Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1884-10-23

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morning was drawn under the cars
and killed instantly.
L. w. Bogert and Retta Shepard
were married at Cass City re-
Gently and two hours afterward the
bridegroom was arrested, it being
charged that he already had one wife,
who was in the poor house.
At the last meeting of the state board
| of agriculture it was decided that stu
dents attending the agricultural college
| may now obtain the money they have
earned at the end of the second month
as well as at the end of each term.
The Alpena guards complain that
they have not yet been paid for their
services during the Oscoda mill troubles.
A member of the state military board
insists that Iosco county shall pay the
bill, as other counties have had 10 do in
such cases.
The Sheriff of Isabella county has
been sued, and the court decided against
him, by DIR. VIM. Ravens, of st, Johns,
who obtained judgment of $50 against
q man in Clinton county who afterwards
removed to Isabella county, and the
Sheriff refused to issue the writ as
he ought.
VIM. Sweitzer, a farmer living about
two miles from Shelby, after being per-
sistently annoyed by lot of boys who
pelted HIM with potatoes and otherwise
maltreated him, shot one of the boys
named Frank Eaton. The ball pene-
trated the region of the heart. Young
Eaton will probably die.
Armstrong, the murderer of his wife
and her paramount, waived examination
at Newaygo, and was bound over to the
next term of the circuit court, conven-
ing Nov. IL. ID. p. Clay, the owner of
the house in which the murder was
committed, has offered q years rent
free to the family who will occupy it.
The annual reunion of the Twenty
third Michigan infantry will be held at
Fentonville Nov. 26, and Gov. Begole
will present the boys the flag the rebels
captured from their wagon train at
Lenore Station, Tenn, and which has
been turned over to the governor by
those who have held it for the past 20
years.
Asmall Belva Lockwood banner floats
gaily from q fourth ward residence in
this city. 1t is hemstltched, has dado
of Hamburg edging and two rows of
shirring on the upper gore. Lapecr
Democrat. Such familiarity with the
mysterious work of the fair sex is, to
say the least, very remarkable, Bro,
Kudner.
A sad accident occurred at Vassar the
other evening to Mrs. Thomas Stevens.
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which they had found and were playing
with, and in investigating it it discharg-
ed and blew her index finger and thumb
off and injured her quite severely other.
wise. 1t proved to be a percussion
cartridge used in blasting stumps.
A. j. Cook of the State Agricultural
College, writes that lie has recently re-
ceived specimens of an insect that is
doing great damage to the wheat in
Saginaw, Huron and Wexford counties.
1t is said to "hollow out the berry,"
The insect Is a new one, and Mr.. Cook
asks for specimens and information
from all places where it is at work.
Ionia Sentinel
The coroner's jury in the case of
Willie Hatfield, killed by the cars at
Hillsdale on the 10th, rendered YER
dict in accordance with the facts, find
ing the hagman at the crossing guilty
of gross negligence in not perceiviDg
the dangerous position of the boy and
also that the engine which passed over
him was moving more rapidly than is
allowed by law within the city limits
The directors of the Bay View camp
meeting association held their semi
annual meeting at Grand Rapids the
other evening, with all present except
David Preston of Detroit, The pro-
gramme was arranged for next sum-
mer's meeting. DIR. j. III. Vincent,
chancellor of the Chautauqua circle,
Bishop w. X. Ninde and several men,
bers of the Chautauqua circle will at
tend.
The ST. Joseph Republican says
there is nothing new in regard to the
extension of the ST. Joseph Valley rail-
road. Everything is at standstill,
and no one seems to know whether
work will be resumed OH the road this
fall or not. There is great dissatisfaction
along the line among the farmers whose
land has been cut up by the grade, and
many of them have bills for work done
and thus far have been unable to collect
them.
Jennie Taylor of Kalamazoo, while
alone in the sitting room at her home,
had q fit and fell into the grate where
there was an open fire, burning her
face, head, neck and shoulders in q
shocking manner. The flesh of a por-
ton Of one side of the young lady's
face and ear dropped of. She recover
ed from the tit and cried for help in
time to save herself from being burned
to death. Miss Taylor is beautiful
girl of 20, the daughter of an estimable
man of that city.
AT the meeting of the Grand Lodge
of the Knights OF Pythias at Muskegon,
tho following officers were elected:
Grand chancellor, N. w. Edgar, Jack.
son; grand viee-chancellor, Z. L. Ben
net, Bay City; grand prelate, w. b.
Morse, St. Clair; grand keeper of re-
cords and seals, Hampden Kelsey.
Kalamazoo; grand master of the Ex-
chequer, l.. NJ. Lenhof, East Saginaw;
grand master ut arms, Orno Strong,
Nashville; grand inner guard, III. S.
Robertson, Breedsvil,e; grand outer
guard, G.. S. Baxter. Detroit.
Articles of association were filed in |
the Office of tho secretary of state at |
Lansing during the week ending October |