Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1891-08-21
BRIEFLY TOLD.

Miss Ulrieka Dahlgren, daughter Of the
late Admiral Dahlgren. is TO marry Josiah
Pierce, New Englander.
Fire at Norfolk, Va. Saturday, de-
stroyed several warehouses, causing loss
of 1855, 900, mostly insured.
Alexander Gordon, prominent business
man OF Elizabeth, n. j., has been driven
insane by the bite of mosquito.
Rev. Edward Eggleston, author Of the
"Hoosier Schoolmaster," is TO marry Miss
Frances Il. Goode of Madison, Ind.
During an electric storm in Monticello,
ILL.,, Saturday night several persons were
killed and much property destroyed.
The treasury departments shipments of
small notes TO the west for use in moving
the crops aggregates to tate Sc, 25O, 600.
DR.. j. Z. Clemens is under arrest at
Memphis, Tenn, charged with chloro-
forming and robbing Il. ID. Frayser, of
that city. a
The government of Portugal prohibits
the importation of foreign wheat from
September l until the native crop has been
consumed.
Rev. John Jackson Brown, L. L. D.,
professor of chemistry and physics in
Syracuse, IN. " university, died Satur-
day morning.
Dr. A. L. Moffatt, young dentist and
medical student Of Cleveland, was drowned
at Chautauqua, n. ", Tuesday. His body
was recovered.
Reports from the Chickasaw nation say
the Byrd party were victorious in the re-
cent election. The result means that the
intruder must go.
John Bonte Sons Co., rope and Irvine
manufacturers of Cincinnati, o., have
made an assignment. The liabilities are
100, 600, with the assets about the same.
An aeronaut named johnson fell from a
balloon to the ground distance Of about
1000 feet and was frigtfully crushed.
at Tacoma, Wash, Saturday, He
died instantly. 1t is said he was intox-
icated.
In Illinois the sun has baked the ground
until it is as hard as a rock. The corn is
in the milk and the dry weather is shrivel-
ing up both the corn and the stocks. II is
doubtful if there will be one quarter of a
a crop.
Edward Foster, a young man well
known in Jersey City, about three years
ago became believer in faith cure and
shortly after was attacked by malicious
malady and now is slowly dying, but will
not allow physician to call upon him.
A bill has been discussed in the Gillian
congress 10 dsown all acts of the revolu-
tionists in order not only to lay the civil
and criminal responsibility upon all those
supporting the insurgents, but TO warn the
neighboring nations against dealing with
them.
The whaleback barge No. lis has been
successfully launched at Ashland, Wis,
Among the large number present was Sec
rotary Of Agriculture Rusk. No. 115 is of
the regular size of the tow-barges, 2S5 feet
in length, and designed to carry 5000 tons
on 16 feet draft
T.. B. Preston, a lumber merchant of
North Ottawa, Kansas, shot and killed his
wife Sunday afternoon and attempted TO
commit suicide. Mr. and Mrs. Preston
separated some time ago during quarrel
over the attentions Of certain young man
to their daughter.
The plans and specifications for the new
revenue cutter Calumet. have been re-
ceiyed from the treasury department at
the Chicago custom house. They give
promise Of craft of which the service
can well feel proud. She will be of steel,
"a it. in. long, 20 it. 6 in wide, and 10
#. in. deep.
There was a serious railway accident in
Wales last week passenger train
crashed into volunteer special which was
Na a4
Pont-y-Pridd and Cardiff. Fifteen per-
sons were injured, and some of them so
seriously that they will probably die. The
rear of the special train was completely
wrecked.
Saturday morning at Attica station on
Baltimore & Ohio railroad, sixteen miles
east of Tif1in, o., freight train collided
with the rear end Of a local standing at the
depot. The depot was demolished, three
cars being thrown through it. One engine
and a dozen cars were wrecked. Fireman
Murphy was seriously and several others
slightly hurt
Much has been said recently concerning
the great number of foreigners who are
alleged to be arriving in England, it being
held by many that the reported influx was
due to the exodus of Jews from Russia.
An official report just issued on the immgra-
tion during the month of July shows that the
number of foreigners entering England
during that month amounted to 5000.
Miss Annie Hardness, of Terre Haute,
Ind, gave balloon ascension at Coney
Island, near Cincinnati Saturday. In the
drop with parachute the machine failed
to open and the lady was dashed to the
ground mass of flesh, bones and blood.
The force of the fall are so great that the
legs were driven in the ground half way to
her knees. She dropped about 500 feet.
The reports ofthe discovery Of extensive
anthracite coal fields in Sonora are con-
firmed by advices received by the bureau
of American republics. Operations at the
coal fields are being carried on about 40
miles from Ortiz, town on the Sonora
railway between Hermosillo and Guy
amas The concession is owned by q
Mexican company owning 1900, 900 acres.
The United States cutter Rush picked
up seven men in a whaleboat from the
whale Triton. They had been lost in the
fog and drifted around 10 days before
being picked up. They were in terrible
condition when found, one having gone