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Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1890-03-21
Rocks on tho Rails.

CHAMBERLAIN, Mn, March l5.-In at
tempting TO move large rock OF the West
Virginia Central track In cut about 40
miles west OF here three men lost their
The rock had rolled down the mountain
side and lodged in the cut from which the
men were purposing 10 move II when
great mass OF earth came rushing down up
them from the steep mountain side and
buried some of the men from sight. Horn.
ned companions rushed TO their rescue and
as speedily s possible exhumed the fated
ones. Two were dead when taken out and
one has since died, and three others were
seriously II not fat lily injured.
NEWARK, o., March l5.--On the Central
Ohio division OF the b. Il o. road near
Brick Hand, a rock had rolled on the track
and was struck by the fast Chicago train
which were running 40 miles per hour.
The engine was turned completely around
and thrown into the water, while the bag.
gage, mail, smoker, first-class coach and
the sleeper were also ditched, the trucks
being knocked out from under them.
There were about lC0 passengers on board
and the accident was remarkably lortu-
nate one in its results, considering the
speed OF the train and the weight Of the OBJ
struction.
Only few minutes before the accident
the watchman passed the place and met
the train II half mile east and siG1aSl3S all
WAS ClSdT, not huOWluG ludJ utdNy IulIA lsA1
loosened the enormous boulder and 1t was
even then tumbling down the track. En-
gincer John Moore saw the boulder as he
rounded the curve, but reversed his engine
too late TO be OF any use except perhaps TO
weaken the crash He was thrown from
his cab, together with Engineer John Hart,
who happened TO be on the train at the
time, and though they alighted on soft dirt,
both were fatally hurt. Fireman Jesse
Bahlin was found alongside the track.
His mangled form was frightful to look up
on, being scalded horribly, besides crushed
almost beyond any semblance of man. He
leaves a widow aud two children Quite a
number of passengers were badly Injured.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1890-03-21
Foreign Fragments.

Over 1900 English horses were exported
last year.
The question of independence will be
made IN issue in Canadian politics.
1t is semi officially announced that the
new reichstag will be convened on April 10.
The relations between Emperor William
and his mother have somewhat improved.
joseph Biggar left the bulk of his estate
TO his son Joseph, although he was never
married.
A crisis is imminent in the Hun
garian ministry and Minister TiszL threat
ems TO resign.
France has decided to accept Emperor
Wilkins invitation TO take part in the
Berlin conference.
The Russian government has ordered the
planned great railway line across Siberia
TO be begun in May.
Owing to the heavy rains the rivers in
the province of Murcia, Spain, hive over
flowed their banks and done much damage
Herr Vohsen, German consul at Zanzi-
bar, has conclued, on behalf OF the German
East Africa Company, in which he is di-
rector IA tre4ty highly favorable TO the
Germans.
Sevesal industrial syndicates are being
formed in Paris in connection with the
worlds fair at Chicago to carry out certain
schemes that proved successful at the
Paris exhibition.
The budget of the German empire for
1890 81 shows that the estimated expendi-
ture exceeds that of L $3.50 by no less than
SO, 0OO.OOO. With. the exception OF six or
seven millions, the whole of this excess Is
devoted 10 the army and navy.
Arthur Orion, who became notorious as
the Tichborne claimant, announces that he
will contest the seat in the house OF com
mons for Stoke upon Trent m de vacant
by the resignation OF William Latham
Bridge, home ruler He willrun as home
ruler.
A home for American and English gov
esses has been organized at Berlin under
the patronage OF the Empress Frederick
and the wife OF the American minister.
The OF; ect is TO make English the language
of German nurseries, as French is used in
Russia.
At Vienna the Danube is frozen TO n con-
siderable thickness and sleighing
parties are extraordinarily numer-
Gus. The cold is intense, the rail
roads are blocked with snow and the Aus
trian capital is beginning to run short OF
supplies.
Henry Grimsley of Hinesboro Douglas
county, H., has become insane, the second
person whose reason has been overturned
through attend nee upon the pentccost
band = revival meetings.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1890-03-21
4 Fatal Landslide.

