Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1891-05-08
BRIEFLY TOLD

There is coal famine in Germany.
South Dakota had a snow storm Sun
day.
The French ambassador TO Russia has
resigned.
a great forest fire is, raging near Mill
vile, N. j.
Barry Sullivan, tho famous tragedian,
has just died in London.
Pittsburg is TO have big musical festi-
val, commencing May ID.
Altoona Pa, had two fires>of incen1iary
origin Sunday and the loss is 500, 900.
Nearly all the cotton mills of Arkansas
have combined, with capital of $1,000,
0O0
The strikers in the coke regions of
Pennsylvania want SIS. COO to carry on the
strike.
A strong flow OF natural gas was stvuck
near Bloomington, ILL.,, Monday at a depth
of 100 feet
There is a combine among the whole
salers of St Louis to keep up the prices Of
Oleomargarine.
The forest fires are still raging in the
mountains of Pennsylvania. Those near
Reading are out.
The seats OF ii members of the Canadian
parliament elected from Nova Scotia,
have been contested.
The clergy OF Montreal, both protestant
and Roman Catholic, are moving against
Sunday amusements.
It is now stated that John f. Hill, presi-
dent of the Ninth national bank of New
York, embezzled S400. 900.
White settlers near Portland, S. ID, are
mp in arms because the best lands are
being allotted TO the Indians.
A tornado caused considerable damage
to property and injured many persons at
Paducah, KY, Saturday night
George Francis Train has, started on
another trip around the world, which no
proposes to complete in So days.
A. c. Cattell & Co., dealers in rubber
goods at Cincinnati, assigned Tuesday.
Liabilities $3.50, 900; assets 100000.
An attempt is to be made to purchase
the house in which Nathaniel Hawthorne
was born, and re-erect it OF tho worlds
fair.
Miss Phoebe Couzins has asked the
courts to prevent her removal as secretary
of the board of lady managers of the
worlds fair.
A stranger who Registered as d. S.
Stolinger of Woodsocket, S. D., has been
found dead in the Grand Central hotel in
Columbus, O.
Funeral services over the remains of
Richard Grifliths, late general worthy
foreman of the knights of labor, were held
in Chicago Sunday.
! Jerome c. BurnetA, chief of tho National
bank division of tho treasury department,
died in Washington Sunday afternoon He
was SO years OF age.
St Louis had labor demonstration
Sunday in which 5000 men participated.
The afternoon was devoted to speech
making on the S hour subject
Rev. John Thompson, ID. d., pastor of
ST. Andrews church, Salnia, has been
presented withsa purse OF gold and an
address on the 25th anniversary of bis
,astorate.
A dispatch from Topeka, Kas., 20 the
Sew York Times indicates that the
exported destruction OF the wheat crop Is
lue to bad farming and not to tho Hessian
" or the chinch bug.
The Winnebago Indians have made three
Unsuccessful attempts TO raise crops on
heir reservation nea= Black River Falls,
Mis-, and have decided to abandon farm
ng. Their land is no good.
"Old Hutch" is back in Chicago and
sunday made the rounds Of his favorite
aloons When asked why he left the city
o mysteriously, he said az am 81 years
Id and guess l can go away when
lease without asking any ones permits
ion."