Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1883-09-20
THE NEWS.
DOMESTIC.


great harm.
BY a collision on the Western Mary
land railroad between locomotive and
Washington express train near Balti.
more, fiagman on one of the engines
was killed and both of the engineers
were terribly scalded. None of the OK
cursionists was hurt.
The Wells. Fargo express company
is enjoincd from esta blishing agencies
in Washington, Idaho and Montana
territories.
The last spike was driven in the
Northern Pacific railroad on the 9Th
inst The formal ceremonies of the OPEN
ing were held at Gold Spike, Montana,
In the presence OF a great multitude.
Speeches by President Willard, Hon.
VIM, M. Evarts, and others, and the
firing of cannon completed the pro
gramme.
Dissatisfied Democrats of Cincinnati
met III convention to protest against the
corruption and fraud in the recent party
convention of Hamilton county. They
emphasized their protest by nominating
a new ticket.
Horace Greely's farm ut Chappaqua,
N. Y. was sold at auction the other day.
His youngest daughter bid in the prop
erty for $4,000
Scandalous charges of adultery and
dishonesty are made against Ex-senator
Sharon. The charges are preferred by
Miss Aggic Hill, society lady of San
Francisco.
Exports of domestic breadstuffs for
the seven months ended July 81, $95,
32S,532, against $81, 324,57S the same
time last year.
A disease has broken out among the
swine of Springfield, town of Jamaica,
l.. L., believed to be hog cholera. Many
farmers have hogs sick with the disease
Two of them lost Is in one night.
Postal notes are not looked upon with
favor in Chicago.
| 1t has been claimed that the commits
| sion which male a treaty with the
Sioux Indians obtained the cession of
100000 acres of land for %, 900 COWS
and 1000 bulls, or about three fourths
of cent per acre; and it has been as
serted that the signatures of mere chill
dren had been obtained to the docu-
ment. The conmitte appointed by the
Dakota constitutional convention are
making vigorous effert to secure the
opening of this reservation.
a Kingston Ont, dispatch says: The
exports to the United States have fallen
off since the new United States tariff
came into force. There are now no
shipments of malt and shellac varnish'
and only little iron-ore compared with
the trade of last year.
Senator Voorhees,, of Indiana, is SEN
Tor counsel for James Mutt in his ap-
preaching trial for the murder of N. l..
Dukes.
Col. David p. Holloway. n prominent
patent attorney of Washington, is dead
Employees of the Bethlehem (Pa. iron
company who refused to return to work
after the strike sued for their full
wages due, claiming that under the law
no deduction can be made under the
company's truck system. The EN-.
ployes gained the day and other suit:
amounting in all To $4,000, are TO b,
commenced.
A navy named John Sloan, who at
tempted suicide a. ST. Thomas. Ont, b,
throwing himself before q moving ex
press train. was knocked clear off tn,
rails and his legs and arms badly injur
cd. Sloan had been on a spree.
!, The Cherokee Indians are making
preparations for fair to be held a
Vinton. Cherokee Nation, on the 2Stl
fered in premiums.
Careful and learned lawyer that h,
was, Judge Black is said to have left {
will which probably cannot be executed
and such rs he would never have drawn
up for client. In this he followed tn,
example of three English chancellors
each of whom left an illegal will.
The body of Rose Amber Clark, 81
nlysteriously murdered near Bridge
port, Conn, n few days ago, was buried
on the 9th inst. No clue yet to tn,
murderer.
The entire south end of the Highland
mine slope hear Deadwood. Oak. fell OF
the 9th inst, imprisoning Powers John
son and Moser. miners. johnson blasted
his way out with giant powder will
great difficulty. The others were
crushed to death.
The runaway section of a freight trair
dashed into the new Cass college build
ing in course of erection ut East Cleve.
land, recently, and damaged the walls
$4,000 worth.
| The missing girl, Mary Churchill Of
st. Louis, has been heard from rs In the
hands of her abductors at Chihuahua,
Mexico, where her ransom can be ar.
ranged for by those interested.
The other night j. M. Underwood
waylaid and shot Robert j. Pendergrass,
q well known planter of Fall county,
Ark, being instigated thereto by Mrs.
Pendergrass whose affections lie had
won while boarding in the family.
Signals are up in New York giving
warning of terrible hurricane now on
its way from the West indies.
The farmers Review of Chicago, hav-
ing under consideration the states OF
Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa, Illinois
and Indiana, as well rs Michigan. puts
the damage to the corn crop by reason
of recent frosts at 20 per cent. of the
yield estimated before the visitation.
No definite estimate is made of the in
jury to minor crops.
At Cairo, ILL.,, fury in the person of
a woman scorned put poison in the cof-
fee of family, one of whose members
had refused to marry her. One of the
family having died suddenly and others
being very ill, the woman, one Kate
Cotton, was arrested and poisoned her
self in Jail.
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