Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1888-08-09
GENERAL

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GENERAL.
Fire broke out in boarding house in the
mining village of Maynard, Belmont county,
Ohio, the other night entirely consuming
the structure. William Presser, his little
son and John Morgan were burned TO doath.
At the convention of colored men held in
indianapolis July % President Cleveland
and the ST. Louis platform were heartily
endorsed
The president has approved the postofice
appropriation bill
Attorneys for the New York produce ex-
change have fled printed argument with
the interstate commission, pointing out the
injustice Of lower rate from Chicago 10
Liverpool than from Chicago TO New York.
The house committee on manufactures are
investigating the whisky trusts.
p. ID. Cooper, for many years connected
with the Lake Shore e Michigan Southern
railroad, died in Elkhart, Ind, recently.
II is reported that the union labor party
of Indiana has been delivered by its state
committee TO the democrats, The demo
cratic state committee IA TO maintain the
indianapolis Signal as the organ of the labor
party. The union men have placed John
Il. Wilson, the democratic nominee for at
torney general, on their ticket.
Gen. X. NJ. Patrick, governor of the ma
tionoI soldinrs, home in Davton Ohio is
dead.
A partial test of the Standard oil compa-
ny's pipe line from Lima, Ohio, 10 Chicago,
has been made with satisfactory results.
A dynamite bomb was exploded the other
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ves.i,atinc
Ioso,,h yo,.h ,rh. oroa.od -a;,, op
torvor snr,o r,on,bs Go aD,ono, The ,soIron
Of tba fasbiona hja east cnd ~ Pittsburo nv
assaulting and robbing several prominent
ladies in broad daylight has been SEN
fenced to % years Imprisonment ct hard
labor in the Riverside pcntentiary.
Capt John F. Herne the actor and tho
Youngest commissioned officer in the army
of the Potomac. died at Hot Springs. Ark.
a Few days ago
A movement is on foot among the soap
manufacturers of the United States TO form
a soap trust.
a fight occurred between Hugoton and
Woodsdale men in Stearns county, Ks, the
other dav. and seven men were killed
Tho nontbly s,o+oror, 90 tho sacra,or,,
% 60 tans,,r,, sbo,,,e 81 % AL, b, ,,s.oiy
~ - % IT, 80
;r,,, p. Do, ,,,e s1-n 90, M 20
;,oPports e. ,bo 90 o,d,nr I,,ro IN iSs,2
| but the value of exports was 81 600, 900 less'
| At Port Huron imports were about 100000
| and exports nearly a, OOOO)O
Young Prudea. n son of President Cleye-
lands assistant secretary, was run over
and killed on farm in Virginia. where he
was visiting.
Eight hundred pounds of nitro glycerine
| exploded near Lima, Ohio, tho other morn
! ing. Several tramps who were sleeping in
the vicinity were blown TO fragments.
A company has been formed in Pittsburg
with s, 0O0, 0oo, 900 capital to operate tin
mine near Durango, Mexico.
The Sioux Indians refuse to sign tho
| treaty opening their reservation to white
settlers.
The Chicago police have discovered a
] livery stable run by two boys who had
! stolen the horses and carriages with which
10 stock the concern.
Gov. Foraker of Ohio, refuses a re-noni-
| nation.
| A.one result NJ the Investigation of tho
| CONGREGATIONAL committed IL has been as
| certained that discharged convicts are sent
10 this country bv FOREIGN societies me
more degraded the convicts, the more
desirable are they az cmigrants. In many
cases men who have bcen sont back from
Castle Garden have been returned under
assumed names The committee are still
at work
BARLEY Campbell, the we'll known play
wright, died in the Bloomingdale insane
asylum July 30
| 90, pooth ,haoouroondo,. 4, -ch;ot os.ho
Salvation Army. will visit America This
month.
N Shipmon invantor NJ tho Sh;nma,
| oil engine died in Geneva N v recently
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fTOI; AloerC ~; naser, OK seGretary Oh
the chicago nisloricSi socle.1' 10 ueao'
Catherine Gahney, whose brother Patrick
dled suddenly Ia IN Snicago recently, intestate