Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1889-10-31
GEN ERAL.

Oscar T.. Williams OF New York has been
appointed United States consul at Havre,
France.
Willard Wood OF Washington has been
elected president OF the postal clerks asso-
citation.
The Massachusetts labor party VIII not
figure very largely in the campaign IN that
state this fall.
About 500 molders in the vicinity OF
PIttsburg are on strike for 10 per cent
advance in wages
A Jury has been found to try the Cronin
murder case in Chicago, seven weeks hav-
ing been spent in the effort.
President Harrison will start the Mont
gomery, Ala, exposition Nov. by lele-
gragh wires from Washington.
Wheat growers of the Mississippi valley
have organized with ex Secretary of Agri-
culture Coleman at their head
The Northern Pacific railroad is making
q desperate attempt to get possession OF
valuable mineral lands in Mon tana.
John G.. Jones, a colored lawyer Of Chiga-
go, is organizing u national league oil color
ed men. The object is TO assist their race
in the south.
Two men were killed and several serious
ly injured in an accident on the Confluence
Il Oakland railroad near Confluence, Pa,
the other day.
George II. Stevens; treasurer of the pen
itentiary board OF Arizona territory, cen
not be found. There is "A shortage Of $1,000
la his accounts.
NJ, Catlett agent of the Northwestern
elevator company at Arthur, n. D., was
held up by two men the other night and
robbed of 81, 500.
Clement G. Morgan, Negro has been
elected class orator of the senior class at
Harvard, and there is considerable kicking
in consequence.
Barnum asked Uncle Sam not 10 charge
him duty on 20 horses imported from Cana
da because they were tools OF trade" but
Uncle Sam refused
At Shelbyville, Ind, Joe Corwin, the
! eighth husband of a notorious woman
named Mollie Corwin, fractured the skull
OF John IL. Little husband No. d.
Reports from Zanzibar are to the effect
that the buying and selling of slaves in the
streets of that city is being carried on with
out any attempt at conce lment.
A young white man was roasted alive by
a Negro at Greenville, Ala, the other day.
They bad quarreled, and the Negro satur-
Gted his opponent with oil and set fire TO
him.
Charles Bradlaugh, the we'll known
political and social refOrmer and member
; of the house of commons, is very i'll, and
but slight hopes are entertained of his re.
covery.
Rev. DIR. John NJ Leavit of New York,
after fl years connection with the T.. h.
church, has withdrawn from that body,
and united with the Reformed Episcopal
church.
Postmaster General Wanamaker says he
has decided TO abandon his Sunday school
work in Philadelphia and take charge of a
class in the Church of the Covenant at
| Washington.
Now that the grave Of Lord Howe of
revolutionary fame has been discovered
near Ticonderoga, n. Y, several wealthy
gentlemen of London will erect a monu-
ment to his memory
DR.. Il. II. Mcdonald Of Vinegar Bitters
fame, has sued Senator Leland Stamford
for Sl,20O,0OO worth Of Central Pacific
stock. Nc. claims that the stock was stol-
en- and sold to Stanford.
Dr. Philippe Ricord, the celebrated
French surgeon, who was for many years
well-known in Paris as the great Ameri-
can doctor" is dead. DR.. Ricord was born
in Baltimore, Md, Dec 10, $500.
Three times within as many weeks the
notion store of Pennoc!s Il Putnam of
Peoria, ILL.,, has been entered by burglars
and al, 200 worth OF goods stolen. T. +.
Moore, detective, has confessed that he
is the thief.
The Great Bear river, Utah. is being
pense of s., 100000 1t will irrigate 10000
acres in Salt Lake valley and 100000 on
Bear river, increasing the value of the
land to $50 an acre.
The army court Of inquiry investigating
the charges against the Jefferson barracks,
Mo, involving cruelty, poor food and gener-
ally bad management, finds that there is
some foundation for the rumors, which
have, however, been exaggerated.
NIs Aoa L. Of orly hos
nominated Rev. Thomas X. Beecher of FL
mira for secretary Of state John Is. Sulli-
van, Westchester, controller; j. M. Hall,
Hamilton, treasurer; Joseph Wright,
Breedsport, attorney general.
Frank j. Bowman, the wellknown law
yer who has figured in so many matrimoni-
al troubles in st. Louis and in Chicago, was
shot and instantly killed by b. Nj. Cham
bers at Ferguson Mo-, Oct 20. The killing
grew out of the trouble between the parties
over the Times newspaper
The venerable Rev. DR.. G.. w. Wallace
of Manchester, n. H., the first settled pas
tor of the first church organized there, died
Oct. 81, OF old age. approaching his eighty
fifth birthday He was pastor there 33
years, and was known over all the state as
one of the leading clergymen.
An English syndicate has bought the inn
mense hacienda OF Zeca. uxtia in Morelas,
near Cuatia, Mexico, with an accompany
ing silver mine for S2,000,000. The sugar
plantation is one of the largest in the re.
public, while the mine has produced be-
tween s., 900, 600 and s., 100000.
Lena Weinburger, housekeeper Of the
HUFF house, Winona, MINI, committed
suicide recently by setting fire to her cloth
ing. II was believed that she had consid.
cradle money, and in one of her trunks was
found false bottom beneath which was
Sl2, III, all in gold except 81 900.
AT Kimberly three miles below Apple
ton, Wis, the rear wall of the waterpower
canal, about IL feet high and so feet long,
went out from the pressure of water on the
Goth inst. The head gates were immediate
ly closed aud saved further damage. The
damage to the paper plant will be $4,000.
The Catholic bishop of the Wilkesbarre,
Pa, diocese some months ago expelled Fr.
Warnegario of Plymouth from the do
cese. One faction of the church adhered
to the expelled priest, and took possession
of the church and property, which they
held until the other day, when the bishop
demanded possession. The church doors
were barred against him. He ordered
them forced open when riot ensned, in
which a number were injured. Seven
riotera have boen arrested.