Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1883-12-13
MICHIGAN.

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dozen garments every day.
The state horticultural society re
Gently held very interesting and
profitable session in Eaton Rapids.
The temperance people have called n
''mass prohibition convention" to meet
in Jackson the second week in JAN
uarv.
Homer people expect very soon to
have direct communication by telegraph
with Marshall along the line of the M.
az .. road
Mrs. Tracy, wife Of John Tracy, a
prominent merchant of Roscommon,
well known in Muskegon, the Saginaw
valley and Detroit,is dead.
Fifteen liquor sellers of Grand Rapids
have been convicted of violating the
liquor laws, and the mayor has been pc
| title ned TO revoke their licenses.
Newberry, on the line of the Detroit,
Mackinac Il Marquette railroad, has
| Just had its first law suit. 1t resulted
in verdict of no cause for action.
Asa w. Blackmond of Otsego, charged
| WITH W uSO SohSSiioN fNSS
age stamps has been acquitted in the
United States Court at Grand Rapids.
While fooling with revolver Joseph
Ambrose of Grand Rapids accidentally
discharged the weapon, lodging the
ball i'm the brain of two-year-old
daughter of Joseph Longvski.
Old fruit growers, on general princi-
Piles, predict that the fruit crop OF next
year will be enormous. They say 1T
has been short for three years past, and
it is bound to averge itself up.
A youth named Marshall, of Flint,
"did'n know it was loaded" and point
ed it at his mother. The way the old
lady's hip bone was shattered is good
evidence that 'it'' was loaded, chock
full.
Petoskey asks Congressman Hatch to
introduce bill for the improvement
of that harbor, and as survey is nee
essary prerequisite he will ask that
one be made by the U. S. engineer
corps.
The SD annual meeting of the State
Teachers Association is TO be held in
Representative Hall, Lansing, Decem-
Der 1928 inclusive. Reduced rates on
all roads leading into Lansing, and also
at the hotels.
A deaf man nained Addison Beebe, OF
Muir, wac killed December on the
Grand Haven lumber company's log
ging railroad, about five miles east OF
Stanton. He was on the track going
to the camp in search OF work.
The representative of a syndicate OF
London, Eng, capitalists is now in
Ontonagon county making an exami-
nation of some of the copper mining
properties there. He is especially ex-
aiming the old Minnesota mine, with
Il view to purchasing.
A letter from Honduras, Central
America, bring intelligence of the death
OF Charles Mueller, formerly connected
with he mailing department of the
Bay CITY postoilice. He was about 70
years old, well known, and had con-
siderable property in Bay City.
William Kits of Marion township,
Livingston county, mysteriously disap-
peared and his friends settled down Ia
The belief that he had been fouly dealt
with, or fell through the ice in Pine
lake. All hope of ever hearing OF him
was long since abandoned. He now
turns up in British Columbia.
A conference of the county agents
and a convention of the state board oil
corrections and charities is to be held
in East Saginaw, December Is and IL.
The board consists of Gov. Begole, en-
offcio; Rt. Rev. Geo. ID. Gillespie, chair.
man; Z. IL. Van Densen, Nj. d., the
Hon. John j. Wheeler. the Hon. Levi
l.. Barbour, and w. j. Baxter, secre'
tary.
Mrs. Albert p. Chapman of Riley,
Clinton county, who suddenly disap-
! peared October 16, 1882, under clrcum-
stances that led many to believe that
her husband had murdered her, reap
peared at her mothers home in Grand
Travers county, November %. she
has been working and supporting her.
self ever since and now wants divorce
and her only child.
On the morning of August IL, 1882
Mrs. Catherine Beard of White Pigeon
aged IS, was found dead in bed. From
surrounding circumstances it was plain
she had been murdered, but no clue to
: perpetrator could be found. Recently
a man named David Brooks, known as
: "Bully' Brooks, noted though o.
, White Pigeon, has let drop expressions
which cast suspicion on him. and h'
has now been arrested on suspicion.
John Hargadon, at one time City AT
! torney and for eight years Justice OF thu
, Peace, has been missing from Bay City
, since December 5. He leaves wife
and two children in almost destitute
t circumstances. His friends can give nc
4 reason foI his strange departure. H'
was member of the law firm OF kina
; a. Hargadon. He is man OF about At
l years, sandy complexion, with sand,
! mustache and hair, and about medium
3 hight, standing very erect. with head
little forward. He is widely known
throughout the Saginaw Valley.
o. A. Corp, conductor of the freigh
train which was run into at the Fits
ford disaster, has been arrested ant
. lodged in Jail at Hillsdale. Immediately
after the disaster he disappeared ant
could not be found, but about weei
afterward lie met with another accident
breaking his leg and otherwise lnlurlns
3 him, and was laid up at Norwalk. "
tor six weeks. He was under the doc
tors care and the physician would no
let him be removed. He was arrested
at the instigation of the railroad com
| missioner for failing to put out the proper