Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1883-11-08
MICHIGAN.

'attle Creek.
Muskegon lumber shipments are un-
sually heavy this fall.
October 81, there were 300 students
n attendance at the university OF Mich
gan.
The more enterprising citizens OF
Jheboygan want to have it Incorporated
Us city
Duke Mckenzie, who has been tried
II Midland on charge OF numbering
his wife, has been convicted.
Charles Billings, of Sherwood, was
found dead on a corn shock few days |
ago. The sad discovery was made by |
his wife.
Err. Simmons, a resident OF Oak
land county since 1884, died at the resi-
dence of his daughter in Pontiac lew
days ago.
A state sanitary convention will be
held at Ionia in December, and the
citizens are taking an abiding interest
in the matter.
Senator Ferry is now in England, and
will probably stay there all winter. bis
health is improving and he is now able
to sleep well.
This seasons sales of peaches from
the orchards of Judge Ramsdell OF
Grand Traverse will amount in all to
about /, 200 bushels.
Rev. Il. Fowler, Presbyterian minis.
ter at Spring Lake, has accepted q call
to the Corunna Presbyterian church,
and will occupy that pulpit at once.
In the United States court j. ii.
Marks of Chase, was sent TO the house
of correction for one year, for sendlng
obscene literature through the mails.
Mrs. Martin Guy, died in Hudson q
few nights ago after long suffering OF
internal injuries received as one OF the
victims of the Pittsferd railroad disas-
ter.
Thomas Fox, farmer of Marengo,
aged 20, died suddenly few days ago.
1t is supposed that he was drugged for
the purpose of robbery and an overdose
caused death.
Elijah Wordsworth of Leslie, aged
| 90 wears, has ordered his tombstone
and had it properly inscribed. The
old man is hale and hearty, but he
wants to be prepared,
The Rev. Miss II. j. Chaplin, who has
been acceptably supplying the Univer-
salist pulpit at Hillsdale for the past
month, has been unanimously elected
| IL, IN otnr nf that ohurah
The business men of Howard City,
have made up their minds to have some
kind of fire protection, and have organic
ed fire company composed OF the most
active and prominent men.
A freight car loaded with forty bar
rels of Kerosene and gasoline caught
fire from conductors lantern in the
Jonesville yard and was entirely con-
sumed the other evening.
A petition is being circulated at Bat
tie Creek to have Geo. w. Nichols APP
pointed postmaster at the expiration of
Capt. Wallice's term in December. Mr..
Wallice has held the Office for IL years.
Charley Durham, of Marshall, who
was one of the senate messenger boys
ut the last term of the legislature, had
an arm broken the other day during
some very rough play by school buys.
Mrs. Emily Lawless, of ROYAL Oak,
sues the d., G. IL. & M. K. X. Co. for
$50, 900 damages. Her horse was fright
ened by the cars and threw her cut OF
her carriage, injuring her severely, it is
claimed.
James Mikens. brakeman on the +.
& Z. M. Il. r., was run over and killed
near Branch station. while trying to
couple cars He was about 20 years
old, unmarried, and hailed from Au-
burn. n. Y.
Disaster and delay TO many vessels are
reported from Port Huron, Sand Beach,
Grand Haven and Amherstburg. The
schooner Mary Nau went to pieces at
Grand Haven, and her heavy cargo of
lumber was washed ashore.
A lad named George Gillespie, whose
home is in Alaredon, Ingham county,
but who has been attending school at
Mason, tried 10 get on board moving
freight train at the latter place and fall
ing beneath the wheels had leg cut
off,
| In August last Charles Lincoln living
near East Saginaw, shot his father, who
was intoxicated and so violent as to en-
danger the lives of other members of
the household. Young Lincoln was ar
rested on charge of murder. His
trial occurred few days ago and re-
suited in his acquitta'.
Editor left of the Ingham County
News insists that the Dodge law rela-
tive to holding terms of court elsewhere
than ut the county seat can be made to
apply to any other county as well as
Ingham. He pronounces all the talk
ebout special warrant or reason in Ing
HAMS case 10 be "simply bosh."
Henry G. Champlin, son of Erastus
Champlin. of Jefferson, Jackson county
found near ..the Air Line was
junction, entangled in a
barbed wire fence, where he had choked
to death 1t is supposed to be pecul-
lar case of suicide. He was sc years
old and leaves wife and two child.
rem.
| Four barns belonging to Adam S.
Holtzlander, q farmer living near Mt.
Morris, burned few days ago with
their contents, consisting of n valuable
team of horses, 20 tons of hay and 400
bushels of wheat, Loss about S3,000;
insured in the Tennessee Farmers Mu-
tual for few hundreds. The fire was
incendiary.