Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1888-10-04
GENERAL.

j. S. Pruitt OF Kokomo Ind, shot his
wife and her attorney, j. G. Blocklidge,
while they were in court arranging papers
in divorce suit.
The Standard oil company is shutting off
production in the new Indiana oil fields.
Rumored that Col. Dan. Lamont will re-
sign the position of private secretary 10
President Cleveland, whether the latter is
reelected or not.
w. n. Riddle, John Il. Beal and NJ. +.
McMullin, capitalists of Pittsburg, have
been ordered by the court TO pay back TO
the Pennsy lvania bank the sum of 81 600, coo
which they squandered.
in Walton, Ind, Miss Ida Flynn, school
teacher, was set upon by woman named
Ruth and beaten with a club in a shocking
manner for having punished one of Mrs
Ruth's children.
s. l.. Holloway of Cincinnati, o., engin-
Ger on the Cincinnati, New Orleans a. Texas
Pacific railroad, was run over at Oakland,
Tenn, and cut in two near the center of the
body.
Gen. Walter G. Newberry has been APP
pointed postmaster at Chicago, vice s. G..
Judd resigned.
The Hurnham House at Round Lake. N.
Y. has been purchased by Mrs. Newman
wife of Bishop j. p. Newman, for Sl3, 900.
The building is TO be converted into q home
for missionaries who return TO this country
for rest.
The survivors of Durrell's famous battery
held their annual reunion at Reading, Pa.
Sept. %. OF the original members of the
battery but 100 are known 10 be living. A
handsome granite monument to the memory
of George w. Thurrell, their late command
er, was dedicated by the survivors.
Sam Wah, Chinaman, and his wife,
Augusta, white woman, are locked up at
the armory police station in Chicago
charged with bringing white women from
Milwaukee and furnishing them for wives
to Cinnamon at $25 each. Through their
matrimonial agency it is charged four or
five Chicago Cinnamon have been furnished
with wives.
Two colored boys working in a canning
factory at Frederick, Md, excited by "wild
west" novels, played Indian and cowboy.
Gross lassoed Thomas and threw the rope
over shaft just as the machinery started,
resulting in injuries TO the latter. from
which he will die.
The Acme manufacturing company OF
Wilmington, N. c., at the earnest solicita-
ton of farmers of that and other states,
have decided TO begin the manufacture OF
bagging for cotton, new machinery having
been purchased for this object. The fac
tory will run day and night. Insurance
companies announce that they will take fire
risks on pine fiber bagging.
Meyer Goldstein, rs years clerk for
Norris Greenebaum, an auctioneer Of New
York, has been arrested and held for trial
| on the charge Of swindling his employer
out Of $4,000 by forging checks. 1t is said
he confessed his guilt and surrendered
property worth %, 900 in the hope of immu-
nifty from punishment.
A banquet in honor Of Chief Justice
Fuller was given in Chicago the other
| night.
Justice Stanley Matthews Of the supreme
court is i'll.
Capt. A. II. Williams, for IS years engi.
neer and captain of steamboats, on the
| Mississippi river, died at St. Louis recent
| ly, aged 73. His last trip was made on the
| steamer Mollie Moore in 1878, when seven
of the boats crew were stricken and died
| with yellow fever.
Samuel b. Hale, the pioneer Of the