Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1890-01-30

and Treasurer OF the Brooklyn Elevated
Ra .lroad in New York.
"A. Robbery OF the car of the Pacific
Express Company on the railroad in the
! Choctaw Nation, j. 4.
20. Fire at Lynn, Mass, destroying So
100000 worth OF property.
"a. The bark Germania sinks OF the
New Jersey coast, and the captain and
| eight OF the crew are drowned.
Is. Loss of SlO,0oO,OOJ worth Of property
In fire in Boston.
30. Fire in Minneapolis destroys the
Tribune Office and causes the death of
seven persons and the injury OF dozen
others; denial by Judge Anderson, at Salt
Lake City, OF applications for citizenship
made by Mormons who had taken the En-
dowment House oath in the Mormon
| church.
DECEMBER.
g. Opening of the Fifty-hrst Congress
and election Of Thomas B. Reed Speaker of
the house; six people burned to death in a
tenement in Philadelphia.
g. Presentation of the Presidents
message 10 congress.
T. Nomination by President Harrison OF
Judge David j. Brewer OF Kansas, for
Associate Justice of the Federal Supreme
Court; the Farmers and Laborers' Union
| OF America open their National Convention
at St. Louis.
8. Announcement Of the disappearance of
G. F. Silcott, Cashier OF the Sergeant-of-
arms OF the House OF Representatives, with
nearly $4,000; arrival of Stanley and his
party with Emin Pasha at Bagamoyo, oppo-
site lumbar.
10. Panic in theater at Johnstown, Pa,
on account Of false alarm OF fire, and ten
persons killed and fifty injured.
IL. Funeral OF jefferson Davis at New
| Orleans; centennial celebration in the hall
OF the Federal House Of Representatives
OF the first inauguration Of President N ash.
ington and the organ cation OF congress.
II. Banquet of the Boston Merchants
Association, and addressed by ex Pres dent
Cleveland, Henry w. Grady, OF Georgia,
and others.
IS. The Cronin case in Chicago given to
the jury.
IA. Influenza becomes epidemic in several
OF the leading cities OF Continental Europe.
TO- The jury in the Crouin case brings in
a verdict, which gives OSullivan, Cough
lin and Bourk life Imprisonment, and Kunze
three years, while Beggs is acquitted; infiu-
enza of the type Epidemic in some parts Of
Europe discovered in New York.
H. Fist tight near Butte, Mont, between
John Gallagher and q. II. Ward, which re-
suited In death for both.
20 Robbery of the express car on a train
on the San Angelo Branch Of the Santa Fe
Railroad, at Bangs Station, Tex, brake
mun being killed and sl2 taking.
81. Announcement of tie full list OF
House Committees; disappearance ot Chu
Teng, cashier OF Chinese bank IL New
York, with $4,000 OF the banks funds and
young white lady who had been his Sun.
day School teacher
%. Fight between Slavin, the Australian,
and Jem Smith, the English champion,
near Bruges, Belgium, which was declared
a draw, although Slavin had the best of it
| from the start.
"A Intelligence received Z o mine disas-
ter at Angels Camp, nes San Andreas,
Cal, in which sixteen lives were
lost; fight between deputy United States
marshal and party and whisky peddlers
were wounded and captured.
25. Race riot in Jesup, Ca, in which
nine persons are reported killed and several
others injured; elopement from Cartervi.le,
Co., Of Anna Z. Jones' daughter of Sam
Jones, the evangelist
rs. Gu eat storm on the Atlantic coast,
and several lives lost and much property
destroyed.
%. Spread OF influenza in the cities Of
the Atlantic seaboard, 5000 cases being
reported in and near Boston.
-. Ten persons killed and several others
injured in O wreck on the Chesapeake and
Ohio railroad, near White Sulphur Springs,
Va; 5C0OO people reported as suffering
from influenza in New York City; eight
negroes charged with murder taken from
the Jail in Barnwell S. C., by a mob and
shot