Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1884-03-13
THE CREAM OF THE NEWS.

The boiler Of a saw mill In Wilkesbarre, Pa,
exploded on the I'd inst. instantly killing three
men.
The British government will not recall the
troops In Egypt, reports to the contrary not
withstandipg.
Postmaster General Gresham says he can
not possibly appoint MISS Lizzie Mutt postmis-
tress at Unontown, Pa.
Explosion of saw mill boilers at Bear Creek,
Pa, killed three men.
The kuklux case in the supreme court has
been decided against the petitioners for ha-
beas corpus, and the kukluxers " Ill remain In
jail
The franchise bill has passed the nrst real
ing in the British House Of Comm ons.
Fl Mahdi went into ecstasies over his ap-
pointment by Gen. Gordon as sultan Of Kardo-
fan.
The long pending legal tender suit In the
United States supreme court has at last reach
cd decision. the court holding that the &C,
OF May 81, 1878, Is constitutional and valid, and
that the court below rightly held that tender
in treasury notes reissued and kept in circula-
ton under that act was tender of lawful
money In payment OF the defendants debt TO
plaintiff
The House committee on invalid pensions
favor granting Mrs. Frank p Blair $1,000 and
pension OF $50 per month for ner husbands
SERVICES uurinB the war.
The verdict Of the inspectors In regard TO the
wreck OF the City Of Columbus, condemns the
management OF the vessel, and delares the d.
rect cause Of the disastar to be the neglect Of
the person or persons In charge OF the ships
curse at the time.
The Kennedy strict prohibitory law has
passed both branches of the Iowa legislature
The gevernor signed the bill the day following
Its passage by the Senate.
Pubic debt, March /, less cash In treasury,
81, 4S3, sol, 1888.
Six persons accused Of selling pistols to the
boys OF the Thaddeus Stevens public school of
Philadelphia have been held for trial.
The governor Of Massowah. Egypt, 10 a
Maryland man.
Bradlaueh has written Northcote, character
laugh's) expulsion from the commons, a.
'.meau, .spiteful and unworthy an English gen.
tleman."
Funeral services of Minister Hunt were held
in St. Petersburg on the 4th. Arrangements
are being made for the removal Of the remains
to this country. In the meantime they rest In
vault in st. Petersburg.
The New Y ark Republican state convention
will meet at Utica April 80.
The bill prohibiting convict labor contracts
in New FORK has been signed by the governor.
A resolution protesting against excessive
coinage Of silver money and the use Of silver
certificates has been passed by the Boston board
of trade.
The fenians having learned that France
assisting England TO discover the dynamite
conspirators, are about to remove their head
quarters from Paris to Geneva
Parnell IL actively promoting d company TO
further migration from the congested districts
of Ireland. The government will introduce In
the commons . motion to amend the purchase
clauses OF the land act.
number of chiefs OF Soudan tribes Offer TO
fight with the English for money.
Two members Of the jury which acquitted
Dukes, the Uniontown murderer, have begun
suits for the criminal libel against the Republi-
cans Standard Of that place.
Aspecial fest train Is now run between New
York and Chicago. 10 makes the distance in
"a hours.
Kenneth Ra, nor, solicitor of the treasury Is
dead.
spureson, the preacher, has fallen heir 10
large fortuna.
Ex.Postmaster General James has new
theory OF the Garfield assassination. He testi
hed before House committee that
bad not President Garfield taken the stand he
did against the star reuters, he never would
have been shot.
Two batteries consisting Of four boilers az
ploded at Rising Fawn furnace, Chattanooga,
Tenn, the other morning, from want Of water,
killing one man, iniurinx Q seoond man and
Wrecking the whole building.
The San Francisco manufacturers have lock.
ID out 9, 800 cigar makers. They propose to
3,500 whites FROM New York. The
Chinese packers struck on learning that their
countrymen were locked out,
Petroleum In paying quantitie, has been
Iound at Vinton, Iowa. Great excitement pre-
vaila.
Parnell's amendment to the Irish land act
vas rejected.
The remains OF Jerome Collins. Of the III |
lated Jeanette. have reached ireland, and |
we're buried at Cork on the 9th inst.
One thousand rebels on the way TO Khartoum
we're attacked by tribes friendly 10 Gen. Cor |
Ion, and defeated.
Vanderbilt has never yet seen Brooklyn |
fridge.
Charles II. Rueg, the negro charged with 90 /
many OF the crimes committed on Long Island. |
stands indicted for three crimes: the double /
haybee murder and the Townsend and sprague /
assaults.
A sneak entered the Office OF the CHICAGO.
Burlington a Quincy railroad company during
he temporary absence Of the clerk, and alb |
tracted from the safe $4,000 In cash.