Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1882-05-25
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
MICHIGAN.

Burglars entered the Hurd house saloon,
jackson, and decamped with $40 and saloon
sundries.
The house bill providing for new public
buildings In Detroit was favorably passed up
on Monday and goes to the senate.
Brewers moulding room, Tecumseh, was
badly damaged by fire on Sunday.
Harmon Nash, proprietor Of Masks AK Fac
tory at Lowell, had the misfortune Monday to
lose his right hand while assisting some OF his
men who were at work with buzz saw in his
factory. Mr.. Nash who is express agent and
a Knight Templar had but just returned from
Detroit, where he had attended the recent con.
clave as one of the DeMolai Commandery.
owing TO the cold weather corn planted be-
ore the rain has rotted in the grou and in
many cases will need to be replante
Dr. j. N. Hollywood, implicated in the Mar
tina Whitla murder case, has been released on
$4,000 bail.
MAJ. Gen. j. g. Barnard, U. S. A., died at the
Russell House, Detroit, Sunday. His remains
were taken TO Sheffield, Mass, for burial.
Ex-President Grant has engaged rooms at
the Russell House upoa the occasion Of the
soldiers reunion in Detroit next month,
Chas. Hollis, while adjusting saw in Han
nah, Lay a Co.'s single MILL Traverse City
fell and had his leg nearly severed before he
was rescued. The bone was also broken in the
fall and amputation was resOrted TO. His re-
covery is doubtful.
Fruit is reported badly injured all over
Michigan by the heavy frosts Of May 18th.
Mrs. Eva Humphrey of Adrian committed
suicide by drowning in the Maumee at Toledo.
She lately went to Toledo, and it was at her
house that the wife and baby OF Tom Navin
were reported found a few weeks ago.
Fred. Gardner, a switchman on the NJ. G. r.
r. at Niles, was run over by the cars and lost
leg near the hip, He will probably die. He
leaves wife and seven children.
Wall d Spicy saw mill at Nrvani, near
Reed City, was destroyed by fire on Tuesday.
A fire in East Saginaw Tuesday afternoon in
the large planning mill of Jessie Hoyt, destroyed
six dry kilns and 100000 feet Of lumber. Loss
$4,000. No insurance.
Kinney, Howe q Co.'s hardware store at
Lawton was burglarized Of goods this week.
A. Y. Cary of Grand Rapids died on the 10th.
In 1865 he was a passenger on the steamer
Collins, between Cleveland and Detroit, when
the boat took FIRE and burned to the waters
edge. Taking stool he jumped into the lake
nd fioated until picked up by passing boat
He was delegate to the Chicago Convention
1850, which nominated Lincoln.
The Blddle House. Detroit is TO be opened
the first Of June on reported FIVE years
lease.
The Muskegon strike, 1t is thought, is nearly
at an end. Several mills are running eleven
hours.
The barn Of Wright d Knowlton, Saginaw
City, burned Tuesday night with six horses.
Loss $4,000.
Four deaths from small pox are reported in
East Saginaw.
James d. Parent, charged with killing VIM.
Niche near Pinconning last March, has been
convicted in Bay City courts Of murder in the
rst degree.
The steamship Onoko is making the trip c.
the lakes with 100 900 lshels of corn, he
largest cargo ever carried by one Of the lake
ships.
George Moore, from Hamilton, Ont shot
himself in the head, in the presence OF large
number Of people on Fort street, Detroit. 1t
is not known whether the wound is fatal No
clue to the reason why.
The State homeopathic society at its annual |
session in Grand Rapids adjourned to meet in |
Lansing next year.
fen mills are running now at Muskegon |
and it Is predicted that the boom men will |
come TO an understanding with their employ |
ers.
1t is said that the Importers Tea company, |
which recently began business in Detroit will |
be prosecuted under the state law against |
lotteries.
A FIRE at Nelson's station in MontcaIm Co.,
did considerable damage on the 10th.
Sterling Franz, head sawyer in the Grand
Haven Lumber Company's single mill, was
killed on the 18th. A slab struck him on the
back and falling on the carriage the saw passed
slAOush LIE htau SdbtiuB VA WV AhchOos AAO /
lived twenty minutes after the accident. He
leaves wife and three children.
The bill for the new public building, Detroit,
has passed the senate and only awaits the Pres
dents signature to become a law.
Enoch Nelson, a saloon. keeper at McBride's,
was convicted on Thursday Of selling liquor on
Sunday and fined $50 and costs and sentenced
10 sixty days in the county Jail.
Fires are burning in the woods near Kalkas-
ka, in East Bay township, Grand Traverse Co.,
he buildings Of A. G. Hoxie, consisting OF
house, barn, two hay sheds and other Outbuild-
ngs, with most of the contents, were entirely
destroyed.
The Grand Rapids Electric Light d Power
Company have placed six electric lamps, Of
900 candle power each, in the FIRE bell tower,
" an experiment
Stephen Warren's single mill eight miles
forth Of Lapeer, was burned with 10000
hingles belonging to W. w. Grape, Of Flint,
md 10000 by Robt- King, Of Lapeer. The loss
,n.ths mill is from $4,000 to $4,000, with no
insurance.
Mecosta Is hopeful OF securing branch rail-