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


Burglars entered President Harrison's
house in Indianapolis the other night ana
secured iewelry and other articles TO the
amount OF 81, 200.
The Ohio legislature has adopted in both
houses a joint resolution instructing tho
state delegation in congress 10 vote for the
location OF the worlds fair in Chicago.
Nellie Bly, the lady who has just com
pleted tour around the world in less than
73 days, is n daughter of William +. Coch-
rane. at one time prominent mill builder
and inventor OF Springfield, o.
William Keller of THIN, o., has for some
time noticed that the ears OF one Of his
cows were gradually disappearing, ard ne
determined TO ascertain the cause. He
watched one night, and discovered three
large rats on the cows head gnawing at
her ears.
A terrible state of affairs exists in some
of the county Institutes for the insane in
| New York state. In some OF them il is
| charged that men and women are fed like
| hogs and live in state of filth that would
disgust sewer rat The matter is being
Investigated.
The Mississippi Valley Lumberman pub
fishes comprehensive review of the lum-
| Der business of the northwest for the year
| 1889. The total product OF the year was
3,467, 436, 593 feet, or falling off of TO- 40l,
775 feet from the product OF 1888 Low
|
given as the chief reasons for the reduc-
ton in production.
1t is reported that in the past two yelrs
| certain persons in Mexico have coined
about 5,000OO0 United States dollars,
which have been shipped across the
border and circulated in Texas, New Next
CO. and Arizona, and in other districts,
aud that the counterfeiters made profit of
about 2S cents on each of the spurious dol
| lars disposed Of.
An engineer and a fireman on the Long
Island railroad have been arrested for
| criminal careessness. The day previous
they drove train at full speed over the
| Dutch Hill Creek bridge, which was only
closed in time by the draw-tender by des-
perate exertions to prevent the train, with
its hundreds of passengers, from plunging
| to destruction.
Two masked men entered the postofice
at Albuquerque, N. M, the other evening,
| bound and gagged the postmaster and then
went through the safe, securing $500 in
cash, 81, e92 in stamps and several hundred
dollars worth Of jewelry After they had
| gone the postmaster released himself and
gave the alarm, but not before the outlaws
had made their escape, leaving no clue.
There was considerable excitement
in St Johns Episcopal church in
| Philadelphia last Sunday when
young man in the congregation arose
and pointed revolver at Bishop Whitaker.
| The shot, however, inflicted no injury. The
would be assassin was arrested and taken
| to the station house, where he gave the
| name of David Alexander, and told "a ram
| bling story about receiving a letter that in
duced him to kill the bishop.
| A petition has been presented to the Ca
| madam house OF commons, calling attention
| TO the enormous increase in the consump-
| ton of dressed American meat in the mari
|
importation amounted to 100000 pounds, but
| Chicago men have since worked up trade
there representing nearly 1000 0UO pounds
| annually. The petition states that the Ca
| madam farmer unprovided with refrigera-
/ tor cars, cannot compete with the Ameri-
| can producer and the member urged parli-
| ament TO double the duty.
Two big manufacturing plants now be-
| ing erected in different parts OF Cleveland
| have for some time been mystery. IL is
| thought the Standard oil company are the
real owners. Nearly 60 acres of land have
been leased, big buildings erected and
workmen are now drilling well for salt.
| II is said that the company will manufac-
ture soda ash, great quantities OF which is
used in the refining of oil, the manufacture
of glass and for other purposes.
Mrs. Clara Hoffman, president of the w.
| &. Il. u, of Missouri, who has been iuvesti-
| eating affairs at the state penitentiary in
jefferson City, says that the white and
| black female prisoners are huddled to-
| gether like cattle, that women are whip
| ped for violating the rules, and that immor-
| ality reigns unchecked
Fred Petit, an ex-Methodist minister,
has been arrested in Columbus, o., charged
with the murder OF his wife with strych-
nine. Mrs. Elma G. Whitehead, a wealthy
widow of Lafayette, Ind, has been arrest
| ed as an accomplice.