Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1882-06-29
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
MICHIGAN.


A correspondent OF the Free Press states
that a heavy thunder storm passed over Adrian
on Sunday evening. followed by "trade winds,
which compelled citizens to trade his linen
pants and duster for heavy overcoat A
company, among whom is Geo. Il. Allis, Sec
rotary of the Farmers Mutual Insurance
Company, has organized, to manufacture Bah
cocks patent hand corn-planter. Ground has
been broken and buildings will be erected at
once. Lightning struck large barn owned
by Rufus Baker, the great dairyman OF Fair
field on Sunday afternoon. The barn was
burned and some ten or twelve tons OF hay de-
stroyed.
A cyclone on Sunday about noon struck the
southeastern portion of Bay City. 1t was about
rods wide and demolished everything in its
track. A barn belonging to F. Fitzhugh was
.evsled and colt killed. The house OF Thos.
Joyce, was demolished and the inmates serious
ly and some fatally hurt. John Carroll had his
skull fractured, Mrs. Joyce, her daughter and
another of the Carroll boys were badly bruised,
while Miss Simpson was dashed against a
fence and 1t Is thought fatally hurt.
Stephen Tarbell, Battle Greek, mutilated by
Eugene Webster because Of jealousy will
probably die. Webster is under arrest with
bail Fixed at $4,000.
Shefferly d Bakers sash and blind factory,
Detroit, burned Monday morning; the build
Ing, four story brick valued at $4,000 was
not insured. The doors and blinds burned
valued at $1,000 had but $4,000 insurance.
Mayor belong of Muskegon suffers political
loss, owing to his action with the recent strikes
The supreme court decides against him.
F,O. Hetned Of Minden, formerly Of Detroit
died on the 10th.
The Chicago IL q. I, h. r. depot at Inlay
City has been robbed twice by masked men.
Burglars secured a gold watch. 300 dia-
mond, and some cash, at the residence OF John
Nichols, Battle Greek.
Hon. T. w. Palmer, Of Detroit, addressed the
Cass County pioneers on the fair grounds at
CassopoI- '" ,sday, 1t being their ninth
annual reU
The box factory Of James E. Kirch and Co..
In Grand Rapids was destroyed by fire. Loss
$4,000, to insurance companies.
The body of Anthony Calhoun, who was
drowned of the City of Milwaukee, has been
recovered. Two men who had been heard to
threaten his life, because he was acting as fire.
man In the place of one Of them discharged,
have heen arrested on suspicion, but were dis
charged for want OF. evidence to hold them.
DR.. W, Walker, of Muir, is arrested on COM
plant OF Warren Bennett, for mai practice, in
setting broken leg, claiming $4,000 DANA.
ges.
Geo Stropes' lumber mill, ten miles west OF
Greenville burned, involving loss OF $780,
for which he has no insurance.
A room in the Northern Hotel block at Big
Rapids, temporarily occupied by Cadillac
party for sleeping purposes, was entered by
night through an open window, and the III
sleepers relieved Of their watches and money.
Frank Prynes' residence two miles east OF
Benton Harbor, burned Friday night with Its
contents. A family OF nine escaped with diff
Guilty, taking only their night clothes. The
fire is supposed to be the work Of incendiaries
Loss $4,000; no insurance.
John Field, Of the firm Of Field d Field, Ann
Arbor, who came from England in 1S45, died
Friday.
Hugh 8. Peoples made statement Of his
former personal relations to Martha Whitla, on
Thursday. or course, they were proper and
free from guilt and crime. His counsel are
now putting in testimony to prove an alibi.
DR.. Herbert Yemens Of Detroit, has left for
sitka, Alaska, to act az surgeon for the United
States Marine Hospital there.
The spire OF the Methodist church In Ovid
was struck by lightning, the fluid going down
both sides Of the belfry, SCATTERING both it and
the front OF the building.
Moses willett, farmer Of Cambria, Hillsdae
county, had forty.hve fleeces Of wool stolen
from him.
O.P. Bills Il Co. have opened new bank at
Tecumseb, of which j. N. Satterthwaite is the
cashier. Mrs. G. Bills, n. Church and VIM.
Il. Church are associated.
Telephone communication now exists be-
tween Detroit ond Dexter.
Isaac Hewett, wealthy citizen. and prom
inent pioneer Of Marshall, is dead.
Bernard Stroh the well known Detroit brew
or was buried on the 26th. In 1851 he arriv-
cd In Detroit, where he established brewery,
which enterprise laid the foundation for the
present mammoth brewing institution in that
city.
A new block opposite tho Detroit post office
Is to be erected this season at cost Of 100000
contract price.
Orlin J. Flynn, OF Conway, was found dead
on the farm Of bis father in law, s. N. Faunce,
In Fewlerville, in small pond Of water near
the house. He went out, as the family sup
posed, TO harness bis team TO 20 to his own
home about three miles distant, when one Of
Mr.. Faunce's family passed by tho pond and
saw him lying In the water with his face
down. The water was only from one foot to
eighteen inches In depth. Flynn had been
staying with his father in law few days on
account Of his having been laboring under a
it Of temporary insanity.