Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1888-02-16
NEWS SUMMARY.

Mills for 1854 is valued at Si3, 600, 900 against
| 2l,O0 200 in 1850.
passenger train was derailed near
Longview, Texas, and the engineer and
hree train hands were killed.
Charles Hoag, the man who gave Mime
! polls its name, died there few days ago
aged so.
Gov. Gordon of Georgia has committed
he sentence of Eliza Randall, who was TO
AYE been hanged on the 81 inst, to i'm
lrisonment for life. The girl. murdered
Ier father with an axe. Public sentiment
,gainst the infiction of capital punish
nent was what saved her life.
/ Benjamine e. Hopkins, late assistant
| treasurer of the Fidelity bank at Cincin-
aati has been convicted.
Hubbard Harrell of Eastman, Ca, a col
ored boy of 10, who was made drunk at
| Icg killing, went home, heated a caudron
of water, threw a6-Year old nephew it,
knocked a 4-year-old girl in the head with
an ak and threw her in, and had fatally
injured third child when detected.
Amos Grant, co ored, farmer in Baker
| county, Georgia, murdered his l5-year-old
son, his wife and his sister in-law, and
,hen suicided by hanging, all four being
| found dead in the house by neighbors
u scheme is on loot to purchase Old Lib
| 10y prison, and remove the building to
| Chicago.
a passenger train on the New York,
| Pennsy wanna & Chic road was wrecked
near Steamburg, Station, n. Y, the other
morning, and three persons we're instant
| killed.
Homer +. Harmon, an uncle of Mrs.
Cleveland, died in Boston Il few days ago.
COL. John II. George died in Concord,
Y. H., recently. He was rendered the of
ice of secretary Of Minnesota in 1885, but
leclined.
The house committee on invalid pensions
mas favorably reported bill prohibiting
ne allowance of attorneys fees in claims
or increase of pensions. The attorney
Toes the claimant no good, and during
asst year the tribe got S2Ol,0OO Of govern
ment money.
a communication signed by eighty
eight members of congress, asking for the
| dismissal of Statistician Dodge, has been
received by the commissioner of agricul-
,ure. The movement is understood TO
| nave originated with the tobacco-growers
who were aggrieved by the statistician's
rop reports last summer.
Ms. Diver Wendell Holmes died in
boston on the 9th inst, aged 62 years.
Capt Charles Hamilton, one of the most
widely known OF lake navigators, died at
nuifalo recently at the age of IS.
Dr. L. Miles Wilett, supreme medical
examiner OF the Cathonc Knights of
G.,
| days ago.
Postmas ter q eneral Dickinson has asked
the secretary of the treasury for an APP
preparation of Sl25,GOO to mako up the
deficiencies for the present fiscal year,
! ard that the same be made available i'm.
| mediately.
The secretary Of the interior has rem
dered an important decision in the case of
! julius A. Barnes ct al, who made appli-
cation to purchase at private cash entry,
within the indemnity limits of the grant
to the state of Michigan for the benefit OF
of the Marquette and Ontonagon railroad.
| These applications were rejected by the
local land Office on the ground that the
lands were not subject TO such entry, be-
ing between the fifteen and twenty mile
limits of the grant. The secretary in his
decision affirms that of the local Office.
! A committee has been appointed to ar
range for union OF st. Paul and Mime
apolis.
The residence of Geo. d. Hill, three
miles from Bolivar, n. Y, caught fire
from natural gas the other night and was
! burned. Mrs. Hill and two children per-
ished, and a fireman was fatally injured.
The general secretary of the knights of
labor says late reports show $4,000 men,
Ter, in the order, and that it is growing
| rapidly.
speaker Carlisle has appointed as the
specia committee on the Reading rail-
road strike Representatives Tillman of
south Carolina, Chapman of Michigan,
Stone of Missouri, Parker of New York,
and Anderson OF ansas. The committee
! has gone to Pennsylvania, and will be
/ absent about month.
Postmaster-General Dickinson says that
the postal business has increased IL per
cent in the past year.
Columbia college of New DIRK has added
postgraduate course for women.
! The Springfield, Ohio, manufacturing
company has gone to the wall.
Gov. West of Utah has vetoed the bill
compelling courts TO grant bail in the
case of convicts who wish to appeal where
their penalty is not greater than five
wears imprisonment. The design of the
bill was to help the polygamists to fight
the law.
Manitoba railroad bridge, only one
crossing the Missouri river north of Bis
marcl, is completed
Canadian manufacturing association
has passed resolutions opposing CONNER
cial union with the United States.
Lieut.. David l.. Brainard, survivor
Greedy arctic expedition, married daugh-
ter of the Hon. H. NJ. Chase Walla Walla.
Gen. w. T. Sherman celebrated his 6Sth
birthday on the Sth inst.
Oil has been struck at Lehigh, Indian
Territory.
Miss Louise Royce; the Nebraska school
teacher frozen during blizzard, has had
both feet amputated.
Amos j. Smell, one of the wealthest real
estate dealers of Chicago, was murdered
in his Office the other morning by gang
of burglars.