Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1889-02-21
FOREIGN.

Count Tols;oi Russian minister tDf the
interior, has rendered his resignation and
the same as been acceptedby the car.
England and France nave recognized
Gen. Legitime as president of tho Haytien
republic.
A build ng fell near Bolton, Eng, on the
Sth inst, and six persons were crushed to
death.
The bark Theodore Behrend was wrecked
of Trexel Island the other morning, and
ten seamen were drowned.
a ferry boat cdpsizei on the Thames the
Other morning, end nine persons were
drowned.
The remains of the officers who fell at
the hattie OF Waterloo We're on the Sth
inst, removed from the Quarter Leopold
TO EYcre Cemetery
a federal union of the SoGth African
states is proposed.
The agent of tho East Africa company
has succeeded in obtaining the release of
the Catholic missionaries recently captured
by the insurgents, by the payment Of 1900
marks 10 Bushiri.
Frightful storms ragel throu ghcut Eng
laud, Germany, Holland and France during
tie week ending Feb. 10. Great damage
was done to property, and for days all rail
road trahic and telegraph communication
was al a standstll!.
Inc NdlUe Oh Iue pluuueE SeCuTeu " Jue
mob in the recent riot in Rome,is estimated
at SO, 600. The government possesses evil
dence that the anarchist leaders fOmented
the agitation.
Severe earthquake shocks were felt at
Bolton and Manchester, Eng, on the 18th
inst.
A new constitution of Japan was formally
promulgated on the nth inst
The dominion government will not reduce
the rate Of postage on letters in the domin-
ion to two cents.
A goldsmith in Vienna has poisoned his
five children with cyanide of potassium
After administering the po son to the chill
dren he took some of 1t himself aad died in
great agony.
Parnell will bring an action for libel
against the London Times in the Irish
courts.
Mrs. w. IL. Fury was found horribly
murdered in Dundee, Scotland, the other
morning. The woman's husband has been
arrested on suspicion of being the murder
err. He had long been u resident OF White
chapel, London, and the suspicion is strong
that he is the fend who has committed so
many murders in that locality.
Emperor William has ordered Prince
Alexander Of Battcnburg, to keep away
from Berlin.
Rumored that another Panama canal
company is being organized in Paris.
Mt. Nesuvius is again active and the
people are fleeing from the vicinity
The Russian government has granted a
concession for period OF oighty-one years
TO "A company watch proposes TO Join the
,, Black Sea and the Sea OF AZov. The com
pany has capital of 100000 francs.
Japan's new constitution promulgated on
the 18th inst. provides for a parliament,
suffrage, aud freedom of speech and re
ligion.
San Jose, Costa Rica, was almost entire
ly destroyed by an earthquake shock ON the
18th inst.
French royalists are planning for an al
lance with Gen. Boulanger.
1t is alleged that the Amer of Afghanis
tan is beheading 300 persons daily for in
terfcring with frontier troubles.
The labor strike in the north of France
is extending.
The Chinese of Hong Kong want the
| English government to address the Ameri-
can government on the question Of the
withdrawal of the exclusive bills.
The famine in Anhul and Kiangsu, in
China, is worse. In one province 30A0CC
families are starving, and, altogether, sew
eral millions are suffering from famine,
caused by drought two years in Succession
There is no change in the situation a.
! Samoa,