Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1891-07-31
BRIEFLY TOLD.


burned at Newport News, Va, Saturday.
Loss, $50, 900.
After a continuous sleep of 100 hours, a
boy named Jesse /. STREET. woke in Sey-
mour, Ind, Monday.
3Wnlam W. Weeden. the inventor Of
the Waterbury watch, died at New Bed
ford, Mass, Saturday.
II. B. Reed, ex-speaker of the United
States house of representatives, is on his
way home from London.
The Farmers Alliance advises farmers
TO hold back on their wheat until the pr ice
is something like its real value.
A portion of the Central chandelier
company's building, Toledo, burned Sun
day. Loss, SIS, 900; insurance, $40, 900.
Annie Brenneman, aged % years, was
instantly killed by lightning at East Ber-
lin, Pa, Saturday while lowering a Win
dow.
The jumping horse Sourier broke his
neck while attempting a hedge at Chicag o
Sunday. Jockey Stewart was seriously
hurt
Matron Henks, in charge of a children's
orphan asylum in Kansas City, Mo-, is
accused of neglecting and starving the
little ones.
Charles o. G. Hennessy, city editor of
the New York Daily News, has been in
dicted for publishing an account of the
electrocution.
j. A. Vail, assistant bookkeeper of the
West Park window glass Works, of Find
lay, o., has disappeared with 81, 900 of
the company's money.
The body of Rev. j. N. Wright of In
dianapols, was found floating in a canal
Saturday. 1t is supposed he committed
suicide while melancholy.
The retiring American minister to Per
STA, Mr.. Pratt, expects to obtain a COM
plete exhibit of Persian art and industrial
products for the Chicago far
William Z. Fitzgerald. the Detroiter who
killed Officer Freed at Youngstown, o.,
last April, has been denied a new trial and
sentenced to hang on November 10.
An orangeman. while attempting to
address 25, 900 Young Brtons in Toronto
park Sunday, was arrested. The crowd
unsuccessfully attempted to rescue the
prisoner.
Mrs. Favis and Mrs. Mccartney, of Pitts
burg, gave their infants carbolic acid Mon
day night, mistakingi it for cough medicine.
One of the babies is dead and the other is
not expected to live.
About 600 destitute Jews arrive daily at
Hamburg. The English consul there has
published a notice warning them Of the
futility of going to Great Britain with the
expectation of getting work
Hon. Paul Dillingham;, of Waterbury,
VT, died Monday morning. He would
have been 92 years old next month. He
was member of congress in 1914,
and was governor of Vermont from 1865
TO 1867.
A dispatch from Bay of Islands, N. F.,
says that the commander of H. NJ. S.
Pelican, has compelled the lobster factories
there to cease operations. The people are
destitute. The French factories are not
interfered with.
Capt. w. E. Stewart, of South Haven,
desires all comrades of the Twelfth Mich
igan. intending to attend the Detroit
encampment, TO send their addresses TO
Lieut.. John Pennington, at Pewamo, or
Sergt Joe Run, Albion.
While dance was in progress at Starke,
Fla, Tuesday night, an old quarrel was
revived, and a young man named Futh
shot and killed Willie Bowling, fatally
wounded Joseph Bowling, the latter's
father, and boy named Varnes.
The funeral of L. d. Newcomb,
formerly a well known resident of Way
land, occurred Tuesday. Newcomb lost
his mind a short time ago and was placed
in the Kalamazoo asylum from which place
he escaped aud drowned himself.
The Battle Greek school furniture COM
pany has imported a lot of laborers to
work in the places of the striking molders
and is taking care of them at the works.
A lot of police are employed to prevent the
strikers doing the new men violence.
The Marshall cycle company closed it's
doors Tuesday by a mortgage to the First
national bank for $1,000. The works will
not be reopened unless the bank can find
some more competent men to run the con-
Germ. About 80 men are thrown out of
work.
A statement prepared by the treasury
department shows that the receipts from
customs at the port of New York during
!
were So, 795, 4S7, or S3,2S5, SOL less than
the receipts at the same port during the
corresponding period of last year.
While the cashier of the Werner print
ing and lithographing company at Akron,
o., was making up the pay roll Saturday
Otto Schoendure, aged 10, an employee,
called him to the telephone. When the
cashier returned Schoendure had disap-
peared with 81, 900. Two confederates
were waiting outside with team.
! Out of the original % labor men of
Grand Rapids arrested on charge of
conspiracy, in connection with the late
street car strike, five have already been
discharged, and it is probable that not
more than half dozen will be called upon
to face jury. The foreign capital COM
pany is having hard work with its case.
Asa Williams, of Deerfeld, went out TO
salt his cattle Sunday and took his gun
and family along. He wanted the gun to
shoot bluejay and get feathers for the
children's hats. He shot a jay and re-
loaded his gun. No one knows how the
accident occurred, but the gun went off.
killing his IL year old girl instantly and
badly hurting younger child.
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