Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1884-11-20

Louis bay, four miles from Duluth,
Minn., burned on the 9th inst. The
mill was good one and with four to
six million feet of lumber which was
burned, WAS worth $4,000 to 800, 900.
The fire originated in the yard of the
Oneoka Lumber Co., where 5000. 600
feet of lumber and $780,, 900 mill were
burned.
A student in tho pharmacy depart
ment of the university, calling himself
A. r. Boyle of Springfield, o., has sue
ceeded in swindling tho Ann Arbor
banks out of $3.50 by meaus of forged
drafts. He visited all three banks and
showed letters from Prof. A. b. Pres
colt of the pharmacy department., of
Maj. Soule. treasurer of the university,
identifying him as tho person named in
the drafts. The drafts were all cashed
but subsequently came back protested.
Boyle fled when his crime was discov-
cred.
William Ford, farmer living in
North Rranch township, Lapeer county,
went TO Inlay City and purchased
among other things a large butcher
knife which he placed carelessly in the
breast pocket of his overcoat. During
the ride home the knife cut its way
through the pocket and slipped down
inside the lining to the hem of tho coat.
AS Mr.. Ford jumped from his wagon on
reaching home the knife was driven in
to his right leg above the knee, sever
ing the main artery. He bled to death
in a few minutes.
1t is all right and proper to borrow,
why certainly, but when you ask your
peighbor for his or her paper each and
every week, remember it is not borrow
ing but simply stealing just three cents
per week from the publishers. Our adj
vice is, IF you cannot afford to sub
scribe for paper don't read it." A
newspaper is the cheapest luxury ex-
tant, and yet many people who are
abundantly able prefer to borrow, rath-
er than pay the small sum of three
cents per week for q copy delivered at
their nearest postoffice. Oakland Co.
Advertiser.
Russell Sanders, formerly a resident
of Aurelius township. Ingham county,
but now residing at Garfield, Grand
Traverse county, where he moved
about a year ago, left his mark upon
|, various pieces of paper which bear the
signature OF his father, Elias M. Sanders
He gave his father power of attorney
to dispose of his farm and pay his in
deotedness, The latter payed about
$500 worth of the paper and refused to
pay more. There are about $4,000 IN
this paper afloat, which is held by vari-
Gus persons in Mason. No criminal
complaint has yet been made.
The boiler of Moab Chrisher's barrel
factory in Hudson, exploded with tern.
BILE force few days ago hurting it and
the engine "a secondhand portable one)
through the end of the building and
carrying it across the street and through
the side of A. b. Bragdons' house. land
irg in the dining room. Mrs. Bragdon
was buried III the ruins, the boiler al
most striking her She was slightly in.
jured by the fly.wheel, and Ben Chrish.
er, the engineer, was scalded on the
arms and legs II was singular acciden,
the ponderous weight rising bodily
from its bed and shooting straight 10
rods away.
The Ann Arbor agricultural company
| has made assignment to John Finnegar
and Joseph j. Ellis, bonds being given
in the sum of 100000. The liabilities
of the company are estimated at $780,
| 000 and the total assets at $4,000 OF
which $40, 900 is in good paper and $780,.
600 in manufactured stock. The di.
rectors of the company are all solid
men and its credit has always been first.
class The assignment is merely nom.
inal, both of the assienees being di,
rectors Of the company. The objec,
was to protect the company and force
the collection of some outstanding notes
A Toledo dispatch, dated Nov. 10
says: President Burt and Engineer
Alexander of the Cincinnati, Van WerI
and Michigan railroad passed through
Toledo today on their way north for
the purpose of locating an extension Of
their line into Michigan. The road is
now in operation from Cecil, in Pauld.
ing county, south through Van Vert to
Greenville, Darke county, and is in
course of construction through the
Franklin station on the Cleveland. Co
lunibus, Cincinnati and Indianapolis
railroa d. From Paulding the road will
run to Bryan, crosses the Wabash at
Fayette and will open up good coun.
:ry il Michigan.
The November crop report, issu &c
from the Office of the secretary of state
says that the area seeded 10 wheat thil
fall in the southern four tiers of coun
ties is estimated at 81 per cent. and in
the northern counties SO per cent. o.
the area seeded in 1888, indicating q
present acreage in the southern coun
ties of 1,225, 1854 acres, and in the north
ern counties of 223, 205 acres. Tho con
dition of wheat November l was 107
the comparison being with vitality anC
growth of average years. Compared
with 1883 there Is an increase of abou
ene-sixth in the area of clover seeC
harvested, and AZ per cent. in the yield
per acre. Both the acreage and yield
of potatoes are greater than in 1888
Horses, cattle, sheep and swine are
generally in "good, healthy and thrifty
condition" A few deaths among cattle
from 81 unknown cause are reported
and 20 correspondents in 16 different
counties in the southern four tiers. and
II correspondents in z counties In the
northern part of the state report the
presence of ''hog cholera, or some othel
swine disease"