Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1889-08-08

Inc WIG OF -. 4. Harper, the imprisoned
Fidelity baEk official, has been in Wash
ing on to personally petition the President
TO pardon her husband. The President
promised her he would look into the matter
but at present could not see his way to act.
II required the entire po lice force OF tho
city TO enforce the Sunday closing law in
Cincinnati July %. Saloons were closed
and druggists were not allowed 10 sell soda
water, Lemonade or cigars. Hoodlums and
toughs in various parts of the city ere ted
some disturbance, but all riOtous proceed
ings were promptly quelled by the police.
The Lima, o., paper mills have been pur-
chased by the American straw board asso-
citation for 81, 900, 00O These mills are the
largest in the country, and have been in
operation for 20 years, paving out many
hundreds OF thousands of dollars for straw.
John Stricken, aged IS years, has been
arrested near Steubenville, o., for brutally
abusing his children. IL is alleged that he
has been hanging his sons and daughters
up by the thumbs and whipping them with
hickory ram rod until their flesh was re.
duced 10 "a Jelly. There is great indigna-
ton against the old man among his neigh
bors, to whom he has been a terror for
years.
Chicago anarchists celebrated the hun.
dredth anniversary of the storming of tue
Bastile on Sunday, July -. Lucy t.. Par
sons, widow OF the leader Of the Haymar-
ket massacre, Was the principal speaker of
the day.
Two companies have been formed in Kan
sas City to re calm the submerged land cn
the Missouri river, opposite that city. The
land is valued at So, 100000.
The White Earth Indians object TO the
opening OF their reserv alton Of 3,0O0,000
acres in Minnesota, and it is reasonably
certain that the reservation will not be
opened this year.
Two hundred Baptists of Nashville,
Tenn, have banded together to drive the
Mormons from that section of the state
The department of agriculture has order
ed from France five new varieties of WIN
ter wheat three of which are said TO be
rust proof. These wheats are TO be dis
tributed in bushel lots TO the experiment
stations Of the middle ana northern states.
The values of imports of merchandise
during the last fiscal year amounted to
S745, III, 49, and Of exports TO $142, 40l, 100,
an excess of imports over exports of 81
125,6 OF our exports the value Of do
meStiC merchandise was $3.50, SS2 G06, and
the value of foreign merchandise sl2, 49,
1913.
Wholesale fruit merchants of New York
will form an organization to control the
orange crop of Florida.
The civil service commission will ask the
President 10 exempt printers from civil
service examination.
The subject of annexation to the United
States has become so popular in New
foundland as TO cause considerable anxiety
in London
Reported that English capitalists are
trying TO obtain control of the coal fields
Of Scranton, Pa.
james +. Gordon and his son Frank of
St. Marys, Ohio, fell in the way OF "a now
ing machine aud both were hacked TO
pieces.
On account of the glut in the cotton
market southern manufacturers will run
their factories on two thirds time.
John II. Dunn, New York lawyer who
advised client, the cashier of the Mar
shall bank, to steal $lS5,000 of the banks
funds, has been sentenced TO nine years ir
Sing Sing.
Five women have been appointed on the
sanitary police force in Chicago TO inspect
factories and tenement houses.
The option Of Englishmen on Minneapolis
Touring mills is of.
A writ of habeas corpus has been granted
in New York in the case OF Henry - Ives,
who is in Jail for appropriating S2,553,-
32S
The Standard Oil company is endeavor-
ing to get control of the natural gas lands in
Indiana.
n company OF explorers recently un-
earthed a number OF human skeletons
buried in the chalk bluf, 10 miles east Of
Yankton, Dakota, on the the Nebraska
side. Fifty skulls and POO headless skee.
tons were found which local physicians
pronounce 10 be the remains OF white peo-
Pile children and adults. The indications
are they have been buried forty or fifty
years. Further research will be made.
Scion l.. Norton of Buffalo has been
appointed special inspector Of customs for
duty at Cleveland.
Edward Henessey, who was sent by a
firm in London TO keep the books in their
New York house. has been sent back,
under a ruling of the solicitor of the treas
ury, that his landing would be violation
of the alien contract labor law.
A lit son Of Fred proauke Of Elm
hurst, ILL.,, strayed upon the track as a pas
senger train was coming His brother saw
him aud went to his rescue. He fell and
the two were cut 10 pieces