Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1883-07-12


saving the lives OF the inmates OF the asy lum. |
AS soon as the nre was discovered, the inmates |
OF toe insane department were released from |
their quarters. Some OF them fought violently, /
and number were badly burned. When or \
der was restored 1t was discovered that twelve |,
of the insane charges we're missing. and they /
are supposed to have persisted ia the flames.
The health officer ut the port of New |
York has ordered that all vessels coming from |
ports on the east coast OF the Mediterranean, |
be taken In quarantine, until q thorough ex-
animation has been made, and |, the cholera
should become epidemic In Europe as In Egypt, |
the same rules will apply To all vessels from
Europe. The health officer at New York feels
confident that with cur improved quarantine
system we have nothing to fear.
A street car in Chicago was run into
by an express train on the Wabash railroad,
and smashed into fragments The lamp In the
street car exploded and set fire to IL. Thirteen
persons were In the car, and Of this number
only one escaped uninjurcd. Three passengers
we're killed.
The convention between the United
States and Mexico providing that no troops Of
either country shall cross into the other In pur-
suit Of Indians has beer prorogued for one
year.
The Iowa state treasurer has paid the
last dollar OF the state award, In addition to
which the state has no other Indebtedness of
any character not covered by funds now In the
treasury.
Milwaukee, population has increased
about 10000 in the last year.
The record of dead and wounded con-
sequent upon the celebration of the Fourth in
Chicago, is IS casualties all told, including
three deaths, five fatally wounded, % more or
less manned for life, aud five slightly injured.
The chief instrument Of destruction proved to
be small cannon and toy pistol In the hands Of
children.
Sixty carloads of gold and silver bull
lion were recently sent from Helena, NJ. T., to
the Newark, N. j., refinery.
BY the explosion of boiler in a saw
mil, in Huntsville, Texas, four persons were
Instantly killed and eight seriously injured.
The celebration of the 4th at Wood
stock, Conn, under the management and pat
| ronage of Henry q. Bowen was notable for the
distinguished people who participated In the
| festivities. An address on National Aid to
Educatisn" was delivered by ex-President
Hayes, and another on "New England" by
| senator Aldrich, and still others, on temper
ance topics, by Senator Blair and John b.
| Cough Clarence Bowen read poem on "Our
Country" written for the occasion by John
| Greenleaf Whittier, and the Rev. l.. W. Bacon
also read an original contribution in verse
form.
/ Hc atloi ucN Scucltl has SlNcu Ill
/ opinion to the secretary of the treasury that
the expectation of bonded whisky To Bermuda
with view TO its re-importation for the pur-
pose OF evadlng or delaying payment of tax is
not an expectation within the meaning OF the
| law. The attorney general holds, however,
| that the tax due upon spirits at the time OF
expectation is collectable upon its return to thk
country.
| Gen. Crook, whose exploits in Ari-
iona and Mexico have been so much comment
cd upon, has reached Washington.
Archbishop Purcell, one of the most
prominent Catholics in this county, died at
ST. Martins convent in Brown county, Ohio,
IN the 4th inst On the same day, Bishop
Pinkcy OF the Episcopal church, died a.
Cookeysvlile, Baltimore county, Md. In the
evening of the same day, Bishop John McCul-
len, of the Catholic diocese of Davenport,
Iowa, died in that city after lingering illness.
| Three notable lives are thus ended.
state prison convcts ut Salem, Ore.
made a desperate attack on the officers in an
attempt To escape. Three were killed aud two
souuded. Eight are at large No officers
| were wounded
Chief Moses of the Nez Perces Indians
agrees TO surrender his reservation in Wash
| ngtOn territory aud settle on the reservation
| All joining. By this action OF the chief IT. is ex
pected that 900 900 acres Of land will be thrown
| open lOr stitItHlcuI.
Three hundred striking miners all
armed, thr a ened to destro, the town OF Ely
| Vermont. Coy Barston ordered out the mil
| tia, himself at the head. But In order &c
| avoid further trouble the governor also tele
graphed the tr asurer Of the mining com pany
that they must be prepared 10 pay the men al
once
Ex-paymaster WATSON has been taken
to the prnitcn,iary at Lansing, Kansas, to serve
cut his Is months sentence. He desired tc
| publish a statement before he entered tho
prison, but the privilege was denied him
| Among the recent interesting com.
mercial events is a consignment Of apples re
ccived at San Francisco from New.Zealand. In
that country apples ripen In March and April
and ere long we may become exporters Of apples
In the fall and winter, only 10 import them IN
our turn from The antipodes In the spring ant
early summer.
Only $50 miles of the Rocky Noun
tain section of the Northern Pacific remain u
be completed and IL is fully expect 81 tha
through trains will be running from the Pacif,
coast by September According to the Victoris
| Colonst the steamers running between Sar
Francisco, Portland, Victoria, and Puge
sound, and In the Alaskan trade, all serve a
feeders of the Northern Pacific. The owner
are bending all their energies 10 drawing al
much as possible OF the British Columbia trad,
| over their road, and, according 20 the Colouist
the Victoria merchants, as sensible men, "woult
Just as soon give their Eastern freight TO til,
Northern Pacific as to the Canadian Pacific,
II they are literally treated
The prelmnaries toward improving
Yellowstone Park have been arranged.
The state almshouse at Bridgewater
Mass, burned few Gays Ego. The build
lngs covered about al acre OF ground and hat
$50 to 2U inmates, all OF whom escaped un
harmed.
A short time ago there was reported
as on foot a movement for the reorganization
OF the knights OF labor or the establishment II
place OF such order Of federation of trades
each independent OF the other, and 10 10 nov
stated that this movement is gaining strength
Secretary Martin says the amalgamated asso
citation of iron and steel workers, which Is tn,
strongest trades union in the country, has beer
for five years past In favor ola federation o.
trades. The iron molders' union of NORTH
America has also declared in favor Of the new
movement, aud the Labor Tribune, which ia th,
organ OF 'he ironworkers, gassworkers, min
ers. and other trades, said In recent issu,
that the management OF strikes was never in
tended By the organizers of the knights Of
labor, and that the machinery OF the order has
been found defective In this respect A cal
for national convention will probably be Is
sued shortly.
The iron works at Bethlehem, Pa,
have shut down, and over 5000 men ar,
thrown on: Of employment.
Tewksbury investigation still on the
boards, and still Butler Is troubled.
BY the giving way of one of the wire
guy ropes on a powerful derrick on Walker,
stone quarry at Joliet, I'll the derrick wa,
precipitated upon number of workmen. Mat,
Rogers and John Bloomquest were instantly
killed and seven others seriously injured.
| Mile. Litta, the well-known concert