Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1888-12-13
C;ENERAT.

Conductor Van Alstyne of the Canadian
Pacific railway has fallen heir TO an estate
in Scotland valued at ,000,0 900. Van
Alstyne has gone to Scotland to take pos
session.
The Oklahoma settlers have organized an
association TO protect their rights TO work
with the president in the matter of opening
the land and 10 locate new Corners free of
charge.
William II. Foster died at his home in
Salem. Mass, Nov. 30, aged 81. He was
the Oldest bank official in the country, hay
ing entered the Asiatic bank March 81, 1924.
He became its cashier in lS2S, which posi-
ton he retained for 80 years.
An immense vein of hard coal has been
found eight miles from Chamberlain, Da-
kOta.
The electoral vote of California is as fol
lows: Harrison l24, 500, Cleveland l1,120,
Fisk 5,16l, Curtis | ,59l.
The official canvass of Wisconsin's vote
shows that the total vote for president is
354, 64, an increase of "a, T76 over the vote
of 1884. HarrsOns plurality is 2l,21l;
Blaine's plurality in 1884 was 1850, gain
for Harrison of 6,59l. The prohibition vote
Of the state for president was a. 271: the
vote for ST. John in 1874 w"s 1856, gain
for Fisk 1921, and loss of ., 162 over 1886.
Oregon's Official vote is as follows: Har.
rison 33, 293 Cleveland 26,524, Fisk ,6I7,
Streeter, 1868, scattering 81; total vote of
the state 6l,9lS. Harrisons plurality q, 100.
At the last presidential election Blaine's
total We e i'm the state was %, $50, Cleve-
lands -, 64 Blaines plurality 2,256.
Gov. Beaver of Pennsylvania, is TO be
chief marshall OF the inaugural procession.
s. A. Hall Of Minnesota, has been APP
pointed chief of the dead letter office.
President Diaz of Mexico took the oath
Of Office on the LIST inst
At the annual meeting Of the Grand
United Order of Oddfellows, held in Nash
vile, Tenn, the following officers were
elected. Grand master, VIM. T. Forester
IF Richmond, Va; deputy grand master,
Charles L. Wilson of New Orleans grand
secretary, ID. b. Bowen of Philadelphia,
Pa; grand treasurer, w. H. Curtis of
Brooklyn, n. Y. Grand directors, j. w.
Anderson of Pittsburg, Pa. w. S. Cooper
IF Montgomery, Ala: j. s. Tuppins of
Readville, .. The next place of meeting
will be Atlanta, Ga, and the time October
2, 1890.
Rev. ]. Henry Smythe, d. D., Ii. D., of
Philadelphia, has given $4,000 to the Grant
memorial university of Athens, Tenn, to
nd in educating ten young men for the
! southern ministry.
The Inauguration committee proposes to.
reserve a place in the line for veterans of
he election campaign of 1910, and the com
mittCe is DESTROYS of hearing from all such
persons who would like TO be in the parade.
! A fire broke out the other morning in the
room of Cavalry Post No. 35, G.. A. h,
! located in Industrial Hail. Broad street,
Philadelphia, and the contents, consisting
of large collection of old battle flags, rel
les of the battle fields, and portraits Of en-
inent military men, were entirely destroy
ed. The post room was rated the best
furnished quarters in the state, and the
most valued relics cannot be replaced. The
| fire originated from defective iiue.
| Tho court of claims has orivau ind
for Sl3, S39 in favor of Col. John 5. Mosby,
/ late United States onsul-general to China.
This sum represents fees for issuing GER
tificates TO Chinese immigrants TO the Unit
/ ed States, collected in his official capacity
! and for which the accounting officers of the
treasury refused TO allow him credit
Two Wilkes county, Ca, negroes insult
! ed a white woman. The men were taken
by 300 whites, bound hand and foot. and
thrown into the river, their bodies being
, weighted with stones.
Mrs. Sarah lister died in Louisville, KY,
| on the 4th inst aged lOl years.
While an engine was taking water at n
! tank in the Grand Trunk yard in MERTON,
Ont, the other morning, a coal train ram
into it. Michael Sherry, fireman, James
Williams engineer, and Brakeman Allen,
all of the coal train, were instantly XII ed.
The engineer and fireman of the other en-
| CINE escaped uDhurt.
| Two girls were uTOWncu Ut hSnltllu, w s.,
the other morning while skating
Gov. Sprague's mansion at Narrdngan-
sett Pier, X. l., has been sod for $500, 900.
1t will be used for hotel purposes.
Judge Thomas Settle, republican leader
of North Carolina, is dead.
Gov. SYincford of Alaska represents that
through what he believes to be the absurd
if not corrupt decision Of the late United
States Judge in Alaska, private parties Sc
cured possession and control of the govern
ment wharf at Sitlxa, and now mohopolize
| the coal trade. He asks that the senior
naval officer there be authorized TO supply
the civil authorities with coal at cost price.
The Standard oil company will construct
n pipe line from Lima, Ohio, to st. Louis,
Mo, for the transportation Of oil for distri
button over southern and western states.
Extensive preparations are being made
by the Chicago anarchists for the reception
of Mrs. Lucy Parsons on her return from
her ecturing tour abroad. The civil author
ties, however, will take steps TO prevent
the demonstration.
Thomas Thompson, pioneer of the war
of 1912, died in Rockport, Miss, recently
Adit Gen. Koontz of indianapolis s, says
that the new democratic organization is
not antagonistic To the G.. A. r., and that
all newspapers claiming that II is are in
error.