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Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1884-10-23
Fire at Montague.

Fire broke out In Miss Gibbons millinery
store In Montague at about IL o'clock on the
night OF Oct. II, and although two excellent
steam fire engines and hand machines were
promptly on hand four large brick blocks
with their contents, merchandise, ETC., were
destroyed. Below is given a very nearly COM
plete list Of the losses and the assurances:
L. q. Ripley, druggist, total loss on stock,
$4,000; fully insured. Loss on buildings,
$2O,O 900; insurance, $4,000.
Burrows and Jones, grocers and proprietors
opera house, loss on stock and buildings, $780,
900; insurance 1900.
j. +. Kelly, general store, goods damaged
5000; fully insured.
q. D; Dowling, building, total loss, $1,000;
Frank Bracelin, Lumbermau printing Office
and law office, total loss $500; insurance,
$4,000.
DIR. Kenyon, library and household goods,
loss, $4,000; insured.
DR.. Switzer, loss, 81, 900; insurance, $500
W. ID. Kicaby, jeweler, loss $500; fully in
J. K. Conley, ladies' furnishing good, loss
$2,CG0; insurance $1,000.
Miss Gibbons, millinery, loss g, 900; insured.
W.. e. Ma Marshal photographer, loss $500; in-
ID. DIT. Hollis, dentist, loss $500; insurance
Township Library, loss, $500; insurance,
.. M. popple, personal objects, loss, 5000; in
surance 5000.
Postofnce, loss, 500; insured.
Thos; Phelan, slothipg damage about 81, 200;
W. +. Frany, barber and heushoold goods,
total loss insurance not known.
E. L. Dodge, personal goods, loss $500; In
sured, 5000.
Wilbur Davis, personal effects, loss $500;
insured, $500.
Geo. W. Beck, household goods, $500; total
loss, no insurance.
Geo. NJ. Duran, musical Instruments and
Insurance agency. Loss not known.
The total aggregate loss is $4,000
The fire is supposed to be the work of an
incendiary, as several attempts have lately
been made to burn various buildings in town.
l.. g. Ripley will rebuild his fine blocks i'm
mediately. This is the second time In three
months that Frank BracelIn OF the Lumber
man has been burned out.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1884-10-23
A Pioneer Gone.

Capt. b. +. Owen of Marine City
departed this life Saturday, Oct, IL, of
peritonitis. He lad been i'll but few
days, and of late enjoyed good health
seemingly. Capt. Owen was born a.
Greenfield, Saratoga county, n. T.,
Aug. II, 1911. He came to Marine
City (then Newport) in 1914 to live
and has since resided there. He fol-
lowed the lakes from 1927 to 1856, COM
mencing in the capacity of cook on a
small schooner Uf so tons burthen and
ending as captain and engineer of
Wards line of steamers.
AS far back as 1885 an historical
"Reminiscences says that Capt. Is. r.
Owen was master and the late
Z. b. Ward mate of the schooner
Harrison, which traded between
Chicago, Green Bay, Detroit and
Buffalo. After he gave up this occupa-
ton he settled down in Marine City,
where he had no business except the
management of large farm near at
hand. He subsequently engaged in the
lake marine business, being one of the
organizers and a large stakeholder in
the Escanaba and Lake Michigan Trans
portation company, of which he was
secretary at the time of his death. His
associates in this company were his
brothers, Il. G.. Owen of Detroit and
Ira ii. Owen of Chicago. Capt. Owen
had realized well from vessel interests
and was said to be wealthy. His home
is the finest in the village.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1884-10-23
Three Thousand slain.

Gen.. DeLisle telegraphs from Chu, on the
Upper Loo Chuau river, under date of Monday,
Oct .12 as follows: "Col. Donnier, after bril-
liant engagement Friday, carried the nights
commanding Fortress Chu. forming the points
d'appui Of q large entrenched Chinese camp,
which was defended by five casemated forts.
The Chinese forces were very large. Their
losses during the engagement were Heavy. On
Saturday they attempted to assume the often
sive, but our artillery strewed the ground
with Chinese bodies. After losing all their
positions the Chinese fed towards Langson,
hating near Peeetonong and Kharch. The
French loss was 20 killed, one office; and 80
wounded. Two officers were wounded. Our
troops were animated with the greatest order
The Chinese engaged were part Of the beat
troops OF the empire, perfectly armed, and
Unanswered in European style. Chinese losses,
1000 killed, including the comm 2nder In chief
The Chinese invasion of Tonquin has been al
rested in the direction Of Langdon."
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1884-10-23
Our Coin Circulation.

