Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1889-06-13
GENERAL.

Theu thousand men are at work In
Johnsto wa and vicinity clearing away tne
debris.
The greater part OF tho business portion
OF Seattle, W. r., was DESTROYED by hre
June u. The loss viii reach about x5,OOO'OOO.
The secretary Of the treasury has decided
that the new Catholic university mot IN
port European professors una err contract
without violating the alien contract laboT
law.
John II. Oberly, commissioner OF indian
adairs, has rendered has Tesignatit 10 take
effect Julyl.
| Canadian indiana rseT in council at Sar-
MIA, Ont, June ., ind sold 40 acres OF land
TO the UunUel company for $4,000.
The national brewers association has
contributed $4,000 to tho Jamestown TelicS
fund.
With the view OF ascertalhing the relativo
Importance OF the receipt and Gispatch of
mails at posto8Ces and the delivery thene-
from to tbs public on Sun lay, as compared
with the = me on the Other days Of the
week, T. u. Gen. WannalaAlteI- BIAS ad-
dressed letters OF inquiry to- the ssystlnas.
tors OF 100 OF the largest pos5oHlceS in this
country.
The New hampshire legislature has de
elared David d. Gooddell (rop) governor
Of that state.
Sixty buildings in Jacksonville; FlSTida,
burned June 3.
Richard Morgancf Pittsburg.,Sst % rel
atiVes in the JOhus,Own disaster
Gov. Hill of Now York has 1-otoeai Inc
high license bill.
The Michigan fuJvl5ture comparyss build-
ing,at Oakland, CaA, burned Few da -
age, At a loss of $4,000.
A fund for the relief Of the JoilastUw
sufferers has been raised in Berlin
Dvo1jdant I{arrioovr, hoo
Knapp of New York 10 be consul general
OF the United States at MontreL, and
Alexander Reed OF Wisconsin TO be consul
at Dublin.
The, commissioner extensions has sAkeul
steps to order all pensioners who recesve,
less than - per month before me licah ex-
aiming tO rds for "A re eating, with view
to increasing all pensions below 81 per
month % that figure.
On the morning of JuEe T. 200 bc@ses-
had been, recovered at Joilnstown, Pa
National sanitary surgeons have been
sent to Johnstown, 10 ain the local physi-
cans in. sheir work.
+. NJ. StOckslager, commissioner of the
general land oace, has rendered mis- rcsig-
nation tO'take effect JunOC50, and the sam9i
has been accepted
The damage to propertyiin Elmira, NY.
ana Vicinity by the LSG "A is estimated at
half m llion dollars. Thirteen lives are'
said to have been lost at Corning
Mrs. Catharine Schmid bf Wichita, Kan
sas, has been fond gulltA of selling three
glasses Of been and was sgat enceu TO three
mouths in the county jail and fined $}c0.u
This is thsHSst inst nee j pthe state where
woDar has been sent 10 nil for violating
the prohibition laws. The woman is "a
widow with Two children, and of limited
means.
Five colored persons wCIe killed in De
Soto parish, Louisiana, june |. by tree
blowing over on a cabin anb utterly demol-
ishlng it,
The Rhode Island general. Assembly has
passed q bill re. submitting % the electors
of the staee tho prop siti n adopted by tie
last general assembly to amend the consti-
tuition by annulling the prohibitory
amendment The vote in 1.-The house on
passing the bin was by ~ TO l3, the re-
quisite twOthirds and number TO spare,
aud in the senate g to 10. he election
will be hel on Thursday, J'snc 20.