Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1890-01-30
IuI.Y.

& Explosion OF fire damp entombs 300
miners in colliery at ST. Etienne, France.
4. A $1,0V0.0OO fire at Ellensburg, Wash
8. John l.. Sullivan de eats Jake Kilrain.
In prize fight at Richburg. Miss.
Ia Centennial of the downfall Of the bas-
tile celebrated in France.
IL 4. ID. Hogan ascends from Williams
burg, N. Y, In an airship and Is never af-
forwards heard Of
49, Big foods and loss OF life and prop
erty in " eat Virginia
ri. Marriage of the Princess Louise, eld-
est daughter OF the Prince OF Wales.
70. The Boulangist movement receives
bad setback in the elections In France.
AUGUST.
8. Arrival OF the Emperor William OF
Germany on visit to Queen Victoria.
8. The bu jiness portion OF Spokane Falls,
Wash, destroyed by fire, the loss being
8 ,OOO,OOO.
Z. Mrs. Maybrick convicted at Liverpool
Of killing her husband by poisoning.
IL. Judge Cummin, the head OF the
Pennsylvania Flood Commission for the
relief OF sufferers, dies from disease con-
tracted In the discharge OF his duty.
Is. The French Senate convicts Gen.
Boulanger on charges OF conspiracy, he Is
sentenced TO deportation.
IA. DAVID S. Terry, while assaulting
Associate Justice Field, OF the Supreme
court OF the United States, killed by Dep
uty Marshal Maggie.
l6 John l.. Sullivan convicted, in Miss
isSippi, OF prize fighting.
IL. Great rain and wind storm and foods
in Japan; an immense amount OF property
destroyed and $1,000 lives lost
"A. Legitime alb iicates as President OF
Hayti, and his rival, HippolyIe, and his
army enter the capital OF that country aud
the civil war ends.
~. '. reck on the Chicago, Santa Fe and
California railroad near hinsman, Ill, anu
fifty persons injured.
81. 4 he strike of the London dockmeu
reaches its height, 2OO,OO0 men being out;
"Black Bart" the lone highwdymdn, cap
turei in Wisconsin.
SEPTEMBER.
/. Graham goes safely over the Horseshoe
Falls at Niagara in q barrel.
2. End OF the coal miners strike In Hi
nois by the acceptance of the operators
terms by the strikers.
g. Barker, Mont. burned, and nine lives
lost
ii. Dynamite explosion in cartridge fac
tory at Antwerp, and 30 persons killed.
s. Storm on the Atlantic coast, and great
damage TO property at Atlantic City, N. j.,
and other seaside resorts.
II. Resignation Of Pension Commiss Toner
Tanner
IA. Launching OF the new cruiser Balii-
more, which showed on its trial trip a speed
unequaled by any other war ship previously
built; end Of the London dockmen's str Ike.
10. Twenty persons killed and much
property destroyed at Quebec by the fall OF
rock from Dufferin Terrace.
81. Election for Chamber OF Deputies OF
France; defeat o. Gen. 30 danger.
"a. A drunken engineer on a freight train
near Chicago causes the wreck OF passen.
ger train on the G., II. |. and p. railroad,
and the death of SIX persons
q. Collision between sections OF a pas
senger train near Paatine Bridge, N. Y,
five persons being killed.
IS Details gwen 70 public OF Investment
OF s500O,OJ0 by English syndicatss in
American enterprises.
80. Sheriff James a. Flacll, OF New York,
and his son, indicted for conspiracy 70 di-
vorce the sheriff wife oy fraud.
OCTOBER.
]. Elections for Federal and state officers
held in the new states OF North aud South
Dakota, Montana and " ashington; meet
ing of the Pan American congress in Wash
ingtou.
3 Boiler explosion on the steamer Carona
at Falsl river, on the Lower MississI ppi /,
many lives be ng lost
.. The Grand Jury at San Joaquin county,
Cal, decides that Deputy Marshal Nagel
could not be tried in state court for kill
ing David S. Terry in defending Associate
Justice Field.
4. hurricane in the Island of SARDINIA and
the loss OF thirty lives aud the destruction
OF a large amount OF property.
Z. The proposed prohibitory amendment
70 the Connecticut constitution defeated by
27,00O majority.
g. Grand parade of knight Templar at
0OO being in line.
Q. Guns OF the dynamite cruiser Vesp-i-
US successfully tested at Philadelphia.
II. The stallion Axtel, after trotting a
mile in 2:l9 in Terre Haute, is sold to a
syndicate for $40 100, the largest price
ever obtained in the world for any horse.
II Five Persons indicted in Chicago
for conspiring to bride Jurors in tue Cronin
muruer Irlal.
H. Rev. Dr. Talmage's Tabernacle in
Brooklyn burned.
Ii. Break OF cable on the Mount Au-
burn Inclined Plane Railway 10 Cincinnati,
kills six persons and Injuries four.
IT, Explosion in a coIliery in the county
Of Stafford, England, and fifty miners
killed.
81. The Duke OF Sparta, Crown Prince
OF Greece, aud Princess Sophle,o of Prussia,
married at Athens.
p. Loss Of the British ship Bolan on
the voyage from Calcutta for Liverpool;
thirty -thres persons being drowned.
NOVEMBER.
/. A factory In Glasgow collapsed and
forty women and girls were killed.
4. Molten metal escaping from furnace
In l. banon, Pa, kills six men.
Z. Marriage OF ex.Secretary OF State
Bayard and Mrs. May Clymer, at Wash
ingion, ID. G. Miss Kate Drexell, of Phila-
de phia, worth 500, 900, takes the white
veil OF the Catholic convent at Pittsburg.
&. Encounter in the postoffice at Licking
ton, KY, between W. Cassius Goodloe,
member Of the republican national commit
tee from Kentucky, and collector OF reve-
nue. Tor his district, and A. M. Swope, a
former collector, in which Swope was