Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1883-06-28
GENERAL ITEMS.

James w. Sheanan, one of the abfes,
| journalist In this country is dead. He was fol
long time the leading editorial writer on the
Chicago Tribune.
Major Nickerson, the army official
who had more wives than the law allows has
been seen in st. Louis. He is believed to be
headed for the Pacific Coast.
A terrific hurricane passed over
Chatham, Ont, the other day, carrying away
the railway bridge over the Thames river, and
doing great damage to trees and growing
crops. Several persons were seriously injur-
| ed.
Ten different suits have been COM
menced in behalf Oh those who sustained losses
by the Brooklyn bridge calamity. The dam.
ages foot up to 100000. The cities of New
York and Brooklyn and the bridge trustees
are the defendants in these suits.
Captain Howgate was recently seen
in New Orleans cleverly disguised in dyed fiery
red hair and eyebrows, aud an artifcially
freckled face. A government officer Is reported
to have been In pursuit OF him, but OF course
did not catch him; railroad accident" con-
venient and lucky for Howgate at any rate, de-
tanning the official until Howgate sailed for
Cuba. The account adds that he has already
returned to this country. The probabilities
are that he has never left 1t, and that any al
ministration DESTROYS of getting hold of him
would have very little trouble in so doing.
In the month of May there arrived in
the custom districts of Baltimore, Boston, De-
troit, Huron, Minnesota, New Orleans, New
York, Passamsquoddy, Philadelphia and San
Francisco, ITO, 14S passengers Of whom 99,60l
were immigrants. or this total number o
immigrants, there arrived from England and
Wales ID 443 Ireland, is, 1863; Scotland, 1888 ;
Austria, 1,66S; Belgium, 1913; Bohemia, L404 (;
Denmark, l, 743; France, ASS ;Gernany, 20, 7s7 /;
Hungary, $50; Italy, 1876; Netherlands, l.
06s; Norway, 4.S9S' Russia, 1882; Poland, 1873 (;
Sweden, 6,S01 Switzerland, 1850; Dominion
OF Canada, Q, 1922; and from all other countries,
no. The total number of immigrants arrived
in the customs districts named from the princi-
pal foreign countries In the eleven months
ended May 81, 1888, was 1890, as against
1886 for the corresponding period OF the pre-
ceding year.
Twenty-one skulls or portions of
skulls of infants have been found buried In
the cellar of the house occupied by
"Dr.n Hathaway, an alleged
abortionist of Philadelphia.
Advices from Western Missouri and
Kansas state that the heavy rains have raised
nearly all the rivers and the indications point
TO unusually high water in the Missouri River.
The town OF Corning forty miles north OF st.
Joseph, on the Kansas City, st. Joseph and
Council Bluffs Railroad, and also on the Mis-
souri, River, is inundated and several houses
have been swept away. About four miles of
the railroad Is under water. AL the railroads
In Western and Central Missouri, with the ex-
ceptiou of the Missouri Pacific, are badly
washed out and trains are abandoned. II looks
rs though serious trouble, not only to the rail
roads, but to all the river towns and bottom
land farms, is 10 result from the present threat
ening condition Of the rivers.
Chicago's contribution 10 the Parnell
fund has already reached nearly $1,000.
A decree of the court has granted
Mrs. Frances Maria Scoville, sister Of the late