Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1889-05-30
GENERAL.

Kyle, prominent society ladies OF Hunting
ton, W. Va, fell in love with one young
man, and resolved 10 settle the difficulty by
a duel They fought with knives and both
combatants were badly wounded, M 50
Kyle being in a critical condition. Miss
tucker was arrested, but the justice de-
| cided that she had acted in selfdefense
and discharged her.
II is reported that movement is on foot
among English capitalists TO secure control
OF some of the largest Touring interests or
this country, among them the Pilisbury
property in Minneapolis.
An English syndicate has purchased eight
brewing establishments in II. Paul.
The Shenango Valley. Pa, furn ace
operators have cut wages 10 per cent. Ow-
lug 10 the low price OF pig iron. Two thou
sand men are affected.
The residence of Rev. +. G. Clarke, near
Virginia Beach, Princess Ann comfy, Va,
WIS burned the other night. MIR. Clarke,
has two daughters, a son and niece were
burned TO death.
The mystery of the disappearance of DR..
p. If. Cronin Of Chicago has been solved,
his body having been found in a sewer in
that city. His Death was undoubtedly
caused by blows on the head. There is no
clue to the perpetrators.
The graduating class this year from the
government Indian training school at Car.
lisle, Pa. numbers IL.
The attorney general says there is no law
by which national banks may be established
| in Oklahoma.
The Sioux Indians have agreed not TO sell
their lands unless paid $ll,0J0 900.
Two oce n steamers on the St. Lawrence
| collided the other morning, one vessel sink
| ing in a few minutes. Eight seamen were
| drowned.
Hon. Robert #. Lincoln, minister to Eng
| land, was given an enthusiastic reception
upon his arrival in Liverpool and London.
Word has been received OF ferocious
| light which took place near Fort Mcleod
| between a band of Blood Indians on one
! site and force composed Of soldiers, COW
boys and eros Ventres on the other. The
| Bloods have lately been stealing horses
| from the eros Ventres, and the latter, as
sisted by soldiers and cowboys, made an
| effort 10 recover the stolen animals. In the
| hight number of / ersons are said 10 have
been killed, but as usual the reports as TO
the number OF killed are very conflicting.
Arthur Fra 3ier, a canal boat captain,
| paid visit TO Edward Howe and wife near
| Hawkins, a suburb of Cleveland, Ohio. In
| the course OF pleasant talk, Mrs Howe
said that she never saw a man whom she
! could not throw, and Frazier took up the
| challenge. They Clincned and after "a brief
tug Mrs. Howe threw Frazier upon his
| back on a lounge. In a moment he was
| dead, presumably from the rupture of an
| artery.
Friends of DR.. Groin, the missing Chica.
! go physician, offer "a reward Of $1,000 for
any information as TO his whereabouts.
The Illinois senate has passed bll pro-
| viding for u canal TO Join Lake Michigan
and the Mississippi river.
Acknowledgement Miller says there is no
| provision Of law under which national
| BANKS can be established at Oklahoma.
The lower house of the Illinois legislature
defeated the bill to prohibit the manufac-
| ture or sale Of liquors in that slate
The treasury accountants have completed
an estimate OF the cash value Of the cur
| rency, con and securities turned over 10
! Treasurer Huston by eX-TreasurCr
! Hyatt, and find the total amount TO be
| S722, OJ0,OO0.
A statement prepared in the Office OF the
solicitor of the treasury shows that there
| are now 1858 unsatisied judgments on
the books of that Office, representing the
sum of $40, 95,ll3. hey cover the period
| from July /, 1874, to July |. ISIS, and rep.
resent all classes Of Indebtedness TO the
! government, principally from fines, for
FIXTURES and trespasses There was col
lected during the same period the sum OF
| S45,UOO,C00.
Over 400 officers and men, survivors Of
the storm and wreck at Samoa arrived IN
| San Francisco on the 20th inst.
Special Agent Heth and several employees
! of the Ncz Perez agency have been arrested
| for dcfrauding tue go, eminent.
The statement having been telegraphed
! over the country that the pension sppro
! priltion has become exhausted Commits
| siOner Tanner expresses the hope that the
! pensioners will not he unduly alarmed
| thereby The fact is that he has simply
made the usual requisitiOn which sends the
| money from The treasury into the various
| United States depositoric5 where it will
| be subject 10 the checks Of the pension
| agents for tie June payment.
There is famine at s. moa, and Admiral
| Kimberly has reCuCstel authority to aid
the starving people.
Canadas Pacific coast dcfenses are to be
| pushed to completion as soon as possible.
EX Commissioner of Pensions Black vii
| hereafter practice law in Chicago.
Mrs. Morton, wife of Vice President
Morton, sailed for France on the 18th inst.
| A school house in Gainesville, Texas,
was blown down the other day and two
| children were killed.
| A boat containing nine colore1 people
| capsi ed on the Mississippi river near
| Nicksburg. the other day, and the entire
| party were drowned.
| The Tape Worm railroad commenced
| by Thaddeus Stevens half century ago,
! was finished on the |; Ia inst. thus connect
! iag Gettysburg, Pa, with Blue Ridge Sum
| init on the Western Maryland main line.
A race riot occurred in Little Rock, Ark,
the other day in which three colored men
! were killed.
Mrs Louis Palmer OF Rockdale, Texas,
| and her two hildreu were burned 10 death
| the other night Mrs. Prlmcr was prepar
| ing supper when she dropped lamp and
| was Immediately enveloped in flames. She
| ran through the bedroom in which her two
children were sleeping. Her burning
clothes set fire to the bed and mother and
| children persisted.
FOREIGN.