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


jured over 20 Others The slide is the most dis
astrous ever known In the Rocky Mountain
region.
A dispatch dated New York, Feb. /,
$3.50 a. m., says that heavy fire is raging at
the docks In the vicinity of Canal street Docks
and shipping arc all ablaze. Spars OF ships
bear the blaze from one vessel To another, and
all property has been abandoned to the flames.
Explosions are very frequent, making the
work Of the fremen difficult. The loss viii be
very heavy, reaching up into the millions.
The inquest in the Milwaukee disas-
ter has been completed.
The Senatorial deadlock in Minne-
sofa has been broken, by the election Of ID. M.
Sabin, on the 10Th ballot /.
A reduction of $4,000, S83. 90 was
made In the public debt during the month OF
January. Since June 1882 the debt has do
creased sos, or, 667.00
Another name has been added to the
list of defaultng state treasurers This time
II is w. w. Wood, the gentleman who has
charge OF the cash in Tennessee. The amount
Of his shortage" is net known.
There is trouble in the military aca-
deny at Annapolis. Secretary of Chandler has
been appealed TO, and expresses 1t as his opin-
ion that all disturbances and characterization
will subside If the superintendent is allowed to
work without interference on the part OF par
ents, and friends OF the refractory cadets The
nature Of the trouble has not yet been made
plain, but SO far as understood, the secretary
is In entire sympathy with The superintendents
course even II by IL 40 or 80 OF the students are
expelled
Another blizzard is tearing through
the west The suffering among stock on near
! ly all the ranches is terrible. The streams are
nearly all frozen, and stock suffer for water.
The loss Of stock will be heavy, large number
| having been frozen.
Pilot Long, the pilot of the steamer
| Tomas, when she ran into and sank the excur-
| sion steamer Scioto on the Ohio river In July
last, has been exonerated from all blame, and
his license restored to him. His license was re-
voked by the district inspector because OF sup
posed negligence, but the board of supervising
| inspectors of steamboats, have been considering
| the matter, and on Feb. rendered a decision
| as announced.
Five thousand dollars reward is offer
ed for the return Of Alabama's defaulting 'reas-
| urer.
| In the family of Christian X. Ross,
the missing Charlie is always spoken Of as liv-
ing, and will be regarded by them as alive I'M
I'll his death lie positively known.
Kansas rolling mill, near Kansas
| City, Mo, closed on the I'd inst The suspen-
| sion is due to the depression In the iron trade,
and also to the failure of the similar concern In
Chicago.
A dispatch dated Portland, Ore,
| Feb. 2, says that the steamer Tacoma, a collier
of the Central Pacific company, went ashore on
/ the 29th ult. four miles north OF the Umpqua
| river on the coast of Oregon Part of the crew
were rescued, and five bodies of the lost have
already been recovered.
Saturday, Feb. 3, was a most extra
ordinary day as regards the weather. In fact,
| the memory of the ''oldest inhabitant" goeth
| not back TO the time when the world was so
| heavily weighed down beneath tons OF ice.
| Never, perhaps, was storm more widespread.
| The entire Northwest suffers under great stress
of weather. Telegraphic communications ev
| erywhere are seriously interrupted, the wires
being SO encrusted and weighed with fee. The
| trains on all roads, not only throughout the
| west and north, but In Michigan as WELL were
| many hours late, and III some cases all attempt"
| to get through were abandoned. In Toledo
great fear is manifest over apprehensions Of a
| repetition OF the floods of 1881. At the latter
place 1t had been raining steadily for "a hours,
| melting the previous fall Of snow. The river
rose rapidly, and merchants were busy remov-
ing goods from the depots.