Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1889-09-05
Elk Gov. Foster of Ohio is candidate for

EX-GoV. Foster or ONO is canuluaJe lOr
the United States senate.
Adestructive diphtheria epidemic prevails
in Moscow, -. seventy cases have been
reported and II deaths have already occur
red. The disease is confined mostly 10
children. Many families are leaving the
place 70 escape the dangers of the epidemic
w. A. Smith, the man who broke jail in
Cleveland about a month ago and shot
Deputy Sheriff Joe Goldsoil, is under ar
rest q Quincy, Ill. He has been fully
Identified by his photograph. Smith went
from Cleveland To Kansas City, where he
robbed man. lie was subsequently ar
rested for larceny 1T Quincy. His connec-
ton with the Cleveland crime was given
away 10 the sheriff ut Quincy by an anony-
nous letter.
A call has been issued for a convention
Of colored men to be held in Toledo Sept.
l0-1l, TO consider grievances alleged TO
have been received under the Foraker adj
ministration.
Jacob Miller, at the heal Of the immense
| agricultural works OF r.. Aultman Il Co,
died at Canton, o., n few DAYS ago, of par
alysis, aged G5. He dies ntestatc. He
carried in life insurance $4,000. He held
great interests in the Autnan, Miller &
Companys works at Akron. owned 1000
acres of real estate in Dakota, and had
much valuable mining stock
Mortgages aggregating SIS, 00J, coo have
bash railway company. The first was to
the Central trust company for $3l, co., 0O
the second to the Metropolitan trust com
pany for Sl4,0O0,010 and the third TO the
Mercantile trust company for &O,00O,OOO
A hospital exclusively for women is to be
built in Cincinnati. Articles of lncorpOra-
ton have been filed. Work will commence
soon.
New York democrats hold their state
convention at Syracuse Oct. l.
John w. Hayes secretary Of the X. of L.
says that the knights now number go, 900,
and are increasing.
Fred s. Nichols of Winchester, Mass,
while delirious from typhoid fever, procur-
ed revolver from bureau drawer and
shot his nurse, killing her instantly.
Geo Hollis, wood dealer of Boston, has
failed. Liabilities, sl,l0j, 032.64; assets,
SAB, sOS.67. There is something a little
mysterious about the failure and the cred
its have appointed committee TO investi-
gate the matter.
A washout on the Eastern MnDesotN
caused an accident near Duluth the other
morning. Thirty cars and a freight engine
were ditched, smashing them and severely
| iniuring several of the train crew.
The Coney Island steamer Commonwealth
coming down the OHIO river came into di-
rect collision with the little harbor steamer
Tame Duck going up tho river, Just quar-
| ter of q mile above the Newport * Cincin-
natl railroad bridge, near Cincinnati, and
utterly annhIlated the Tame Duck. No
| lives were lost. An hour later the Com
monwcalth was discovered TO be on fire,
and burned TO the waters edge in three
quarters of an hour.
A circus train was wre r1ed near Pots
| dam, New York, the other night and 80
| ring horses, several camels and number
Of other animals were killed.
Four men were hanged in the yard of the
| Tombs prison in New YORK. Friday, Aug.
23. Two scaffolds we're balt and two men
were hanged on each.
w. l.. Scott has offered his miners at
| Spring Valley, ILL.,, IS cents a ton for min
| ing coal, but he declines to treat with the
men as an organized body This offer may
| break the strike.
The Empire and Phoenix Touring mills in
| St. Catherine, Ont, burned the other morn
| ing The loss is nearly S200,0J0
Minnesota grain commissioners have
designated "a new grade of wheat TO be
| known as northern white"
The house of commons has been officially
| informed that communications are passing
between the British and United States gov
| ernments relative to the Selling of sealers
in the Behring sea-
About 50 feet of the channel span of the
Steubenville, Ohio, bridge fell the other
| evening, crushing six gondola cars and
| blockading the Panhandle road for several
hours. No person was killed although 40
| persons were employed on the bridge.
Chae Chang Ping, the first of the Chi
nese to test the validity of the law not al
| lowing them to land IN this country, was
ordered 10 return 10 Chnt by the United
| States circuit court in San Francisco, and
he left on the Arabic the same day.