Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1891-10-16
BRIEFLY TOLD.

San Francisco was shaken up by al
earthquake Sunday night.
The widow OF the late VIM. Henry
Smith is to be raised to the peerage.
Claud Griffith and Arthur Kavanaugh.
cadets at Annapolis, are on trial for haz-
ing.
The army OF the Tennessee will solicit
funds TO build monument 10 Genera
sherman.
George A. Dixon, who helped rob tn,
Houtzdale. Pa. bank Of 500, 600, has beeL
arrested in Toledo.
Schools are closed on account Of th,
epidemic OF black diphtheria in Fairview
Ill, caused by impure drinking water.
Al baptist revival of colored people in
New York last week. Walter Smith arose
TO speak, but fell backwards into his seat.
dead.
The First national bank OF Chicago has
begun suit to recover $500. 900 from S. X.
Howell, the lumber merchant who recently
failed.
Pearls of rare beauty and great value
have been discovered in great quantities in
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rle, o. Il.
A fire at Mayfield, KY, Thursday.
burned over nearly six acres Of ground
The total loss is placed at 800, 900; in
surance light.
There is trouble in a Middlesborough
Ky town company. The directors have
all resigned. and shares have fallen from
$3.50 TO $3.50.
Gen. II. V. Boynton will retire from the
head OF the Cincinnati Commercial
Gazette's Washington bureau after %
years service.
Il. G. Vaughan, Of Fremont Neb., lay
across a railroad track on the 9th and had
his head cut OF. n Maynard son had
driven him insane.
At the national prison congress, in ses-
son 10 Pittsburg last week. Ex-President
Hayes addressed 500 convicts in the River
side psnitentiary taere.
sold mt Callahan died at Brennan.
Tex, at tho age of rs. She was probably
the oldest Negro in Texas and distinctly
recollected old Andrew Jackson.
Rev. Philip II. Garrett, of Reading, Pa,
convicted of frdudulently obtaining $3.50
on life INSURANCE policy, has been SEN
fenced TO one years Imprisonment
A fire at Lawrenceville, Pa, Saturday,
destroyed the bu ldings of the Pittsburg
collar manufacturing company and the
Liberty machine company; loss, $50. 900.
''Possibly we shall meet In the spring
for serious business" are the words Gen.
Waldersee is reported to have used ut a
recent banquet TO the ninth corps OF the
German army.
A 16-vear-old boy named Michael Ryan,
who had been in the habit OF eating hay
and straw, has just died near Jordan,
MINI. A large clot of the pulp had
formed in his intestnes.
A boarding house in Pittsburg, in which
were so Polanders, caught fire Sunday
night One man was suffocated and an
other was dangerously hurt by jumping
from third story window.
A. S. Mann & Co.. one OF the Oldest and
most reliable dry goods firms in Rochester,
N. Y, has made a general assignment.
The firms money was tied up in western
lands. The liabilities are over 500, OC0
aud assets are about S72, 900.
Mr.. Cleveland announces that his daugh-
ter is TO be named Ruth, after Mrs. Cleve-
lands grandmother. Mr.. Cleveland Is
grateful for the many messages Of con-
graduation he has received, among others
one from President Harrison.
Between s, 900 and 10, 900 people heard
the Joint debate between tho political
giants of Ohio at the town Of Ada, that
state, on the Sth inst. The tariff question
was thoroughly discussed, but few or no
new arguments were presented.
Pritchard, the English pugilst, has been
sentenced TO London 10 imprisonment for
one month for having recently made q
cowardly assault upon barkeeper who re-
quested the fighter to leave saloon in
which he was creating disturbance.
The number OF pupils in the public
school of the United States Is IL. $50, 900;
In private and parochial schools about 750,-
900 each. Eleven churches maintain pa
rochial schools. the Catholics teaching
twice as many pupils as all the others com
bined.
Tho case against O'Malley, the New
Orleans detective charged with jury-brib-
ing ia the Heunessy case. has been drop
ped. Fortunately the dagoes who were
lypchsd as an outgrowth Of that bribery
cannot return 10 Garth under present con-
ditions.