Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1891-03-27
BRIEFLY TOLD.


ter of war, is dead.
The fund for statue of Gen. Sherman
amounts to $3S, 635. ft
There is big break in the Mississippi
levee at Concord, Miss.
The silver anniversary of the G. A. r.
will be celebrated April q, 1891.
A 15-inch vein of sand, rich with gold,
has been found near Boston, Mo.
The Missouri peach crop is reported TO
have been ruined by cold weather.
Theodore Thomas will probably be
musical director of the worlds fair.
Telephone connection between London
and Paris was established Tuesday.
The governor general of British Barba-
does desires reciprocity with the United
States.
The total shortage of ex-Treasurer
Woodruff of Arkansas is placed at $780,
146. So.
The new Holmes block at Detroit, Mimi,
was destroyed by fire Sunday. The loss
is $40, 900.
A mortgage for $3.50, 900, 900 is said to
have been placed on the Union Pacific rail
way system.
North Washington. La, was almost
totally destroyed by fire Monday night.
Loss 500, 900.
O'Sullivan, one of the Cronin murderers,
has appealed to the Illinois Supreme court
for a new trial.
rrha ,,,araho,,o of IL ID Cu,d, A. 10
in New York was damaged $780, 900 by
fire Tuesday.
Lord Tennyson has accepted an honor
airy membership in the worlds fair auxil-
liary association.
Col. James r.. Snecd, one of the best
known of southern politicians, died in
Chicago Tuesday.
a s1owslide at Crested Butte, Col,
Tuesday, killed Chas. Devine, j. G. Nc
Quairie and Joseph Mccullough, miners.
Reports from Italy are TO the effect that
the recent storms have almost completely
destroyed the crop of lemons and oranges.
Peter and Mary Cryan were burned to
death and % families rendered homeless by
a fire in New York tenement house last
night.
Bribery is charged in the California leg
islature in the withdrawal of De Young's
name in favor of FELTON, for United States
senator.
The Englishmen who have been making
such large winnings at Monte Carlo still
continue in good luck, having won $40, 900
Sunday.
a large oleomargai inc factory at Provi-
dence, K. l., has been seized by govern
ment officers for sending out unstamped
packages.
An English syndicate has just pur-
chased the famous Laguna de Tasche
ranch of $4,000 acres in California, for
81, 600, 900.
Edwin Stein, Cleveland man, was at
tackled by three large English mastiffs
Tuesday and so badly injured that he may
not recover.
Two thousand Italian laborers are re-
ported TO be organizing and drilling with
guns near Bellaire, w. Va. Their object
is not known.
The Illinois senate on Wednesday passed
the bill authorizing tax of two mills &c
enable the Chicago public library to raise a
building fund.
A FIRE did 81. 200 damage to the Tongue
Pointe lunatic asylum At Montreal Sunday,
and four men who jumped from windows
were fatally injured
1t is semi-oficially denied that scaled
orders have been sent to the Italian squad
ron in consequence OF the lynchiug of the
I Italians NJ New Orleans
AT st. Peters Run, Pa, Saturday night,
burglar named Anderson killed Detective
Gilkinson and wounded two other men.
He is IN Jail at Braddox, Pa.
George Harris, u farmer living near
Caldwell, o., killed his wifeOy cutting her
throat, and then fatally hacked his own
throat. Harris was jealous,
An old feud between two farmers, Rob
ert Murray and VIM. o. Rowe, living near
Strathroy, Ont, eliminated Saturday in
the murder of Rowe by Murray.
An Italian meeting to protest against
the New Orleans killing was broken up at
Troy, n. Y, Sunday night by a mob
which bombared the building with stones
The South Dakota supreme court has
decided that the act requiring the deposit
of $50, 900 with the state treasurer by
commercial agencies doing business in the
state is unconstitutional.
The famous Hatfield Mccoy feud in
West Virginia has been declared at an end,
marriage of a Mccoy TO a Hatfield having
brought about the change. Over 100 lives
were sacrihced as result of the feud.
One hundred bodies were recovered from
the wrecked steamer Utopia, off Gibraltar,
Sunday. The coroner's jury has decided
that the disaster was the result Of an acct
dent for which no person was TO blame.
Some fool yelled fire" in the opera
house at Springfield, o., Sunday night
while religious services were being conduct
cd. and panic was only averted by the
choir singing Nearer, My God, to Thee
Meredith Stanley Thursday successfully