Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1891-12-25
BRIEFLY TOLD.

The Welland canal has closed Tor the
season.
The Huron, S. D., national bank is in
charge OF a national bank examiner.
An English syndicate is buying up the
coffee lands in Tamaulipas, Mexico.
Francis t. King, trustee OF the Johns
Hopkins hospital Of Baltimore is dead.
The improvements at Tampico, Mexico,
will make it a great port and a safe harbor.
A proposition is on foot to duplicate the
Eddystone lighthouse for the worlds fair
The hotel Wellesley at Needham, Mass,
has been destroyed by fire. Loss $50, 600.
The explosion of ESQ pounds OF dynamite
caused an earthquake alarm at Harrisburg,
Penn.
Young Field is still In Jail and three
doctors are watching for symptoms of in
sanity.
A four-foot vein Of coal has been found
near Kansas City, Mo-, 400 feet below the
surface.
An unknown tramp was lynched at
Emmett Ark, for assaulting a young
school teacher.
Albert Parnitzke, Of Keosaque, Iowa,
has been given life sentence for killing
his sweetheart's brother.
1t is said that Wall street lost fully
~, 600. 900 in money, bonds and stocks
through the Field failure.
The Tennessee convicts will be sent back
10 the mines under an armed escort of
military and civil guards.
Three men stole satchel cOntaing $500
in Minneapolis, Mimi, iewelry store, but
were detected and captured.
The American district telegraph company
and the Mutual district telegraph company,
Of New York, have been consolidated.
An explosion at the blast furnace of the
Illinois steel company at Bayview, Wis,
killed two men and injured several others.
Owing to the great demand for space
the directors OF the worlds fair are nego-
tiating for more land south of the present
site.
The shareholders OF the defunct Metro
politan national bank, of Cincinnati have
sued the officers and directors for 81, 000,-
600.
The city marshall. B. Lou-of
Efingham, KS, was held up by highway
men, near that place and robbed of con-
siderable money and watch.
Chief Of Police McClaughey, OF Chicago,
has paid out of his own pocket $6S7 for the
damages done to labor union halls during
the recent raid on the anarchists.
A convention will be held in New York,
Jan. 81, to form great railroad organiza-
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brakemen, engineers and fremen.
A. L. Ferguson, wife and child, of
Pawuee, Neb., were crossing the tracks Of
the b. & M. railroad near that city and
were struck and killed by a freight train.
A lamp exploded in the house of Eman-
uel Ford at Columbia, S. G. His wife
and infant child were burned TO death and
Ford himself received serious injuries in
trying to rescue them.
A stonecutter named Shelor, at Roanoke.
Va, has discovered that his wife is the
heir of the late William II. Blythe, the
Scotch millionaire, who died about FIVE
years ago. The estate Is valued TO IS, 600,
600.
The Canadian government has informed
Kingston (Ont forwarders that no change
will be made in the regulation respecting
rebates or canal tolls until the matter is
discussed with the American authorities.
Mrs. Nancy Britt, of Augusta, Me-,
reputed to be 11s years DID, got out Of her
bed and knelt in prayer for three quarters
of an hour asking that she might die. Az
the end of the prayer she arose and i'm
mediately fell dead.
A messenger employed by Schussler
Bros, wholesale jewellers Of San Fran.
cisco, was knocked down by two men and
box containing 500. 900 worth Of gems
taken from him. The thieves dropped tn,
J booty on being holly pursued, and escaped