Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1883-11-29
MICHIGAN

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Five inches of snow on level nj ELK
rapids.
Flint Presbyterians want new S4O'-
go ediiice.
A new bank has been established IN
aoscommon.
Good sleighing in Newaygo and at
Charlevoix the snow is nearly ~ inches
deep.
Flint's new opera house will be for
mallv opened December 10. The struc-
ture cost $4,000.
Hubbard Miner. a Kent county far
mer, was instantly killed by failing
tree the other noon.
A tree fell upon and crushed Charles
BENSON in the woods near Manistee
while he was engaged in choppmg.
The Office of The Banner at Hastings
was totally destroyed by lire lie"
nights ago. Supposed to be incendiary'
A Bay City street car ran over and
killed Mrs. Light and the coroner's jury
pronounced IL n case OF accidental
death.
An Indian, whose name and place OF
abode are not reported, was struck dead
by n locomotive ~ n crossing east or
Midland
A number of the Cadillac mills have
shut down on account of dull times,a and
in Others a general reduction in wages
has been made.
The Michigan mutual fire insurance
company of Grand Rapids has received
its certificate of authority to do busl-
ness in this state.
The nearly completed station build
ing of the Pontiac, oxford u Port Austin
railroad, at Inlay City, was blown down
during heavy gale the other night.
The steam barge Milwaukee ran into
Holland harbor in distress during the
recent storm, and strange as IL may
seem, it was found that her boiler had
shifted II inches.
Mr.. p. Lincoln, of Coldwatcr, died
recently. lie was the father of Hon.
orable Charles p. Lincoln, of Washing
ton, formerly United States consul at
one of the Chinese ports.
Widow of the late Judge Rice, who
was the first probate judge of Genesee
county, died few days ago, at her
home in Grand Blanc, where she had
lived for the last so years.
Samuel Carr sues the Lapeer county
farmers mutual insurance company for
$60O-the amount of a policy on his
house which recently burned. The
company had offered him $50.
The new library building at West
Bay City, the gift of III. w. Sage, will
be dedicated about Dec. ID. Prof.
Moses Colt Tyler, late of the university
OF Michigan will deliver the address.
The Lakevew Enterprise tells of a
man who "swapped' his wife for 40
acres of land in Clinton county. In the
deed the consideration" was given ut
$500. Mighty high price for wife.
Al. White, the man who built Battle
Creeks street railroad, is no. perfecting
arrangements to supply the city with
electric light. He says he will furnish
the light at one-half the price the city
is now paying for gas,
William Carter, an esteemed citizen
of Waverly, went out RABBIT hunting
and was mortally wounded by the acct
dental discharge of his gun. He leaves
an aged mother, brothers and sisters,
and a wife and enc child.
The report is current that +. w.
Keightly of Michigan, and formerly one
of its representatives. in Congress, will
again come before the people of his dis
trict as n candidate for congress. He
is now third auditor of the national
treasury.
Davis steamboat warehouse at AL
pena was badly damaged by fire No
vember IA. II contained 40 tons of hay
and 3 200 bushels Of oats belonging to
the Mason lumber company, which were
also badly damaged. Loss $1,000; in
sured $1,000.
The Sturgis Journal mentions Judge
E. w. Keightly as its candidate for con-
gressional honors in the fourth district.
Mr.. Keightly is at'present third auditor
of the treasury and has served one term
in congress, and it il believed could be
elected if nominated.
Buss Bros. machinists of Grand
Rapids, exhibited at the Louisville ex-
position, took five prizes, and secured
$4,000 worth of orders, mostly for fur
niture making machinery. They have
secured space ut the coming cotton eX
position ut New Orleans.
Gordon Bump, tried at Manistee for
the murder of Gustave Dubois, has been
found guilty of murder in the second
degree. The trial lasted six days and
the jury was out II hours. The murder
was committed in September last in
Brownstone, Manistee county.
Cornelius Fonda was working ia his
stone quarry at Battle Creek, when it
caved in, and tons of stone covered him
up. Workmen removed the stone, ex-
pecting, of course. TO find him dead;
but, although he was terribly mangled,
he is still alive and will probably re-
cover.
A singular and shocking accident oc-
Cured in Macon, Lenawee county, the
other day. Henry Pocklington, while
bricking up well, was overcome with
natural gas flowing into it from the
bottom, and Issac Ballou, going to his
assistance, was also overpowered, and
both were drowned.
Laura A. Smith, widow of Geo. A.
Smith who was posttraster at Stanton
during Johnson's administration, has