Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1888-12-06
CURRENT EVENTS

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4 man 100 years old died in Maine lately.
Petroleum has been discovered Ia Eng.
land.
Chinese boys are studying law at San Fran.
cisco.
A statue OF Shakespeare has been unveiled
In Paris.
Harrisburg, Pa. Is to be furnished with
natural gas
A factory chimney at Kearney n. j., Is
| 1886 feet high.
Tacoma, w. T., has the only 5-masted
schooner afoat.
A new candy factory at Lancaster, Pa,
| employs 100 men,
The chestnut crop in Pennsylvania this
rear is large and good
The Troy, n. Y, collar and cuffs mills
employ $4,000 persons.
The strike OF the Chicago city railway men
has ended in a compromise.
A Kansas City woman smoked cigarettes
In bed. Result, Coroner's inquest.
The new Austrian minister OF justice favors
home rule for Bohemia aud Moravia.
A Manchester, y. H., firm ship, large
quantities Of cotton fsbrIcs TO China.
A shelbyvle Qud.) woman was plaintiff
In five divorce suits AMI defendant in one.
A CO operative store at Huntingdon, Pa,
has decided to close out and quit business.
A woman died az Merideu, Conn, asst
Seek after 50 days Of voluntary starvation.
A man has been arrested supposed to DO
guilty OF the recent murder, inLJnlon, Eng.
The S1ltan has prohibited the publication
Of any morning newspapers in Consautlnoplc.
Chinese travel TO the east from the Pacific
coast has, for several months, been very
heavy.
| The annual convention OF the American
Federation of Labor will be held in s. Louis
! Dec. IL
New York was shipping wheat to Buffalo
and Chicago last week, an anomalous state
Of afTlirs.
y shortage Of $4,000 has been discovered
in tho office of the public administrator at
New ORE ms.
American toys are being shipped TO Ger.
many, a country which formerly largely sup
| pleid our market.
The farmers in Kansas who sold their wheat
for sixty five cents wish now that the chintz.
bugs had eaten IT,
has aroused the intensest Indignation OF the
friends Of Bismarck.
About City liquor dealers in Jcrsey City
have been indicted by the grand iurY FOR sell.
| ing liquor gu Sunday.
! Mulcs raised on the Texas prairles can be
fought b. the carload at Atlanta Ga, for
| from SIS to SIS per head.
Organ zed labor in Pierce county, w. r.,
has succeeded in inducing hop growers to
dismiss their Chinese p!ckers
According to a calculation By Rev. a. c.
Dixon. OF Baltimore, heaven contains 5759
! $50, 900, 600 rooms, l9XlG feet
Hog cholera prevails in Warren county, y.
J. Eve farmers in one township lost 23J
! head OF swine from the disease.
After hurricane last month coral reef
so feet long, 30 feet wide aud > feet high ap.
peared in the harbor Of Vera Cruz
In consequences of the high price of -four
the bakers in all the cities have determined
to decrease the slz3 Of their loaves.
Americans have been awarded Is diplomas,
| &C gold, silver and bronze medals at the
international Exposition at Brussels.
Mlkmen at Toronto. Can, who water their
milk and are found out have TO pay fine of
| $50 and costs or 20 to jail for 30 days.
The expectation of iron from Germany ia
gradually dWindling away, and II is said the
trade is passing into British hands.
At the meeting Of the Pope and Emper-
or William last week the former laid
stress upon the restoration of the temporal
power.
Tue Chinese IN California are buying fruit
farms and establishing canneres since the
efforts at desplacIng their labor by native
boys and girls.
The men who work the orc that comes from
Martin White mine at Ward, New, have their
hair, wLiskers and eyebrows turned to per-
manent green.
-Four steamers, loaded with oil at Green
po mt, Long Island, last week, we're burned,
together with adjacent property, causing u
loss Of 100000
A New York civil engineer has applied for
patent for a locomotive and tender by
which nc claims he can make 9j miles an
hour with ten coaches.
A curiosity of patchwork recently received
in Richmond, Va, from Norfolk is a mantel
lamLrequin made Of sixty.six badges collected
at The Gettysburg reunion last July.
Patagonia AMI Argentine are gaining
large accessions of farmers By immigration.
\ person NAV become citizen on his land
| ing there ard he can get his land for nothing.
There are "a electric RAILWAYS in this
country, covering 13S miles of single track.
There are also 3 3jl electric light plants,
furnishing l9!,50O arc lamps and 100000
incandescent lights
The fastest armore1 cruiser In the world is
said TO be the German vess, Grief, OF 20OI
tons and 5,400 horse power. From kiel TO
Wilhelmshafen she attained a speed of tNen-
ty-three knots an hour.
smoking is killing men said Joseph
Schiff, OF New York. and then deliberately
jumped from pier in the Est River and
droN nded himself because be could uCt
break himself Of the smoking habit
The League and Association base bali
seasons have closed. Tn the League the New
York Club wins the championship, with
Chicago second. In the Association ST. Louis
wins the championship With Brooklyn
second.
There is a new high wire act Two men