Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1889-07-04
GENERAL.

Some time ago the solicitor of the treas
ury gave an opinion that there was nothing
in the law TO prohibit the landing OF Chi
nese for the mere purpose Of passing
through the country. Secretary Window,
however, has directed "A rejection Of the APP
plication until the question could be con-
sidered more thoroughly.
Jamestown, Pa, is no longer under mill
tary control.
The life-saving service is taking steps for
the establishment of two life saving stations
on the great lakes provided for by the last
congress-one at Marquette on Lake Su-
perior and the other at Kewaunee, Wis,
on Lake Michigan.
Typhoid fever has broken out in Johns
town, Pa, principally among the men en-
gagged in the WORK of removing the debris.
George Ii. Ormsby, who was lately dis
missed from the navy, has entered suit in
the supreme court o. the District of Colum-
bia against Secretary Tracy for 100000
damages for tire Spass incident to his i'm
prsonment at Mare Island, Cal, his trial
and dismissal.
A passenger train on the Chesapeake IL
Nashville road jumped the track near Bled-
soc, Tenn, the other morning, and the pas
senger and baggage coaches went down the
embankment about 20 feet Eight persons
were seriously. injured and a number OF
children were more or less hurt. The
wrecked cars were badly smashed.
William Walter Phelps has been ap-
pointed American minister 10 Germany,
receiving the appointment from the Presi-
dents own hands. Mr.. Phelps immediate
ly qualified for the position. After n brief
visit to his home 10 New Jersey he will go
TO Berlin.
The Illinois state board Of agriculture
estimates that there will be III, 900
bushels of oats harvested this year, and
4,0T2, 900 bushels of rye.
John Mcdonald Of Waterbury, Conn,
blind for 30 years, has Just passed through
a seige OF sickness, and his eycsight has
been restored, seemingly in miraculous
manner.
For debt of SIS which he could not pay,
Fung Hoy, a Chinese cook. was butchered
by three highbinders in San Francisco the
other night, who fell upon Hoy with hatch
cts and knives aud left him lying mangled
on the sidewalk.
The case of Kemmler, condemned to suf
fer death by electricity, was /. ken TO the
New York supreme court and action was
taken on the case June %. The state con-
stitution prohibits cruel and unusual pun
ishment, and counsel for tue murderer con-
tended that execution by electricity was
both cruel and unusual. The court decided
that testimony would have 10 be taken as
TO the effect of an electric current on the
human body, and appointed Tracy &. Beck
er Of Buffalo to take testimony and report
TO the court July 80.
William Walter Phelps one of the
American commissioners 10 the Samoan
conference, has arrived in Washington.
The President has appointed Henry
Lawrence To be assayer of the mint of the
United States at San Francisco; Michael
r.. Smith to be asSaNer in charge OF the
United States mint at Denver Colo; Jas.
l.. Fitch of the District of Columbia to be-
trustee of the reform school Of the Dis
trict Of Columbia
Mrs. Annie Craig, whose life was insured
for 500, died suddenly at the residence OF
her son in law, Edward Glyun in Pittston,
Pa, and as il was the third mysterious death
in Glynn's house, an investigation was made
and arsenic found in the woman stomach.
Glynn and his wife are in jail.
John NJ. Galloway, land commissioner at
Guthrie, charged with crooked work at the
opening of Oklahoma, has been removed.
w. NJ. Allison Of Winfield succeeds TO the
post
Rumored in official sources that tho
President will call an extra session of con-
gress in November.
A pleasure boat on the Hudson river was
run down by tug the other morning, near
Albany, and six persons were drowned.
Chas DeBaun, the defaultns cashier OF
the National Park bank Of New York, who
went TO Canada with $9S, 900 Of the banks
funds but was eXtradited, has been sen
fenced 10 Sing Sing prison for five years and
eight months
Solicitor Hepburn has given an opinion
to the secretary of the treasury that there
is nothing in the law to prohibit he land
ing of Chinese laborers who desire TO
merely pass through the territory of the
United States in transit. The question
arose on an application for the landing at
San Francisco OF a number of Chinese deS-
tined for Cuba, bond being offered for
their departure from United States terri
tory. The application was granted.
Moses NJ Dane of Utah has been APP
pointed chief of the accountants division
in the general land Office.
The preparation for the coming CONNER
cial conference OF the three Americas are
progressing slowly at the state department..
1t is believed that every one Ct the indie
represented, although two or three smaller
ones have not yet responded to the invita-
ton of the United States.
Henry A. Cassidy of White Plains, N. j.,
has been sentenced TO IL years in Sing Sing
for setting fire to TIE Catholic protcctory in
that city.
No further payment of pensions can be
made until after July |, no funds for this
purpose being available until then.
Gov Buckley of Connecticut has signed
the new secret BALLOT bill
A condemned building in Boston collapsed
the other morning. Three persons wero
killed and several seriously injured.
The local physicians of Johnstown, Pa,
after careful investigation and mature de-
liberation, estimate that 100000 were lost
in the flood.