The director OF the mint estimates the
amount OF gold and silver coin in the United
States Oct |, at $S15,000,0O0 OF this, $685..
0OO,0 eco is gold, SlS2 100000 standard silver
dollars, and S15,0O0,000 subsidiary silver-a
gain from Oct /, 1883, Of s35, 0O0, 0OO s13 000,-
addition to coin In circulation Oct. l, the mints
and assay Offices held bullion for coinage
amounting to gold $53, DOC, 900, silver s5,OO0,-
900, making the total amount of U. 8. coin
and bullion available for coinage in the coun.
try Oct. 1, $S73,000,000, of which $6l0, 200, 900
is gold and s263, 100000 silver. The amount Of
gold coin outside the treasury was about So
$4,000 less than on Oct. 1, 1888, while the
amount In the treasury was $50, 000, 900 more.
The amount of silver In banks and circulation
Is about eo, 00O, 700 less than In 1883, and the
amount in the treasury about $3l 600, 900
more. The amount Of outstanding gold and
silver certificates is nearly s5o,C0O,O00 more
than on Oct. 1, 1888.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1884-10-23
SECOND EDITION.

For thirty ems in e. sh or ten three
cent stamps, We will mail to amy addr, SIS,
postage ! repaid, an octave illustrated
book Of liz pages, with handsome ilum-
mated cover, entitled Donald Mckay
or, The Last Var Trail ofthe ModOcs. This
bool is true exponent ofthe old saying
Truth is stranger than fiction" and
contains the romance of the life of Don
aid Mckay, the great Scout and Chief OF
the Warm Spring Indians. The story il
founded on facts, and is the only true his
tory Of the capture of Captain Jack, the
Chief of the Modocs, the warrior who
defied the United States troops in the
Lava Beds; and every incident men
toned therein can be corroborated by
Donald Mckay, who is still living, and
for whom this book was published.
Address the Publishers,
O. p. SOULE g CO.,
175 MONROE ST., CHICAGO, Ill.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1884-10-23

KEY, ard when, indeed, robbery seemed
almost impossible. Then his ingenuity
seemed to be aroused and q desire
awakened TO remove property which
was supposed to be put securely beyond
the reach of the burglar. He believes
that he inherited this propensity. Some
times he felt like killing himself because
he possessed it. He was finally appre-
hended and sent to prison for ten years.
Prison life thoroughly broke him down
in his physical health, and with the loss
of his physical health came an eradica-
ton of the desire for the sunattainable.
He thinks if he were as we'll as he used
to be he would still have the same
desire. He says that he has found out
that there is moral rs well as physi-
cal scrofula, and he further believes
that if he could have made known his
sickness to some physician wise enough
to deal with it no might have been
cured. According TO his view-'The
time must come when a moral disease
will be no more OF disgrace than
physical sickness. Both are entailed
and science should bestir herself
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1884-10-23
A Relic OF Barbarism,

expert, has published report on the condition
Of the government insane asylum In Montreal,
In which he says It is impossible to convey an
adequate idea OF the horrors he witnessed. He
says the treatment adopted Is relic of barbar-
ism. In the upper fiat, in small room, he
hand cuffed and strapped to chairs. In other
parts OF the building he found cells without
windows and with wretched ventilation. In a
totally dark cell he discovered man stark
naked lying on straw aud hand cuffed. In an
other man deaf and dumb was similarity
manacled in an empty cell without bed OF bed
ding. The women's room he described rs a
chamber of horrors and even more horrible
than the portion where the men are kept. In
conclusion he says IL is amazing that colony
OF England can present such a spectacle.
The asylum is under the charge OF nuns.
A government inquiry will be instituted.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1884-10-23

The recent decision of the supreme
court. of Pennsylvania, affirming the
right of local taxation on railroad cars
running through the state, asserts a
doctrine which, if sustained by the su-
preme court of the United States, will
be wide departure from that which
has been hitherto accepted. The suit
was on the claim of the state for taxes
against the Pullman company on cars
run through the territory of Pennsylva-
MIA between other states. The levy was
resisted ON the ground that the business
of the company in Pennsylvania was
carried on under lease from a Penn
sylvania corporation which paid is full
share of state taxes, and upon the fur
Their ground that the levy was not an
interference with The freedom of traffic
between the states. This case is of
great Importance in connection with
through lines of transportation, for the
decision, if it stands, will allow each
state, and perhars each municipality,
TO levy a tax upon the rolling stock of
railroads passing through its jurisdic-
ton.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1884-10-23
A Crop Report.

