Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1888-01-19
NEWS SUMMARY.

ure at the Little Big Horn was the cause
of the destruction of Clusters army,
Mr. Brewer, of Michigan, has introduced
a resolution calling for the publication of
20,00J copies OF the recent special report
OF the bureau of statistics, entitled "Wool
and Manufacturers of Wool" Mr.. Brew
er desires TO use copies for campaign
purposes at home.
rhe greater portion of the village of
Louisa Court House, Va, was destroyed
by fire Jan. :.
Bernal, the famous Mexican bandit, was
killed in an encounter with Mexican
troops the other day.
Gen. Black has sent out letters of in
quiry TO ascertain the number OF veter-
ans employed by railroads; likewise the
number in the employ of cities. This is
done for the purpose of making some
material changes in the pension laws
The Pennsylvania miners strike con-
tinue5 to spread, and business men are
much alarmed. There is IA scarcity of coal,
and total suspension in all mines is very
probable.
The general officers of the Knights of
Labor are to be sued by the malcontents
Fe d California railroad ran through an
open switch at Carrollton, No, and was
badly wrecked, Charles Coverts, fireman,
was killed outright, and Engineer Chas
Thompson was mortally wounded and
died before night.
All the anthracite coal mines are to be
shut down, and the outlook for an early
settlement of the Reading strike is
gloomy.
Secretary of the Interior, l.. =. c. La
mar, has resigned in order TO prevent
further delay on cabinet nominations.
Two Cinnamon, Dan Lee and Phil Wing
were formally baptized and admitted to
the church on probation at the Hanson
Place Methodist Episcopal church in
brooklyn sunday, Jan. =. They are be-
lleved to he the first Mongolians ever re-
ceived in achurch of this faith IN America.
General Alfred Terry is seriously i'll in
New York
Two elevators owned by the Northern
Pacific and Christian a Co., respectively,
burned at New Rockford, Dakota, and
$4,000 bushels of wheat.
Sir y. 7. Cdron, Minister of the Militia
for Canada, says there is no truth in the
report cahled from England that the militia
service Of Canada is about TO he reorgan.
lied. He thought it was as we'll organized
and as effective as it could be considering
the amount Of the annual appropriations
for the service.
\ rich deposit OF bituminous coal has
been discovered some distance northwest
of san Antonio, Texas.
Frank Green, a resident OF Cleveland
county, n. C., after lG years absence in
Texas, returned to his family in North
arolina u few days ago. When his alb
sence had been satisfactorily explained to
his family there was happy reunion and
a few days later the re- united family went
to Texas.
Gen. Washington Seawell, one of the
oldest generals on the retired list, died in
san francisco Jan, -.
Gov. Foraker was inaugurated at Col
umbus, Ohio, on the 9th inst.
Hon. James $. Rollins, an ex-member of
congress, died at his home in Columbus
Mo. Jan. 10,
A serious accident occurred on the I'm
ion Pacific road near Edison Station, w.
l., the other morning. \ passenger train
stopped for repairs at the station. After
a delay, and when the tram had proceed
ell few hundred yards, a freight train
running at high rate of speed rounded
a curve and crashed into the rear car of
the passenger train, telescoping two cars,
which at once caught fire and were con-
sumed. Two persons were killed and sew
eral others seriously injured.
N
oil in Florida Jan. 10.
Anthony Comstock, as the head of the
society for the prevention of vice, at
The head OF a lot of police made raid on
the anatomical museums of New York
City. About half dozen of them were
visited and their proprietor and employees
arrested. The officers also seized some
wagon loads OF wax figures which were
declared TO be lewd and altogether unfit
for public exhibition.
The senate committees on territories
has instructed its chairman to report
Iavorably bill for the division of Dakota
aud the admission of South Dakota as a
state.
John b. Wright Of tennessee, chief of
the mineral division in the general land
office, has been appointed chief law clerk
of the general land office, vice John Lee
| barnes, removed.
IA paper was read at n meeting of Metho-
dist preachers in Baltimore the other day
entitled "A protest against the action of
President Cleveland in sending copy of
the constitution of the United States to
Pope Leo XIII. on the occasion of the recent
jubilee of the latter" it is claimed by
those who favored the protest that it is
an official recognition OF the Pope's office,
when he is only the head of church
which the constitution, by implication,
prohibits.
The Mormon legislature convened Jan.
s. There are three gentiles and twenty
one norm ms in the lower house and two
gentiles and ten mormons in the upper
This country will furnish $40, 900, 600 OF
the $50, 100000 necessary to build the Te-
hauntepec canal.
The United States supreme court has
decided that the mayor and council OF
Lincoln, Neb., have been unjustly held by
the federal courts, as the federal courts
| have no Jurisdiction over the removal of