Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1888-04-26
NEWS SUMMARY.


Memphis q Birmingham railway was
wrecked sixty miles west OF Birmingham.
Ala, the other evening Four workmen
were killed, one fatally injured and nine
Others seriously hurt. The train was
backing at high rate OF speed and struck
COW and was dltched.
Happy Bob, lieutenant in the Saliva
ton Army was hung at Warsaw, N. Y,
the other day for the murder of Will Roy
young man Of whom he was desperately
jealous.
The management of the international
and interstate drill and encampment, TO
be held in Austin. Texas, from May IA to
10, on the occasion of the dedication OF
the new capitol building expect TO have
President G eveland and wife as their
principal guests. The entire Texas con-
gress delegation, headed by Senator Coke,
will bear the invitation TO the White
House, and, if accepted will be the escort
from Texas.
The 23rd anniversary of the assassination
of President Lincoln was observed in
Springfield. H., on the 18th inst.
Howard Garrison and Robert McEvers
of Whitehall, H., quarreled about a calf,
when Garrison shot Mowers dead.
The round-house of the Mobile q Ohio
road Mt Cairo was destroyed by fire, to-
gether with several engines, a few days
ago.
julius Meyers fred through the transom
of his saloon in ST. Louis and killed Rob-
ert kleintof, burglar.
A passenger train on the elevated road
in Philadelphia was wrecked on the 18th
inst. Several passengers vert injured, but
no one was killed.
Charitably disposed Americans are asked
TO contribute TO German food sufferers
! Tho Ohio legislature has adjourned
until January s 15Sq.
The New York legislature has passed
the prohibition amendment already pass
ed by the assembly.
The lodge and dormitories and two pri-
vate rooms at tho Shattuck academy at
! Fairbault, Mimi, were burglarized the
other night, the inmates being chloro-
formed. The thieves secured S30OD in
iewelry and money.
Mrs. Samuel Watts and a neighbor
named Storm, quarreled near st, Louis,
about line fence. She shot Storm, XIII
ing him instantly.
Elizabeth Arnold, n colored woman, died
at Lynchburg, Va. the other night, aged
ll2 years She was probably the oldest
person in the state.
Methodist Episcopal ministers of Phila-
] delphia condemn the presidents orde.'
! prohibiting the teaching of the Indian
language in Indian schools.
The house which the friends or Gen
al 4
Washington, was formally presented to
that lady the other morning.
Gen. n. VI. Vfiswell who was military
governor OF the District of Columbia I'M
der President Lincoln's administration,
died In New York few days ago.
The Texas Legislature has been convened
in special session to dispose of $40, 600 600
surplus.
Greensboro, KY, had sl5OOoo fire on
the 18th inst.
The president has vetoed the pension
bill of Mr.. Hannah Lan~don, whose hus-
band died in ISL. of consumption, he
holding that the evidence did not show
the disease contracted while in the SER
vice. The pension bill OF Mr.. Betsy Mans.
field, whose son died in 1861, was also
vetoed, as we'll as that OF Mrs. Laura
Wright whose husband drew a pension
for several years and then committed
suicide.
The Chicago courts havs decided that
Mrs. Maria p. Storey, first wife of the late
Wilbur F. Storey, is entitled to dover in
the old Time, site, and orders that sho be
paid 81 900 year from 1854 to the present
time and 81, ls3 per year hereafter.
A fund of $4,000 has already been raised
for the widow of Chief Justice Waite.
The residence of A. D. Hoffman, nine
miles north of st. Louis, Mo, was des-
troyed by fire tho other night AMI Mr.
Hoffman and his three children were
burned to death.
The president has approved the act au
thorzing the appointment OF James
Jouett, son of Eear-Admiral Jouett, to a
first lieutenantcy of cavalry in the United
States Army. This was the bill for which
Congressman Ford made so gallant fight
in the house. and concerning which he
called on the president and requested his
approval.
The assembly of the New York legisla
ture has pas o a bill substituting electric
ity for hanging.
The wife of ex-President Porter of Yale
college died in New Haven on the 18th
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Maj. w. u. Lietner secretary of state OF
South Carolina, is dead.
At the state elections in Louisiana on
the 18th inst. the democratic ticket was
elected by about q, 00) majority.
The stables belonging 60 Senator Stan.
ford, at Palo Alto, Cal. were destroyed by
fire the other night, and several of his
most valuable animals persisted in the
flames. The loss is about $4,000.
The chief signal officer gives notice that
the season of cod waves having passed,
the indications officer at St Paul, Mimi,
will on May | next discontinue the prep
aration of oil indications, including cold
wave warnings. Commencing on that
date they will be prepared by the indica-
tions officer at the Washington Office for
Minnesota, Dakota, Wisconsin, Nebraska
/ and Iowa.
Rev. DR. Israel w. Andrews, ex-presi-
dent OF Marietta College at Marietta,
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