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Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-07-14
THE PEN AT REST.
michigan Editors Start on a Two Weeks
Outing Around the Lakes.


The Michigan State Press association
spent one day in Detroit before start
ing on their trip around the lakes to
the Worlds Fair, and that day was
thoroughly enjoyed. The program
,tering at the Light Infantry armory
and bedecking themselves with badges
the pen wielders were escorted to
Wonderland where a special perform
,ance was given. Private carriages
then conveyed the party to the house
of correction and Capt. Joe Nicholson
always the newspaper mans friend
placed before the editors and their
ladies plentiful supply of that which
upholds the inner man. After a tour
of Can't. Joe's model bastile from one
end 70 the other the carriages were
again called into commission and the
party driven to Belle Isle where they
we're entaiped by the Michigan Yacht
club. Then there was ball game,
boat races, foot races, ETC., followed 10y
luncheon in the Casino, the favor of
lessee Cummings, and the Metropoli-
tan band discoursed sweet music.
The steamer Sappho carried them
down the river to Fort Wayne. The
10Th regiment band rendered some fine
music and the 10th regiment u. ).
infantry-mostly old Indian fighters
by-the-way-gave dress parade which
was of especial interest. After ride
back to the city the editors enjoyed
their evening repast and a s O'clock
gathered at the Light Infantry armory
and were treated to a very fine concert
10y Schremsa's orchestra and a number
of Detroits/ best vocalists. A dance
completed the day.
The following morning the editors,
their wives, children and best girls to
the number of 165 embarked on the
magnificent Dess@it &c Cleveland Steam
Navigation Co. steamer City of Alpena
for trip through the lakes to Macki-
nae and the Worlds Fair.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-07-14
SIX ARE DEAD.
A Big Steamer Used AS "a Poor Peoples
Home Burns to the Waters Edge.

Big Steamer Used "a Poor Peoples
Home Burns to the Waters Edge.
The big steamer Bethel, anchored at
the foot of Sibley street, st. Paul,
Mimi, and used for the past three
years as a lodging and boarding house
for about 200 poor people, was burned
10 the waters edge at midnight. At
the time the fire broke out there were
so persons asleep on the Bethel. So
rapid was the progress of the flames
that those aboard had to Jump for
their lives in their night clothes. The
steamer Sydney was tied to the Bethel,
but by quick work in cutting her haw-
ser she was floated down stream unin-
jured. The loss on the Bethel is Sl0,-
900. 1t is known that at least six per-
sons were burned to death. Three
bodies have already been recovered
those of Mrs. Peak, matron of the
Bethel, and of an unknown man and
girl. Miss Luta Morgan, girl of IL
years, daughter of Rev. David Morgan,
pastor of the Bethel, was taken TO the
City hospital in a dying condition.
The bodies of two women were found
IN the hull of the boat. When the
second story of the boat fell in they
were seen TO fall, clasped in each
others arms, into the hull's seething
caldron Of flames. The fire was caused
by the explosion of a lamp, in the
wash room. a dozen cars of the Chi
cago, Milwaukee Il st. Paul railroad
standing near the fire were burned.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-07-14
SOUTHERS ARRESTED.
superintendent of Water Works at Iron
wood ChIrged with Murder.

superintendent of Water Works at Iron
wood Chlrged with Murder.
When the people OF Ironwood, after
about 400 had been Frustrated by 'ty-
phoid fever and many had died, found
that the standpipeof their water works
was part full of dead fish, crabs, lizards
and other carrion, they started out for
the purpose of interviewing Supt.
Souther, but he had gone TO Wisconsin.
So strong was the feeling against him
that warrant charging him with
murder was readily obtained. He was
arrested at Hurley ald requisition
papers served on Gov. Peck. Souther's
friends feared that he would be
lynched if taken TO Ironwood, and re-
quested that he be taken TO Bessemer,
for examination. The terrible fever
still prevails, at least 10 new cases be-
ing reported daily. The mines have
closed down and about 200 families are
in destitute condition.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-07-14

The steamer Belgic from Hong Kong
and Yokohama, brings advices to the
effect that one of the branches of Well
ing river has overhowed in conse-
quence of heavy rains. At Shaking
and Woole it is estimated that over
1000 persons Were drowned and as
many more left homeless. Incessant
rains in Maningfu have been succeeded
by disastrous floods, devastating a vast
area of country, and according to a
telegram received by native authori-
ties at Shanghai, nearly 10000 people
have been drowned and crushed to
death
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-07-14
MICHIGAN CROP FIGURES.
Probable wheat Yield 2O,s95, 374-Corn
Delayed, but Averaging weIl-Fruits.

