Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1888-07-19
GENERAL.

A terribly destructive cyclone swept
down upon a number of towns on the Chi
csgo, Milwaukee i St. Paul railroad on tho
9Th inst The track of the cyclone in Iowa
was 100 miles long The damage 10. crops
is simply inca5culable, but no loss OF life is
reported.
Mrs. William Elwell aged 81, and her
son, aged 40, OF East Liverpool, Ohio, were
both killed the other evening by a Cleve-
land * Pittsburg passenger train east
bound. They had stepped off TO tho side OF
the track and after the engine had passed
the son insisted on having the right of way.
In trying To pull him out of harms way
both were struck by the coaches and killed.
Two hundred thousand dollars worth of
property in Maysville, Cal, was destroyed
by fire July 3.
The Mormon church agents have turned
over to Receiver Dyer the noted church
farm near Salt Lake City, LILO acres val
ued at $4,000. Further large amounts OF
property are expected to be reclaimed
within few days in government proceed
ing against Mormon church property.
A careless train dispatcher caused the
wreck OF two trains near Nanticoke, Pa,
the other morning. 4 number of persons
were badly injured
After three months the Cincinnati brew
ers' strike has been declared off. The
strikers lost $4,000 in wages.
An explosion Of natural gas occurred in a
tannery near Allegheny City, Pa, the other
morning. The building was completely
wrecked, and number of men at work
about the building were seriously injured,
some Of whom will die.
DR.. ID. w. Bliss is making an effort TO get
the balance lover $4,000 appropriated by
congress to pay Garheld's physicians and
funeral expenses.
Warrants have been issued by the score
tary of the treasury for the payment Of
BIB, 761, oS9 on account Of pensions.
} Gen. Sheridan has been taken to his sum-
mer cottage at Nonquitt. He is greatly
improved by the ocean trip.
Railroad men say that the arrest of tho
strikers on a G. Il. 81 o., train few days
ago, is only a scare manufactured by the
Pinkerton detectives II is further alleged
that the strikers are being subjected to all
sorts Of outrages, and that unless they are
stopped, a strike will be inaugurated which
will tie up all western roads
Fire broke out in the Century building in
| New York the other morning, thought to
have originated in the bookbinding estab-
lishment on the sixth floor. The flames
broke through into the fifth story, the Cen
tury's publishing department, and then
burst through the roof. The losses are
estimated at S250.000, principally by water,
and fully insured. The upper floors and
roof of the building were damaged to
the extent of $4,000
A final and scientific attempt is TO be
made to fish up the treasure which went
| down with the British sloop-of-war Braak
! in Delaware Bay on the 18th of May, 119S.
| On two distinct occasions the trial has been
made and without success, but now the
| government has so far Endorsed the scheme
as TO make a contract with a syndicate
headed by DR.. Seth Pancoast of Philadel-
phia. The provisions are that the United
| States is TO receive ten per cent. of the
value gotten up from the oceans depths
| together with all brass guns, arms and
| ammunition recovered.
Congress is asked TO make an appropria-
ton TO run the elevator in the Washington
| monument.
A suit has been commenced in the su-
preme court Of Kansas TO eject about 300
settlers in Allen county, who have occupied
their farms for the past twelve or fifteen
years. The suit Is brought by the Mis-
| souri,, Kansas q Texas railway, and by
| spectators who have recently bought the
lands from the railroad company. The
| controversy relates to about 3d. acres.
The railroad company claims that the land
was granted it by congress In 1882. The
settlers say the description does not cover
the lands in controversy.
Two men were killed on the Grand Trunk
railway near Montreal the other morning
The senate committee on education has
made favorable report on the proposition
to submit to the people of the several states
| q constitutional amendment TO prohibit the
liquor traffic in the United States.
A disastrous rain storm swept over sew
eral Pennsylvania towns on the 10th
Bridges were swept away and tracks
washed out, seriously retarding railroad
traffic.
A heavy rainfall on the 9th inst. deluget
Kansas City. The loss to property Is about
$4,000.