Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1889-09-12

Herbert Naylor Leyland.
Frederick Wakeman, n prominent young
lawyer, and adopted son of the weathiest
citizen OF Newark, Nj, buried his vorite
child recently and the other day he com
lifted suicide with u revolver on the
| grave.
Laborers at work on city contracts In
! Duluth, who have been striking and fight
ing for S1.I5 per day, have been given the
amount asked
Shoe operators in North Adams, Mass,
are on n strike.
Five Negroes were killed by an organ
lied mob in Mississippi the other day.
A strike Of window glass workers Is
threatened, because the manufacturers re-
| fuse 10 advance wages.
Gen. Butler has made affidavit that his
! name signed 10 "a document IN a Washing
ton court Is forgery.
j. II. Little, cigar manufacturer of Bos-
ton, has failed for $4,000.
Gen. j. Il. Gordon OF Atlantq, Ga, has
been elected commander of the United
Veterans confederate association.
Andrew Price of New Orleans, demo
cratic candidate for congress for that dis
trict, was elected by fair ma. GRITTY on the
3D. inst.
Forest fires in Montana were quenched
on the 4th inst. by heavy snow storm.
The body of l.. L. Clauson, a real estate
broker OF Wichita, Kan, was found the
other night on the bank OF the Little river,
with two bullet holes behind the right ear
and two in the pit of the stomach. The
police are looking for the murderer.
Floods have done great damage in Next
co in the past week.
Rev. David II. Moore, of Denver Colo,
has been elected successor to the Rev. j. H.
| Bayliss, editor the Western Christian Ad-
vocate who died on the 18th ult
Two men were instantly killed in an &C.
cident on the Virginia Midland road near
Accotink, Va, on the Sd inst.
c. +. Bessey, president of the Nebraska
university, was elected president Of the
| American assOcl ttiOn for the advancement
OF science at the meeting held in Toronto
recently.
Mrs. Parnell, mother of the Irish leader
was interviewed at her home in Borden
| town, n. j., II few days ago. She is very
feeble and says that she does not expect 10
| live long. She had hoped to live TO see Ire
land Free but now feels that she will not
do so.
The Catholic Cathedral at Harbor Grace
! n. T., burned on the Sd inst. at loss of
Sl50,0O0.
Frank Culom, the young Minneapolis
| lawyer accused of forging s ~ 600 worth of
| paper, has made an assignment of his
| property lOca cd in Minneapolis and Glad
| stone, Michigan.
The New York importers Of Florida
oranges have formed "a combination with
the growers whereby the price will be reg
ulated.
| A number OF pension frauds have been
unearthed in Indiana. In each case the
fraud was perpetrated by "A sold err widow
who had remarked and was still drawing
u pension as the relict of her first husband.
Judge Thayer of the United States CIR
| n sl..s
counterfeiting of union bells on cigars can
not be pre- ented or punished This is
serious blow 10 the cigarmakers aud their
! label w'l now have no value, and can be
used by all the "scab' firms in the country.
Darwin A. Henry, superin endent of
construction for the East river electric
light comp ny of New York, was instantly
killed the other afternoon by receiving a
sLock from dynamo having an alternat.
ing current OF coo volts. IL is not known
just how the accident happened, but it is
| thought he missed his footing on the ladder
| he was standing ON and touched a wire TO
| catch his balance.
Rev. DR.. Yost, chancellor of the uuivor-
sity Of Florida, has presented TO Hedle-
berg college at Tiffin, Ohio "a museum of
| curiosities valued at S6OOO0.
The control Of the Columbus, Ho king
Valley x Toledo railroad has passed into
the hands Of the opposition, John w Shaw
feSlBuluE tue once Vi preSluent ana ulreC-
| tor. He was at once succeeded by &. &.
| Waite, son of the eX Chief-Justice Waite,
and formerly in control OF the Cincinnati,
Hamilton & Dayton road
Sergeant Lewis Mckinney and two other
inmates of the soldiers home at Dayton, o
have been expelled They are the parties
| suspected of having worked off considera
| bic of the briggs counterfets on the in
mates of the home. Mckenzie was also
| suspected OF being smitten with Gerty.
Since the arrest of the briggs gang, the
men have been forbidden TO hang around
the briggs road house, and for dsobeying
their orders they were expelled.
| Brakemon of the leading railroads
throughout the country have petitioned the
| inter. state commerce commission TO take
some measures for the adoption of auto
matte brakes md couplers on freight cars.
Labor day was very generally celebrated
| throughout the country on the I'd inst
A large number of persons interested in
| sealtishing held an indignation meeting in
Victoria, B. G.. the other night and passed
| resolutions asking for compensation for
vessels seized, demanding protection for
| the future and urging speedy settlement
OF the fisheries difficulty.
An English syndicate has bought War
| ner's safe cure business at Rochester, n.
Y, for a, 900, COO
Ex-President Cleveland has been APP
| pointed a MEMBER OF the new 1Ofk CON-
mttee on permanent organization for the
| world fair in 1852.
Oliver Wendell Holmes celebrated his
| S0th birthday Aug. -.
| j. II. Johnston OF Pittsburg is the pro.
hibition nominee for governor of Pennsyl-
| vana
| At the session of the American associa-
tion for the advancement of science recent
| ly held in Toronto, Prof. Cook of the Mich
| igan agricultural college furnished paper
on new remedy for heI beetles and DIR.
Manly Miles of Michigan read a paper on
| ''Soil Metiholism.n
The business portion of Sacketts' Har-
Dor, n. Y, was destroyed by fire the other
night.
The New York womap's suffrage state
committee has called the state convention.
1t will be held October 2 and 3, in Sara
| toga.
Michael Posse. an Indiana county treas
urer whose time in his second term is out
September -. has notified his bondsmen
that he Is short about $500
FOREIGN.