Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1890-02-06
GEN ERAL.

The senate has passed the direct tax bill
which Cleveland vetoed.
The snow blockade on the Rio Grande
system Of roads has been raised.
Delaware's peach and apricot crop is
ruined by the recent cold weather.
Secretary Proctor will purchase the
sword OF the late Gen. Shields Tor $4,000.
Henry S. Pierce, of the most active re-
publican politicians Of Central New York,
died in Cunandaiqua, recently.
The house military committee has report
ed favorably the bill TO retire Gen. Ere
mont with the rank Of major general.
Ex-Gov. Bloss of Illinois, and for 20
wears editorial writer OF the Chicago Trib-
une, is dead.
Three of the largest breweries in Ceve-
land are now owned by AN English syndf
cate.
The Illinois steel mills started up Feb. /,
with an increase Of 10 TO Is per cent in the
scale Of wages.
Rev G.. M. Boy /, one of the best known
Methodist ministers in the country, died in
South Bend, Ind, Jan. 2S.
The annual congress of the Sons of the
Revolution will be held in Lou lille, KY,
in April.
Charles Nordrum Of the Chicago police
force, has been suspended for giving aid TO
anarchists.
A snow-slide occurred at Logansville,
Cal, Jan. 2S, burying house, and two Of
the inmates were killed.
Nichols Meyer of Chicago shot and killed
his wife, and then killed himself, Jan. "A.
Cause, jealousy.
California is threatened with food,
warm rains having melted the vast body of
snow in the mountains.
Two little girls named Walker were
killed by the cas- at Vernon Station, Pa,
the other night.
Charges of extreme cruelty are made
against the manager of the asylum for the
bind at Jacksonville, Ill.
Four men were fatally burned by the
premature explosion of natural gas at DE
Haven Station, Pa, the other day.
p. p. Wright, general superintendent
or the Lake Shore road has been made as
sistant general manager
Colored men were admitted to the G.. A.
X departmental encampment at Augusta,
Ga, whereupon amemDer OF white soldiers
withdrew.
A collision occurred at Camp Hill, Ala,
on the Savannah Il Western railroad the
other night Five men are said to have
been killed.
The Compton furniture company of
Grand Rapids has been forced TO make an
assignment. Poor business and anxious
creditors did il.
The Union bridge company, the largest
concern of the kind in the world, will
abandon its shops in Buffalo, and concen-
trate its plant at Athens, Pa.
The antitrust law passed by various
states, has caused the whisky trust, with
capital OF $50, 100000, to resolve itself into a
corporation.
Fire in the navy yard at Portsmouth, n.
H., Jan. Is, destroyed property valued at
$780, 900. one of the buildings burned was
nearly three-quarters oil century old.
Col John Mason Brown, one of the most
prominent lawyers OF Kentucky, and man
of national reputation, died in Louisville
recently.
President Harrison has nominated
Blanche X. Bruce, the widely known col
ored man of Mississippi, TO be recorder of
deeds in the District OF Columbia.
The Philadelphia Industrial society has
failed for 100000. The society was or
ganized IL years ago, and three years later
had eight stores, and 100000 in bank.
DR.. William Bradley, one of the ablest
editorial writers in Philadelphia, has been
sent TO prison for five years and six months
for embeZZlement.
Many lives have have been lost by the
swapping of small craft in the terrific
gales which have ragged on the Atlantic
coast for the past week.
About Feb. IL President Harrison will
open the public library and art gallery
building at Allegheny, Pa, presented by
Andrew Carnegie.
The bill placing the telegraph companies
of the country under the operation of the
inter state commence law, has been favor
ably reported TO the senate.
Don Louis Peller, known as the Wander
bilt of Mexico, offers TO take Si50,0U0 OF
Chicago worlds fair Stock and to raise
81, 800, 900 in Mexico.
The old Congregational church at Dan
vers Center, Mass, successor TO the church
in which the Salem witches were tried,
burned the other day.
w. H. Taft of Ohio, has been nominated
for solicitor-general; Robert Adams, Jr of
Pennsylvania, envoy extraordinary and
minister plenipotentiary to Brazil.
Jacob Adell of Paramount, Ind, crazed
by religious excitement, saturated his
clothing with oil, and then set fire to him
self. His struggles were terrible, but
death soon relieved him.
The United States supreme court sus-
tains the verdict of the lower court refus-
ing to allow Gen. Lew Wallace the differ
ence between 81, 800 the amount he receiv-
ed as minister to Turkey, and $40, 900 which
he claimed under the revised statues.
The Worlds fair bill has been introduced
in the New York legislature. IL imposes
no tax on the people, makes no demands on
the state treasury but provides that New
York city shall furnish the wherewithal
for the big show.
The supreme court of New York state
says John Most must go TO prison for his
language melting TO riot, used at a public
meeting in New York In lsS7 to express in.
dignation at the hanging of the Chicago
anarchists. Most will appeal.
Louis Brownell, president Of the Cali
fornia insurance company, was shot and
killed in his ONCE in San Francisco, by
George e. Pratt, general agent of the COM
F, pany, who says that Brownell seduced
Mrs. Pratt.
The Montana penitentiary is over crowd
ed, and the legislature is asked to make an
appropriation for new one. The convicts
among whom are some of the most desper.
ate characters in the west are locked in
with only ordinary padiocks.
The Sixth National bank, the Metropoli-
tan bank and the Lennox bank all in New