Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1888-10-25
GENERAL.

| New York, have sued James G.. Blaine, jr.,
TO recover S249.S5, alleged TO be due them
AS brokerage feOs.
John Wanamaker has won his suit
against the government for the recovery of
excessive duties assessed upon silk ribbons
and the rate will now be 20 instead OF 80
per cent The precedent established may
involve the government in suits for the
recovery OF s., 900, 900 excess duties charged
various importers.
Pickpockets worked the crowd at the
Blaine meeting in Goshen, Ind, and So
cured about $4,000.
The steamer Robert b. Carson sank in
| thu Ohio river, in 80 feet Of water the other
night, four mAes below Evansville. Ind,
with 80 cattle, four horses and some freight.
Loss, $4,000. The bottom of the steamer
is said to have collapsed.
The president has vetoed the bill author
izing the secretary Of the treasury to settle
tho claim of James N. WILDER for extra
work in laying the thing in the New York
Postofiice building in 1874. The claim
amounted to about $4,000.
Rev. DIR. McGlynn is going to start Ia.
Dor paper in New York.
o An open wagon in which Mr. and Mrs.
Howard Lowell and Mr.. and Mrs. Henry
Crowol of Os,erVille, Mass, were enjoying
q Pleasure ride was struck by passenger
train the other evening, and the entire par
~ were killed.
Eccles Robinson. prominent member of
the knights of labor, who has been stump
ing Indiana wi b Charles III. Litchman, eX
general score airy. has written letter for
publication, in which no says the knights
! Of labor are in "a critical condition. He de-
Clares Powdcriy will decline q re election,
as he can be of no further use 10 the order.
The election of w. J. Lewis of the miners
| assembly as general master workman is
| Cd lsNrlxr MI ant
deserving the knights in large numbers in
the east.
Two thousand miners mt Brookton, Ala,
are on a strike against reduction OF five
! cents per toll.
The pes ofice block in Winona, Mimi,
was damaged by fire the other night to the
amount OF $4,000.
The case aga lnst the dynamiters arrested
in Chicago some time ago has been continu-
ed till oc ODER "a.
The citzons natural gas trust Of Toledo
mas collapsed, an Q city is again at the
mercy OF t.. Standard oil company. Indif-
| erence on tho part OF tao citizens killed the
| trust.
The president has signed the bill provid-
! ing for the es ablisnment of a Id tional life
saving stations on the great lakes.
Mrs. John A Logan has gone to Europe
| TO consul with Larkin g.. Mead, the sculp-
| tsr, in regard To- The design for the monu-
] ment 10 be erected t. Gen Logan in Chi
cago.
Secret propositions are being made to
throw a colony IF 100 into the Oklahoma
Territory immedia ely after the election,
ind to fight thor right to stay there in the
courts The sche o is said To be under the
/ Girec iCL of CAPT. NJ Sutterthwaite, with
headquarters in Il peka, KS.
The Hon. John Wentworth OF Chicago,
| better known as "Long John" died on the
! Eth inst Wentworth was one Of Chicago's
oldest residents, ami in his day was mayor
| OF the city, congressman, and editor of the
! principal daily paper. About month ago
his general health began to fail. Mr. Went
worth was 20 years of age His estate is
worth ut least 81 100000
Judge Sawyer of tho United States court
for the district Of California, decides that
! the eXclusi n act Is conSti' utional and that
it's provisions apply to Chinese now in port
on ships. The decision affects not less than
| 5000 Chinese who are out on certificates.
About dozen women Of Thompson, Da-
| lxota, were arrested the other day, and
aiken 10 yail at Grand Forks. All attempts
| TO close the saloons there having failed, the
| ladies took hand themselves, cutting the
saloons and spilling the liquor on the ground
for which they were arrested. They all
| wear white badges and spent their time on
the train singing temperance songs. Great
| interest Is man Tested in tho trial, and
there IS much bitter feeling.
The acting secretary of the treasury in a
published statement says the surplus is
Slg 100 900, 6.0000O0. s74, 600 900, 1922, 900,
OJ0, and then settles down to Sl04, 900.
Pittsburg natural gas companies recently
advanced tho price of their fuel, and the
courts have enjoined them from collecting
the increased rate. The companies say
that II this injunction Is made permanent
they will be compelled to quit business.
A wagon load of fireworks intended for
use at the Thurman meeting at Fort
| Wayne, Ind, exploded, killing Lorenzo
Bouse and probably fatally iniuring Robert
Smith lessee Of the academy of music.
Julia Beck OF Kansas City, Mo-, suicidcd
few days ago because she thought she
was too homely to live.
Gen Adam Bndeau's suit for $1,000
against Mrs u. s. Grant for alleged ser
vices in preparing Gen. Grants memoirs
for pub ication has been adjourned unit
the first Monday in November.
Two passenger trains on the Cumberland
Valley road, collided on a curve near Ship
/ pensburg, Pa, tho other morning. On,
! man was killed and a number of Others
severely injured.
. FOREIGN.
Hon. James Patton, collector of customs