Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1888-06-14

President and Mrs. Cleveland will visit
Buffalo this month.
Prof. Anderson, principal of the Spencer
high school, and the Misses Lille and Clara
Hornaday were drowned in White river
near Spencer, Ind, on the evening OF June
g.
The Crystal salt works near Warsaw, N.
y, were destroyed by fire the other morn
ing
wreck near Anoka, Mimi, the other morn
ing.
r. r. Wilson, cashier of the Pittsburg,
Cincinnati Il st. Louis freight department
at Columbus, Ohio, is short $1,000. He has
absconded.
John +. Rayen, eX-postmaster at Sandy
Creek, Pa, has been arrested, charged with
stealing 1000 of Uncle SANS money.
The next general conference of the
Methodist Episcopal church, which meets
in 1892, will be held in Omaha, Neb.
Mrs. Blaine returns to Augusta, Maine,
about the 10th inst
General Henry w. Birge, one of the COM
manders Of the army of the Shenandoah
during the rebellion, died at New York the
other morning, aged 50. He was stricken
with paralysis on the evening of Memorial
day
Thomas Polhemus of Catlin, ILL.,, aged so,
has been sentenced to two years in the pen
itentiary for attempted burglary.
Gov Hill of New York, has signed the
bill which substitutes electricity for hang
ing in capital cases after Jan !, 1889. a
very limited number is allowed TO be pres
ent. Relatives have the first claim upon
the body, but no unusual demonstrations
shall be made at the funeral.
JEFF Davis celebrated his eightieth birth
~ .
The shops of the st. John sewing
machine company at Springfield, Ohio,
were destroyed by fire the other day
Ex-Goy. William Johnson of Kentucky,
died at his home in Bardstown, June 3.
A 12-years- old servant girl in the family
of John Owsley of Windsor, Mo, was ar
rested for poisoning the entire family by
placing strychnine in the coffee. She de-
MED the charge, but was made TO drink
some Of the coffee and died in half an hour.
Before her death she confessed she had
done the poisoning, and said she was forced
to do il by relatives whose names she gave.
The family are still in great danger and not
expected to live
The veterans of Georgia, without regard
as to which side they fought on, have &C
cepted the invitation of the army of the
Potomac to participate in the Gettysburg
reunion in July.
Harry Schofeld and John Rosenberg of
Warren, Ohio, were killed in a railroad
accident near Niles, Ohio, few days ago.
The bill granting pension to soldiers
and sailors confined in confederate prisons
has been ordered favorably reported.
The trades assembly of Western Pennsyl-
vania, representing 90, 900 working men, de-
nOunce the Mills bill and warns the public
against Congressman "Bill' Scott as an en-
envy of society
Attorney General Garland is seriously i'll
with rheumatism.
The house committee on public buildings
unanimously recommends that the Allen.
town, Pa, public building bill be passed
over the Presidents veto.
Tammany hall, in New York, was de-
stroyed by fire June :.
The walls of the Land and River I'm
provement company's hotel building at
Superior, Wis, fell in the other day, bury
ing five men and iniuring many others.
The president will establish national
patrol of the coast Of the United States TO
prevent the introduction of infectious dis
eases into this country.
Eighteen persons were killed in railroad
disaster near TampicO, Mexico on the 9th
inst.
During the late high water the bridge
across the Elk Horn at Wesner, Mo, was
washed away and a fatboat was used for
crossing. A party of eight were crossing
when the boat capsized Lena Matthes,
Anna Matthes, Franz Marx and o. NJ.
Matthes, all children, were drowned.