Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1890-01-30
RECORD OF 1889.
Summary of the Important Happenings
of an Eventful Year.
Reflection OF the Floods, Storms, Earth
quake', Crimes Accidents, ConAagra-
tions. Political Charges and Other Con-
spieaous Feature, Of the Worlds Life.
JANUARY.

4. The c., b. and Q. strike declared of;
the electric sugar" frauds exposed in New
York.
9. Judge Barrett, of the New York su.
preme court, decides that the North River
Sugar Refining Company, because OF its
entrance into the Sugar Trust, has forfeited
its charter; a cyclone blows down silk
mil in Reading, Pa, a nail mill in Sun
bury, Pa, and wrecks many buildings In
Pittsburg.
a. Collision near Tallmadge, O., eight
persons being killed ami seven injured
10. The Delaware Legislature chooses
Anthony Higgins United States Senator,
he being the first Republican OF the stats
ever accorded that honor
II. A wreck on the Northwestern rail
road near Elmwood, Mich, kills three per-
sons and wounds five.
%. Ives and Stayner, "Napoleons of
Fina5ce," arrested in New York for de-
frauGIrg the Railroad company.
% Gen. Bouianger elected TO the Cham
Ger OF Deputies from Paris.
20. Street car railway strike in New
York and Brooklyn, 5000 persons being
out
FEBRUARY.
9. Fire IN Buffalo, N. Y, destroys ST.
OC0OOO worth of property.
4. Collision of the steamer Glencoe with
bark ffty-two persons being drowned;
twenty-foIr lives lost in a coll sion De-
tween the steamer Neried and sailing
vessel.
8. Civil Service Commissioner A. p.
Edgerlon removed ty President Cleveland
and Hugh 5. Thompson nominated in his
place,
IL. Norman j. Colmnn nominated by
the Presld mt TO fill the newiy created
Cabinet post OF Secretary Of Agriculture.
IL. Congr6 81 counts the electoral vote
and declares Benjam Harrison and Levi
y. Mostou duly chosen Presid mt and Vice
President respectively.
Is. The explosion Of a boiler wrecks
and burns the Central Hotel. Hartford,
Conn, killing twenty one parsons and in.
juring twenty-five.
81. w. Il. v oodward soils sixtv-one
horses for S!4A,63J at auction ut Lexington,
Ky.
y. The BIZ admitting Montana, Moth
and South - ko al and Washing on to state
h Jod sighed by Pre- i lent Gle Gland.
25. Explosion In a cartridge factory in
PlymoIth, Pa, kills eleven persons
81 Announcement that Piggott had con-
fesscd The forgery Of the letters on viii h
the London Times basSd its charges against
painell
"a. The ST. Louis express drops through
a bridge near ST. Georges, Ont, killing
seven persons and in.uling thirty.
M,KCH.
!, PigGott, the forger OF the Pdrnell lot
ters, kills himself in Madrid.
4. Grover Cleveland steps out Of the
White House and Ben am Harrison steps
In.
q. King Milan OF Servia abiicates in
favor of son Alexander.
IA. Explosion of boilers in Pittsburg kills
five persons and wounds thirteen.
III. The American and German fleets
wrecked of Samoa in storm, aud lao lives
lost
ri. The SIP nish mail steamer Miudaway
sunk in collision AMI thirty persons lost.
80 An unknown thief "hods up the
President OF the First National Bank ut
Denver and compcls him to deliver 81, 600.
20. The senate rejects the nomination OF
Murat HalsteId for Min ster 70 Germany.
81. Boiler explosion in the English Chan
mel kills fourteen persons.
APRIL
T. Great storm, higl tide and loss OF life
on the Atlantic coast
L.. Collision on the Chicago, Santa Fe
and California Raj. road near Lorenzo Ill,
kills five persons.
II. Intelligence received OF the abandon
ment In mid-ocean OF the Danish steamer
Danmark, with 1-6 people on board, who
were taken of by tbs steamer Missouri,
Capt. Murrell and saved.
~. Fire along the Hudson River docks In
New York destroys $5,JOI0JJ worth OF
property.
-. Oklahoma, by presidential proclsma-
tion, opened TO settlers; Massachus eits
polls 5 100 majority against IA proposed
prohibition constitutional amendment
70. - reck on the Grand Trunk Railroad,
near Hamilton, Ont. seventeen persons be-
ing killed or burne TO de tn.
80 Centennial of Washington's first ia
auguraLion us president OF the United
States.
4. DR.. =. II. Cronin lured from his resi-
dence N Chicago and murdered.
D. Opening OF the Exposition in Paris.
8. Many ves lost by cyclone in Pratt
and Rice counties, Kan.
IL. Mai. j. w. Nhlm, Paymaster United
States Army, ROBBED OF 49, 0J by bandits,
neat Cedar Sprin,s 8, Ariz.
II. William Kemnler convicted at Buff
falo, N. Y, OF murder, is sentenced TO
death by electricity.
ID. Fire destroys 700 houses in su burb
OF Quebec.
81. At the Berlin Conference Germany
agrees to restore Malietoa TO his post as
King OF Samoa
%. he corpse OF DIR. Cronin discovered
in a sewer in Chica 20.
~ ReurCm ent on account OF are OF II.
c. Drum, Adjutant General OF the army,
the first private soldier wLo reached the
rank of Brgadier General
81. Breaking OF the dam at Johnstown,
Pa, 1909 or $500 lives being lost and $780,
co., 900 worth OF property destroyed.
JUNE.
2. Great floods in the Chan Ping and
Ping Yuen districts in China, and 6OoO
lives lost
q. Fire at Seattle, Wash, &c, 00O, 900
worth of property being destroyed.
IL Calvin s. Brice elected Chairman OF
the Democratic National Committee.
a. The Samoan Commissioners at
Berlin agree upon treaty.