wood-room, where
| Linehan says the fire originated, and that he
was there after O'clock a. M. Application
was made at the sheriff's Office for an oppor-
| tunity to talk with the prisoner which was re-
| fused. District Attorney Clark also refused TO
| let anyone see Scheller, his excuse being that
| he Is afraid an attempt will be made to lynch
] him.
Scheller, who has been arrested on
| suspicion of setting IRE to the Newhall house,
| he's been taken from Milwaukee to prevent pos
| sible lynching.
In the case of Engineer Melville for
the custody Of his children, the two younger
children have been given into the custody of
their mother, and the eldest child into the Gus
tody Of her father.
DIR. s. A. Mudd, who dressed the
broken leg of Wilkes Booth after the assassina-
ton of President Lincoln, died at Bryantown,
s. O., recently. He was sentenced to hard
labor for life for harboring the assassin, and
was sent to the Dry Tortugas. For his SER
vices during yellow fever epidemic there he
was pardoned by President johnson. year
| ago he presented claim to congress for his
| services at the Dry Tortugas, but II was not
allowed.
The 101st anniversary of Webster's
birthday was celebrated at Boston on the 18th
| inst
The remains of belong and comrades
of the Inflated Jeanette are to be forward
ed by way OF Irkutsk.
A steamboat explosion in Washington