According to the October crop report,
just issued from the office OF the secre-
tary OF state, the number of acres OF
wheat reported threshed in thesouthern
four tiers of counties were 2S1, 1921 !
number of bushels, 4,677, 900, an aver
age per acre of 1653 bushels; acres re-
ported threshed in northern counties,
$3.50; number of bushels, SCI ,503, an
average of 1914 bushels per acre. These
cures, together with the acreage in
May as returned by supervisors, indi-
cate an aggregate product in the. state
of 25, IA, 500 bushels. To the question
which variety of wheat has given the
highest yield per acre 400 correspon-
dents in the southern four tiers of coun-
ties answer Clawson, 122 Egyption, 149
Fultz and SO Lancaster.
In the southernifour tiers of counties
there were 117,751 acres of oats, and
when threshed they yielded 4,204, SCI
bushels, an average of 1911 bushels
per acre, and in the northern counties
there were 23,240 acres, and when
threshed they Yielded 742, $50 bushels,
an average of 31.95 bushels per acre.
Corn is estimated at So per cent. OF a
full crop, and 50 per cent. of an aver
age crop.
Potatoes in the southern four tiers of
counties are estimated at 81 per cent.
and in the northern counties at 102
per cent. of an average crop.
Winter apples promise in the north
western part of tho state to be ~ per
cent, in the northeastern 81. central
II, southern So, and southeastern 60
per cent. of an average crop. The av-
erage for the state is SO per cent.
Late peaches promise in the north
western part of the state to DO III per
cent, northeastern 22, central 4, south
western, II, ard in the southeastern 8
per cent, of an average .tcrop. The
average of the state is IL per cent.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1884-10-23

BELvA LOCKWOOD is in daily receipt
of letters from ali parts of the country,
many of them referring to scandalous
stories published concerning the candi-
date. The chief of these charges are
that Mrs. Lockwood made Mr.. Lock
wood stay in the kitchen, and when he
came home late at night and tried to
open the door latch with toothpick
she did not 60 down and let him in, but
let him founder around for while, and
then called a policeman.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1884-10-23

A LARGE milk can, half full of milk,
stood on the floor of the Oakland av-
enue police station, on Jersey City
heights, q day or two ago. Its owner
could not be found, This was an omin-
Gus fact, and the police proposed all
manner of blood curdling theories as to
what had become of him. The theory
that he had been attakced by highway
men, knocked on the head, thrown over
the fence into some vacant lot and his
stock divided up between his blood
thirsty ASSISTANTS met with the greatest
credence, and the precinct detectives
spent the day shining up fences and
staring into vacant lots, while the po-
licemen stared hard at all male pedes-
trians to see whether there was any milk
on their upper lips. Early in the
morning two policemen had been out
in citizens clothes hunting for thieves
and had met q man with can. The
sergeant demanded what he was carry
ing and the man dropped the can and
fed swiftly away into the darkness.
This was the history of the case. The
excitement regarding it convulsed the
station house all the day, but Just at
sunset scared looking man stole tim
idly through the door and asked wheth-
or anybody had found two villainous
looking thieves who had stolen a can of
milk from him in Henry street at 4
o'clock in the morning. 1t was the
owner of the milk can, and he had mis-
taken the two officers for highwaymen.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1884-10-23
Minor State Items.

