Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1888-05-24
GENERAL.

The bank at Pratt, Kansas, was robbed
of 81, 0l6 during temporary absence OF ON
GERS the other day,
While the treasurer Of the Lexington,
KY, lunatic asylum was preparing to pay
off employees, his room was entered ana
$500 stolen
A bin has been reported to the house
appropriating Sl50,00O to be paid to Mr. "A;
DeBaussett when he shall have completed
and successfully demonstrated the practlca-
bility of his invention OF an electric air snip.
The ship is TO consist essentially OF metal
lie compartment vessel so constructed that
when sufficiently exhausted OF air ~ Will
rise and carry burden by aid of revolving
blades The whole vessel is to constitute
rapid conveyance for over land or trans
oceanic passage, and for general purposes
of exploration, commerce, etc.
The New York legislature adjourned on
the 18th instant.
The conference between the United
States and Mexico and the South American
republics TO encourage reciprocal CONNER.
cial relations is assured by the adoption OF
the conference report by congress This
provides for the appointment OF ~ dele
gates by the president.
The Mexican war authorities declare
they will punish with death Mexican sol
diers who cross to the American side and
interfere with the affairs Of friendly ma
ton.
By high water in Mississippi, Quincy,
Rock Island, Galena, ana other towns IN
| Illinois, have been flooded. AT Quincy the
river for several days was 10 miles wide,
and at Galena the novel spectacle OF skiffs
and barges as a means of transportation
was witnessed for several days.
The town of Goldendale Col, was nearly
destroyed by fire the other morning.
The senate has decided TO discuss the
fisheries treaty with closed doors.
The supreme court has denied the applica-
ton for a re-hearing of the telephone case.
The supreme court has rendered a decision
| denying the application for writ OF habeas
corpus in the Indiana tally sheet election
| fraud cases.
ThePresident has vetoed a bill appropriate
ing $1,000 for government building at
| Allentown, Pa, because the public business
| there does not demand il. He says, some
| what sarcastically, that large and expensive
| buildings are often erected more to demon
strate the activity Of the congressman OF
the district than TO meet any necessity ofthe
government
The postmaster general has made an order
fixing $42.75 per mile per annum as the mini
mum compensation for railways in carrying
mails. This is an advance from S24.
The President has signed the bill opening
the Montana Indian reservation for settle
ment. There are 100000 acres in the
tract
Hundreds of thousands of acres Of land
along the Mississippi are inundated. Th'
river has not been so high since lSSO.
President Cleveland will attend the inter
state exposition at Williams Grove, Pa, il
August.
Duluth is said to have one third of tn
visible supply of wheat in this country.
Mayor Hewitt of New York refuses T.
interfere in the New York brewers strik
on behalf of the men as members of tn
union, holding that 2,0OO,OOO knights o
labor have no right TO dictate to 100000
= people, However, the mayor wrote TO tn
? president of the master brewers associa
ton urging settlement Of the difficulty.
All the questions of disagreement be
| tween the United States and Morocco hav
been settled and the United States gain
all the points contended for.
Mrs. Ida A. Jordan, christian scienc
student at indianapolis, Ind, poisoned he
? little girl and then cut her own throat.
q Two Mexican customs officers were al
rested at Nogales n. M, the other day o
- a suspicion of being train robbers.
; The high water in the Mississippi tn
g spring has exceeded the high water mar
l. of 1881 by several inches.
Nearly 10000 persons witnessed the int
l. state drill at Austin Texas ON the 10th II
8 | slant.
a Seyen-years old boy at GAINESVILLE, Wis
g lost both legs while passing over unguardC
l. Northwestern railroad crossing. Damage
e aggregating $4,000 awarded.
Six hundred iron and steel workers
d Pottsville, Pa, given notice OF 10 per Gel
p wage reduction. Singer, Nimick & &c
D, Pittsburgh iron manufacturers, will redu'
5, wages of 1000 employees 10 per cont May 2
Destructive cyclone passed over Baxt
~ county, Ark, on the 10th.
:. Texas new state capitol was formal
n dedicated on the 10th inst.
Harry Benson, the swindler who so
q. spurious tickets TO a Patti concerts
q Mexico, and was afterward captured
m New York, suicided in Jail m that city
w few days ago.
a. II. b. Beard, an extensive real esta