Troy, N. ", March 15.--At 3 o'clock this
morning a landslide on the west side of
Warrens Hill swept away the two story
brick residence of Patrick Garfield and do
molished the onc-story frame residence of
John Laurenson. Four families resided in
the Garfield house. Mrs. Margaret Moo.
nan and her daughter, Mrs. Johanna
Hogan, both widows, and Annie Burns, IL
years old, were killed. Mrs. John Ahearn,
and infant, Thomas Laurenson and Mrs.
Pat Garfield, Jr., were injured, but not
seriously. The fire department was called
out and the bodies of the dead were taken
from the ruins. A III IS of clay and earth
fifty feet deep slid down from the hillside.
The progress OF the slide was stayed by a
new brick house on the opposite side of
Havermau's avenue, and against which the
slide swept the ruins of Caniield's house.
The widest rumorS were current as TO
the number of persons killed, but this
morning after intery iewing the survivors
and neighbors II was asCertained that all
who had been in the Garfield house at the
time of the side had been accounted for
three were dead and the survivors includ-
ed the several persons more or less injured.
The Lawrenson house Was occupied by
Lawrenson and wife, his three brothers,
Thomas, Charles and George Lawrenson,
and two children. This house was com
petely wrecked and nearly buried by "a
mass Of clay aud the wreck of the Caniield
house. None OF the inmates Of the house
was killed and only one, Thomas Lawren-
son was badly injured. He sustained a
severe cut upon the head from brick that
fell upon him and awoke him from his
slumbers.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1890-03-21
Briefly sketched.

An inquiry into the recent election dis
orders in Germany has been ordered by
Emperor William and the causes that led
70 them.
The customs committee of tho French
chamber Of deputies has voted TO impose a
duty of francs on foreign corn and B
francs on corn Hour.
Alfred Webb, who has just taken his seat
in parliament from West Waterford, Ire,
declined to take the oath in the usual way
being Quaker. He affirmed.
II. III. Cook, who was supposed TO have
committed suicide in Omaha three months
ago, is living in Oklahoma. The suicide
was identified and buried as Cook.
Influenza Is epidemic in Japan and tho
various Industries are in a distressed con-
dition.
Last year over twenty.six hundred peo.
pie starved TO death in Japan. This year
the number will DO increased because OF
the extraordinary rise In the price OF rice
The board of immigration Of Florida has
agreed TO supply 1000 servant girls from
Norway and Sweden with places in that
state with wages ranging from % to $40 per
month.
Numerous applications have been made
to adopt the Stewart baby, both OF whose
parents were killed in the Lake Shore dis
nster OF last week. The baby Is heir to
10000 damages, it's fathers insurance,
and SlO,OOO damages from the railroad. IL
will be cared for by it's grandparents at
Van Vert, Ohio.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1890-03-21
Tle Vulcan Mine.
Brave Hearts Rescue the Miners From
the Raging Fire.-LOss Estimated at
$250,000.

NORWAY, March l7.-The main shaft o Z
the West Vulcan mine, where the IRE ragged
Saturday, had been pewly timDered from
tho surface down 100 feet, at a cost OF
near Sl50,U00. In some mysterious manner
the fire originated about 800 feet from the
surface and gradually stole up the shaft,
which. fed with fresh air from other parts
of the mine, was only IA huge chimney, up
which the flames burst like tornado. In
an hour the shaft house crumbled under
the flames and the blazing timbers fell
down TO feed the fire below. The first in
timation of the terrible Roadway the fire
had made WIS the separation OF the large
pumping rod. Assistant Gen. Supt Kelly,
of the Penn mining company, learning
that some men had been left at the tilth
level in senseless state, overcome by tho
gas aud smoke, called for volunteers and
went down shaft No. 2. The men were
dragged 20 the skip at that shaft, and, so
far as known, all brought TO the surface.
Mr.. Kelly himself, Captain Bond and
Charles Beard were barely rescued. The
mine, OF course will fill to the surface with
water, and all the pumping machinery will
doe ruined. The company's loss can be little
short of $3.50, 600, aud must disarrange all
their summer plans, even II they should
decide TO renew operations. All the com
pany's, mining products here went TO
supply the Cambria furnaces at Johnstown,
PA. The 800 men employed in the mine
were very largely Italians, and the proba-
bilities point to much suffering among their
families, for they worked for low wages.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1890-03-21
The Walls Fell,
And Buried Beneath Them the Brave
Piremen.-Awful Work Of an Indian
apolis 0onhagration.

