Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1888-08-02

disgrace, and took fatal dose of lauda.
mum. She leaves three children.
The Standard oil company is attempting
TO crush out all opposition at Lima, o., by
selling oil az &c gallon. The fight Is be-
tween the Standard and the Mansfield oil
companies
All the notes, drafts and other securities
stolen by G. A. Pitcher, the Providence
bank teller, and by him expressed TO Lon
don, Eng. have been recovered, and are
now in the possession of the bank
The senate committee on inter state com
merce has directed favorable report on
the SpoOner bill, placing the telegraph
under the supervision of the interstate
law.
McGuires opera house in Butte City,
Montana, was destroyed by fire the other
night, at a loss Of $4,000.
James Mason of Morley's Station, Cal,
bought 50-pound box of giant powder the
other day, sat on it and touched the explo-
sive of. The coroner gathered up 20 pounds
Of the body in basket.
A. p. Marble of Massachusetts was elect
ed president'of the national teachers asso-
citation at its recent session in San Fran
cisco.
Henry Max Goddar was arrested at Pitts
burg recently for representing himself TO
be a special pension examiner. He had Sc
sion claimants.
E. II. and /. w. Jacobs, president and
cashier of the inSolvent national bank of
Madison, Lake county, Dakota, are in Jail
at Yankton, charged with falsitiying &C
counts.
w. T.. Ellsworth, for Is years conductor
on the New York Il New Haven road, is
under arrest for defrauding the company
By selling unpunched tickets TO scalpers.
held in Oshkosh, July "a, nominated DR..
Powell of Lacrosse for governor; lieuten-
ant-governor, N. r. Allen of Beaver Dam
secretary of state, w. Lockwood of Ripon
treasurer, Alfred Mannheimer of Mantle
voc; attorney general, T. A. Ryan of Wau-
kesha; superintendent Of schools, T.. w.
Krackowiser. The platform adopted is a
reorganization of the principles enunciated
in the national platform, with number of
local demands, concluding as follows: 1--WE
are decidedly opposed to fusion or coalition
with the two old parties"
a company has been formed at Clifton,
Iowa, for the manufacture of fusee matches
which have heretofore only been obtained
from Europe
The internal revenue collections for the
past fiscal year were 1924, 80, 474 as against
1lS, S37, sol for the year before The cost
OF collection was S3,9S3,OOO.
congress seems TO be further away than il
was month ago. A new feature has been
introduced into the situation by Senator
Sherman, which may possibly prolong the
session month. He has reported from the
finance committee, as an amendment 10 the
sundry civil bill, the bill TO refund the
direct taxes collected from the states and
District of Columbia during the war. The
senate, early in the session, passed the
bill TO refund the direct taxes, but il was
stubbornly opposed in the house, creating
the famous deadlock that lasted for some
days and was finally terminated by demo-
cratic caucus, at which an agreement was
made 10 defer the bill uI'til next session.
The senate passed the bill to refund the
direct taxes by very large majority.
Hence the action of the finance committee
in an effort to attach the measure to the
civil bill. If the senate amendment passes,
the house will of course refuse to concur
and the sundry civil appropriation bill may
be hung up in conference until after cleo
ton.
Gen. Sheridan continues to improve.
Engineers on nearly all roads entering
Chicago promise continued support TO 80"
strikers.
Col James Stevenson of the United States
geological survey and for many years con-
nected with the chronological department of
the Smithsonian institution at Washington,
died in New York July %.
Lie.t.- Col. Walter Mcfarland, United
States corps of engineers, died at his home
in New Haven July -, aged 80 years. After
the war he had charge of the harbor aud
river improvements from Dunkirk TO the
Sault, including Detroit river and St. Clair
flats, and many other works of equal i'm
portance.