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Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1892-11-25
powpERLY,s PREACHING.
The Grand Master Workman Gives His
Opinions on the Labor Question.

Opinions on the Labor Question.
The general assembly met in secret
session at st. Louis with General Mas
ter Workman Powderly in the chair.
Mr.. Powderly delivered his annual adj
dress which was in part as follows:
"As review the past history of the
labor movement, / am inclined To the
belief that there has been great waste
of vital force and means. AS we look
around us we see hundred and one
new associations having benefits for
accident or sickness or insurance in
case of death. While it is true that
many of these are swindling concerns,
pure and simple, it is none the less true
that they draw not alone from the
knights of Labor but from all the labor
organizations. 1t is fact that there
are too many labor organizations
struggling for supremacy. There eX-
lists no reason why every branch of toll
should not be enrolled under the shield
of this organization. There Is no
reason why every interest cannot be
more carefully guarded IN TINS order
than in separate and Isolated camps
: where we too often find them more
bitterly opposed to each other than 10
the concentrated forces by which all OF
us are opposed.
"The members of this organization
are TO be congratulated on the crafty
ing result of the agitation for ballot
reform which was inaugurated by the
general assembly few short years ago.
Under the operations of the secret vot-
ing law we can more readily get the
sense of the masses on the subject OF
submitting all laws to the people for
agitation and discussion before adop-
ton.
"Some six years ago your general
master workman declared that he was
in favor of the restriction OF immigra
ton. The views then expressed were
not received with favor by the order
but notwithstanding that fact ms
sentiments have not changed since
then. unless it be in the direction OF g
more rigid exclusion of immigrants
than he then favored. foresee grea'
danger. not alone TO labor but 10 the
whole country, if the Immigration
question is not carefully and heroicalll
; handled in the near future"
, The general executive committee
2 report reviews at length the trouol
e with the combine of clothing manu-
I, facturers at Rochester and says tn
4 boycott has diverted millions OF dol
I, lars of trade from it. 1t is urged tina
r the order try and secure the enactmen
of just laws for the protection OF EN-
n ployes' lives and limbs.
The report of General Secretary an
Treasurer Bayes shows that the tota
receipts of the order has been 500
e 6i4.l9, and the total expenditure $50
5. 74s. So, leaving balance on hand Jul
j. /, 1892, of SS65.37. The memoersh hi
IT has increased slightly during the pas
n year, and is now over 100000.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1892-11-25
rrinle Fatality in Chicago.

By the collision of two heavily laden
freight trains on the Belt Line rail-
road near the Archer avenue crossing
of the Alton road in Chicago three
lives were lost. Those who were killed
are: John Beaucamp, conductor belt
line train; Richard A. Otto, brakeman;
Louis Obitz, fireman.
Train No. IA of the Belt Line was
leaving the city at lively rate. just
ahead of it was local freight which
had slowed up at a crossing. The Belt
Line train crashed into the freight.
The caboose and four cars of the local
freight were smashed into kindling
wood and it took crew Of men several
hours to clear away the wreckage after
the fire had done its work.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1892-11-25
BRIEFLY TOLD.