Delayed, but Averaging weIl-Fruits.
The Michigan crop report for July is
the most important report of the year,
as it contains an estimate of the wheat
crop of 1898. The estimates of yield
per acre have been made while the
crop was yet all standing and are of
course subject to revision. The area
in wheat in Michigan this year, as
shown by the returns of supervisors to
this office, is 1,5is,252 acres; an esti-
mated yield of 20, sos, 374 bushels in the
state. This is an average per acre OF
1906 bushels in the southern counties,
IA. Is bushels in the central counties,
and 1868 bushels in the northern coun-
ties. The average for the state is l3. "a
bushels.
The unfavorable weather in May not
only delayed corn planting but caused
a reduction of acreage. In condition
the crop is from TO II per cent below
an average, but in the southern coun-
ties it is % per cent, and in the central,
Is per cent better condition than one
year ago. Oats are doing well. With
favorable weather until harvest u
nearly full average crop may be eX-
pected.
Compared with an average there is a
loss of from 2 to per cent in the area
planted TO potatoes in the southern and
central counties, and a gain of per
cent in the northern counties. In con-
dition the crop in the southern coun-
ties is 80 per cent or II per cent higher
than in July, last year. In the central
counties the condition is 81, and in the
northern %.
Meadows and pastures, and clover
sowed this year, are, in the southern
and central counties, in fine condition.
In the northern counties the weather
has been less favorable.
Apples in the southern counties now
promise about one-third, in the central
two-tifths, and in the northern two
thirds of an average crop. Since June
l, this crop has declined % per cent in
the southern and central counties, and
Is per cent in the northern counties.
Peaches promise in the southern coun-
ties and the state So per cent of an
average crop. The figures for the CEN
trial counties are 81, and for the north
ern "A.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-07-14
Their Lives Crushed Out.

AS mine No. in the Parke county.
ind, coal range was in the act of shut
ting down, and while four young
miners were com ing up the slope, three
empty cars got loose at the top of the
tipple and ran down with lightning
speed. The miners were caught in a
narrow place and could not escape.
Joseph Craven was instantly killed.
Otto Grogan, aged IA, was crushed
about the temples and will die. Rolla
Grogan, still younger, and Joe Blacke-
ter, aged about Is, were badly bruised
about the head and hips.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-07-14
An Heroic Sacrifice.

James Kirkland, 45 years old, recently
completed new residence and moved
into it at Royalton, o. His old house
he decided TO remove. The foundation
had been undermined and Kirkland
saw his 3-year-old daughter standing
where she would be caught by the fall
ing RUNS. lie sprang toward her,
threw her upon the ground, leaned
over her and received the full force of
the falling bricks upon his head and
back. The little girl escaped without
serious injury, but the father was in
stantly killed.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-07-14
a RoynI Wedding.

The marriage of the Duke of York
prince George of Wales) and Princess
Victoria Mary, of Teck, an event to
which all England had been looking
forward with deep interest, took place
in the royal chapel, st. James palace,
London. The wedding was brilliant
function and was attended by n large
gathering of the members of the Brit
ish royal family, continental sover-
eigns or their representatives, and
many members of the highest nobility.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-07-14
Twenty-Six Drowned.

