Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1884-04-10
the most esteemed citizens of thatplace

necessary to enjoin order.
The state association of Congregations
nj ministers will meet ut Port Huron,
May 81, for session of five days, and
expect over 500 delegates.
Adolph Gordon has been sentenced
in the Marquette circuit to three years
in The Detroit house of CORRECTION for
passing counterfeit money.
AS result of the temperance meet
ings at Union City the bonds of saloon
men have been raised to $4,000, and
five bondsmeL are required for each
dealer.
Chas. n. Rowland, widely known as
q trainer and driver of fast horses, III
which he has been engaged for 20 years,
died in Hlllsdale recently, aged 5S.
Water was so high that for many
days trains between Bay City and the
Saginaws could not run, and the only
communication was by the river steam
ers.
Fred Mordof, of Dorr, Allegan
county, who blew out the gas i'll his
room at the Kalamazoo house, the other
night, died from the effects the next
morning. He was 10 years old.
Saginaw City will this year build
100000 school house, besides the
800, 900 court house and $50, 900 church
now in process of construction, and sew
eral business blocks and dwellings.
The Workingman's Journal of Mus
kegon has sold the first two columns on
its fourth page to the temperance peo-
pie, and heads the leased space thus:
"We hold ourselves in no way response
bic for the statements herein made"
S. P. Creasinger, the Maple Rapids
banker who has been on the rack for
some time on charge of burning his
property, says he will rebuild his resi-
dence the coming season. Workmen
are already clearing away the ruins.
John Johnston and Chas. Fsol were
terribly mangled by an explosion while
ut work in lime stone quarry near
Alpena recently. The former had his
eyes DESTROYED, teeth knocked out and
the flesh torn from his lip. He will
probably die.
Owing to the expansion of the iron
floor under the rotunda at the capitol,
the marble floor on the first story adj
joining it, leading to each of the main
corridors, has raised SO that it has be-
come nee essary to take portion OF it
up and relay IL.
Louis Dake, aged Il of Manistee,
committed suicide the other night, by
shooting himself in the head. while UNI
der excitement brought on by an over
dose of laudanum. He was o devotee
of yellow covered novels, and in his
pockets. when his body was found, was
dime-novel entitled the Forged
Check"
Judge Joslyn of Ann Arbof, created
quite Juror in court the other morn
ing, by the announcement that he would
not sit on cases in which Prosecuting
Attorney Whitman, his son-in-law, was
engaged. Judge Joslyn has ben ac-
cused of unfairness and favoIing his
son-in-law, and takes this course to
vindicate himself.
Judge Mills of Kalamazoo is out with
statement severely arraigning the
officials Of that county for the loose
manner in which they arrest and dis
pose of tramps. The Judge is satisfied
that one-half of the arrests of this
class is in direct violation of the law.
and made for the pecuniary gain of the
ones making the arrest.
On October % last Nettie Kirke, OF
East Saginaw, agedl4 years, a respectable
school girl mysteriously disappeared, and
no trace of her was obtained until the
otherafternoon, when her body was found
floating in Ten Eyck's mill boom. The
body was badly decomposed, but no
marks of violence were found, 1t is
supposed that she committed suicide.
A rumor has been aHoat to the effect
that Prof. Olney, whose i'll health COM
PEELED him to temporarily give up his
university work some time ago, had
resolved to resign his professorship.
The professor emphatically denies the
report, and SAYS his health is improving
rapidly, and his physicians promise that
he will be able to resume his college
duties next fall.
August Steilo. employed in burning
brush just west of Saginaw City, fell into
the burning heap in IA fit. When taken
out his body above the knee was badly
burned, his bead, face and neck cooked,
and his left arm burned to a crisp. He
will probably die from the terrible ma
ture of his injuries. He was % years
old, single, and lived in Saginaw City.
The Rev. Samuel Bessey. aged 80,
a superannuated Methodist minister
formerly of Detroit conference, now
living IN Grand Rapids, met with an
accident the other morning which re-
suited in his instant death. While out
driving the thills of his buggy fell down
and he was dragged over the dashboard,
and, striking on his head, his neck was
dis,ocated.
| Eight years ago Thomas Britton of
Durand, Shiawasse county, had his
cow stolen. and few days ago man
came to him and said he had been con-
verted at the Free Methodist meetings,
and that he had done him a great
wrong, and owned up that he stole the
/ COW and sold it to a drover for s17.
He now makes restitution by surrender
ing his only cow.
Judge Parrish's papers on the Farm
er's Relation to Law, read before the
west Michigan farmers club, have been
secured by the state board of agricul-
ture and they will be printed in the
forthcoming report of the state board.
They are an admirable series of clear
and sim pie expositions of the leading
features of the law. as applicable to farm
ers in their various relations and duties.
The journal of freight car on the
; Chicago and Grand Trunk railroad
broke the other morning just as the