Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1888-08-16
GENERAL.

The sheriff or Knott county, Kentucky,
and posse were guarding prisoners 10 the
Denitentiary, a mob attempted their release
and one of the mob was killed. The posse
was attacked later and three persons killed
and several wounded.
A conference of the leaders of tho union
and united labor parties was mold in Chica-
20 the other day and an effort made TO de-
wise means for merging into one organiza-
lion. All schemes failed, however.
For the first seven months of this year
2S,352 more immigrants landed ut Castle
Garden than in the corresponding seven
months of last year. The July arrivals
were / ,2+6 moro than for July 1887.
San Carlos Indians are causing consider
able trouble An effort is being made TO
prevent them from getting beyond the
limits of their reservation.
Land Commissioner Stockslager holds
for cancellation 20 desert land entries in
Wyoming territory, aggreSating 1900
acres.
Lumber and salt will not be on the free
list in the senate tariff bill.
Reported that New England politicians
in Washington are trying to bring about
the election to the United States senate of
James G.. Blaine Blaine's friends deny
that he has any senatorial aspirations.
Damage to the amount of half million
dollars was done by flood at Duluth the
| other day.
The Dominion government will not allow
Mormon settlers to practice polygamy in
the Northwest.
| A supposed dynamite bomb, made of a Soc
ton of gas pipe two feet long and plugged at
both ends, was sent TO Inspector Bontield
at Chicago.
Over million dollars damage has been
caused by forest fires in Ontario.
, The British government has made applica-
| ton TO the governor Of Missouri for a
respite in the case of Maxwell, the St.
Louis trunk murderer.
The government will bring suit against
the Eureka mining company of Nevada for
81, $40, al. This sim, IL is alleged, repre-
sents the value Of charcoal and cordwood
manufactured from cedar, pine and mahog-
any timber unlawfully cut from tho public
mineral lands in Nevada by or with guilty
knowledge Of the Eureka company.
Millions. OF moths invaded Reading, Pa,
the other night, obscuring the lights. They
were pronounced cotton moths.
The governor Of Kansas has ordered the
second brigade and second artillery battery
TO Stevens county 70 preserve the peace.
Thirteen stores in West Unity, Ohio,
were destroyed by fire on the 3D. inst, at a
loss OF Sl00, 600.
w. A. Croffutt, a well known newspaper
correspondent of Washington has been APP
pointed executive officer of the geological
survey at q, coo per year.
Hon. James Lynch Of New York, former
~ one of the commissioners Of emigration,
is dead.
Patents have been issued to the state of
| Minnesota for A, SD acres Of swamp land
in the st. Cloud district.
Crops in the northwest are suffering Sc
yerely from rust and blight.
A bill has been introduced in the senate
granting pension Of 5000 year to the
widow of Gen. Sheridan.
Advocates Of Henry Georges idea, to tho
number Of 500, met at Cooper Union in New
York the other night. Resolutions were
adopted indorsing tariff reform and the
nomination of Grover Cleveland for presi-
dent. Henry George eulogized President
Cleveland's tariff message and declared il
TO be vital step In tho direction of the
objects of the single tax theory.
Felix Bruno was arrested in Boston the
other day for robbing the Hamburg Ger
many postoffice of 81, 900, July 23d
Indians in the Athabasca district have
had hard winter, and q number are said 70
have starved to death.
!, A statue Of Gen. Warren was unveiled at
Gettsburg on the Sth inst