Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1889-08-15

Kentucky on the 5th inst, resulted in
victory for the democrats.
| 1t is sid that FIVE foreign professors will
| come TO this country and assume their
duties at the Catholic university in Wash
ington, notwithstanding that Solicitor
Hepburn has rendered a decision that they
cannot come.
number of prominent Japanese arrived
| in New Iora a lew days ago. They come
TO study our system OF government.
| il is learned that nine vessels Of tho
| British fleet have been ordered TO the
Behring Sea to protect tho seal fisheries
Jake Kilrain, the puglist, was arrested
at Norfolk, Va, the other day and will be
taken back TO Mississippi.
Twelve thousand men in Gainesville
! coke region are idle. The strikers are quiet
and peaceable, but determined
Prof. II. {. Stanley, for "a years con-
nected with Bates college in Lewiston,
Maine died ON the 9TH inst.
The attorney general Of Ohio has
rendered an opinion to the effect that where
! two or more railroads use the same railroad
track, each railroad must pay one dollar
| per mile for the distance Travelled.
Murat Halstead, editor of the Cincinnati
! Commercial Gazette, who recently return
| ed from a protracted so!ourn in Europe,
was given an enthusiastic reception BY the
republican club Of Hamilton county the
| other night.
Thus far the Chippewas in Minnesota
have coded between three and four million
acres to the government.
The case Of E. l.. Harper of the Fidelity
! bank of Cincinnati will be considered by
| the President on his return from Bar Har-
| Dor.
The Dow liquor tax reports for the first
half of 1892, which have been re, eived by
| the auditor of Ohio, show A,SC2 sa-
| lOOng N Increase
receipts 10 the revenue fund are S332, 600,
an increase OF $1,000
| Colonel A. +. Jones of Cincinnati, who
was murdered by his coachman, was an
uncle of Robert j. Burdette, the humorist.
| He was d brother OF Mr. Burdette's moth
er, and when the famous funny man was
named, in the early days of long ago, it was
Robert Jones-the middle name in honor of
| his uncle.
The sovereign grand lodgeof Odd Fellows
meets in Columbus, o., in September. The
| local committees are hard at work making
preparations for the grand event.
Judge Horton has decided to try the
murderers OF DIR Cronin together. The
suspects were anxious 10 secure separate
| trials.
| Sunday, Aug. (, was the quietest Sunday
| in Cincinnati since the first attempt NJ en-
forcing the Owen law was made. a few
| saloons carried on side door business, but
there were guards stationed GU side that
| admitted only known persons. There were
but six arrests, and no trouble OF any kind
has been reported.
| The city of Urbana, o., .hasleased 2G0 acres
| of land near New Bremen at Sl.5O per acre
and will drill for gas TO be p.ped TO that
city The land is in the wild territory
Fifty freight conductors and brakemen
on the branch of the Lake Shore railroad
| running between Ashtabula and oungs-
| town are on q strike for three brakemen a
| train instead of two. The company
recently put number of Mogul locomo-
tives into service, doubling the length of
the trains. Very little freight is moving,
though the company says il can easily fill
the strikers places.
Work on the Nicaragua canal is now
fully under way, and the Canal will be
completed in five years
A collision occurred on the Virginia
| Midland railroad near Burieys, Va, at an
early hour the other morning Two men
were killed and several others seriously in
iured.
Commodore William f. Fitz Hugh of the
navy died at the Naval Home in Phlladei-
phia Aug. 3.
A gang of half breed smugglers who have
been operating in the vicinity of Grafton,
Dakota, has been broken up and the ring
| leaders arrested.
H. X johnson was arrested in Chicago
| Aug for forgery committed in Christiana,
| Norway. He is now on his way u that
country in charge of an officer.
John r. c. Pitkin Of Louisiana has been
appointed envoy extraordin Try and minis
| ter plenipotentiary of the United States to
the Argentine Republic.
Robert j. Elliott of Kansas had been APP
pointed postoffice inspector on mail depre-
dations by transfer from the railway mail
service.
The executive committee of the national
encampment G.. "A. H.. to be held at Mil
waukee next month, have asked the secre-
tary of the navy 10 order the Michigan, the
government war vessel on the lakes, 10
take part in the military and naval display
that will mark the occasion. Secretary
Tracy will probably grant the request.
St. Louis makes bid for the world
fair in ls92.
During July 24,716 immigrants landed at
Castle Garden, against $3.50 in July, 1883.
| Every month this year has been marked
| by gradual decline in European immigra-
ton. Among the reasons advanced are diff
iculty in finding employment here, induce
ments offered by various South American
governments, and encouragement TO remain
at home given by foreign monarchies,
whose surplus population has been worked
off in past years
The first suit growing out of the railway
horror at Hamilton, Ont, April p last, was
commenced in Chicago a few days ago:
The plaintiffs are Angelina Ederer and
William Zuech, administrators of the estate
of Rudolph J. Ederer, deceased. The de-
PENDANT is the Grand Trunk railroad Ru-
dolph j. Ederer was a passenger on the
Grand Trunk train that was burned at
Hamilton and was one of the few that was
positively identified. The damages are
laid at $4,000.
Foreign capitalists are trying to buy up
the cotton mills in this country.
The Governor. General of Canada refuses
to allow the Jesuit estates act
FOREIGN.