Gilmore's band will not disband as
reported.
Prairie fires destroyed SEQ, 900 worth
of property in Rock county, Neb.
China will be unable to participate
in the Worlds Fair naval review.
One man was killed and five injured
by the caving of a sandbank in Taylor
vile, Ohio.
A. L. Mason, the richest man in
Kansas City, Mo-, is dead. He was
worth 100000
Senator Allison, commissioners to
the international monetary conference,
has arrived in Brussels.
The village of White Plains, KY,
has been destroyed by fire. The loss
will approximate $4,000.
A plan is now ON foot to have the
tariff revised by commission OF ex-
pert and disinterested agents.
The Haytien eXiles have decided to
postpone their revolution until De
cember in order to allow the coffee
crop 10 be harvested.
| a MODllt anu AblA hAAA AA"AA
iumped the track 10 miles south OF
Jackson, Ala. None of the so pas
sengers were injured.
The cotton crop prospects grow
worse every day and the yield will 81
AZ per cent less than last year, witt
a total not exceeding 10000 bales.
Thirty sheds containing 100000 bar
rels of salt belonging to the Michigan
Salt company were almost totall.
. DESTROYED by fire in Chicago. The los
is estimated at $3.50, 200.
Rufus Il. Richardson, professor
Greek at Dartmouth, has been unan
imously elected director of the Amer
lean School of Archaeology
Athens, Greece, for five years.
The schooner Edith M. Pryor al
rived at Portland, Me-, and reporte
the loss of six men while taking l
travis off Matinicus- Two other me
were with those lost, but they wer
afterward found on the Island {
| Matinicus.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1892-11-25
THE -FOUR QUARTERS.
GENERAL NEWS FROM SOURCES
FAR AND NEAR.
Information OF Happening and DOings.
Past, Present and Future Care
fully Cleaned.
Tn. Colonies to Have a Voice.

The council of the imperial feder-
alton at meeting in London approved
the report of the committee which pro-
poses the creation of federal council
in which shall sit representatives OF
Canada, Australasia and South Africa,
together with the British prime min
lister, the chancellor of the eXchequer,
the minister of foreign affairs, the
minister of the colonies, the minister
of war, the first lord of the admiralty
and the secretary of the state for INDIA
This council shall fix the contributions
each part of the empire shall pay to-
ward the common defense.
The report declared that an essential
principle of federation is that the
voice of the empire in dealing with
foreign powers should be the united
voice of all the autonomous parts OF
the empire.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1892-11-25
New York.
WEEKLY TRADE REVIEW.

New YoRK, Nov. 2l.-R. @. Dun Co.'S
weekly review of trade: No important
the distribution of products continues
enormous, production by manufacturers Is
greater on a whole than In any previous
about entering into new accounts, the gem
erai tone of business and industries Is re-
markably healthful. Trading In cotton WIS
hut stock dealings have been but moderate
business continues large, collections GOOD.
nnchSnged excepting that wool Is moro
Guiet The shoe trade is in good shape ana
lumber active. There has been an advance
i'm foreign exchange TO ~ S1ll, and with
monev dearer mt London and cheaper here,
IN is Thought To be some prospect OF gotd eN-
norris The business failures occurring
throuphout the country during the past
seven davg number 240. For the corresponds
Ing week OF last year the figures were SSo'
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1892-11-25
A WOMAN FOR SENATOR.
Mrs. Lease. of Kansas, may be the Popu-
list Choice of That State.


The opinion exists in Kansas that
stranger things might happen than the
election of Mrs Mary +. Lease as
United States senator from Kansas:
A. l.. Williams, general attorney OF
the Union Pacific says: 81 know OF no.
reason why Mrs. Lease should not be II
senator. There is nothing to prevent
it except the popular idea that sena-
tor should be a man. L hardly know
what would be done If she were elected.
Mrs. Lease would make good senator
if she could be seated" j. w. Ady,
United States district attorney at To
peka said: 1.-The question would have
to be settled on contest. Mrs. Lease
is certainly entitled to the place. She
is the leader of all the Populists.' ).
T. Hahn, judge-elect of the Topeka
district, said: "As think of it now,
l don't see why Mrs. Lease should not
be a senator.
Mrs. Leases candidacy for the SEN
ate has become serious reality. She
is fixing wires for the place and hei
popularity with the rank and file OF the
party will give her at least an equa
chance with other aspirants, es
pecially as there seems to be no con
stitutional disqualification.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1892-11-25

A letter received by James Gallagher,
Of New York, from friend in Cordaba,
Mexico, gives most distressing ac-
count of the state of affairs there.
Yellow fever has ragged with awful
violence and carried away almost 1000
of the people of the town. Most OF Inc
inhabitants have fed TO the mountains
to escape the plague. On the day the
letter was written, the writer says the
oniy living beings that could be seen
| in the streets were few convicts VINO
had been pressed into service for carry
Inc in dead. Trade has been utterly
naralyzed. The village has about
| 4, 900 inhabitants
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1892-11-25
ANIMATE NATURE.