jackson is threatened with detach-
ment of the Salvation Army.
The fire la the Hecla mine is still
burning furiously.
Grand Rapids talks hopefully of cable
cars in the near future.
Mrs. Acelia Shower, resident of
Romeo since 1884, is dead.
Dogs are killing sheep in and around
Owosso at q fearful rate. EXterminate
the dogs.
Pick pockets reaped rich harvest in
the crowd at the Blaine demonstration
in East Saginaw.
uMrs. G. E. Osborn of Otisville, aged
81, had As pound cystic ovarian tumor
removed recently.
The contract for the Grand Rapids
furniture pavilion at New Orleans has
been let for $4,000.
Talk up your own town at all times
and under all circumstances. = Lapeer
Democrat. Good advice.
A 3.year-old boy of Frederick Borch
of Saginaw City was found dead IN the
cistern the other morning
The Hon. Burton Parker of Monroe
has been appointed by the President as
Indian agent at Fort Peck, Mon.
The First national bank of Ovid. just
organized with capital of $4,000,
will be open for business October 25.
VIM. Cooley, sent to Jackson prison
for life, from Adrian, in 1876, died of
consumption Tuesday night, Oct. Ia.
Jesse Roberts living near Addison,
Lenawee county was suffocated in a
we'll in which he was at work few
days ago.
The Shelby stave factory have Just
commenced the manufacture of barrels
in connection with their stave and head
'ng business.
David Lynch OF jackson, 50 years
old, brakeman on the Michigan Gen.
trail was killed at Milwaukee while
coupling cars.
Silas JENNIE of North Lansing boasts
over the fact that he raised potatoes
this year so large that AZ of them made
a bushel Next.
The Hon. w. II. Montgomery of Hud-
son, member of the legislature from
Monroe county, died recently. He
was 79 years of age.
Coldwater cranks, of the female per-
suasion, have baby parties, when those
who have babies bring them and those
who do not bring dolls.
j. w. Brown of Redmond, Emmett
county, wants the world to know that
he picked ripe strawberries on his farm
the last day of September.
A 12-year-old son of Edward Hat
field WIS run over and killed by an
engine IN the railroad yard at Hillsdale.
He tripped and fell on the track.
The annual meeting of the state horti-
cultural society will be held the 6rst
week in December, at Ann Arbor. and
promises to be the largest ever held In
this state.
There are now 1,176 students at the
university Of Michigan. or about 200 less
than the enrolment of last year. The
falling off is mostly in the law and
medical schools.
The Wolverine mine is in financial .
straits. The employees have notified
the management that without pay they
would not work, II being six weeks since
the last pay day.
Ex-mayor Thompson of Detroit was
thrown from a carriage in East Sagi-
NAV the other lay sustaining serious
injuries. He will be obliged to cancel
all lecture engagements.
A telegram from the postmaster Of
Omaha states that Justus H. Farmer,
the East Saginaw book-keeper who
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1884-10-23
Moral Sickness.
DR.. Foote'S Health Monthly.


Eleanor Kirk, who is noted as a story
writer, relates an interview which she
had with a burglar. Whether the in
terview was real or simply drawn from
Ter Imagination, as when she writes
stories for the press. we will not under
take to say; but it may be true. Just
such examples doubtless occur. The
burglar was educated for the ministry,
but he told Eleanor Kirk that he sswas
born with an overweening desire for
the unattainable. For instance, the
old clergyman, with whom he studied,
he could easily have robbed any day,
as the whole house was thrown open TO
him. IL was only when the house was
locked up and was inaccessible, that
the desire came upon him to enter the
premises and take something from
them! He related how he had many
opportunities for stealing. but he abom-
mated thieves-had as much contempt
for thievery as anybody. Nothing, in
deed, had any attraction, excepting
that which was put under lock and
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1884-10-23

For nearly four months cholera has
hung on to the towns of Franco
with the ferocity of tiger, and al
tn ough it is slowly loosening its grasp,
there is still enough of tie disease left
to excite terror in some quarters. For
16 weeks the average number of deaths
has been S75 per week. In Italy it has
prevailed for 10 weeks, and the average
weekly number of deaths has been
nearly 1000.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1884-10-23

THE edition of the November Gen.
fury will be the largest ever printed OF
that magazine. Besides the first chap
tiers of Mr.. Howell's new novel, 1.-The
Rise of Silas Lapham," the story of an
American business man, its fiction will
include "a Tale of Negative Gravity"
by Frank Il. Stockton; Free Joe and
the Rest of the World" all illustrated
story by Joel Chandler Harris; and
1.-The LOST Nine" by Thomas A. JAN
vier, with full-page picture by Mary
Hallock Foote.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1884-10-23
A Fearful Death.

While the family of volney Bull of North
the other night they discovered that the entire
house was on fire. All the inmates were helped
through window except the insane brother Of
Mr.. Bull, who ives locked up an padded room
up stairs. Mr.. Bull rushed up stairs to re-
lease his brother, but found the entrance to
the room filed with flames. Rushing through
II, he attempted to unlock the door but was
driven back, horribly burned. The insane
mans cries and shrieks could be heard above
the cracking OF the flames for half an hour,
when they suddenly ceased. His body burned
TO crisp was found In the basement. He was
worth $4,000 In money, which his brother
held In trust for him.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1884-10-23
ARei9u Of Terror,

MIchipicottn, on the north shore OF Lake
Superior is reported TO be In the possession OF
gang OF rougls and whisky sellers Respect
able people OF the place have received notice TO
quit the town The Canadian Pacific railway
office was rIddled with bullets by band Of
masked men. john Mackenzie, an ,mploye,
was shot In the hand. Capt. Burden was fired
at In bed few nights ago, the ball passing
within few inches OF his head.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1884-10-23
Wanted the North Star.

