Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1888-06-21
GENERAL.

ne lGtSlucnL mas signed Jne Dill dppfO-
priating $50, 900, 900 for pensions.
Lightning set fire to the town hall in
Westminster, VT, the other day, totally
destroying the building. The building was
erected in l770. 1t was in this building
that the first legislature of Vermont met.
Five men were killed at Sutton, Pa. by
the over turning of ladle of not metal in
the Bessemer mill.
Train robbers boarded "a train about II
miles from Cincinnati the other night. The
robbers fired four shots into the express
messenger fatally wOunding him. They
secured considerable booty.
The president has approved the act to
amend the act TO establish agricultural sta
tions in connection with colleges.
The Atlas paper mill at Appleton, Wis,
burned the other night, at "a loss of Sl50,0O0.
The Railway Age estimates that 2,2Tl
miles of track have been laid from January
TO June of this year.
Gen Sherman has been i'll with rheuma-
tism, at his hotel in New York, for several
days.
Gen. Sheridans mother is quite i'll at
her home in Somerset, Ohio.
Gen Sheridan Is still very sick man,
with but little prospect of recovery.
Nearly 5000 immigrants landed at New
York June 10.
John Allen Crittenden, brother of ex-
Gov. Crittenden of Missouri, and half
brother of Logan G.. Murray of New York,
died at Frankfort, KY, recently.
While attending horse afflicted with the
CHAMBERS, William George of Springview,
Neb., was inoculated with the poison, and
died in fearful agony.
The President has signed the act making
appropriations to supply the deficiency in
the appropriation for expenses in collecting
customs.
Three persons were burned TO death in a
tenement house fire in Lowell, Mass, June
TO-
Several persons were killed by lightning
during storm at Fort Yates, Dakota, the
other morning.
John M. G.. Parker, a brother-in-law of
Gen. Butler, died at Centralville, Mass, re-
Gently. He was appointed postmaster at
New Orleans after the capture of that city
by Butler, and on the return of civil gov
eminent was appointed surveyor of the
port by Gen. Grant.
The President has approved the act of
congress providing that pensions heretofore
or hereafter granted to widows OF soldiers
of the war of the rebellion shall commence
at the date of the death of their husbands.
This legislation favorably affects all claims
Of widows of the late war which have been
filed in the pension Office on or after July /,
1880, and which have been allowed TO com
mence from the date of the filing OF the
claims; but will not favorably affect the
cases Of such widows as were filed before
July, 1880, and which have been allowed,
pension having already been granted in
those cases from the date of their husband's
death. No formal application is necessary,
and the services of attorneys will not be
necessary. Widows entitled under said
law need only write a letter giving name
postoffice address and certificate number
and the claims will be allowed with as little
delaw as practicable.
y Cincinnati juries refuse to punish saloon
keepers for violating the liquor laws.
Mrs. Garfield, widow of the late Presi
Grand Army encampment that she will not
the grand encampment at Columbus the
first week in September.
Peter Shannon, aged 60, of Portland, Or
agon, in fit of jealousy shot and killed hi;
wife and then shot himself.
A boat containing five young men wa.
upset near Venal Station, Maine, the Other
morning, and four of the party were
drowned.
Harry q. Carter, ex-treasurer Of st
Joseph, Mo-, Is short 5000.
Action on the nomination of Melville w
Fuller as chief justice Of the supreme court
has been postponed until after the Chicago
convention.
Prince Ronald Napoleon Bonaparte wa,
presented 10 the Pro sldent and Mrs. Cleve
land the other mD""'H'