INDIANAPOLIS, IND, March IL - Al 3
o'clock this afternoon employees in the large
four-story building oil the Bowen. Merrill
Book Company publishing house, IL and Is
West Washington street, discovered fire
near the furnace in the basement, and what
at first seemed an Insignificant blaze, re-
suited in IA catastrophe in which at least
four men were killed and dozen wounded
some OF whom will die.
The ire department., when IL arrived,
seemed at loss TO locate the fire, and be-
gan pouring water into the building at the
front when the seat OF trouble was in the
rear For two hours the light had contin-
ued in this way until majority of
the spectators had left under the impress
ion that the fire was out. About b 80, how
ever there WAS terrible crash and
the entire building except the front
wall fell inward. AT the time a mum Der OF
hremen, vali0usly estimated from eight TO
twenty, were on the roof of the building
and were buried beneath the debris, which
was piled forty feet high within the walls
Of the burned building. Immediately the
work of rescuing the living aud extricating
the dead was begun by at least 5OO volun.
teers, who in addition TO the unin1ured
hremen and members of the police force
formed strong corps OF workers. AT
times their ears would be greeOed by the
groans of the wounded underneath the
ruins, and then the work would be pushed
with renewed vigor For three hours the
forces labored 10 rescue the wounded and
recover the dead. AT this hour four had
been taken out dead.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1890-03-21
Peoplc and Events.

Mary Anderson Is always welcome Wis
itor at Tennyson's house.
Blnine Rusk, son OF Secretary of Agri-
culture Rusk, is suffering severely from
mumps.
Mrs. Amelie Rivos- Chsnler, who Is now
in Europe. expects TO spend the summer at
Newport, X. l.
Senator Evarts prides himself that not
one word OF his sentences ever leaked cut
OF executive session.
John Dillon, NJ. p, tho noted Irish
leader, and Henry Grattan- Esnoado are
in Denver.
Alphonso Daudet, the famous Parisian,
Is Nm inveterate smoker. The blncker The
pipe he uses the more he enjoys il.
The youngest millionaire In New York
Is Marshall o. Roberts, son of the late
Marshall .. Roberto. lie Is ten years old
and worth s5,00o,0U0.
Jubal Early has fad that he Will accept
no bill with Gen. Grants likeness upon IT,
The losses by fire In the Uaited States
and Canada during nhe month 81 Febru
airy were 81, b, 025, a decrease Of about
~, 600, 600 compared with the same month
of 1889.
Fifteen thousand people In the Rogue
River Valley, Oregon, have been without
letters or papers for the past msnth, md
may not get any for the NEXT six months
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1890-03-21
They Cooked Him.

PIERRE, S d., March l5--A sanguinary
Indian tale comes from up Black River IL
miles, at the mouth OF Willow Creek,
where is located the camp of Brave Bear
and IS OF his followers. An old Indian
named Dirty Foot got possession of some
Fort Pierre, and, upon arriving in camp,
was drunk. Going TO his tepee he found
his squaw, who is known 70 many settlers
here as "Old SAL" and ordered her to wait
on him, which she was slow TO do. He
picked up an AK and struck her on the fore
head with its back, crushing her skull.
This caused muched excitement in camp
and a crowd gathered. Dirty Foot was
caught and thrown into blazing fire,
around which the tepees were grouped,
and when be escaped he was thrown back
until he was dying from his burns.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1890-03-21
The Contract Labor Law.

New YORK, March l5.-The steamship
BelgravIa, which is expected here about
March y, will have on board $50 Italians,
who sailed from Naples on March 5, aud
who, Immigration Commissioner Stephen
son suspects, are under contract to work
for padrones in this city. Commissioner
Stephenson has written to Senator Chand-
Ter OF the joint commerce committee of
congress telling him OF the departure of the
Italians. The commissioner says
rigid inquiry will be made TO ind
out If possible whether or not
the hordes OF Hungarians and Italians
who, IL is expected, will be swarm
ing here this spring have any promise of
employment from any body here. Several
hundred Hungarians arrived on the
steamer Friesland and went westward.
More than three hundred Italians, all hay
ing carpet bags ex city alike and under one
leuder, were landed last week.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1890-03-21
ITEMS IN BRIEF.

