Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1889-12-26
GENERAL.

Two thousand longshoremen at Savan-
nah, Ca, are on strike.
The senate has confirmed Gen. Raum
as commissioner of pensions.
Both branches OF the North Dakota legis,
lature have passed the prohibitory law.
Oliver johnson, the veteran editor and
abolitionist, died in Brooklyn few days
ago.
The Minnesota lumber cut will be from
10000, COO TO 100000, 700 feet more this year
than last,
The attorney of the District of Column
bia will commence proceedings against
Silcott for grand larceny
An explosion in a nitro glycorine fac
tory near Butler, Pa, the other morn
ing, caused the death of two men.
Ore thousand four hundred and ten dol
lars were stolen from the National bank at
Pawtucket, Il. T., the other night.
Three men were instantly killed and
four seriously injured by a railroad acct
dent near Graham, Mo, the other day.
William Sheets Harrison, a nephew of
President Harrison, died at his home in
River Forest, near Chicago, few days
ago.
Mrs Margaret billiard convicted with
her paramour of numbering her husband
has been sentenced TO be hanged at Eas.
ton, Pa.
Chcago's big auditorium, which cost
$3,600,0OO, was dedicated Dec. 9. Presi.
dent Harrison and Patti were the prin-
cipal attractions.
In letter TO the Brooklyn single tax
club, Grover Cleveland expresses the
hope that New York state will soon
adopt a ballot reform law
The mayor Of Salt Lake City, the county
clerk, county surveyor and several other
officials have been arrested for alleged
frauds in disbursing public lands.
The Globe iron works of Cleveland, and
the Illinois steel company of Chicago, have
amalgamated, and will coon begin steel
ship-building on large scale in Chicago.
The New York supreme court has dis
missed the injunction to prevent the mu-
nicipal authorities from interfering with
electric wires. Work will begin at once
in New York city to put wires under
ground.
Because Joseph Porter refused TO take
q drink with Marion CrOwell at Con
nellsvile, Pa, Crowell shot him dead.
The men had been friends but Crowell
was crazed with liquor
A 1O-year-old boy found a box under a
sidewalk in ST. Paul which contained the
lost will of Thos. II. Harrison, who died
wards of sl-000,0O0. The box had been
stolen by burglars.
Simeon Davis, citizen Of Bloomington,
H., was being tried on the charge of in
sanity Davis brother was the complain
ing witness. DLring the investigation he
became suddenly and violently insane, and
four strong men were required TO restrain
and take him TO jail Simeon Davis was
found insane
Franklin b. Gowen, a well known law
yer of Philadelphia, formerly president of
dead in his room at Wormley's hotel in
Washington with bullet wound in his
head. No reason is known for the suicide.
A meeting of the club National, the lead
ing liberal organization of the provinces.
was held in Montreal the other night. MIR.
Gouin, q son.in-law of Premier Mercier,.
made q stirring speech in favor OF annex
alton, and the meeting voted almost unani-
mously for the proposition.
George Reddington, the young man who
was supposed 10 have died at Lakin, Ks,
and upon whose life there was policy OF
81, 900 in favor Of his two partners, is alive.
One of the partners has confessed that the
scheme was put up to beat the insurance
company, and that Reddington was in the
plot
At banquet in Kingston the other night,
Sir John Macdonald replying to the toast
1.-THE. Dominion Government" declared for
British connection and held that the ma
jority of the Canadian people favored it.
Ruin and misfortune, he said, would follow
severance from Great Britain. No party
could ever be formed In Canada, having
for its object separation from England,
either to go il alone or annex TO another
land.
The coroners jury in the Minneapolis
Tribune building fire declares that the
owners, IL not legally responsible, are
morally culpable for the loss of life. The
jury also recommended that all electric
wires in the heart OF the city be placed un-
der ground. as the network surrounding
the building prevented the fremen from
raising their escape ladders in time to res
cue the inmates.
Myra Arris, aged 30, OF Concord, jackson
comfy, has been awarded $1,000 by a
circuit court jury against Bert Reynolds
OF Concord for an alleged criminal assault
committed on her Aug. %, 1889. She said
that Reynolds, who is worth 500, 900, came
to her rooms when she was sewing and
assaulted her. Reynolds will move for
now trial or appeal TO the supreme
court,