Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1891-06-26
BRIEFLY TOLD.

There were 2, 29i immigrants landed at
the New York barge office Friday.
DIR. ]. H. Thompson, for many years
leading physician of Milwaukee, is dead.
The wheat crop of Kansas was damaged
by heavy wind and rain storm Sunday.
A small cyclone damaged property to a
considerable extent at Cairo, ILL.,, Sunday.
The United States treasurer paid out
81, 600, 900 Wednesday on account of PEN
sions.
Ex-Gov. Harrison Ludington of Wiscon
sin died at Milwaukee Wednesday night,
aged 7S years.
The miners strike at Foster, Ia, is
ended, the men having gone back to work
under the old plan.
A lumber depot at Alyens Lake, Ont,
has been destroyed by the forest fires,
causing loss of SIS, 900.
At meeting of window glass manu-
tacturers in Chicago Tuesday it was de-
cided to increase the price
AT Benton, ILL.,, Wednesday John Duty
shot and killed his mother-in-law and at
temped to murder his wife.
Hop lice have appeared in the Puyallup
Valley, Wash, and threaten to destroy the
hop crop of the entire valley.
Sherman Brooks was hanged at Louis
vile, Ga, Friday for the murder of
another Negro named Kelley.
Five families at Peru, Ind, have been
poisoned by eating imported dried beef.
-Four persons are critically i'll.
The wheat harvest in Oklahoma is
almost completed. The yield averages
twenty-five bushels to the acre.
Superintendent Of Census Porter has
not resigned and says he has no intention
of doing so before his work is completed.
Kilbourne J. Brown, a conductor on the
Canadian Pacific raiload, running between
Boston and Montreal, has been arrested for
smuggling.
A grand requiem mass was celebrated at
Mexico Friday for Emperor Macmillan,
it being the twenty-fourth anniversary of
his execution.
VIM. Cadman and Burrell Ross, two
young men of Kansas City, Mo-, were
drowned in lake in one of the city parks
Tuesday night.
McCrystal, one of the jury bribers in the
Hennessey murder case at New Orleans,
was sentenced Wednesday to one year in
the penitentiary.
Near Batoum, Russia twelve pirates re-
Gently shot eight soldiers who attempted to
suit of the pirates.
The emperor Of China has ordered the
beheading Of all his subjects who were con-
cerned in the recent riots against the chris
tians near Shanghai.
The Indiana supreme court on Friday
decided that the legislature had no right to
abolish the old state board Of agriculture
and appoint new one.
Seven colored people were drowned in
Curtis creek, near Baltimore, Saturday, by
the capsizing of a boat. None of the
bodies have been recovered.
The duchess of Castro Euriauez a
wealthy Spanish lady residing at Madrid,
is locked up in Jail for brutally beating a
female servant in her employ.
John M. Campion of Omaha, Neb., who
embezzled s.. 400 from the firm for which
NC Noo OOOhhNNP~ie wa SpbINhNFb NNd-
nesday to three years Imprisonment.
George Lang's wholesale liquor store in
San Francisco and his distillery at Calls
tosa has been seized by United States
officers for violation of the revenue laws.
British Columbia fishermen are asking
for the appointment of a royal commission
to consider the best means of develop
ing the fishing industry of the Pacific
coast.
w. f. Thomas, night operator for the
Dayton & Michigan railroad at Troy, o.,
was killed and robbed by tramps early
Tuesday morning. Two men have been
arrested on suspicion.
A number of picnickers took refuge in a
building near ST. Louis Tuesday from a
storm. Lightning struck tho building,
killing Sadie Macarthur, aged 12, and
iniuring three others.
A Chicago syndica ate will erect, at cost
of "a, 900, 900, gigantic freight clearing
house, consisting of $50 structures, each
six stories high, at the intersection of
Twelfth street and the Chicago river.
The Rev. Isaac Nicholson of Philadel-
phia was elected bishop of the Episcopal
diocese of Milwaukee on the eleventh
ballot Wednesday night. His election is
regarded as victory for the high church.
men.
The American bank note company is
engaged in printing s12, 900, 900 worth of
paper money for President Balmaceda of
Chill. The congressional rebels are laying
plans TO capture the money on its way to
Chill.
Virgins, the Canadian weather prophet,
says the barbed wire fences, telegraph and
telephone lines on the western prairies
cause the clouds TO give down their loads
of moisture prematurely, and in conse-
quence Canada is cheated out of its share
of rain.
Joseph Feys, Swiss Storage passenger
on the steamer La Bretague, which ar
rived at New York Sunday. threw his five
year old child into the sea on the trip
over and was put into irons before he
could throw the other children in, as he
had threatened. He is insane.
The Methodist conference of Toronto
has suspended Rev. james Thompson for
one year for preaching the heresy that
.'There is no material hell" MIR. Thomp-
son in his sermons expressed the belief
that there was no punishment for wrong
ls,,t nd not iAao