Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1889-05-23

The chief OF the bureau of statistics re
ports that the total values OF the exports OF
beef and hog products from the United
States during the month of April, 1889, and
during the four months ended April 10, 1889
rs compared with similar exports during
the corresponding period of the preceding
year were as follows; April. 1889, SS,3SS,-
602; April 1883, S6,S9., 042; four months
ended April 30, 1889, $50, 222, i62; four
months ended April 30, 1888, So, l0l,Si6.
The values of the exports of dairy products
were as follows: April, 1889, S4.0,02l;
April, 1883. 500, 7S4; twelve months ended
April 80, 1888, $302,7S4; twelve months
ended April 30, 1889, $l0,0ll 800: twelve
months ended April 80, 1888, S1O,613,5S5.
Gov Hill OF New York, has vetoed the
electoral reform bill.
The boom for the Sioux reservation. still
continues and the excitement i daily
growing greater. The prospects are that
before sixty days the boom will equal il
not exceed Oklahoma times.
The civil service commission has organ
lied by electing Charles Lyman Of Connec-
ticut, president.
A storm at Tacoma, w II, blew down
Building upon which "a number of men
were at work, and seven men were buried
in the ruins, six OF whom were Afterwards
taken out dead
Mai. j. w. Wham, United States aymas-
don, left Fort Grant with $29,Oc0 in coin to
pay troops stationed at Fort Thomas and at
San Carlos and Apache. The party was
surrounded in deep gorge, and fired upon.
At the first fire several members of the e5-
cort fell. The battle continue for over an
hour and Maj. Wham was finally compelled
TO surrender the So, 900.
The United States supreme court, in an
opinion by Justice Bradley, awarded the
executors Of the will of Myra Clark Gaines
the sum OF SGT, 900 against the city Of New
Orleans for use OF property sold by the
city but recovered by Mys Gaines after
long litigation.
At Carlisle, Pa, May ~ Gen Edward
NJ. Biddle, secretary and treasurer of the
Cumberland Valley railroad, died at tho
age of 81 years. He was major general of
the Fifteenth Pennsylvania Volunteers
and was the oldest railroad Official In the
United States.
Washington Irving BshGp. the mind
reader, died in New York on the 18th inst.
of hysterical catalepsy.
IL is rumOred that the President will
soon issue proclamation granting plrdons
TO all de erters, from the United States
army, whether under confinement or at
large.
Secretary Noble has dirDcteA that
prompt and thorough Investigation be
made of the pubished report that settlers
reservation 10 anticipation OF IA favorable
result of the pending negotiations for &C.
CessiOn to the United States Of a rart of
the Sioux lands. The law respecting the
occupation Of these lands by unauthorized
persons is plain and explicit, and tho sec
rotary expresses his purpose to enforce it
promptly and vigorously it, occasion re-
quires IL.
DIR. Frank, l.. Vincent, a brother OF Dr.
Vincent of Chautauqua fame, died sudden
~ at the sanitarium at Clifford Springs, n.
V, a few days ago.
Mrs. Mcneil and her three. children
Ridgeway, Pa, were killed bylightning on
the 18th Just.
Five Ii res were lost in the outskirts of
Pittsburg during the storm the othcT day.
DR. Cronin. the miss ,ng physician of
Chicago, was seen in Toronto II few days
ago.
Thcs. A. Edison has begun a suit against
Ezra Gilliland of Boston, and a lawyer
named TomiiHsOu, for the recog very of $3.50
O00 Edison employed both Gilliland and
Iomlinson last year to sell his rights in the
phonograph These rights AlC Edison es-
timated 10 be worth Sl,OOO,OOO He was,
however, induced to sell for 500 900 He
now claims that defendants made $4,000
on the deal and wants them to'disgorge.
Disappointed colonists are leaving Okla
homa every day and staaing,ou claims in
the Sioux re ervation.
Four men were killed by an explosion of
fire damp in "A mine a few miles fnOm Pitts
burg tle other morning.
Patrick Ford of Chicago, aged go Years,
shotaand killed his young wife ANA than put
bullet into his own heart.
The work Of counting the cash in the
United States treasury was commenced on
the 18th inst, and Will take 90 expert count
ers four months TO complete the couzt.
Two deaths from heat occurred in Mil
waukee on TIE 10th inst
A special meeting of the national demo-
! cratic committee has been called for We'd
| nesday, June II, at the Fifth Avenue hotel.
| New York, for the purpose of eject ng a
| chairman of the committees, and also TO
take appropriate action on the death of the
late chairman, Hon. William IL. Barnum.
+. w. Palmer, the newly appointed pub
! lie printer, qualified on the 10Th. inSt