Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1888-02-09
NEWS SUMMARY.


conference will be held in Sew York April
IS.
Archbishop Corrigan has resigned as
trustee of the proposed Washington
Catholic university.
The secretary of treasury has awarded
silver life saving medal to Capt. c. w.
Johnson of Winneconne Wis, for service
rendered in saving lives during the past
two years.
speaker Carlisle has gone south to rest
and recuperate.
The house committee on commerce re-
fuses to investigate the Reading strike
and refers the matter to the interstate
commerce commission.
Three men who were clearing snow from
the railroad track near Holyoke, Mass,
were run into by passenger train and
instantly killed.
The storm throughout the east is the
worst known in 25 years All railroads
nave been blockaded and for several days
trains were abandoned. Drifts from 40 to
GU feet deep were formed and, SO rapidly
that it was impossible TO keep tracks
cloa-.
Mrs. Rawson of Chicago has been arrest
ed for completely in her sons attempt to
kill her husband, well known banker OF
that city.
Miss Eta Shattuck the school teacher
so badly frozen in Holt county, Neb.,
during the recent blizzard, has had TO
have both legs amputated. She will live.
Printers III the government printing
Office will ask congress to increase their
pay from 50 20 to a W per day
The house committee on war claims has
reported favorably to the house bill
appropriating S3d,S73 for the relief of the
Union national bank of Louisiana.
Postmaster-General Dickinson objects
TO paying steamship subsidies millions
for the work they Go, and claims that if
he can have any influence the men who
own American ships will not get the mil
lion dollar appropriations unless they
earn'it.
The swine breeders association of Indi-
ana has adopted resolutions urging con
gress to pass an act requiring adulteratod
lard to be labelled
The Rev. David Lathrop Hum, the old
est living graduate Of Yale college, died in
Eulialo few days ago, aged 95 years.
Nebraska leads the list tor railroad
building in 1857, with LIB miles of new
track.
a naphtha car leaked into the sewer at
Binghampton, n. y, and several explo-
sions occurred along the line of the sewer
to the river damaging several thousand
dollars worth Of property.
representative Blount OF Georgia, has
introduced III congress a bill which pro
vldes for the erection of postoliice build
ing at every city were the gross receipts
Of the Office are over 50 900, the cost of the
building to range from $1,000 TO SIS, 900,
according TO the business done. The plan
is substantially the same as that recon-
mended by Mr.. Villas and indorse by Mr.
Dickinson.
Pro. Asa Gray, the distinguished botan-
ist died in Cambridge, Mass, a few days
ago, aged a. years. For many years he
was professor of botany in Harvard col
lege.
Many lives are reported lost by snow
slides on the Canada Pacific road.
A tire broke out on broadway, New
York, the other morning and property to
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bofore the flames were subdued.
Maxwell, the ST. Louis murderer, has
issued an appear for fair play
The house committee ON invalid pen
sions has reported favorably the bill
granting pension of e., 900 a year to Mrs
D Ohm A. Logan, and TO increase the pen
sion OF Mr.. y. a. Blair, widow of the late
hen. francis p. Blair jr., to the same
amount.
A freight train went through bridge
on the Lake Shore road, near Pine Station
Ind, the other morning One brakeman
was crushed to death in tho wreck and
several other trainmen were seriously in
jured
The immense shoe factory in the Virginia
penitentiary was destroyed by fire a few
days ago, causing a loss of Sl7j, O0J.
Nina Van Zandt, August Spies proxy
wife, has received resolution Of condo
fence from Bohemianssocialists and Is
greatly pleased to have achieved intarna-
tional fame.
A suit for $4,000 damages against the
Western Union telegraph company has
been brought by Frank /. Primrose, q
Philadelphia wool merchant, who lost
that amount of money by a Numbered
message.
The greatest land slide ever known took
place on the California d Oregon railroad
a few days ago. About 100 miles of track
are covered. The road is a new one, and
the recent heavy rains had thoroughly
soaked the road bed.
The women OF Wisconsin have been de-
feated III the supreme court, the court
holding that the legislature of 1885 did not
for moment contemplate the same suf-
frage to females as to males.
General Master workman Powderly de-
mics McGlynn's statement that he Pow
derly) sent an embassador to Rome.
Hugh Maxwell under sentence of death
at st. Louis for the murder of c. A. Prel-
Ter, has published an appeal IN which he
asks for fair play, and declares that his
trial and conviction were conducted in
violation of all presidents.
The blockade has been raised on the
eastern railroads. For several days whole
armies of men worked 20 clear the tracks
of the leading lines, In many places the
drifts were as high as the caves of the cars.
The senate postoflice committee con-