Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1883-11-15
MICHIGAN


pastor.
Grand Rapids pays 52l per cent OF
Kent county's taxes. 4,
Defective gas mains are killing OH O
he beautiful shade trees OF Hiiisdaie' Z
The salt product of Michigan for the
month of October Vas 34o, ~ barrels. I
John Fonda, Battle Creek man, has
Just secured patent on new rmlroao
switch chair.
MANY fruit trees have been planted
this fall in the Upper Peninsula along the
line of the Detroit, Macinac u Marquette
Railroad.
William Diggs, an unruly pupil at
the reform school, Lansing, is under ar
rest charged with an assault with IN
tent to kill teacher
William Bashan, aged p, who was
employed in the Evening News once
in East Saginaw, was found dead IN
his bed the other morning.
Detroit merchants have reaped such |
a harvest of ducats, as result OF Inc
art loan in that city, that they want 10
have it continued into December
The O'Neil Brothers, at CharlevoiX,
made haul of over 5000 pounds OF
lake trout in ore day recently. The
average weight was 10 pounds each.
SCHUYLER F. Seager died of typhoid
fever, at his home in Lansing, on the
7th inst. Mr.. Seager was one OF the
most prominent lawyers in the stale
Fifty Battle Greek adventists will emf
crate to California, Dec. 10, most OF
whom will work in a branch of the he
view and Herald printing office there.
Near Ida, Monroe county, Mrs;
Nichols, the wife of a rich farmer, died
from the effects of g dose of poison tax
ed with suicidal intent on the 9TH inst.
Lew Hoffman, one of the best cornet
PLAYERS in the county has been sent
from Adrian to the house Of correction
for 80 days. Lew took too much poor
whiskey.
A man named Ferguson is under ar
rest at Kalamazoo, charged with re-
sponsibility for the sudden aud violent
death of Barney Cunningham at School
, craft on the 9TH inst.
At Muskegon, Peter Stogren recover
ed $4,000 damages from the owners OIL
the Hall q Davis saw-mill for the crush
ing and subsequently cutting off of his
leg while in their employ.
John McCurdy, young man well
known in Shiawassee county, who was
g recently arrested on q criminal charge
2 preferred by or on behalf of young
woman, has been discharged
( A prominent lumberman and an ole
resident of Manistce named Paul Camir
shot himself through the heart the 9th
err morning at his home. No reason
Q for the rash deed is assigned.
q A panic was caused in an East Sagi
y nav church the other day by the set
C Ting of the floor. No one was seri-
= ously hurt, but the worshippers vacate,
" with degree of alacrity truly surpris
5 ing.
D Mrs. Abigail Matthews. of Allegan
u who was sentenced to the house of cor
) rection for 80 days for assault and bat
# terry upon Justice of the peace, ha
been adjudged insane and sent to al
asylum.
Chas. Downer, of Port Huron, VIII,
had leg broken while loading sal
u upon the schooner Dunford ut Oscoda
7, was taken to Port Huron and died a
l. the surgeons were amputating hi
; crushed leg.
S The laying of rails on the Detroit
Bay City and Alpena road is completes
> to the Rifle river, thus connecting Eas
Tawas with Wells station, in the north
II western corner of Arenac county, OIL
q the Michigan Central.
n Miss Ida Walton, daughter of Hiram
Walton, prominent and wealthy farm
er who lives about three miles north o
Pontiac, died suddenly few days ago
Ii She was about 20 years old, and wa
l. we'll known and much esteemed,
" No new assignments have been made
n in Grand Rapids, and the feeling anon.
e lumbermen and bankers is easier an,
# more cheerful. 1t is thought the storm il
= past and that no other companies will
u be involved by the recent failures.
Awoman 63 years of age, in Kala
mazoo, who was in her house with tive
" children found her clothing on fire ant
J. ran out of doors. Neighbors saw hel
o. all aflame and ran to her rescue, bu
she was burned so badly that she died
A little child of Marshall barber Sc
its clothes on fire accidentally, and bu
# for the timely assistance of its father
: would have burned to death. He tore
i the blazing clothes from her lody
though both were badly burned in the
: operation.
:, A Grand Trunk brakeman named
Miller was injured near Flint the Other
t evening, so seriously that he is likely to
@ die, by being knocked from car; ant
= earlier in the day Grand Rapids and
Indiana brakeman named John Till
son was instantly killed while coupling
: cars at Big Rapids.
i Rev. l.. G. Bettes is doing missionary
e WORK in Sanilac county, and says he Is
a building two churches, Tho sailors
/, who proposed to go with him around
= the world, on his small boat voyage,
$ want him to wait until spring for the
j start, so they can have more time along
the Gulf of Mexico.
A 2-years old son of Polish parents,
ut Girard, Branch county. was burned
to death the other day. They had left
: the child in the house while they were
t saving wood in the woods. and on re-
? turning found it burned, its body having