Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1888-01-12
NEWS SUMMARY.


dinners to nearly 1000 posr children on
Christmas.
Right of way has been secured for rail-
road TO commence at Topic, state OF
Jalisco, Mexico, and run northwest to
Mazatian on the coast, IN the state of
Sinaioa, thence northwest through that
state, touching q number of important
cities, TO connect with the Southern
Pacific road at Yuma, A. +. The new
line will tap one of the largest and richest
mining regions in the word. Work is to
be begun in May and will require three or
four years for completion. English CAPT.
tai will build the road
An old law has been unearthed-and
will be enforced-which will compel all
banks TO pay ~ per cent. per annum on
All the Canadian money they have handled
tor the past 10 years. The amount to be
collected Is enormous.
Tue will of Mrs. Aston, who died in New
York recently, gives $4,000 to charitable
objects. The remainder of the vast for
tune is left to her husband.
( Henry Wise froze TO death near Austin,
Texas, Dec. 81.
( Hon. q. w. Mcllvaine, ex-judge OF the
/ The wife OF Congressman Z. b. Taylor
of ONO, died in Washington Dec. 80.
One hundred and twenty -eIght buildings
in homna, La, were burned Dec. 81. Over
! 100 families are homeless.
Judge Bell, known lar and wide as king
of the Apostle Islands, died in Ashland,
! Wis, Dec. 81. For nearly half century
he established what was practically lit
tie monarchy in the wilderness. lie was IS
years old and was the oldest living settler
on the historic spot where Marquette
founded his mission 200 years ago.
At the republican assembly caucus in
Albany Jan. 2, resolutions were adopted
vigorously protesting against the con-
irmation of l.. q. C.. Lamar to the
supreme bench.
joel Barker, the new governor Of New
Jersey, died in Philadelphia Jan >
For the first time in Ii years jackson
Miss, has elected democratic mayor and
! council.
Gen. Isaac b. Trimbe, who served in
the confederate army, died in New Y ork
few days ago. ne was graduate o.
West Point.
sixty thousand men are now involved
in the Pennsylvania coal miners strike.
Fifteen Thousand flint glass workers in
pennsylvania are out on strike.
Gen. Z. b. Alexander of ut. Paul, Man,
died at the residence of his son-n-law,
Col. Il. n. Lieber, IN Washing ton, aged 81
years. Gen. Alexander was u graduate OF
West Point in loz3. In ISL he was brevet
ed major tor gallant services at CerrO
a ~
which he served lie was in the recruiting
ervice during the late war and was bre
veted rigadier-generaL
Proteau, g3 years old, the first white resi-
dent OF Dakota, has been found frozen to
death near Fort Bennett. Since IA small
child ne has lived with the Indians. lie
was a trapper and scout well known along
the Missouri slope many of the earlier
settlers of Dakota and Montana owing
| their lives TO his kindness. lie acted as
scout and interpreter for Gems. Custer,
barney, SiDley and Sully, and as an evi.
dence thereof bore some twenty arrow
| points in his body. He was buried with
ceremony by the indians
| jacob II. Delaplaine, confidential book
! keeper of the Portage straw-boarj com
| pany, Circieville, o., has absconded with
| S4,OOl,
A sharp earthquake shock was felt in
the city of Mexico on the 3rd inst
The coinage at the mint during Deem
Der was 50, 164, Ujj, OF which 81 49, 200 were
standard silver dollars.
Gen. john T.. Fremont and wife have de.
cided to locate permanently at Inglewood.
Cal.
Twenty one business houses in Dalida,
Cal, burned few days ago. Loss, over
S3OOOOO.
The New Years reception at the white
house wa, gorgeous affair, attended by
the judiciary, the army and navy, con-
gressmen and foreign representatives.
Mayor Hewitt of New York asserts that
the country Is in danger of the spread o.
contagious diseases owing to the present
quarantine regulations at the port OF New
y ork.
In the United States court at st. Paul
the motion for an injunction against the
Minnesota thresher company was refused
and Senator Sabin will set about reorganiz.
ing his company at once.
George y. Wa lace, for Is years a MEM
Der of the well known advertising firm of
n. w. Aver q Son of Philadelphia, IS
lead.
General Master Workman Powderly is
too i'll to interfere with the Reading strike,
and the matter has been referred to the
general executive board at Philadelphia.
A portion of Beaufort n. c., was burn
ed the other night
The state of Alabama has let all its con-
victs on ten-year contracts to work in the
coal mines near Birmingham. They num-
Ger G0J.
Cynthia Il. Cleveland. well known in
Michigan is one of the incorporators of a
lew institution in Washington designed
to encourage the effort and promote the
success of women engaged in the profes-
sion OF Journalism and in different
branches of literary work in the United
States. Belva LOCKWOOD is its president.
The president has sent to the senate the
following nominations for interstate
commerce commission Thomas NJ.
Cooley, OF Michigan; VIM. r. Morrison, Of
| q ,xF NJ