Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1890-02-13
GENERAL.

GENERAL.
The public debt decreased during Jan
uary az, A., 80.
Chicago has increased the worlds fair
fund to SIC, O00,000.
The New York senate has passed the
worlds fair guarantee bill
Presbyterian clergymeu in New York
say the creed must be changed.
Fire destroyed $50, CoJ worth OF property
at Kenosha, Wis, on the md inst.
Chicago Presbyterians have decided up
on IA revision OF their articles OF faith.
The senate has confirmed the appoint
ment OF w. II. Taft of Ohio IS solicitor
general
Mrs. Coppinger. eldest daughter of Sec.
ret ry Blame is seriously i'll at her home
in Washington.
Gov. Thayer Of Nebraska, has made AN
appeal for lower freight rates 10 the farm
ers in that state.
Thomas Warnock, secretary and auditor
| of tue New York, Pennsylvania Ohio
railroad is dead.
Canada has employed a doctor who is an
expert in leprosy, TO hunt out that disease
| in the dominion.
Five men were fatally injured by the
| falling oil rock in "a mine in Wilkes BARRE,
Pa, the other day.
Lieut.. Col. Henry M. Robert has been
| appointed engineer commissioner of the
district OF Columbia.
The Roman Catholic church in BEAUFORT,
| near Quebec, burned on tue I'd inst 4 he
! church cost over S.5O,OOO.
The commissioner of the public land Office
has decided against squdtterS on railroad
lands near Ashland, Wis.
Cattlemen of Texas have decided 10 boy
| colt chicago, nd will hereafter ship ex-
ciusively to the southeastern st ties.
The Smith-Jacksou contest which caused
| such commotion in the house of repre-
sentatlves, ended in "a victory for the repub-
Leans.
Alfred Brown of Winchester. Pa, has
! been sentenced TO three years in the peni-
Tertiary for practicing medicine without
diploma.
IL is reported that ten trackmen were
killed near Dallas, Oregon, the other day
by the train breaking through bridge oo
feet high.
The antitrust law passed by various
states, has caused the whisky trust, with
capital oi $50, 100000, TO resolve itself into
corporation.
The Compton furniture company of
Grand Rapids has been forced 10 make an
assignment. Poor business and anxious
creditors did it,
G. w. Lightfoot the alderman in Glad
stone whom Gov. Luce removed, received
the citizens nomination for reelection, but
declined To run.
The Kansas City packing company, and
the Chase refrigerator company at at Kan
sas City. Mo, suffered u loss of 500 900 by
fire the other night.
Burglars entered President Harrison's
house in indianapolis the 9th CIR night, and
took about 81, 200 worth of property belong
ing TO the President.
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.
In an opinion Of some length the United
States supreme court decides that Nor
mons cannot plead religious freedom as an
excuse Tor polygamy.
The bodies of the eutombed miners in the
Nottingham shaft near Wikesbarre, Pa,
have all been recovered Seven men lost
their lives by this disaster.
The 5000 Mormons in Idaho protest
az dinst the admission OF that territory as O
state, because "a clause in the proposed
constitution DISTINGUISHES them.
Mr.. Carlisle has issued circular to the
public explaining the condition of affairs
In the house OF representatives. aud the
position OF the democratic members.
The coroner's jury declares that the rail
road wreck near Carmel, Ind. in which
seven persons We're, killed, was caused by
the Negligence of the RAILROAD officials.
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Mortgaged farmers in Kansas ask the
tgovcrnOr To call a special session OF the
| legislature TO devise some way TO relieve
| them
The United States supreme court has
rendered an opinion sustaining the consti-
tutionality of the Edmunds. Tucker test
oath, the intent of which is to prevent Nor
mons from voting.
In the contested governOrship of West
| Virginia, Fleming, democrat, was declared
elected, and the inauguration took pace
two days later.
Burke, Idaho, ia the Occur d Alene
| mining district, has been almost entirely
wiped out by disastrous avalanches, which
have occurred in the past few days. Nearly
half the buildings in the place were des-
troycd, and several lives were lost.
Chin Tom, Chinese gambler has dis
| appeared from Chicago with $4,000 of
| OJuer people moheS' anu Wuito WomhD'
Rev. Theodore L. Cuyler has resigned
the passionate of the Lafayette avenue
Presbyterian church, Brooklyn, N. Y,
whichhe has filled for 80 years. He IL %
wears old aud has been in the ministry A
years. Declining strength and failing
powers are the reasons for his retirement.
The militia force OF the United States at
present consists Of 1851 commissioned
officers, 81 1913 enlisted men, and 7,203, 49s
men not organized, but available for mill
tary duty.
The funeral OF Mrs. Tracy and Miss
Mary Tracy took place at the White House
en- tho 5th inst. Secretary Tracy is so far
recovered that be was able to attend the
funeral He bears his terrible afiliction
with great fortitude.