The steamer Alfons, boat employed
in the river trade on the Volga in Rus
STA was approaching Romanov, when
her boilers exploded, killing &c of the
passengers. The explosion tore the
upper part of the steamer to pieces and
the burning Goals that were blown
from the furnaces set fire to the wreck.
The boat burned to the waters edge
and then sank.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-07-14

A call at Gray Gables revealed the
fact that President Cleveland is con-
fined TO his room. Mr.. Cleveland has
an attack of rheumatism in his foot
and knee, a complaint from which he
has suffered for many years, and which
is, no doubt, aggravated at this time
by the hard work and severe strain on
his strength which the President has
undergone since the 4th of March.
The trouble has been hanging about
him for some weeks, but has now so
much increased in severity that he will
be compelled to take absolute rest IN
order that he may be at his post of
duty at the special meeting of congress
next month.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-07-14
Rrar. Deed Rewarded.

Basil Lockwood, the colored hero of
the Ford theater disaster, at Wash
ington. ID. c., has been presented with
gold watch. He is the man who
climbed to one of the back windows by
means of a telegraph pole and SO held
ladder that about 25 frenzied clerks
got out.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-07-14
Over Is. 900 Miners strike.

Fifteen thousand miners at Long
Run, Dillonvale and Laurelton min es,
on the Wheeling & Lake Erie, near Steu-
benville, o., went out on strike because
of the discharge of the check weigman.
All the kiln pipe settlers at the sewer
pipe works at Steubenville also went
out on a strike against the so per cent
reduction of wages. The matter will
likely be compromised.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-07-14
Ironwood's dsrr.ble Amiction.

The board of health at Ironwood Of
flcially advices ali who can do so to
leave the city for the summer. New
cases of typhoid fever arc still appear
ing daily. Water is being hauled to
poor fund-isempty private charity is
alone keeping manySfrom starvation.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-07-14
Murder in the Lumber Woods.

John Nelson, aged so years, was
found dead in his bed at Carney, a
small lumber town of the Chicago &
Northwestern line, near Menominee
with his skull crushed and marks of
violence on his body, John Blomquist,
for whom Nelson worked, has been
arrested on suspicion of having COM
mitted the crime, and is now in Jail
awaiting examination.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-07-14
Weather Clerk Harrington Exonerated.

Secretary Morton has exonerated
Prof. Mark w. Harrington, formerly
of Michigan university and now chief
of the weather bureau at Washington,
from the charges preferred against his
administration of the weather bureau
and has retired the officers preferring
the charges
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-07-14

The 39th sanitary convention under
the auspices of the state board of
health was held at Hillsdale.
Jemes Burwell, OF Sanilac Center,
will be a ward Of the state for the next
Is years for criminal. assault. .
The contract has, been let for the
building of aneW Methodist Episcopal
church in Pewabin for Ss.S7s.::') - ,''
III. ID. Smith, living on the Huron
river near Flint, found a meteor on his
place weighing 43 pounds. II had
plowed furroY i4'the >.Ggonnd about
four (, feet d@I9.ssbless s Stone
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-07-14
Mluister-Editor ouinby Given n Reception,

HfhisIef- EIIIUr VuIhDy UIVen n KeceptIOnr
The public reception rendered wiz
Fam +. Quinby at the Hotel Cadillac,
Detroit, was brilliant success, most
notable demonstration of the esteem
in which that gentleman is held by
the citizens of Detroit and the state.
There were thousands of professional
men, bankers, merchants, manufacture
ers, officials represe nting the city,
county, state and national government,
newspaper men and women and many
other ladies who had come TO bid Mr..
Quinby n pleasant journey and a safe
return, before leaving Detroit TO enter
upon the duties of the Office of minister
TO The Hague.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-07-14
New superintendent of tho Blind.

The SUPPLEMENTARY for the State
School for the Blind has been accepted
by Prof. Il. p. Church, of Cadillac, who
has been president of the State Teach.
ers' association and who is prominen,
in state educational circles.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-07-14
Detrolt's birthday Anniversary.

