Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1888-06-07

| Tho general assembly Of United Presby-
| terians, in session at Cedar Rapids, Iowa,
| decided that it had no right to instruct
Presbyteries 70 refuse 20 license candidates
for the ministry who are addicted TO the use
of tobacco.
Mrs. F.. G. Kruger of Elgin, H., was
| killed while trying 10 save her child from
in front of railroad train.
The cornerstone of the confederate monu-
ment was laid at Jackson, Miss, May p,
JEFF Davis was too i'll TO attend
The German Baptist convention decided
against admitting c. A. Il. members.
The United and Reformed Presbyterian
churches will not join hands at present.
Kentucky distillers have about completed
an agreement to restrict the whisky output.
The western and northwestern freight
association has been recognized az Chi
cago.
Nearly 5l3, 0S0, 900 has been paid out in
pensions during May. In spite of this and
other large expenditures the excess OF
receipts over expenditures during the
month is nearly $5,OOO,OOO
Crop reports from the northwest are
exceedingly favorable.
Rev. DIR. Lyman Abbott has been elected
permanent pastor of Plymouth church,
Brooklyn, and the first regular successor
of Henry Ward Beecher.
Col. Eli Slifer, formerly state treasurer
of Pennsylvania, is dead.
w. B. AIRY aged %, is under arrest at
Wichita, Kansas, for forgery.
Frank Mills, a Harvard student from
| California, died few days ago from the
effects of opium smoking
Powderly is out with another manifesto
| in which he says he doesn't want TO be re-
elected general master workman.
The senate committee on commerce has
| decided not to purchase the Portage Lake
canal.
A Baltimore gentleman, whose name is
| withheld, has just given SlOO,OO to the new
1 Catholic university in Washington, and a
New York lady subscribes S5O,O to the
same institution.
| A Panama merchant, now in Chicago.
| says the success of the canal is assured
since the concession by the French of Sl2O,-
600, 900 lottery bonds. The first vessel will
be sent through before the end of 1891
| Boston Corbett who killed Wilkes Booth.
the SLAYER Of President Lincoln, escaped
from the insane asylum at Topeka, Kansas,
4 few days ago.
Bishop Gilmore Of the Canton, (Ohio)
district, has ordered that no priest shall
| Oi1iciate At funerals where flowers are used
Rumored that there is great danger Of
an outbreak of the Dakota Sioux. Oelrich
is the scene Of the threatened outbreak
An Italian boarding house at Pittston,
Pa, was burned the other night, and three
little children OF the proprietor persisted in
the flames.
Memorial services mt Gen. Hancock's
! grave III Montgomery cemetery, Morris
town, Pa, were held Sunday, May %.
| Maxwell Stephenson was the orator of the
/ occasion.
A large quantity of gasoline exploded
near Frederick, Md, the other morning
| l. 1a1 mo
! ly injured.
The river and harbor bill has been report
ed TO the senate. The bill appropriates
| sci .3SS, 7S3, being an increase Of 81, 7S3, 900
The railroad To the summit of Lookout
mountain is completed.
Capt McClaughey, one of the Chicago
boodlers, has been pardoned from Joliet
penitentiary.
l.. b. Rock, u we'll known railroad man
of Minneapolis, fell down "a stairway At his
home in that city the other morning and
oroke his neck. II is thought that he was
stricken with paralysis.
Heavy rain caused food in the Solomon
river at Stockton, Kansas, and two fami-
| lies were carried away by the flood. Three
! little children were drowned
Mrs Hattie Radcliffe was burned to
death at gainesville, Ohio, by throwing
gasoline on blaze.
Ohio state board of pardons recommends
| that "Blinky' Morgan be respitcd 10 days
| from June !.
Erastus Snow, leader of the Mormon
church, died at Salt Lake City May 30.
| j. G.. Weight, United States consul at
Manila, PHILIPPINE Islands, is dead.
james G.. Blaine will sail from Liverpool
| June 30.
In Pickcns county. Chickasaw Nation,
| TppritOrW
| ing the collection of the tax on stock, and
| have organized and armed themselves with
Winchesters. The militia is unable TO cope
with them, and the aid of the United States
will be invoked by the tribal authorities.
General warfare is feared.
The directors of the Mexican Central rail
way have voted an increase of capital of
81, 000,OO0.
Two highway robbers confined in Jail at
Monticello attacked Sheriff Henderson with
| an iron bar when he came 10 lock them in
| their cells, broke his skull and one arm, per
haps fatally iniuring him, and with Edward
Chambcrlin, the murderer of Ida Witten-
berg, escaped.
Judge Cooley says the inter. state com
merce bill is working well and coming into
more general favor daily. He thinks tele-
graph lines may be included in the prOvis-
ions of tho bill, but does not think that the
amendment relative 10 sleeping cars will be
| adopted.
Prof. II. G. Irving the noted gcologist, in
charge of United States geological survey
| in Wisconsin and Minnesota died at Madi-
son, Wis, May 80, of paralysis, aged Al. He
was a grand nephew of Washington Irving.
AT the annual meeting of the national
civil service reform league in New York
May 80, George William Curtis was re-
elected president for the ensuing year
FOREIGN.
The marriage of Prince Henry of Prussia