Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1889-12-19
GENERAL.

GENERAL.
There are GOA destitute families in Miner
county, 5. ID.
Rt. Rev. John Tuigg, Bishop OF Pitts
burg diocese is dead.
Two thousand longshoremen at Savan-
nah, Ga, are on strike.
The senate has confirmed Gen. Raum
as commissioner Of pensions
Boston elected republican mayor on
the 10th inst. by big majority.
January 1st the Kn,PA:s of Labor open
their warfare On tbs sugar trust
A strike is on and not a freight train is
I moving between Tacoma and Helena.
w. r. Allen, professor of history n the
Wisconsin university at Madison, died Dec.
10.
Oliver Johnson, the veteran editor and
abolitionfst died in Brooklyn a few days
ago.
New Haven, Conn, has appropriated
$4,000 TO provide free books for poor chill
dren.
Rev NJ. Nj. Williams of Troy, n. Y, the
oldest graduate of Princeton College, died
Dec. 5.
w. f. Petit, a Methodist minister of
Lafayette, Ind, has been arrested for wife
murder.
Three men were killed and six injured
by an explosion of natural gls at Braddock,
Pa, Nov. %.
over 100000 have been raised for the
families of those who lost their lives IN the
Minneapolis fire.
Gen Israel Vogdes, retired army officer,
died in New York few days ago He was
in the service for As years.
The attorney OF the District of Colum-
bia will commence proceedings against
! Silcott for grand larceny.
The National steamship company's pier
on North River burned the other day, ana
four men were burned to death.
An explosion in nitro glycerine fac.
! tory near Butler, Pa, the other morn
ing, caused the death of two men.
The London Star is responsible for
! the statement that Gen. Boulanger is 10 de-
! liver a course OF lectures in America.
A misplaced switch wrecked a train near
! Chesterton, Ind, few days ago. Two
! persons were killed and several injured.
1t is reported that an English syndicate
! with 500, 900 capital will invest this
/ money in bracing up American railroads.
OF five Indians in Jail at Florence, Ariz.,
/ to be hanged, three committed suicide in
their cells the night before by strangula-
tion.
Mrs. Margaret billiard convicted with
| her paramour OF numbering her husband,
| has been sentenced 10 be hanged at Eas-
ton, Pa.
John Burns the London labor, leader has
been asked to come TO this country and do
some work. He has not yet accepted the
invitation.
Chicago's big auditorium, which cost
81, 00OOO0, was dedicated Dec. y. Presi-
dent Harrison and Patti were the prin-
cipal attractions.
The grand jury of San Francisco recon-
mended the adoption Of the Australian bal
| lot system as preventive OF crimes
! against the franchise.
Two Italian laborers were killed at
Howard Junction, Pa, by an explosion Of
dynamite and two Chicago ladies asphyxi-
ated by escaping coal gas.
In letter TO the Brooklyn single tax
club, Grover Cleveland expresses the
hope that New York state will soon
adopt ballot reform law.
w. S. Shirtlef of Waterloo Iowa, has
been appointed to the position made vacant
by the defalcation OF Cashier Silcott, in
the house Of representatives.
Several Of the largest mills and elevators
|
$1,000, 600 by the English syndicate that has
invested in similar property in Minneapo-
lis.
A collision OF freight trains occurred near
Dubuque, Iowa the other day. and two of
the trainmen were killed. The collision
was caused by the carelessness of brake
man
Mollie Brown, prisoner in the peniten-
tiary at Leavenworth, Kansas, struck r.
S. Hanks, a guard on the head with a
Ratchet, inflicting u wound which caused
his death.
John A. Gray of the piano firm of
Boardman q Gray, one Of the oldest piano
manufacturers in the United States, was
found dead in bed in Albany, N. Y, the
other day.
Mrs. Olive f. Friend, Mrs. Emily How
ard, Orrin A. Halstead and Geo. Halstead
the remaining electric sugar swndlers,
plead guilty TO grand larceny in New York
the other day.
Under the provisions of the Iowa pro-
hibitory law, q number OF men who are
known as habitual drunkards, have been
summoned TO testify against Ia saloon
keepers Of Cascade, who have sold them
liquor.
The Virginia Farmers Assembly has
adopted resolution requesting the legis-
lature to pass law requiring all railroad
corporations chartered under the laws OF
Virginia to have their principal offices in
this state.
The board OF trustees of the South Da-
kota state university have extended a
unanimous call to DIR. VIM. Harper of Yale,
TO I'LL the presidency the place made va
cant by DIR. Olson's death In the Minneapo-
lis Tribue disaster.