Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1890-04-25
BRIEFLY STRETCHED.

Letter box thieves are working Dayton,
Ohio.
A baby was born in New York street
| car last Thursday.
General Sickles, the new sheriff of New
York, has the govt.
Kansas city has a law levying a poll tax
{ of $3.50 on all who do not vote.
Edward Grant was fatally shot by an un-
| known assassin the other night at Newark,
Ohio.
| A terrific wind storm has blown the seed
quite largely from the newly ploughed fields
in South Dakota.
| Arrangements have been perfected by n
| company in Germany TO establish a chick
DRY factory at Mason City, la.
The amount raised by the New York
| fremen for the relief of the tremen injured
in the Indianapolis fire is S66jT5.
| The proposed sale of the cotton duck mills
| OF New England and M .ryland TO an Eng
lish syndicate has fallen through.
No one enters Claus Spreckles' great
| sugar refinery at Philadelphia without
| permit from the owner, and permits are
| few
Fire Friday morning destroyed n. p.
| Clark's barn NJ Brockway, Mimi, together
with2l imported breeding IN ares valued at
| $25, 900.
A New York Judge listened to the marital
| troubles OF young couple and ludiciously
announced that both deserved a good
spanking.
The maple sugar crop report of Vermont
| this year amounts TO about five million
pounds, which is below the quantity usual
| ly obtained.
English capitalists are now putting their
money into American sewer pipe factories.
This will help Grain England as we'll as the
United States.
Miss Ed isOn, daughter of the great in
| ventor, has been entirely cured of epilepsy
by Professor Fielder, body physician Of
the king of Saxony.
w. II. Pope, teller Of the Louisville City
National bank, who absconded with $4,000
of the banks funds, has been arrested at
Lamy, New Mexico.
Four men and woman have been ar
rested ia Montgomery, county, Virginia,
charged with the murder of County Treas
urer Craddoll, cf Pulaski.
Catcher CalleEGer, late of the Denver
and Minneapolis ball clubs, was sued for
| divorce ut Decatur, ILL.,, his wife alleging
cruelty and drunkenness.
The skeleton of man has been found at
supposed to be that of Robert Thompson,
who disappeared three years ago.
James L. Hayes, treasurer of the Buffalo
Switchmen's Union, is short $500 in his
| accounts. He was arrested for grand lar
ceny and held for trial in $1,000 bail.
General Alger and Mrs. John A. Logan
| were present in Denver Thursday at the
opening of the encampment of the depart
ment of Colorado and Wyoming q. A. r.
George Binger located on o farm near
Erie recently and was just getting nicely
| settled when the sheriff came along and
arrested him on a charge of sheep stealing.
Gov. Campbell, tho democratic leader in
Ohio, has refused n pension from the gov
| ernment on the ground that his circum.
stances placed him above the meet for such
help.
The survey Of the Canada North = sstern
from Winnipeg to Victoria will ~, COM
menced this spring. The Grand Truck and
| Northern Pacific will unite to build the
road.
A warrant has been issued from Justice
| Westerman's court, on complaint af Ell
bridge Ludlow, of the Toledo nurseries,
for the arrest of Chas G. Hodgins, all u,.der
agent, for raising tree orders, ana for
forgery.
Four years ago five wretched people
IL
was agreed that one member should die
annually. Four have kept the agreement
The tifth year has begun and the president
| survives.
Managers of the Nationa Line think the
steamer Erin, which left New York Dec.
! % may have been disabled and floated south
off the lines of travel, but they conce6e
that the vessel may have been wrecked and
the S5 men on board drowned.
| .
who was convicted of the murder of George
Gould, his sentence being Imprisonment
for life, was married to the wife of tina
murdered man The marriage took place
through the bars of Caswelps cell.
wealthy citizen of Dover, Me-, was
mortified the other day. He had just been
making a clean breast of his deplorable
financial condition TO the assessors, and GO
ing to grocery store soon after he was
appalled, TO find that the assessor had taken
his statement so literally as to order bar
rel of flour, Goldfish and some other things
sent TO him at the towns expense.
Charles Shaw, who as indicted for grand
larceny by the United States grand jury for
having stolen the diamond earrings of the
famous Cora Belle Chaska, pleaded guilty
and was sentenced to the penitentiary for
one year. Shaw halls from Aurora, ILL.,,
and left that place six weeks ago to visit
Mrs. ChasEa on the Sioux reservation. He
stole the lady's diamonds aftor stay Of
several weeks.
After Miss Jennie Hart had been mar.
ried TO Henry Moore, in Tribes Hill, N.
Y, the other evening, she burst into tears,
saying: 81 have married the wrong man. "
1t has been learned that both the groom
and his best man were suitors for her hand,
! and, although She did not like Moore as
! well as the other, In u fit OF pique she &C
! cepted him. The couple are ia Washington
on bridal tour. ,murS =,