Clio is TO have licensed saloons.
Alpeua is TO have SIS, 900 hotel.
Drayton Plains is money in for good ice
crop.
Now Inlay City will have a system of
water works.
The peach raiscrs now say one half a
crop this year.
Quincy wishes for park, an opera house
and public had.
Cheboygan reports 81 deg rees below zero
Tuesday night, the 4th.
Wheat is three cents higher in Battle
Creek than in Marshall.
Hollis Mosher of Rockford has drawn
s56.25 bounty on sparrows.
Greenyille will hold an election to decide
who ought 20 be postmaster.
Grand Junction has G. A. II. post
started new with 40 members.
Ice Gators on Orchard, Pine and Cass
lakes are harvesting big crop.
A $4,000 hotel replaces the one burned
at Fort Gratiot last November.
Shelby has an opera house, race track,
a club house nud a salvation army.
Grand Rapids is still collecting money
and clothes Tor the Dakota sufferers.
Four children of G. Traas of Holland,
have died within few days Of diphtheria.
The Muskegon News refers TO the city's
proposed water supply as purified June
bug juice"
G.. l.. Darling's dwelling in flushing was
destroyed 10y fire on Thursday evening.
Loss. $1,000.
epl III.
dates ia the field tor township officers in
Sanilac county.
Present indications point to the coming
season as the most prosperous In the Che
boygsn sawmilis.
A state convention of the young peoples
christian endeavor societies will be held at
L9psiDg April 10.
Thomas Hill OF Petoslrey, trusted the ice
with his 90 to m. The ice broke and the
team WIS drowned.
Dacautnr's common council appropriated
$40 for supper for themselves aud there's
an awful howl over 10.
Ralph Hoag. formerly OF Reading, has
been appointed city auditor OF Salt Lake,
with u salary OF Fl, 900.
TIC Litcbfield council has voted to build
q house for the recently organizeu hook
and ladder company there.
w J. Shicle OF Ludington, has been found
guilty of uttering forged paper, and he
goes 70 jackson for one year.
George Eckler OF Buchanan found i've
skunks, a rabbit aud three snakes living
together In peace aud plenty.
Myrou s. Arson Of Bellville, was drown.
cd while fishing In Willis Lake on Thurs
day by the breaking OF the ice.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1890-03-21
Seeking Other Colleges.

KALAIAzoo, March 1.-THE college boys
have decided that they cannot expect that
the college trustees will influence the fac
ulty to rescind.their action. and u large
number of the students will leave the col
lege. A committee, consisting of Messrs.
Townsend, Curtiss and Binkhorst, have
been TO Olivet to see what courses of study
can be taken there. III satisfactory ar
engagements can be made Is student will go
there and some will go to Alma. The boys
cannot get honorable discharges" from
the faculty, because they cons der that
their action tended to injure the college
and was taken in a deliberate manner
There are % girls and seven boys now in
the college.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1890-03-21
A Kansas Cry.
The Great Burden of Debt and the Mort
gage Sharks. Legislation Demanded
on the Question.

TOPEKA, KAs., March 1S.-The Farmers
Alliance has addressed AN open letter 10
the Kansas delegation in congress. II says:
single law firm in southern Kansas has
the contract for the foreclosure of $500
mortgages. This means 800 homesteads
transferred TO capitalists, either domestic
or foreign. These foreclosures are in ac-
cordance with preconceived purpose TO
people these I rms with q more servile
tenantry imported from foreign lands.
foreclosures and evictions are taking
place in very many parts of our state, and
we need not 60 all the way TO Europe 10
witness scenes OF cruelty in matters of
this kind. All over the state the homes OF
our people are imported. The people be-
lieve that the trouble is largely due TO
vicious legislation Both political
parties have been tried and both
the pc ,plc have been compelled
TO sacrifice their products in many instan-
ces absolutely below cost of production in
order TO procure the common necessities OF
life, their representatives in congress are
engaged in the consideration OF every imag-
Unable question except such questions as
contemplate relief 10 the distress of their
constituents. There are measures which
the farmers demand shall have immediate
attention. These relate to questions of
money, OF transportation, and OF their
ownership of American lands. The dis
tress OF the people is crying aloud Tor relief.
They believe that the white people of Kan
sas have some rights as we'll as the colored
citizens of the south. They believe that
fallen heroes, both white and black, in past
struggles for liberty can afford TO wait one
moment until the rights of living heroes
receive some recognition. Behind these
demands are more than 100000 Kansas bal
lots, and the time is not far distant when
legislators will heed the voice OF their con
stltuents.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1890-03-21
NIicbipans's Racing Circuit.

HLLsDALE, March 1.-THE Michigan
trotting and pacing circuit has been form.
ed with Hlllsdale, Jackson, Grand Rapids
will open at Hillsdale June "A to %, followed
by jackson, Grand Rapids and Saginaw in
the order named. Hilsdale will offer 81
400 in purses. The entry fee TO the stakes
win be So for two-y ear-ods, 80 for three
year olds md ST. for four-year-olds. En-
tries TO stakes will close May | and to
purses June 81. a half mile and amile
running race will also be given. A new
feature of the circuit will be that any horse
unable to secure II place in the race will
have one half of the entrance fee refunded.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1890-03-21
Almost Rnried Alive.

