Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1889-10-17
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| Yellow fever has made its appearance at
Key West, Florida.
I The supreme order of the temple Of the
Pythian Sisters WAS organized in Indian
apolis the other day.
/ Cashier Jessup, who stole sl20, 900 of the
funds of the City bank OF Scranton, Pa,
has been indicted by the grand jury.
/ A memorial meeting in honor of the late
). ). Cox was held in New York, Oct 10.
/ w. A. Robinson & Co., oil refiners Of
Providence, Il. l., have failed for $-OJ,OOO.
Mrs. Julia Ward Howe was elected
president of the Woman's Congress at the
meeting in Denver.
Costa Rica has withdrawn hostilities
against the Nicarauga canal, and work is
now progressing.
! Assistant Secretary Bussey has rescind-
cd Tanners orders which abolished the
~ rating Tor pensioners and established
81 rate Secret ry Bussey says the order
had neither the color OF law nor the author
ity of precedent.
Walter Is. Foster, charged with embez-
cling 81 900 from the Mccormick reaper
company Of Rochester, n. y, WAS arrested
in Toronto the other day.
Judge Day of Auburn, n. Y, decides
that the electrical execution law is consti-
tuuonal, and remands Kemmler to the
custody OF the warden OF the Auburn
prison.
Crops in Morton county, Kansas, are
failure, and 800 people are in need OF imme-
date aid.
Fire destroyed 500, 900 worth of cotton,
sheds and presses for Taylor Il Lowe OF
Savannah, Ga, the other morning.
( Mayor G. p. Orwan of Horace, Kansas,
was burned TO death in II railroad accident
near Astor, Kan. on the oh inst.
Henry Willard wants to get control of the
| Northern Pacific railroad, and has Il
scheme, which, ii successful, will connect
the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.
/ a guild has been formed in New York in
the interest OF Chinese The purpose is
to extend Christian fellowship to the Ce.es-
tias.
The magnificent stone house of Mr.. Glenn
/ Studebaker ut South Bend, Ind, which
| cost about 100000, was entirely destroyed
by FIRE the other morning. Mrs. Stude
/ baker and the servants had a narrow es
| cape.
Severe frosts are reported in various
/ portions OF Alabama on the 9Th inst.
! Master Mechanic Twombley of the Rock
/ Island road, whose son is responsible Tor
the accident in Chicago, when seven lives
/ were lost, has rendered his resignation.
Prof. Joseph r. Nourse, U. 5. N, died at
/ his home in Georgetown on the 9th inst
The first election in Tennessee under the
| Australian system OF voting took place in
/ Chattanooga on the Sth inst. when munich
pll officers were elected. The election
was the most orderly of any ever held
there. The republicans carr led the day.
Latest returns from Montana concede
the election of democratic governor by
500 majority.
A day laborer by the name of Devault
was helping 10 grade Lincoln park, just be-
/ low Rel Bank n. j., when his shovel sud
denly threw up a SITS CT II bank notes 10
the amount OF $4,000. lt is believed that
the money was buried by man named
/ sherman who lived in that vicinity years
ago and was notorious bank robber
After the first scene in Lord Chumley"
at the Lyceum theatre in New York the
other evening, T.. ii. Sothern appeared be
fore the audience and announced that Chas.
Is. Bishop, who had "a few moments before
been acting prominent part, had suddenly
died in his dressing room while changing
/ his costume. The audience was then dis
missed. Mr.. Bishops wife was with him
when he died and was Frustrated by the
sudden shock
Destructive prairie fires are raging in
Iowa.
Edward o. Leech of the District Of Co
lumbia has been appointed director of the
mint.
Capt. p. ID. Slattery, president of the
Merchants elevator company of St
Louis, was assaulted and robbed on u
street IN that city the other night.
John Fitzpatrick, or liverpool Jack"
has been sentenced TO nine years in the
New York state prison for abducting men
to work in Yucatan.
Labor troubles in the vicinity of Biz
mingham, Ala, are assuming a serious
aspect
Three men were killed by the explosion
of threshing machine boiler near ST.
Thomas, N d., the other day.
The Bates house of indianapolis. one Of
the finest equipped hotels in the state, w IS
almost totally destroyed by fire the other
afternoon. Many OF the guests had narrow
I escapes
Mormon converts are coming to this coun-
try from Europe at the rate of from lC0 to
800 a week. They are the the lowest m ost
ignorant class, and are absolutely under
the control of the elders accompanying
them. They are coached as TO the uues.
tons to be asked them upon landing, aud
the authorities can find no grounds Tor de.
tanning or returning them.
Pittsburg had SS0O,O0O fire on the sth
inst.
Connecticut voted on a prohibitory
amendment on the 9Th inst, and returns
show that the vote was three to one against
it.
Rev. Patrick croniD Cf Buffalo, editor
OF the Cutho!ic Union OF that city, and Il
brother OF the murdered DR.. Croniu of
Chicago, has received a number of anony-
nous letters of late threatening him
with death, because of his severe denun-
citation of his brothers muiderers, and the
secret societies whose members are re.
sponsble for the crimes which have done
so much to iniure the cause Of lreland's
liberty
The government has decided to send the
United States ship Dolphin TO Nicaragua
| TO protect the interests of the Americans
who have gone there to work on the canal
The house of Mrs. James Ross of Eliza
beth, n. j., was entered by burglars the
| other night, who used extraordinary means
to effect their end. The entire household
of four persons were chloroformed and the
house was looted from cellar TO garrett
Jewery silverware and other articles to
the value Of g., 600 were stolen. The police
have been unable to find any clew to the
robbers.
FIR. Boyle, n Catholic priest Of Raleigh,
N. c., has been convicted of criminal as
sault on Miss Geneva Whitaker, organist
of his church, and sentenced TO be hanged
] Nov. 90.