The Wayne County Historical and
Pioneer association, has determined to
celebrate July "a, the day upon which
Detroit was founded. They have
determined TO lialceit an annual feast
In honor of Antoine Laumet de la
Mothe Cadillac, the founder of the city.
They call it Cadillac Day.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-07-14

James Stewart, contestant in the
Caseville races, dropped suddenly to
the ground while running. He died
shortly after. Heart failure is the
supposed cause.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-07-14

A 3-year-old Hambletonian colt
owned by Oscar Lincoln, of Union City,
has been sold for $4,000.
Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-07-14
GREAT LOSS OF LIFE.
MANY PEOPLE MEETS THEIR
FATE IN A CYCLONE
At Pomeroy Iowa, Town of 300 InhaL-
itants-At Least 600 Families are
Made Homeless by the St0rm.
Deadly Iowa Tornado.


Pomeroy, a town of 900 inhabitants
in Calhoun county, Iowa, was practic-
ally wiped out by cyclone. Between
so and GO persons were killed and
nearly 100 injured
The storm broke about o'clock in
the evening All day long the clouds
was scurrying across the sky. An oc-
casion4l shower would be followed by
n hot burst of sunshine. Just before
dark great banks OF black clouds
massed in the southwest and an
other in the west. just before clock
the two threatening piles moved to-
ward one another and then joined. The
clouds took on green tint, which was
pierced with the suns rays for a mo-
ment. The darkness set in rapidly.
The elements seemed to form about the
combined clouds, though scarcely "a
breeze stirred the trce-tops in the
streets of Pomeroy. Those who were
watching the phenomena say that a
column of smoke like a cloud dropped
TO the ground and gathered in strength
as it advanced toward the town. They
recognized Is as cyclone and gave the
alarm. Many sought shelter in cellars
and others mounted horses to flee from
the path of the coming destruction.
There was a dash of hail, a binding
flash of lightning and deafening peal
of thunder. The cyclone struck the
town at the southwest, among the
scattering houses in the outskirts. On
to the more densely populated district
the monster OF destruction swept, leav-
ing in its wake cloud of splinters and
wrecked homes, death and denoraliza-
ton.
Features of the storm.
The cyclone started in the northwest
and first struck Quimby and two were
killed here; five miles south of Aurelia
10 persons were killed outright; near
Storm Lake five lives were lost: few
miles from Fonda a mother, father,
three children and a neighbor were
killed and the tornado seeming TO
gather all its power for a final blow
came bounding across the open prairie
with awful speed and in a triCe
changed a thriving town of 1000 in
habitants to a splinter strewn spot on
the prairie, leaving fatherless children,
childless parents, husbands without
wives, wives without husbands.
and $50 with broken limbs, cuts and
bruises more or less severe. This is
what the tornado of that night accom-
plished in the matter of casualty. The
town of Pomeroy is one complete
wreck. There is scarcely house left
standing. About 16 acres of debris
constitutes now what was yesterday n
thriving village. Splinters are all that
remain.
Pomeroy is part and parcel of the
prairie, the death-dealing wind
having left it barren and desolate.
Scarcely a tree remains. Piles of
broken timbers and an occasional
piece OF furniture are all that can be
found of what was once the largest
buildings in the place. Two hundred
and fifty houses were in all destroyed
and the money loss on these and their
contents is placed at 100000.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1893-12-09
The Quality of Eggs.

Has it occurred to any of our poul-
try-keeping friends that there are
such things as gIlt-edged eggs? 1t Is
a tact that some men are able to get
5 cents or more above the market
price for their eggs right along. The
way that they do it is by having.
first, the right kind of eggs and, sec
ond, by putting them on the market
in the right way. The best buyers
prefer a pure white she'll, same as
those of the Black Spanish. Then
the eggs must be absolutely clean,
and put up in small, neat packages.
Every package must have the name
of the producer and the date at which
it was put up and contain a guaranty
that the eggs are fresh. Put few
packages of this sort on the market,
and you will soon find that there are
people who appreciate your efforts,
and, what is more, they are willing
to pay for such carefulness.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1893-12-09
Beautifvinp the Waste Places.

