Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1889-01-10


day to the consideration of the river and
harbor bill Mr.. Dockery's bill prohibiting
any agent or attorney receiving fee for
securing an Increase OF pension ON account
Of any increase Of the disability for which
the pension was originally granted was
passed.
JAN. 3, SENATE-The senate continued the
discussion on the tariff bill, disposing of
three and onehalf pages of the bill
HOUsE.-The entire session was spent in
hlioustering over "a proposition TO change
the rules.
GENERAL.
II. G.. G. Atwood, for six years past the
United States consul at San Domingo, has
been dismissed in disgrace from his posi-
ton. The dismis sal is on account of At
woods having ret0ined possession Of money
entrusted to his keeping by the San DORM
go authorities, TO be forwarded - f,ew
York.
Thousands of dollars are sent from this
country every week TO aid Parnell in his
fight with the London Times.
In little town in the western part of
Nebraska the neighbors of "A man named
Cutler captured him with q lasso tied him
TO post and severely whipped him for
beating his wife, whom he had been com
pelled to marry. The next day he swore
out warrants under which the entire male
population of the place were arrested and
taken TO Greeley Center where they will
lie tried.
Rev. James Petigrue Boyce, LII D., d.
D., president of the Southern theological
seminary in Louisville, KY, died in Pau,
France, Dec %.
Martin Sullivan, life prisoner at the
Massachusetts state prison, has been par
doned by the governor and council. Twenty
seven years ago Sullivan was sentenced TO
Imprisonment for life for highway robbery
OF an extreme nature. He ia As years old.
The lighthouse board ask for g., 800, $40
to continue the work the coming year.
The wife of Mai. Gen. Schofield died in
Washington on the 10th ult.
Seven persons were drowned rear Rip
ley, o., on the 30th ult., while trying 10
cross the river from Kentucky to Ohio ia a
sliff.
The business portion of Bottineau, Da-
kota, was destroyed by fire Dec. 90
Hon. Moses Mordecai died in Baltimore
Dec. 80, of ossiiicat.On Of the heart, aged So
Gears, He was native of South Carolina,
and represented that state in the United
States senate for two terms preceding the
rebellion.
n. j. Mcconnell, chief justice of Montana,
LAS rendered his resignation.
The President has ordered the removal
of Edward Cushing, collector of customs at
Belfast, Maine
Between 2,OO0 and 5000 poor children in
Washington were given dinners by the
different Christmas clubs on the 29th inst.
The Oklahoma boomers will start for the
land of promise about Feb. !.
The Cincinnati, Washington & Baltimore
road has beer placed in the hands of a re
o3iyer.
Southern Dakota people favor division
of the state.
Jacob Kohle- of East Toledo found a can
Of stun noar the railroad track and tried to
eitro glycerine and Jacob was blown TO
Fragments.
The President has pardoned Sylvanus
smith, Pennsylvania counterfeit shower,
and John Hess, a Utah polygamist. He
has also committed the sentence of John
Irwin, sent up for life for stage robbery, to
10 years. His sentence will expire in 1898.
The public debt statement issued Jan. ,
shows. Total debt, Sl,6S5, 1852, 27l; less
available cash items, Sl,1946}9,522; less
cash in treasury, 81, 1874 0jl,2JS; decrease
during December, 81 1924, $50; decrease since
June 30, 1888, $3l so, 1898; total cash ~
treasury, sjl5, 1871 on.
New York soldiers. Zone has 1861 IL
mates.
All the Touring mills at St. Louis, except
ing one, has closed down under agreement
entered into by the milers' association at
its late convention at Milwaukee.
Americans at Port-au-Prnce are said TO
be in great danger. Legitime, the com
mandor has threatened to shoot 800 Ameri-
cans II necessary
Hronek, the Chicago anarchist convicted
of conspiring TO assassinate with dynamite
In Ind 4
Grinnell, has been sentenced to II years in
Joliet.
Mr.. Ogilvie, the Dominion land surveyor
recently returned from the exploration OF
the Yukon country, will report to the Do
mlnion government that the boundary line
between British Columbia and Alaska
should be fixed at least four miles further
south than the point fixed by Schwatka.
Nearly 20 designs have been received
the grant monument.
The governor of Massachusetts in
annual message 70 the legislature advises
the early submission 10 ire people Of pro.
hibitory amendment, and advocates the in
crease of the penalties for violation of the
liquor laws.
Three men were blown to fragments by Q
boiler explosion in Raleigh, N. c., January 3
The western states passenger association
have organized for the purpose of main
tanning passenger rates.
1t is probable that that the senate will
amend the schedule so that there will be
reduction in the rate on sawed white pine
Gen o. NJ. Poe's report of the commerce
through the st. Mary's Falls canal the pas
season, shows n decrease in the number oil
vessels which passed throuh the canal, bu
an increase in tho tonnage. There was al
increase of -, 900, 000, 900 in the value of the
commerce.