Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1883-07-19
MICHIGAN.

Will be failure.
It cost Ionia nearly $4,000 last year
for school teachers.
Mr.. Henry Jones, of Batavia, had
three cows and six sheep killed by
lightning under one small cherry tree.
+. Mason, of Grand Rapids, Michi-
gan, sold four thousand acres of pine
land in Newaygo county for S2SO,eOO
Harvey Clark, one of the oldest and
most respected citizens of Albion, was
found dead in his bed the other day.
He was SO years of age.
1t is now decided that the Michigan
military academy will remain at Or
chard Lake and will be run by stock
company to be organized at once.
A hog drover from Morenci, Michi-
gan, was beaten out of 1905. ID by three
card monte men on train between
Erie and Cleveland, and was sent home
free by the railroad company.
The track-laying on the Toledo Il
Milwaukee Railroad reached Marshall
on the 10th inst. Citizens turned out
en- masse, and held banquet. Track
is being laid at the rate of a mile n
day.
Jackson saloon-keepers who sold
liquor on the Fourth of July, being
eight in number, are now being called
to account in justices courts The first
one to toe the chalk mark paid fine of
S29.
Walter wilkins, one of the most
prominent young men of Jackson and
q talented musician, who went to Gal
weston, Texas, some months ago, is re-
ported to have been drowned in the
Gulf of Mexico.
Two brothers named Eldredge were
hunting some ten miles from Big Rap
ids, when the elder one accidently dis
charged his gun, and two buck-shot
struck his brother, inflicting severe in.
jury.
Nathaniel Boughton, farmer living
at Pennfield, eight miles northeast of
Battle Greek, had two horses and colt
under tree struck by lightning. All
were killed. The hailstorm cut the
wheat badly and also injured the gram
which was standing in shocks in the
field.
Any woman who is p years of age
and has been resident of the school
district three months, or who pays taxes
upon property, is entitled to vote for
school officers; woman who pays
taxes or has resided in the state three
months is entitled to hold q school
office.
Mrs. VIM. Farr, of near Cannons-
h,r,r x.,os &brnur, from, hor broOxy ON
the 9th inst. and instantly killed. She
was thrown upon brush heap and one
stick hit her head, and another pierced
her side. She had her baby in her arms,
and it is thought she lost her life try
ing to shield her child.
The Flint g. Pere Marquette Compa-
ny is hurrying forward the Harrison ex-
tension toward Houghton Lake. The
road probably will be extended to
Houghton Lake, intersecting with the
Roscommon Lumber Company's logg-
ing railroad this fall, and il is thought,
extended through to some point on
Lake Huron another season.
A sad case of drowning occurred at
Pine lake near Mason, few days ago.
Fred Drake of Ovid, was taken with a
cramp while bathing and drowned be-
fore assistance reached him, n few. rods
from the bathing house. The lake was
dragged, but his body was not recover
ed. Drake was a very much respected
young man, and was to have been mar
ried in about two weeks. This is the
first case of drowning that ever occurred
at the lake.
The Ypsilanti postoflice has been en-
trusted to the management of Miss
Francis Stewart, for many years depu-
ty under Postmaster Spencer That
proceedings against Capt. Spencer
have been abandoned is known, but the
reason for such action has not yet
been stated. In justice to the unfortu-
nate man it is but right to say that the
Postmaster General, upon investigation,
became convinced that the apparent
shortage resulted from carelessness
rather than criminalitv, and recon-
mended that the Attorney General or
der Spencer's discharge. The latter
officer also became SO convinced, and
directed District Attorney Cutcheon to
enter nolle pros, which was done.
Thus Capt. Spencer is relieved, as far
as it is possible for the government to
free him, of any odium which may have
been caused by the unfortunate affair.
One of the severest transforms of the
season occurred at Homer, Calhoun
county, few days ago. During the
shower lightning struck willow tree
in the doof-yard of Mrs. Blair and fol-
lowed down its trunk until it reached q
white wire clothes line. which it follow
ed to the house where the other end
was fastened, and thence through the
house, destroying the door and castings,
tearing off the plastering, destroying a
parlor organ and stirring up the dust
generally, after which it passed out the
back door and plowed up the ground
at great rate. None of the family
were injured, but James Mcconnell,
section foreman on the l.. S. d. NJ S.,
who was near by, was thrown to the
ground IL a paralyzed condition and
picked up for dead, but is about and
nearly rs good as new. Several 9TH
ers experienced more or less of shock,
but none was seriously hurt. The storm
only covered very narrow belt.
s. 4. Walt, or this village, is the
possessor of q hen which. in due pro-
cess of nature, became the mother of a
brood of chickens. Three of them
made their appearance in advance of
the rest of the family. and were taken
into the house for safe keeping. The
family cat at once interviewed them,
apparently came to the conclusion that
they were new and interesting kind
of kitten, and adopted them on the
snot As the chickens hatched out they