Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1890-04-25
FOREIGN FRAGMENTS.
Vile is falling rapidly.

The Nile is falling rapidly.
Bismarck will receive pension of &C, $50.
Buffalo Bill has purchased house in
Naples.
The empress of Austria is improving in
health at Wiesbaden.
The bank of Bengal at Calcutta has fixed
its rate Of discount at II per cent.
Portugal is negotiating another loan of
$500, OOO through Paris bankers.
Authorities at Cairo, Egypt, have order
cd all Greek gambling houses 10 close.
Prince Bismarck has lO@ decorations.
Fourteen are set in diamonds of great
value.
A newspaper and governmental cam
paign against dress suits is in progress in
Japan.
The Chicago and Yorktown OF the Amer
lean squadron OF evolution have arrived at
Malta.
The Massachusetts house has rejected
the bill granting municipal suffrage to
women.
The prince of Wales is looking very well
again. The rumor that he had Brights
disease was unfounded.
Bodies of Turkish troops have pillaged
christian churches and insulted christians
in the province of Gambia.
Captain White of the English army has
accepted a colonels commission in the
army OF the sultan of Turkey.
An electric railway connecting St.
Petersburg and Archangel is projected.
The estimated cost is $l5, OGC per mile.
Albert Leopold Bonaparte, who says he
| is descendant of Napoleon J., has been
arrested at Montreal for shooting a police
man.
The Union League Club of New York
gave General Shermon a swell birthday
reception Thursday night The general is
seventy years old.
1t is said lie Caron is living in London so
bewhiskered as to be unacceptable. 1t Is
alleged that he will be given government
commission in Australia.
Goubet's submarine torpedo boat has ur-
dergone successful tests at Cherbourg. 1t
remained under water for nearly an hour
and was easily managed.
The imperial palace at Oranien baum. 20
miles west of St. Petersburg, has been
| destroyed by fire. Seven OF the palace
servants were burned to death.
Plots of land rounding off his Frederick
ruhe estate and that at Rothenbeck have
been presented TO Prince Bismarck by
wealthy residents of Hamburg
General Won Caprivi, the new German
chancellor, never has pipe out OF his
mouth when he is awake, except during
his meals, and he drinks beer by the gallon.
The Berliner Tageblatt says that in the
preparation of his memoirs Prince Bis
marck will have the assistance OF DIR.
Schweninger and young Hamburg writer
whom he has known for years
The Chicago carpenters seem TO have the
best of 1t in their strike for eight hours.
Three young men named Charlton, sons
OF an old farmer living at Silver Creek,
Neb., beat their father and sister so badly
Tuesday that the girl has since died
and the old man IL in precarious condi-
tion. The old man, who was found by
neighbors, said that the crime was com
mitted by his sons. The boys have disap
peared
Mamie Star who poisoned the Newlaud
family In Chicago told the coroner that she
was Respondent and intended to commit
suicide. She put some OF the poison In the
corn In order that the members OF the fam
| lily might be made i'll so that her death
would not be laid TO suicide, but to eating
poisoned corn, aud thereby avoiding dis
grace. She did not intend 10 kill the New
] lands. Sheis held for the grand jury,