FINDLAY, o., March IA remarkable
case OF suspended animation is reported
from the village of Mount Blanchard, this
county. Last Sunday, Arthur, the 4 year
Old son of Aaron Naus, after a long Illness
the remains for burial and pl ced them In
coffin in the full belief that the child was
dead. The body remained in this condition
autil about 3 o'clock Monday afternoon,
when those about the coffin were amazed to
observe signs OF life. A physician was
summoned and the boy was resuscita-
ted. and has continued &c grow stronger
until there is now no doubt Of his full re-
cOyerV.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1890-03-21

Charles Ness OF Searsmont Me-, who
was partially blind for % years from a bad
fall received during the war, fell while
carrying pail of milk into the house last
week and again struck the back OF his head
heavily on the ice. Strange TO say, his
eyesight has been restored, and now he can
see 70 read as we'll as before the first acct
lent
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1890-03-21
Death at Dearborn.

DEARBORN, March Is, The day express
on the Nj. G.. yesterday morning, struck
Edith Cronogue, years old, os she was on
her way 10 school The child was thrown
60 feet, and was horribly mangled. She
died in half AN hour after the accident.
The same train ran down an old couple
named Mailman, who was walking on the
track in the village, but they got out of the
way just in time to save their lives.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1890-03-21
sixty Feet of SNOWY.

ALAMosA, COL, March Is. = The Rio
Grande railway has 80 snow shovelers at
work ,S7ening the snow blockade across the
SAN Juan range at Cumbres, on the east
side OF the divide. The snow is reported
10 be 10 feet above the top of the
telegraph poles and for miles on each side
IL is from - TO 40 feet deep-the deepest
over known in this locality. The weather
Is very severe, the temperature being -
degrees below zero.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1890-03-21
Norrie Strike.

IsHPEMING, March 15.-The situation at
the Norrie mine Ironwood is grow ing
worse. Two-thirds of the men are out "A nd
those remaining 1T work have been threat
ened with vio.ence They are under the
protection of u strong force of special po-
lice. A number of the strike leaders have
been arrested The strikers are growing
ugly.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1890-03-21
Great Fire at Pctoskey.

PETosKEY, March l5.-The woodeuware
factoy of the l. Bauerlo company, situated
one mile south OF this city, burned yester
day morning. Loss, Sl0O,0JO; insurance,
$4,000. The works gave employment TO
large number OF men and boys. Supern-
tendent Bauerle says work on new build
ing will be begun as soon as the insurance
is adjusted.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1890-03-21
Don,tI,ike to MeddIe.

LONDON, March l5-In the house of CON-
mons Smith. liberal, asked whether the
government had seen the printed reports of
the cruelties inflicted upon political prison
ers in Siberia and whether il
would cause the British ambassa-
dor at st. Petersburg To direct the
attention of the Russian government
to the matter. The government leader re-
piled that the government had no means of
uscertaining IL there was any truth in the
reports, nor had IL the power TO approach
the Russian government on the subject
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1890-03-21

Cattle-Market strong for best; beeves,
"a yOto5 %; steers, tBCd4 10; stockers and
Ioeders, 81 l5@3 20; Texas corn fed steers,
s3 25t@3 75i Texas grass steers, 81 5o@
2 90
Hogs--Market slow; mixed aud light
SO Coos IS; heavy, S3 COOS S1h; skips,
$3(13 20.
Sheep-Market strong; natives, IS J0S9
4 40; western corn-fed, "a 1905 %; Tex
ana 60 1904 50.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1890-03-21
A Town DESTROYED.

FoRT SMITH, ARK, March IA cyclone
struck the village OF Excelsior, fifteen
miles south of hero demolishing every
house In the place. No one was killed,
though seven or eight were severely in
iured. A mother and three children we're
blown fifty feet and left uninjured. Two
stores aud fine mill and gin were torn TO
pieces.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1890-03-21

A suit for 100000 for breach Of promise
OF marriage has been commenced in Chica-
20 against Louis G.. Wachsmutb, senior
i2ember of the firm of l.. G. Wacksmuth a.
Co, Wholesale clothing dealers. The
plaintiff Is Miss Jennie M. Paul, stately
brunette of %.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1890-03-21

Tho colored people of this country nov
control about 100 weekly newspapers.