Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1883-05-24
GENERAL ITEMS.

terrlDle STORM passed over south
western Missouri on the night of May IL. At
Kansas City fifty buildings were blown down
and 200 badly damaged. Three persons were
killed and IL injured. The loss TO property in
that city is estimated at $300,0O The. title
town OF Orongo, Mo-, was almost entirely de-
stroyed, and six lives lost, while 80 persons
were injured. At Mason City five persons
were killed Great damage was done at other
points. Telegraph wires were blown down,
and railroad tracks so covered with fallen tim
bers as to seriously hinder communication.
The wife of the Rev. +. l.. Stoddard,
rector of st. Johns Episcopal church, Jersey
City, was shot and killed few days ago. Mrs.
Stoddard was busting the shelves of one of the
closets. On one of the shelves lay pistol.
She brushed the weapon off. The trigger
struck the shelf below, the weapon was ex-
plodcd, and the ball striking her In the side of
the head crashed through the skull and lodged
In the brain.
The Sunday liquor law of Pennsyl-
vanla went into effect on Sunday the 18th inst.
or 80 saloons In Wilkesbarre, not one was to
be found open. All law abiding citizens are
greatly elated over the success OF what was at
first thought TO be impossible.
The iron steamship Mississippi was
burned at Seattle, w. T., recently. The chief
engineer was burned to death, and several
others were killed by bunker timbers falling
upon them. The vessel Is total loss. Dur
lux sht VOL VIZ %"iooicbiPPi Woo uoCh no ~
blockade runner.
A land slide near Sioux City, Iowa,
cngulfed 600 feet OF railroad track, and huge
bluff overlooking the track sank down causing
an impossible barrier. Three or four acres OF
land are affected.
A silver deposit has been discovered
I'm western Texas. The surface groupings of
horn silver are said to be the richest on the
continent.
The supreme court of Missouri has de-
cidcd that school funds can only be expended
Jor the purpose OF educating children between
the ages of six and twenty years. This decis-
ion is the result of an appeal from prominent
citizens of St Louis TO restrain the school
board OF that city from sustaining kinder
gartens. This decision will abolish the
kindergarten there, unless carried on by
private subscription. The decision further
states that the court cannot designate
what studies shall be persued In public
may deem wise In the matter of foreign Ian.
gusges, and In what are called the "ornamen-
tal'' branches.
Rev. Mr.. Walker, a Presbyterian
clergyman of Binbrook, Ont, has been making
strong statements disparaging Canada's climate
and country as a field for Immigration. For
this disloyalty he was called before the Presby-
terry and his statements denounced as untrue
And now the reverend gentleman will appeal 10
the Synod.
The Ten Eyck mansion on the White
hall road near Albany, N. T., was burned a
few days ago. The house was built I'm 1713 by
Gen. Bradstreet, and during the Revolutionary
war was the headquarters Of tories.
The house of John Pawson al Brace
BRIDGE Ont, has burned. Pawson I'm attempt
ing TO save his children burned 10 death also
a son aged 10.
A special session of the Choctaw In
dian council met at Armstrong academy, the
capital of the nation recently, having been
called by the principal Chief McCarlin to con-
slider the freedman question. BY the treaty of
1866 between the federal government and con-
federated Indians. the Choctaws and Chicka-
saws agreed 10 emaDcipate and give the usual
rights 10 coloied people IN their dominion in
two years, for which the United States was to
give them $500, 900. and IL they failed 10 adopt
them In that time the money was 10 be used to
remove and settle the darkies elsewhere. The
Choctaws failed to adopt them and the gov
eminent TO move them, and they have been
there eyer since, without either citizenship,
rights or title to the land they work. The
Choctaws now desire 10 adopt them, and It Is
for this purpose the council was called.
ID. M Rindan, agent in charge of Ma
vago Indian Agency In Arizona, says that over
300 persons are held I'm slavedy by this tribe.
some Of whom are war captivcs, while 9TH
ers are the result OF trades or purchases. The
descendants OF these slavas are also held In
bondage. The agent has applied to the CON-