Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1888-12-06
NEWS SUMMARY.
GENERAL.

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New York is l4,3i"
! BY general order issued from army
headquarters the army regulations are so
amended as TO prescribe that the desertion
of a non-cOmmisSioned officer or his absence
without leave, not satisfactorily accounted
for, covering period OF ten days, shall va
cate his appointments as non commissioned
officer from the date Of his deserton or alb
scnce without leave.
Joshua Foster, for as years connected with
the Pennsylvania university for the deaf
and dumb, and for the last II years its prin
cipal, died at New Brunswick, n. j., Nov.
81, aged 20. He was an eminent authority
on the treatment Of deaf mutes.
Kansas official figures show that Harm.
sons plurality over Cleveland in Kansas
is S0,li6. Harrison electors received 1872 GA
and Cleveland l0!,15S
The Vermont house of representatives de-
fcatcd the license bill by n vote of lac to 81.
The New York supreme court dec dos
that the Bell telephone company of Boston
/ is liable for New York taXcs.
During October past iO,%5 imnigrants
came TO this country again A. l6i ia OC-
! tobcr, 1881. Germany furnished the gre at
est number, 1906; England and Wales,
/ 9,417; Ireland, 90 o; Sweden and Norway,
! 4,2a0; Italy ",iS5, and Scotland 2,0,4.
The engineer officers Of the United
! States navy have formed themselves into
! a
Of naval engineers.
Prof. r. II VANDERBILT assembled half a
mile in his balloon al Columbus, Ga.
/ Mountaineering the balloon burst and the
/ professor took 10 his parachute. The de
scent dropped him into a river, and before
/ he could be reached he was drowned.
The increase in TO internal revenue re-
/ ccip;s for four months ending June 80 last,
! amounted 10 Sl,l2i,It5. The October re
caipts We're morc-$l, 30, - greater than
/ those for the same month Of last year.
Judge Frances a Macamber Of the
seventh New York district decides that
/ strikes are not legal excuses tor failure 10
! complete contracts.
The postmaster general has submitted to
/ the secretary Of the treasury his estimates
/ for appropriat ms for the postal service for
the fiscal year ending June 20, 1880 They
aggregate Sji,sl2,0i3 az against $50, Sf0,23,
/ the appropriation for the present fiscal pear.
Experts estimate that there are 10000
square miles Of coal in Colorado.
l. V. Williamson OF Philadelphia has
| given Sl2,00O,OJO for the establishment an
industrial school for boys.
John NJ. Ward the short stop of the New
/ York base ball team has been sold to the
! Washington club for $4,000.
The commissioner Of the general land
Odcc has decided that tract of about
| 5000 acres of land situated in township -
| north. ranges and west in the ASH nd,
| Wis. land district, claimed by the Chic 20,
/ 81 Paul, Minneapolis q Omaha railway
! company, is not mineral in character and
! consequently passes TO the railway com
! pany under its grant.
The yellow fever has blghted the pros
! poets OF Florida hOtelkccpers Nearly all
/ the New Workers and BOsionese, who
usually spend their winter in that section,
will 90 to southern California and Der
/ muda during the coming season. The tide
of fashionable travel has set away from the
! Pelican state.
| Another railroad is to be added 10 the
network of systems IN the northwest. ne
new project has for its object an air line
10 Kansas City from ST Paul and Mime
! apoiis, via Dcs Mo,nes, andcover route
almost equi-distant from the Kansas City
Il Omaha line.
The Hendricks club Of Indianapolis OBJ
served tho anniversary of the late vice
! president = death Nov 25,) in fitting man
! ner
A furious storm ragged throughout the
middle and New England States Nov. -,
! the fall OF snow in many places being the
| heaviest known in years. In New York
sleet and hail followed the snow. Great
damage was done TO vessels in the harbors.
A strike OF the brotherhood of Locomo-
tive Engineers extending from the Gulf TO
the Pacific, and involving the entire South
crn Pacific system, is threatened.
The Pope has asked Cardinal Gibbons to
| congratulate Mr.. Harrison on his election.
The Lehigh Valley railroad company
offered to pay $1,000 each in the case Of the
! Mud Run disaster, but the relatives of the
victims demanded . much larger sum.
The lS-year-old daughter of VIM. Turner
| of Amelia, Ohio, was shot and killed by her
brother Aaron, l3 years of age, the entire
! contents of "A double barcled gun entering
her brain.
Two passenger trains collided near Hus-
| ted, Col, the other morning. The upset
ting OF the stove in tho baggage car of one
of the trains set fire 10 the train, and before
! il could be oXtngu shcd three cars were
consumed, but fortunately no one was i'm.
! prisOned in tfSm. The escape of the pas
! sengcrs seeriG miraculous. Two trIinmcn
were killed, w. III. Phillips, express mes
senger, and j. II. Milan, baggagemaster,
both Of Rock Island.
The Chinese lepers in British Columbia
have communicated their terrible malady
to the Indians in that province, numbering
5000. The Columbia authorities have for
| several years been informed of the presence
| of Chinese lepers, but took little or no ac-
| ton against them, fearing that the agitation
! of the subject would turn away the tide of
emigration coming from Europe.
Frost in Florida has put a stop TO the raw
Jacksonville have decided to remove the
| restriction upon travel as soon as disin-
lection shall have boon completed.
The true source of the Mississippi river
has at last been discovered by persons lv-
ing at Sank Center, Mimi. 1t is two small
lakes, one of which they named Lake Jose
phinc. These lakes are fed by many small
creeks and their waters are emptied into
Lake Gla2ier, which lake was discovered
by Capt Willard Glazier, who claimed it
as the source of the Father of Waters"
Secretary Whitney prcetuted each of the
40 employees OF the navy department with a
turkey for Thanksgiving dinner.
This Philadelphia steam collier Allentown
| foundercd off Cohassett, Mass, the other
morning. She was bound for Salem, Mass,
with 900 tons Of coal, and had crew of
Is men, all of whom were lost.
Virgins, the weather prophet, says he
predicted the recent Californ n earthquake
biX months ago. The movement. he asserts,
will extend east across the continent to
Europe in February, but will be of a very
moderate nature.
The republican spell binders association
was organized in New York recently, with
these officers: Chauncey NJ. DepCw, prcs-
dent; Col. Elliott +. shepherd, Mrs j. FL
len Foster, Charles Foster, Hon. William
Mckinley of Ohio, and Gov. William Il.