Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1888-11-29
NEWS SUMMARY.
GENERAL.

States fell off 81 100000 pounds during the
first nine months of 1883.
Rhode Island has abolished the property
qualification for voting by an amendment
TO the constitution.
The Adams Express company has paid
the government 81 400, being the amount
due which was lost between New Orleans
and Washington from a shipment Of Sl2,-
600, 900 in silver, when shot was substituted
for the stolen money
A serious wreck occurred on the Missouri
Pacific road near El Dorado, Kansas, the
other day. Two men and 100 cattle were
killed.
Gen. j. A. Dumont, chief of the steam.
boat inspection service, reports 10 the sec
rotary of the treasury that during the fiscal
year ended June 30, 1883, 6,425 vessels were
inspected and 29,54l officers were licensed
Thirty-siX accidents during the year caused
the death of POP persons, 50 having been
passengers and III employees on the steam
ers
Quong Yuen, Chinese laundryman of
New York city, has been arrested on n
charge of smuggling forty packages Of
opium from Canada. He is said TO repre-
sent a syndicate Of opium smugg.ers.
The board Of trustees of Columbia col
lege have decided TO establish an annex for
women students. Ii will be a separate in
stitution, but will have as professors and
Columbia faculty.
The president has committed to imprison-
ment for life the sentence of death impo sed
in the case of Thomas Thurber convicted
in Kansas Of homicide
The national grange will petition congress
for deep water harbor on the northwest
coast OF the Gulf of Mexico.
Col. Lamont, private secretary of Presi-
dent Cleveland. has been asked 10 take
ph IF bn 81 nm If a Naty
York paper at salary of $4,000 year.
William Davis Of Rockville, Md, aged %,
committed suicide at the bedside of his sick
mother, and the shock killed her.
Fred Simpson, the Northern Pacific ex
press clerk in Tacoma, w. T., has been cap
tured at Kailoops, b. &.
Public Printer Benedict denies the story
that he intends TO resign as soon as Harri-
son is inaugurated
Congressman Perry Belmont of New
York mas been appointed minister TO Spain.
The commissions of - postmastcrs OF
presidential Offices will expire prior 10
March !, 1850.
The Woman's Industrial League has peu-
toned the Knights of Labor TO keep Chi
nesc out Of the order.
The president Of the Irish national league
of America has issued an appeal TO the var
iOus leagues for funds 20 aid Parnell in his
defense against the London Times,
Charles Borden, sent TO prison from Dig
by, Ont, in 1870, for five years, for firing q
saWmill, turns out TO be innocent Patrick
Lyons Of Cleveland, o., confesses that he
did the work.
Ed. Mcdonald, the Chicago boodler, after
% weeks imprisonment, has been released
on $4,000 bonds u have new trial. Nc
Garigle, the eXiled boodler, can probably
now return in safety.
Ma, Gen. Scolald, in his annual report
says that there are so many assertions it IS
difficult 10 keep the United States army up
TO its authorized strength.
The United States supreme court has
rendered a decision TO the effect that a
Judge opinion cannot be copyrighted.
The household effects and wines of Lord
Saclkville, the deposed British minister
were sod at public auction in Washington
the other day.
The appropriation TO cover compensation
for the special deputy marshals at the late
election is inadequate 10 mCet the extra eX-
pense. About $4,000 is needed TO pay
them throughout the country and the de
paTtment has only $4,000 available 10
meet regular court expenses for the remain
ing sevea months of the fiscal year. Hence
the bills will have to go over unpaid until
special appropriation can be obtained
from congress.
The President is at work on his annual
message.
Rumor hath it that Col. Dan. Lamont is
10 be appointed Judge advocate general TO
succeed Gen. Swain.
Many persons We're seriously injured by
an accident on the big Four road near
Cincinnati
Mrs John Broadman of Upper Saadusky,
o., left her two chi drcn alone in the house
while she went out in the yard 10 milk the
Ia M vlta
playing near the CRATE, were burned TO
death, their clothing catching fire.
Capt Malcolm Stalker, one of the oldest
vessel captains on the lakes, died in Toledo
a few days ago, aged IS. He was a Scotch.
man by birth, came here in 1850, and has
been on the lakes since Has never had an
accident and never had a vessel that cost
the insurance company cent.
Chicago anarchists are again preparing to
don war paint. At a meeting near the Hay
market the other night, speeches were
made advocating the use of force The
speakers said that votes were of no use,
and their only salvation was in the use OF
arms. Out Of - persons present, 20 were
women. None of the old-time leaders were
among the speakers.
The home OF Jack Gregg, near Leesville
Ky, was burned the other night, and all
the family, consisting of five persons per-
ished, except Gregg, who was away from
home on business.
w L. Stoughton, paymaster for the
Moline, H., wagon company, is missing,
having drawn over $4,000 wages made out
to imaginary parties He was fast, on
moderate salary.
j. b. Sands, Pittsbul. sewer contractor,
and Charles Baker, bricklayer, were
buried by a clved bank and were dead when
released.
Five Minneapolis -four mills, represent
ing 5000 barrels daily capacity, are now
shut down. To these there will be several
additions when navigation closes. There
will be a general curtailing of the flour pro-
duction The reasons for this are the
wheat shortages and the dullness of the
flour market Most of the big millers have
large quantities of flour in stock, ready TO
take advantage of any Improvement in
trade.
United States Marshal Esmund of Fort
Dodge, La, is armed with warrants for the
e,ectment of from 500 to LOO families on
the Des Moines river lands. If the writs
are executed there will probably be war.
The Catholic taxpayers of GAINESVILLE,
Wis, asked the court to prohibit the read.
ing of the bible in the public schools. The
court holds that such reading Is not secta-
rian instruction and sustains the school
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