Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1888-12-27
GENER RAJ.

The President pardoned 1876 convicts dur
ing the fiscal year ended June 30 last and
granted amnesty under the Edmunds law
in three cases.
Chairman Briton Of the inaugural COM
mittee has received favorable answers 10
his requests for the use of the corridors of
the interior and postoiiice apartment
buildings for sleeping quarters for troops
during the inauguration. The sub commit
tee on civic organizations has already re-
ceived applications for positions In the
parade for IS organizations, ag' cgating
1900 men,. This is 1000 more TIN Were
Ia the parade four years ago.
Manitoba half breeds are to he driven
from Dakota, and trouble is feared.
Mrs Frank earle Of Rondout, n. Y,
shot and killed her five year old daughter
the other day Mrs. Garlic was showing "a
loaded pistol TO the little one, when the
weapon was accidentally discharged.
The American Federation of Labor, at
lis annual convention in ST. Louis, elected
the following officers for the ensuing year;
President, Samuel Gompers, New York;
first vice president, Daniel Mclaughlin,
Braidwood, H.; second vice president,
William Martin, Pittsburg; secretary, u.
J. Mcclure, Philadelphia; treasurer, Henry
Enrich, New York; trustees, Hugo Miller,
August Delabar and Josiah Il. Dyer, New
York. BY close vote Boston was selected
as the place where the next annual meeting
W II be held. There was bitter contest
be,wccn the friends of Philadelphia and
Boston, the latter city being victorious by
but two votes.
Two masked men attacked a passenger
train near Grenada, Miss, on the 10th inst.
and secured about $1,000 from the passen
gers. One passenger was killed in his
ruggle with the thieves.
The body OF Irene Halves, second child of
Richard Halves, on whose account the re-
cent tragedy at Birmingham, Ala, occur
red. has been found in the lake near the
place where the other child and the mother
we're found. Halves refuses TO talk of the
case against him
1t is rumored that an extra session of the
fifty congrc IS will be called.
The little town of Manchester, Kansas,
was swept away by fire &c other day, and
the inhabitants left homeless and penniless.
AS the result of a quarrel i'm Wahalak,
Miss. the other day between u Negro and
a white boy, "a collision of the two ra ces
occurred, end four white men were killed
and six wounded
Three men were drowned by the giving
way of bridge over the Merrimac, at
Hooksey, \. H., De-. H.
Hon. Finley Bigger, aged 50 years, died
at Nashville, Ind, Dee 20. He was appoint
ed register of the treasury in 1852 by
President Pierce, and held that Office
through the succeeding administration.
The house committee on fisheries has
commenced an investigation into the alleged
outrages in Alaska.
Amasa &. Paul, administrator of the es
tate of the late Prof. Edward c. Paul, has
entered suit against United. States Senator
Cullom of Illinois, for $4,000 damages, the
suit growing out Of the death of Prof. Paul
who was ridden down and fatally injured by
Joseph Chase, a negro coachman in the en-
ploy of the senator.
The jury in the case of Mrs. Preble
against Bates d Valley, stockholders of
Boston, to recover $1,000 alleged TO have
been lost in speculation by her son, have
given the plaintiff S34,712.
The house of Martin Regna three miles
from Huntington, w. Va, was burned the
other night, and his two children and his
aged mother were burned to death.
The United States government will send
TO the Paris exposition all the government
exhibits that were sent to the Cincinnati
exposition.
Charles f. DeBaum, the defaulting
cashier of the Park national bank of New
York, who embezzled S95, 900, has been
| formally surrendered by the Canadian
government to the authorities Of New
York city.
Tho United States supreme court ad-
journo1 December 20, until January 2.
Congress adjourned December 81, until
| Wednesday, January 9, the democrats of
| the senate having accepted the republican
proposition Of a recess or condition that a
vote be taken on the tariff bill january 21