Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1889-03-14
GENERAL.

The governor of Kansas has signed the
bill 70 prevent trusts, com bines and pools,
and il becomes a law. All arrangements,
contracts agreements, trusts CT comb mes
between persons or corporations made with
view, or which tend TO prevent full and
free competition are declare to be against
public policy, unlawful and void. The bill
provides penalt; of imprisonment and a
line not to exceed $4,000 for violation.
!. II. Cranston and Charles Lannigan,
soldiers from the home near Dayton, Ohio,
went 10 Dayton the other night and put mp
at hotel, blew out the gas and went TO bed
TO sleep the sleep that knows no waking.
Robert Sigel, the son and confidential
clerk of Gen. Franz Sigel, the agent of the
pension Office in New York city has been
! arrested by two special pension examiners
from Washington on three charges OF
forgery in connection with pensions. He
was bcld by United States Commissioner
Shields, IN defgult of $4,000 BAH. for cX-
animation. The forgeries charged were OF
the signatures of two checks intended for
blind soldier and one belonging TO Il widow.
/ Young Sigel, who Is about 80 years of age,
also has confessed that he has taken money
from claimants in about one hundred and
fifty cases for his services in making out
checks, all in direct violation Of the law
The George Washington centennial in
! auguratiOn carnival association has been
incorporated at Chicago. and will celebrate
. the Centcuulal OF EreSlueOb w aSnlnRtOn
inauguration on April 3D.
The Pres dent has signed the DILL amend
/ ing the inter state commerce law.
| Brig Gen. Roseucrans has been plcced
! on the ret red list of the army, 10 date from
/ March ], 1889.
Ben Hynes, his wife and seven children
became lost in a sWanlp in Decatur county,
/ Tennessee, and all were drowned.
! II has been decided that Mai. Gerritt j.
Lydecker will be tired by court martial on
tie charge Of neglect Of duty in connection
with che construction of the Washing on
aqucduct The secretary of war has is
sued an Ordcr ccnveniug court martial in
Washington Tuesday, March H. Among
the officers who are detailed for the court
are Col. Henry III. Black and, Col. o NJ.
/ Poe Of Detroit
The Reading iron works OF Reading. Pa,
has failed for "a million dollars.
! The committee on liquor trace in the
Rhode Island house of representatives has
! reported in favor of repeating the prohibit
/ tory amendment
| There is trouble brewin in West Virgin
la, inasmuch as three men claim to be the
duly qualified governor
All the members Of ex-Presideut Cleve-
lands cabinet teudered their designations
to President Harrison the day following
his inau 1uration, and he accepted them 70
! successors.
The scheme for the construction of the
! North river tunnel from Hoboken, ". j., 20
} New York has been revived.
In the Indian appropriation bill an area Of
land embracing about 1900, 900 acres in the
Indian territory Is thrown open 10 settle
ment though no territorial government is
established.
Ex-President and Mrs Cleveland left
Washington for New York on tho 9Th inst.
The members of the cabinet took their
oaths on the 9th inst.
Sir Julian Pauucefote, the new British
minister to the United States, will start for
Washington about the end of this month.
The Haymarket monument, 20 be dedi-
Gated in Chicago M y 4, will not bear the
names of the policemen who were killed by
the anarchists but, under the figure Of a
Policeman, this inscription: "ln the name
Of the people of the state commend peace. -
| Leonard SWEET will deliver the Grafton at
the unwilling.
passenger train was fired into on the
prarie near Chicago the other morning.
| Passengers were panic stricken but no one
was seriously injured.
ExPresidcnt Cleveland has been elected
| an honorary momber OF the New York
| chamber of commerce.
An English syndicate has purchased the
three largest breweries Of Rochester, n.
Y, for S3,5OO,OO0.
The Indian appropriation bill which be
came law with the last hours of the fl f.
tieth congress. provides that 81 ,0l2,9i2 shall
be paid TO the Semino.es for 2,037,+ acres
Of land In the Ind an territory. These
lands, except the school sections shall be
disposed to actual settlers, for homestead
ers only, no one person TO have more than
100 acres. Commissioners are to be ap
pointed TO negotiate with the Cherokee and
other Indians owning lands in the ter.
ritory. The lands referred 10 are not In