Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1890-10-03

GEORGIA has 800 lifetime prisoners in
the pennitentiary.
A HORSE ran away at Ocala, Fla, and
dropped dead in pond. s
A MACHINE for making shoestrings out
Of paper is a recent Philadelphia invention.
SEVERAL of the coal mine owners in IL
inois will grant the advance demanded by
their miners.
A PR tree was cut in Washington state
that scaled $500 feet. The top log was
not counted.
SUNDAY, Nov. o, win be big day for the
Chicago reds. II will be a memorial cele-
bration of the execution of the anarchists
The arrest of Joseph Keencr the count
erfeiter, at Pittsburgh, has led to the cap
ture in his den of a magnificent counterfeit
ing outfit.
IT is said that the Manhattan, Sun and
Paragon Oil companies OF Ohio have COM
oined, with capital of S., 900, 900, to fight
the Standard.
w. ]. GLEASON, chief executive of the
Ohio branch Of the Irish national league,
'ays the league throughout the country has
virtually disbanded.
John Ray, ex-minister of Austria, was
run into and knocked down by cab near
the Grand Central station, in New York.
tie will be lame for life.
Ex-Gov. HUBBARD of Texas is one of
The weightiest politicians of the democracy.
He weighs $50 pounds, and has voice
like speaking trumphet.
Rumors from all parts of the west indi-
cate coming uprising OF the Indians that
will be beyond anything of that kind that
has ever happened before.
MARY r. TENNIS. was granted a divorce
at Columbus, o., Wednesday. When the
petition was granted she kissed all the
ladies in attendance and her attorney.
SENATOR HEARST and w. L. Scott arc
said 10 have won enough money with their
respective stables during the last season 10
pay their campaign expenses for five years.
The Cowlcs electric smelling company,
of Cleveland, has cut the price of alumni
um to 81 per pound, which makes this
wonderful metal a severe competitor OF
nickel and tin.
THE curator of Brooklyn institute told a
reporter the other day that one beautiful
butterfly in the collection was valued at
$1,000, that sum having recently been paid
for duplicate.
Mira CHAs. c. HAYES, daughter of ex-
Gov. Mills, Of Wisconsin, drowned herself
at Hyde Park, Mass, Sunday. She was
about 80 years OF age and no cause is as
signed for the suicide.
IYo,-, IT,. A.,
which has just arrived at San Francisco
from New York, claim that on July the
boatswain. James Weston, was ordered
over the side to do some work and while
thus engaged Thomas Nolan. the second
mate, deliberately cut the life line attached
TO Weston, and the latter was drowned.
NINE-TENTHs OF the raisens sold in this
country are made in California, yet Cali
fornia raisin makers ship all their best
goods 10 New York, and have them boxed
and marked as If they came from Spain.
They claim that the public looks with more
favor on imported raisins, and for this rea-
son they are obliged to go to all this
trouble
A BURGLAR got fast in the window of a
mousse occupied by John Roach of Patter-
son n. j. John is moralist and he
dressed himself and sat down on a cha T
and talked 10 that burglar for two long
hours without a break. Then the burglar
asked to be either knocked on the head OF
let go, and Mr.. Roach talked to him one
hour longer ana then suffered him to
| depart.
The little towns OF Boston and Spring
| ield, in the now county of Baca, in Colora-
10, are equally determined to have the
county seat. There was a hotel in Boston
that was thought TO be the only building in
the county that was available
for court house. Saturday nighta crowd
from Springfield put rollers under this
building and 30 teams of horses pulled II
five miles toward Springfield before a Bos-
ton party overlook them. A battle with
Winchesters followed, and the Springfield
party was routed and the building burned.
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