Electrical science is now after the
caterpillar. Alternate wires OF zinc
and copper half an inch apart, at
tached TO battery. encircio tree and
it soon becomes n martyr.
A shark. lately washed ashore at
INDIAN, b. c., had 1.-TWO distinct tails,
three perfect eyes and what appeared
to be the rudiment of fin or hipper
hanging to the under jaw"
In Alachua aud other counties In
Florida. a short time ago, there was
shower of fine spider webs, which
covered the ground for miles. Enough
fell. it is said, to start cotton fac
tory.
A wildcat recently made its appear
ance in the woods near High Bridge,
in Hunterdon county, N. j., and pur-
sued a resident of that hamlet. who
was obliged to take refuge in friends
house and stay there over night.
A Mr.. Ellis Of Pottstown, Pa, re-
Gently shot near Cathlamet, Wash, q
monster elk. The animal weighed,
when dressed, $40 pounds; the antlers
measured seven feet three inches from
tip to tip, with seven prongs.
A Galveston gentleman reports that
large sawfsh was captured few
DAYS ago near Follower which measured
eighteen feet in length, three fee
eight inches length of saw, six feet
wide, and two feet thick from dorsaI
to ventral fin. 1t got inside the bal
that runs parallel with the peninsula
and. not being able to get out, was
caught, and, after being made fast
with a hawser. it took two horses sn'
four men to pull the Ash ashore.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1892-11-25
GREAT STRIKE ENDED.
HOMESTEAD STRIKERS GIVE UP
THE BATTLE.
MANY Men VIII Not Be Able To Secure
Their Old Positions and There WIN
he Great Destltution.

The great strike at the Carnegie
Homestead Steel works has been de-
clared off. After five months
struggle, which for bitterness has
probably never been equaled in this
country, the army of strikers finally
decided to give up the fight.
This action was taken at a meeting
of the lodges of the Amalgamated
Association at Homestead, the vote
standing 101 in favor of declaring the
strike off and 81 against it. Among
those present ut the meeting were
Vice President Carney, Secretary Kill
gallon, Treasurer Madden and David
Lynch of the advisory board The
officials addressed the members and in
plain words told them the strike was
lost and advised them to take steps to
better their condition.
The remarks met with considerable
opposition. but when the vote was
taken it showed majority of 10 In
favor of declaring the strike off.
A member of the advisory board
said that he had been trying to get the
| strike declared off for some weeks, as
he knew it was lost and il would have
been better for the men as great
MANY more of them could have gotten
their places back.
Those who cannot get back are In a
bad fix, as the relief funds will be
stopped and many hundreds of them
have nothing TO live on. The people
in Homestead, especially business men
are highly elated over the declaration
to cali the strike off, for if it had con
tinued much longer it would have
ruined the town. Many business
houses have fallen into the hands o
the sheriff since the strike has been on
At least 80 deaths were directly o
indirectly caused by the strike
Besides those killed in the battle o.
July 6, many soldiers contracted feve
which resulted fatally, one soldier wa
shot accidentally by comrade
another was killed by the cars, on
striker committed suicide, on
drowned, one was killed by the cars
several non-union men died fror
fever, several were killed in the mil
and one was murdered 10y anothe
non-unionist.
The strikers have lost $1,000, 900 /
wages.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1892-11-25
To Unite Prohibitionists and PopuiIsts.

