Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1884-07-10

Sun WIN HIS uccoTdlcu us uOihiSitS "Nh
red, white and blue.
A shocking moving machine accident
occurred recently near Flint. Willie
Covert, a boy Of IL, had one ley terribly
mangled SO that amputation was neces-
sary. He may not live.
Rev. DIR. Henderson of Detroit deliv-
cred an address before the prisoners at
jackson ON the 4th. The address, 10
bushels of peas and six bushels of straw
berries made the prisoners almost
happy.
Principal Lee f. Joslin of the Otis
vile school has made II five years en-
gagement with Canadian firm to rep
resent them in Australia. de will sail
August l, accompanied by James Wray
of Otisyille.
1t is now definitely decided that the
soldiers and sailors of southwestern
Michigan will hold their reunion at
Battle Greek from Aug - to %. The
G.. A. X boys OF that city expect fully
20, 600 strangers there those days.
Thieves stole over 5000 pounds of
wool from farmer n..med Grinnell,
living few miles from Birmingham
and then set fire to the barn to cover
their crime. A valuable horse was
| burned, ana considerable machinery.
James p. Deubel, of Ypsilanti, well
known miller, had a leg broken at the
Scio mills few days ago. He was in
| fix where he had 10 take the chances
of getting killed or break his own leg
to release himself. and he broke the leg.
The Tooth anniversary of the found
ing of Monroe was celebrated on the
4th Judge Christiancy delivered a
very able GRAFTON, and street parades,
aud all the other requisites for a first
class celebration made the day one long
to be remembered.
George. son of Mr.. and Mrs. Cal
vim Forbes of Kalamazoo, best known
to many as the little boy Of the Forbes
family concert company, was buried ia
that city on Sunday. His death indi-
rectly was the result of sickness In
West Virginia last season.
Michigan department officers of the
| G.. A. X. will leave Lansing July 10 for
the grand encampment at Minneapolis,
July %. Michigan delegation will leave
Chicago July %, tickets from Chicago
having been previously secured at the
Commercial hotel, that city, for $3.50
While Capt. James Short and John
Wise were engaged in building raft
at Grand Marias, a large piece of tim
Der came sliding down the shute with
terrific force, striking Wise, severing
his head from the body as completely
as though done with knife, and strik-
ing and completely crushing Capt.Short.
Besides the party of students from the
Columbia college school of Mines, there
are now IN the Kenawee peninsula cop
per county eight students of mining
from the Washington university of st.
Louis, under the charge of Mr.. Wheeler,
a graduate of the Columbia school of
Mines 80. They are located al the
Atlantic.
Amy G. Etheridge of Coldwater,
widow of the late Burt Etherdge, died
in that city recently after prolonged
and painful illness, having just passed
her 6Sth birthday. She was the oldest
daughter of the late Hon. Samuel Eth
erldge. the first representative in the
state Senate from that district. She
has constantly resided in Coldwatcr for
nearly 80 year,.
The census taker of North Muskegon
has discovered II relative OF President
Zacharlah TAYLOR residing in Brook
ltn." Mrs. Taylor is Il widow, Il ' ears
old, and her mother was sister of
President Taylor. She has lived in
Michigan % years and in North Muskc.
gOn two years. The old lady is in re-
"A ,,... ,asff,t oh hn
cared for.-Muskegon News.
Iron ore shipments up to and includ-
ing july 2: arQuette-Marquette dis
trict, 26S 283 tons; L'Anse Marquette
district, % 6Sl tons; Escanaba- Me-
pominee district, 500 100 tons; st.
Ignace- Marquette district IS 3l9 tons.
Pig iron, Marquette, l,170 tons; pig
iron, St. Ignace, 80 53l tons. Total
lake shipments of ore tor season, 9l1,-
468 tons, gain of 323 656 tons over the
shipments of last year for same time.
The matter of the wages in the shin
gle mill is little understood in Grand
Haven. The wages all through the
mills are higher than they were several
years ago, when the prices of shingles
were higher than they are now, and
the cut on the wages Is mostly on
the high priced men and boys, and even
after this the boys are getting bigger
pay than they can earn at any other
work. Boys Is and 16 years old are
getting Sl.75 day.-Grand Haven
Herald.
A sad accident occurred az Clinton
on the 4th, resulting in the instant death
of Fred Broadbent. He was riding on
q truck in the procession on which q
heavy monument advertising, Marstel-
ler's marble works was being carried.
The truck was tipped by an inequality
in the road, the heavy stone fell off car
rying Broadbent it with and fell upon
him, crushing his head aud causing in
slant death. The affair cast gloom
over the days festivities. He leaves q
widow to mourn his untimely end.
Herbert White of Horton, Jackson
Co., 20years old, land the sole support of
his aged widowed mother, met horrible
death by falling on buzz saw while
about his work He with severa. others
was working up poles with steam cir
cular saw for &. L. Hammond of Lib
erty, when White, with u pole in his
hand, approached the saw from the
wrong side. He slipped and fell onto
it, The saw ripped open his abdomen,
and his bowels fell to the ground. He
died in one hour suffering intensely.
There is section Of territory about
40 miles in length, and averaging 20
miles in width, extending from the
head of Keweenaw bay to within few
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