Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1883-01-11

STATE NE us.

A lad named Ward was fatally shot
at Ypsilanti by companion, iwhlle fooling with
a revolver.
Eli Rae, aged 82, and 40 years resi-
dent of Buchanan and vicinity, died there not
long ago; four sons are prominent business
men at Buchanan.
Miss Jennie Boardman, a teacher in
the Eaton Rapids schools and web esteemed
young lady, died Of congestion Of the brazil
having been sick for seven weeks.
Capt. David A. Shumway, aged 67,
who settled in Jackson In 1888, and Vim. War
nington, aged 6?, a resident of jackson for 80
years, both died in that place recently.
Samuel =. Sherman, aged 81, founder
of the village of Caro-, dropped dead in the
street. He came from Vermont to Oakland
county 81 years ago, and from there to Caro- 30
years ago.
Burglars entered the residence of Red
Campbell, Bay City, near Bay county fair
grounds secured $500 in money and gold
watch worth $50 from under his pillow. No
clew TO the burglars.
Elder Uriah Smith, of the Battle
Creek adventist community, alleges that there
are no discussions in that body, corporate and
| theologic, and that Mrs. White and her writ
| ings are held in higher esteem than ever
Half dozen boys at Grand Rapids
coasting on hobs lost control OF the "horses'
| and ran into tree with terrible force. A son
| of III. ID. WALTON was badly injured about the
| head and internally another boy had leg
| fractured, and others had to he taken home.
Gov. Jerome's last official act was to
| pardon Charles o. Clark, sent 10 prison for
| burglary from Calhoun county; Francis Shupe
| from same county, and John Colson ana An
| drew Nelson, assault with intent to commit
murder. The last three were in lonia prison
James Cloud. the Indian clergyman
\ of Indiantown on the Kawkawin, river, has
been pastor there for Is years, receiving barely
| nothing for his labors. Fifteen years ago, he
| says, there were as many as l,5O0 Indians in
| the Saginaw valley, while now there are hardly
800 in the aggregate.
DR.. S. II. Gage, aged 20, an old resi-
dent of Bellevue, is dead.
Jacob Mayforth, the largest man in
Niles, died suddenly few days ago.
The normal school at Ypsilanti
reopens with the largest enrolment in its his
| tory
The only drunken person seen on the
streets at Mapistec on Christmas day was aboy
IA years old.
Ben. X. Chamberlain, an employee II
| the Ypsilantian Office at Ypsilanti, had a left
forefnger before he went hunting New Years
day.
The boiler in John II. Bates sawmill,
| Il miles north of Nassar burst not long
since, destroying the mill and injuring two
| workmen.
| Jackson prison report for December:
In prison December !, Gal: rveivcd, &c; loss
| by expiration of sentence, 16; other losses, 8;
| in prison Dec. 81, GAG.
| VIM. Kester, farmer, of Richland,
| Kalamazoo county, was severely il not fatally
wounded by the accidental discharge of gun
| in the hands of Howard Robinson.
A little son of A. c. Mcintosh, West
Bay City, skated into an air hole, when the
mother Jumped in and st stained both herself
and son until rescued by her husband and
others who happened to be working near by.
Mrs. Philip Tinker, aged so, living
south Of Bunker Hill, Ingham county, in some
way set her clothes on fire from n lamp; her
/ efforts TO smother the flames on the bed were
unsuccessful, and before her husband could
come to her assistance she was seriously If
not fatally burned about the chest.
Letters received by relatives in Niles,
announce the death of Rev. Titus Coan,
d. d., aged -, at Hilo, Sandwich Islands, Dee.
. DR.. Coan was a veteran missionary OF the
| American board of commissioners, and was
| known as ''the apostle to the Islands, having
| been in the islands some 80 years. He was one
of the best known of all foreign missionaries.
| There is 10 cable communication with the
stands, which accounts for the delay in receiv-
ing notice of this good mans death.