Minnesota BsEoo.
The new telephone girl was on deck
Yesterday. There was "holloa," and
voice said. al want the north star"
well, you ought to have it," she
snapped.
81 say / want the north star :"
swell, must say you are cheeky!
Anything else you see that you don't
wantp'
"Confound you, give me the north
star"
Suppose I've got the north star here
in my clothes, you old lunatic"
There was dam washed out about
that time and the profanity that surged
over the WIRE was appalling. He want
ed the North Star Cokl Company.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1884-10-23

death. He had heen separated from his wife
Tor some time, and had been arrested az her
Navigation. He followed them, and while his
wife was writing at a table opened fire upon
her. lie then fired at Miss Logere, striking
ner Ia the back and breast. lie then put the
pistol to bis temple and blew his brains out. IN
Is said ne had another wife and family in Troy,
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1884-10-23
Promoted.

The president has appointed Frank Hatton
postmaster general. Mr. Hatton was ku nmoDed
TO the White House and notified of his appoint
ment by the president. Proceeding to the post
Office department Mr.. Hatton took the oath OF
office, which was administered by James
Lawrenson, venerable employee who has per-
formed the same office for twenty-five post
masters general, beginning with Postmaster
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1884-10-23

MRS. WADswoRTH, of Elgin, ILL.,, had
man arrested for grinning at her on
the street, but when she came into the
court with sunfower pinned over her
heart the Judge refused to try the case,
and added: "He probably took you for
an idiot, and grinned in token of friend
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1884-10-23

Now that nearly all the nurses of
Washington are dead, travellers in
Greece arc discovering Byron's boat
men The latest is John Kazis, who
still pulls boat from Missolong,
hi over to Kllssova, but who must have
been quite a small boy boatman when
he boated over Lord Byron.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1884-10-23
NOTES OF THE DAY,

The commissioners of charity III
Kings county, New York, have been
iscussiDg the ACCESSIBILITY OF the crema'
Ion of pauoers. Ground, even in "two
by six" sections, is costly, and the
original expense of building crematory
would be saved, it is argued, in a single
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1884-10-23
LIVE STOCK.

mixed, "a 90(d5 30.
CArTLE-Exports. 90 7oa7; choice shipping
grades no demand; poor to fancy shippers,
- to(g6 90; Texans, t304; western cattle,
sHEEP-Common TO choice, % 7y@4 25:
1000 Texas sheep sold at 81 y head for breed,
ing purposes.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1884-10-23
Three Fatal shots.

! Richard J. Waddy, stove mounter at the
Great western foundry, Leavenworth, Kan
sas, shot his wife and awoman named Mollie
Logere, fatally wounding both, and then shot
himself In the right temple, causing instant
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1884-10-23
THE PROBABLE RESULT.
The Ohio Congressman probably elected, are
as follows:

IS 1OliOWs.
First Dlstrict-Benj. Butterworth, K.
Second District-C. G. Brown, r.
Third District-H. l.. Morey, R.*
Fourth District-C. NJ. Anderson. d.
Fifth District-Benj. LeFevre, d.
Sixth Dlstrict-William D. Hill, d.
Seventh Dlstrict-George E. Seney, d.
Eight District-John Little, X.
Ninth District-W. Q. Cooper, r.
Tenth District-Frsnk Hurd, D.%
Eleventh Dstrict-Ellesury, ID.
Twelfth District-A. G. Thompson, r.
Thirteenth District. II. Cultivate, d.
Fourteenth District-C. III. Grosvenor, r.
Fifteenth Dlstrict-B. Wilkins, DIS
Sixteenth District-G. w. Geddes, o.
Seventeenth District-Joseph Taylor, K.
Eighteenth District-J. II. Taylor, X. =
Nineteenth Dstrict-C. h. Taylor, X -
Twentieth District w Mckinley, Jr., RS
Twenty-hrst Dlstrict-M. A. Foran, d.
Do al 4al
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1884-10-23
#Re-electe,
LATEST RETURNS.

The latest returns enable the Republicans TO
claim The state by 1900 and the election OF
their entire ticket, including JOHNSON for
Supreme Judge.
They also claim ten congressmen sure, con-
ceding the Democrats only four and leaving
seven in doubt.