Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1888-10-11


peintment Of q governor.
The other night a dynamite bomb YVES
exploded in front OF the postoffice at Shan
napin, Pa, ard an hour later another was
set of In the rear of the same building,
shattering the windows and wrechng
drug store.
John ID. Carpenter, printer, and John
Pierce, an old river man, were drowned IN
the Ohio above Louisville tho other night,
by the capsizing Of a sail boat.
The president hns signed the bill to ere
ate boards OF arbitration or commissions
for settling controversies and differences
between railroad corporations and other
common carriers engaged In interstate and
territorial transportation OF property or
passengers and their employees.
Two years ago party Of ten men started
from Albuquerque, N NJ, on a prospecting
tour Near Fort Apache, Ariz., they were
ambushed by on Apache Indian Of the San
Carlos tribe, who shot and killed seven Of
the men and robbed their camp. The other
men escaped. A reward of g., 900 was offer
ed by the government for the capture OF
the daring Indian, dead or alive The
Indian was captured on the lst inst. by a
scout.
Wilton Weston, the Chicago millionaire,
recently pardoned from the Pennsylvania
penitentiary, is going TO law about the
matter.
Deacon Richard Smith of the Cincinnati
Commercial Gazette, has bought the Toledo
Commercial Gra7ette, and will take posses
sion Nov ,2. New presses and type will
be put in, and an effort made to convert the
| sheet into a newspaper.
Tho Traders bank of Chicago, has failed
for 81 100000.
The supreme court of Pennsylvania has
decided that jacob Reese of Pittsburg,
must assign TO the Bessemer steel company
certain patents involving the Cosic process
in manufacturing steel, for which they
were 70 pay him $4,000. BY this decision
Mr. Reese loses patents worth $50 0O0, 900.
Our treaty of ''amlty commerce and navi-
cation" with Peru, has been ratified by the
latter.
There are 30, 500 Chinese 'return certif-
Gates" issued at San Francisco, still out
standing
The supreme court of Nevada has de
clared the anti Mormon test oath passed by
the last Legislature TO be unconstitutional.
The trustees of tho Peabody educational
fund met al New York Oct. 4. Dividends
amounting 10 S67, 900 were distributed last
year. Since 1865 the income distributed
amounted 10 81, IA, $50. In round numbers
the fund amounts 10 $4,000, 900. and the in
come TO be distributed the coming year is
about sc, 900.
L. ID. Wiggintou of California has been
appointed 10 I'LL the vacancy on the Ameri-
can partys ticket occasion d by Judge
Greer's declination of the vice presidential
nomination.
Flour has advanced s. in two months in
Minneapolis, and it is predicted that il will
, touch 80 per barrel
There being no opposition, the election
in Georgia for governor and state officers
passed OF quietly. Gov Gordon and the
| other officials were reelected. The amend
| ment to tho constitution increasing the
number OF supreme court judges from
three 70 five was adopted.
Dakota's wheat crop is comparatively a
| failure.
The collector at San Francisco has issued
orders prohibiting the landing Of any more
| Chinese.
The pension Office has received notice &c
suspend payment OF the pension OF Mrs
! Sarah Crutcher of Pitts Point, near Bards
| town, Ky. widow of James Crutcher a
revolutionary soldier She died last Sat
urday. She was SS years old and had
drawn pension since 1853.
The police of San Francisco ''puIled" 800
brokers and clerks a few days ago who
were patronizing clock game" They
| were released on bail, but about 100 clerks
| lost their positions. Small embellishments
are occurring daily on account Of losses al
| those games.
| Two Americans have been arrested in
London for the mysterious murders which
have taken place there recently.
The county house and Jail in Sac City
| Iowa, were burned the other morning
| Charles Carson, prisoner, was burned &c
1 death.
1t is thought that congress viii take re
cess about the goth inst. until after election
James Slater was caught between two
cars at Warsaw, Ind, and crushed TO deatt
| on the 9Th inst.