1t is said that few farmers have
any great taste for gardening, that
farming is simply mere question Of
getting the most out Of the ground
that is possible; in other words, it Is
a business in which money-making
rules supreme. This is very good
principle to take as the basis Of sue
cessful farming, yet beauty never
does any harm, even in connection
with the solid facts and figures Of
business, especially when it can be
accomplished without the expenditure
OF much cash. Pennsylvania is a
State famous for its number OF
springs there is scarcely a farm in
the whole Of it's wide territory but
has a spring of water somewhere
about it, and the original settlers en-.
deavored, as far as possible. to build
their houses near these springs, over
the outlets of which they erected what
are known as spring-houses, in which
the various operations Of the dairy
are conducted. In passing through a
the portion of PENNSYLVANIA, recently,
writer was interested in noting that
in a case where the pathway had to
be cut several yards through the sur
rounding earth to get to the spring,
on account Of it's being some feet be-
low the surface Of the earth, the lit
tie embankment formed by this cut
was thickly studded with large stones
or rocks, and in among these rocks
were set native ferns, evidently col
lected from the woods in the locality.
To prepare this could scarcely have
occupied more than day, yet the re-
suit was. as the poet would say, "a
thing of beauty" which was GER
tainly "a Joy forever" There is no
reason why these little evidences Of
superior taste in the owner Of farm
might not be more extensively eX-
hited than they evidently are. Nice
hans Monthly.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1893-12-09
KANSAS RAILROADS.

The Missouri Pacific has made change
that affects Atchison quite seriously. The
crews will have their lay-over in Kansas
City, and this takes fourteen families
| from Atchison.
The usual holiday rates will be given
by all roads. The rate will be fare
! and a third. The sane rate will apply
to the State Teachers association which
meets in Topeka during the holidays.
The Missouri Pacific is said to be max
ing arrangements to comply with the
order of the railroad commissioners re-
garding the Fort Scott and Topeka
train. It is proposed that the train
shall leave Fort Scott IN the morning
after the train from st. Louis is in, and
return in the evening.
The ticket agent at the Kansas City
Union Depot made report on the sales
of tickets to Chicago during the period
of the Worlds fair. In May only 1000
tickets were sold, but the number in
creased each month, and in October the
total number sold was 1857. The
agent refuses to make public state
ment of the relative amount of business
done by each railroad, but it is said that
the Santa Fe and the Rock Island are
closely tied for first place, with the Alton
third. The Santa Fe carried the largest
number of passengers through Kansas
City, but of the passenger business orig
mating in that City the Alton seemed
to have the biggest share.
Wichita Eagle: The Santa Fe railroad
company has adopted a suggestion from
one of its employees that is not only a
good thing for the road but mighty
good thing for the wholesale merchants
of this city. The suggestion was to put
on two freight cars to be pulled by the
passenger train every morning over the
line between this city and Caldwell.
One of the cars is made up for Yelling
ton alone and the other is made up for
Perth, Corbin and Caldwell. This enables.
Wellington merchant to telephone to
Wichita wholesale house as late as six:
o'clock today for goods and have them
delivered by freight on the next morn
ing at eight o'clock by the very train
which carries the express. 1t will be
the same with the merchants of Cald-
we'll, Corbin and Perth. This method is
in use only few days, but it is such
good thing that the merchants of the
towns mentioned have taken hold of it
and it is no trouble at all to get the two
cars filled every day. The plan amounts
to this: Merchants can get goods de-
hvered to them with express prompt
ness at freight rates.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1893-12-09
Mortgages.

The Kansas Farmer has been looking
over the work of analysis, which is going
on quite generally, of the census mort
gage report, and sums it all up thus:
The total indebtedness On all real es-
tate in the United States is about $92
per capita Add to this the per capita
amount represented by the public debts
of the United States ($1463), of the
states and territories 1886, and of
counties ($2.27-a total of $2O.4O, and
it appears that the total public debt and
all real estate mortgages in the United
States amount TO SIP per capita.
In France, the national debt alone
exceeds SIG per capita. England's
national debt is nearly 800 head, while
the public debts in the older Australian
colonies are $500 for each inhabitant.
There are good reasons for believing al
SO that mortgages in England, France,
Germany and Australia vastly exceed
the American average of $92 per capita.