To Unite ProhibitioniSts and Popullsts'
Another movement is on foot to unite
the Prohibition and Peoples parties.
A committee representing both organi-
cations in Chicago called upon Senator
PETER at the Grand Pacific to ascertain
his views on the subject. The commit
tee was composed of DIR. IL. 5. Taylor,
chairman of the Cook county Prohibl-
ton club; ID. w. Fulwiler, presidential
elector on the Peoples ticket; Q. III.
Penigo, Ebenezer Wakelcy and Frank
New back.
DIR. Taylor presented the subject TO
the senator The attempt, he said, TO
unite the two parties which had failed
short time ago, had failed because
the southern element of the People
party objected to anything in the way
of prohibition. But the recent election
had demonstrated that the People
party had very little strength in the
south, and that it was strongest in those
| localities which were Prohibition
strongholds. Hence the two parties
might as well unite their forces.
The outcome of the conference was
the authorizing of DR.. Taylor to issue
a circular TO ascertain the feeling OF
the two parties concerning the calling
of a convention during the World
Fair with the ultimate object OF union
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1892-11-25
nraterlous shooting at GrayIIng.

William Hartman, aged II years, was
found in the woods near Grayling shot
in the head and killed. lie was hunt
ing and it is supposed he was mistaken
by some other hunter for some animal.
There aresome suspicious circumstances
connected with the shooting; citi-
zens in this region declare vengeance
on dogs seen chasing deer and Hart
man was supposed to be hunting dogs
more than game, as there are many
hunters there from abroad with their
hounds. Hartman's own gun was no;
discharged. 1t might have been stray
shot; otherwise there is some villiany
connected with the case.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1892-11-25
LATE STATE NEWS.
a grief CHRONICLE OF MANY
MATTERS.
Ths Brutal Murder of Young Detroit
Drug Clerk. Priest and Preacher
Have n Fight I'm "a Church.

Detroit is becoming widely known
for its brutal cold-blooded and mys-
ferrous murders. One of the most cruel
has just taken place.
Ered III. Kelley was a clerk in j. W.
Caldwell's drug store on Grand hlver
avenue. Kelley slept in the store, 90
ing the service of night clerk as Wen as
his days duty. 1t was the custom OF the
policeman on that street TO try the
door of the stores each hour. On MS
hourly round at a. m. the door was
locked. but an hour later il was not
and the officer entered. The night
lamp was burning on the prescription
desk and after few moments waiting
and hearing no sound the officer be-
came suspicious that something was
wrong and started to investigate. lie
could find no trace of the clerk and
finally went to the cellar. 1t was
locked. but he turned the key and
went down the steps. There, on the
floor of the cellar, was the body OF
Young Kelley, his head in pool OF
blood. An examination showed bull
let hole in the back of his head. The
oflicefNsent for Kelley's employer ana
other interested persons and an invest
igt.tion started. Several detectives
were placed on the case, but 1T looked
almost hopeless.
Young Kelley was not known to
have an enemy and everybody was at
sea as to the cause of the crime, as
robbery had not been attempted. The
detectives finally learned that S45 had
been stolen from the store one evening
about three months before while Kelley
was out exercising on bicycle. II
was said that Kelley had told several
persons that he had suspicioned
Young man named Hayes (who hao
been discharged from the drug store
before Kelley was employed there) OF
the crime. 1t was surmised that Haye
had been appraised of Kelley's talk anC
that he murdered the boy out of re
venge. On these grounds hayes wa
arrested. In his possession were fount
an overcoat, revolver and valise be
longing to the murdered boy and Thu
circnmstantially fastened the Grim
upon him. Hayes will neither den.
nor confess the crime, but maintains
stolid silence. The police department
of Detroit is highly praised for IT
quick work in fastening the bruta
crime upon the alleged murderer
Hayes parents reside in Rochester
Mich.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1892-11-25

rhe following Michigan postmastcrs
have been appointed; J. Oliver. vice
ID. Cole, resigned, Arthur, Saginaw
county; q. Noel, vice j. l.. Reichert.
resigned, Rye, Emmett county; J. u.
Hayes, vice Mrs. Il. l.. Haines, re-
moved, Batavia, Branch county.
DIR. II. Il. Baker, secretary of the
state board of health has left for Mex
leo City To attend the annual meeting
of the American Public Health associa-
ton. lie will be absent about three
weeks. DIR. h. G. Kedzie of the Agri-
cultural college has also gone to at
tend this meeting.
DIR. C. o. .Jenison, of Greenville, at
present department commander OF the
IL. v. q. of Michigan, and an all
around hustling Republican,, is can
didate for the Office OF adjutant-gen
. .eral. lie will have the hearty supper
of that organization and of the Repuo
licans of his locality.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1892-11-25
The Pontiac IL Safe.

