Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1885-05-07
THE CREAM OF THE NEWS.
Gen. Grant has resumed smoking.

Postmaster General Was appointed GOO post
masters I'm April
West virglnas state capital Is 10 be rcmov-
cd. to Charleston.
The public debt statement for Apsil shows a
decrease of S5,464,56.
Georgia gentleman have asked the president
10 visit Atlanta in May.
Gen. Grants second volume of war records
Is nearly ready for the publishers.
Business of the pension Office Ia April ex-
eecded that OF any previous month.
The Total coinage at the minis In April was
2,S03, 900 pieces, valued at 81, 400 800.
A strike In the South Chicago rolling mills
has thrown 1, 200 men out OF employment.
Isaac w. England, publisher Of the New
York Sun, has joined the ''sient majority"
Bushnell White, for twenty-six years United
States commissioner In the Cleveland district,
is dead.
Mrs. Emma De Long, widow of commander
DE Long OF the Jeanette, will be given q
pension.
The publication of the revised edition OF the
old testament has been postponed until the
10th of May.
depot has been identified as that OF an italian
pea nut vender.
The Niagara park bill passed by the New
York legislature is now u law, having been
signed by Gov. Hill.
The Ohio legislature has passed law requir-
ing saloons In Cincinnati to remain closed from
midnight until q IN.
Gov Martin of Kansas has issued proclama-
ton opposing quarantine Of ninety days on all
cattle coming from Mlssoui.
Angus NJ. Cannon of: Salt Lake has been
convicted of unlawful practices under the Ed
munds law Sentence Is deferred.
i, tba Data L.
better food. the other night, and 1t was not till
the next afternoon that the riot was queled.
Passengers on Bermuda steamers at New
York report that the British are putting the
island OF Bermuda In complete state OF de-
Tense.
Grundy the county seat OF Buchanan county,
Va, has been almost entirely destroyed by fire.
The court house and county records were
burned.
Territory says the Indians have left their re-
serve at Touchwood and File Hills, and settlers
in that region are uneasy.
1 Ex-Gov. Conrad Baker OF Indiana died the
other afternoon at indianapolis from conges-
ton OF the lungs, after an Illness of several
months. He was 6S years old.
A snow-sllde occurred at the Homestake
mine, not far from Leadyille, Col, on the 26th
of April. Ten miners were buried Their
United States mails for number of South
American points were burned at Colon, March
81, In the general postoflice, where they were
stored pending chance TO deliver them.
The immediate publication of the diary of
Shakespeare's cousin who was town clerk of
Stratford-on Avon is announced. 1t refers to
the last three years of of Shakespeare life.
Dickson the foreman of the star route Jury
who has been on trial charged with bribery,
has hnpn aapuittp1 nfpLcnn az fncf itrat
ed a suit Tor libel against Attorney General
Brewster.
Manitoba members Of Parliament have sue
ceeded I'm inducing the government to agree to
a supplementary half-breed claim in Manitoba.
An order-in-council has been passed giving
scrip to all 49, have established claims.
corp. "a ;ound In trunk which arrived
at the Union Il pot In Pittsburg q few days
ago. tn b was securely bound with a
hemp cord around the neck and limbs, but
there was nothing by which IL could be identi-
fled. The trunk came from Chicago.
A terrible disease has broken out in Ply
mouth, Pa, and number Of deaths occur
daily The disease is Of the nature OF typho.
malarial menengitis, and an attack means
death. Fourteen funerals of the victims oc-
CURED April %, and six deaths occurred the
same day.
Thomas G. Campbell, one of the attorney for
the defense in the Berner murder trial. the yer.
dict In which caused the court house riot in
Cincinnati has been acquitted on a charge OF
bribery. He was accused of giving money 10
one of the jurors. At the first trial of Camp
bell the jury disagreed and the second end
ed as above stated.
The committee Of architects that examined
the buildings that have been erected in different
parts of New York city by the builder Duddcn-
sick, reported that nearly all Of them would
have to be taken down and rebuilt: that the
tvallc bn1pa1 and of rlusnh tho fnun.
dations defective and the buildings construct
ed of defective material.
President Cleveland has appointed Gen.
Heny j. Hunt, retired, 10 be governor of the
soldiers home, vice Col Samuel b. Sturgis,
seventh cavalry, and Capt. Robert Catlin, re-
tired, TO be deputy governor, vice Captain Ly-
man. The change will go into effect May -,
when the officers relieved will proceed 10 join
their respective regiments.
The New York assembly has passed a reso-
luton asking the dominion OF Canada to unite
with New York in making Niagara Falls and
the territory adjacent thereto grand inter
national park, to which the civilized world may
have access, removing the incubus of private
ownership from the great wonder, as that has
led TO disadvantages In the past The resolu-
ton follows closely upon the bill appropriating
moneys to purchase the American SIDE
The United States grand jury which was in
session at Topeka for over q week considering
dictments against IS OF the colonlsts who for
several weeks were In camp at Arkansas City,
and one sweeping indictment has been found
against the remainder as whole, charging
them with netting assisting and engaging In
rebellion and instruction against the authority
of the United States The point by which II Is
hoped now to hold and convict the men Is, that
by remaining in camp at Arkansas City they
were "inciting and assisting In rebellion" In
opposition to President Cleveand's proclama-
ton.
News from the northwest on the % inst,
states that all the Indians west OF Battleford
are In war paint and 1t Is expected that both
Strange's and Otter's troops Will have fearful
time In restoring peace. The settlers have all
fed and a panic exists In many OF the districts.
John WalSnshaw and Albert Hardness were
killed by Big Bears band over a week ago and
their wives and two missionaries are prisoners
and are being frightfully maltrcated. Scores
of homesteads have been burned. Bundmaker,
Big Bear, Little Child and the other Indian
chiefs are all out. A number OF halfbreeds arc
directing them. Gen. Strangc's intention is
to push through with all haste to Edmonton
and then II possible. take his troops by boat
down the river and cooperate with Col Otter,
Terrible Texas Tales.
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