The sensational reports of the loss of
the big steel steamer Pontiac, of Cleve-
land, in the recent gale proves to be
untrue. A dispatch from Au Train,
SAYS: The steamer Pontiac sheltered
in Grand Island harbor. She made
the harbor in safety in the heavy
northwest gale and remained there
until the gale had abated.
The Pontiac was built by the Geve-
land Shipbuilding company and came
out in 1880. She was the first steel
steamer on the lakes to develop de-
cided structural weakness, and on her
tirst trip was returned to the builders
TO be strengthened. The next season
after being sunk by collision with the
Athabasca she was taken to the Globe
Iron works, Cleveland, where she was
repaired and further strengthened.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1892-11-25
A Very strange Experience.

An avalanche came down the noun
tain on the east side OF Lake Whatcom,
WASH, sweeping the house occupied by
Warren Burgess and wife into the lake.
They were sleeping when the ava
lanche started and when they woke
they were 500 feet away from the shore
in pile of debris. Burgess had ms
leg crushed, but managed to rescue his
wife and swim with her to the shore
without clothing in a storm OF seven
hours. The lake is covered for several
miles with the debris of the avalanche;
II swept every vestige of timber and
Improvement from Burgess ranch.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1892-11-25
A Onnl,er Murderer.

On Mt Penn, Pa, three miles from
Reading, John $. 5. Heller, aged AZ
a Quaker. shot Sebastian Hurlnger
through the head and the put bull
let through his own heart, dying IN
stantly. The exact cause OF the
tragedy is unknown.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1892-11-25

Charles Il. NJ. Benthin. formerly a
foreman of IA cigar shop at Bay City is
supposed to have committed suicide by
jumping into the river and drowning,
his hat having been found floating on
the surface of the water. He arose
early in the morning and started to-
ward the river and on observing his
wife following him broke into run:
lis wife is certain that he destroyed
himself
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1892-11-25
The Methodist ministers meeting oil
Albion district was held at Concord.

During the funeral of Joshua Sum-
mers a. Brown City, the hearse horses
ran away, throwing odt the casket,
breaking IL and rolling the corpse in
the dust. Another team became fright
ened and also raa away, throwing out
and injuring SOL and daughter OF the
dead man.
The movement against the saloon
element in Hillsdale county Is now al
most sure to result disastrously 70 the
saloon. The first case of the 25 against
sellers of liquor resulted in a convic-
ton in the circuit court at Hillsdale.
II was the first of five cases against
+, Charles Keefer, proprietor OF The
J Keefer house in Hillsdale.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1892-11-25
To Estahlish a NnncIo.

AS soon as Mr.. Cleveland's admins
tration shall have been inaugurated in
Washington the vatican will open ne
gotiations for the establishment OF a
special United States legation in Rome
and reception at Washington of a
papal nuncio.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1892-11-25
PUGILISTIC PASTORS.
"A Priest and "a Preacher Have Fight In
u Church Aisle.


While Rev. William Dave, of Sagi-
nav, was delivering his lecture, "John
Wycliffe," in the Methodist Episcopal
church at Milford, Rev. FER. Clarson, of
st. Mary church, being present, in
tcrposed very decided objection to
the. views of the lecturer on matters
pertaing to Roman history. Evange-
list IL. o. Willis, of Detroit, met the
priest in the aisle, insisting on the
father taking his seat. The priest was
not to be put down in any such man
ner. Brother Wills grabbed him and
a struggle ensued. the feminine portion
of the audience added their voices to
the confusion. The priest proved no
amateur, and soon had Willis down on
a seat with his hand on the EVANGELISM
throat. They were parted and FIR
Carson retired. Arrests may follow.