Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1884-05-08

| ty, Pontiac included, bias under the tax
law. Adrian and Lenawee CCounties
Aow similar results.
Howard City is enjoying a building
boom. nearly rs buildings being in
| course of erection. Seven were COM
menced in one week recently. and others
will be begun at once.
The railroad excitement at Maple
Rapids continues undated. There is
now less than $4,000 TO be raised to
make up the required amount of $780,
600 for the Lansing Alma and Mt.
Pleasant railroad.
The National association for the pro-
motion of holiness will hold camp
meeting ut Lansing, June Ills, with
prominent speakers from Boston, Phil
adelphia and Cincinnati. Address, for
board. tents and reduced fare, the Rev.
w. IL. Thompson, Lansing.
Mrs. Harry Wildly, who is in Jail at
Kalamazoo on the charge of shophfting,
and awaiting trial. it seems was con-
firmed victim of the morphine habit,
using NO less than $50 grains per week.
Jail regimen doesn't include morphine
and she is being worked out of the obi
Gus slavery.
Martindale Bros Single mill, dry
house and salt works located in the
south part OF East Saginaw, burned the
other evening, involving q loss of some
$4,000 to $4,000. Insurance 3d.
500. The mill had been idle all win
ter and steam was being raised pre-
paratory to starting for the season in
a few days. 1t had On annual capacity
of 100000 shingles and 100000 bar
rels of salt. The fire originated from q
spark from the furnace.
The Greenback state convention was
held at Kalamazoo April 80, with 40
out of the rs counties IN the state rep
resented. Gen. VIM. p. Innes. the
Hon. Moses w. Field, w. ID. Fuller
and G. 5. Hampton were elected dele
gates at large to the indianapolis ma
uonal convention. The convention was
emphatic for Gen. Butler as their pres
idential candidate, Gov. Begole for a
denomination, and fusion with the
Democrats OH Begole basis.
We nave it on good authority that
not great while after the disappear
ance of Charles K. Ford, who was by a
few supposed to be drowned in the
river, near the stone crusher, he wrote
from indianapolis to Mrs. Hayden, of
Trenton, one of the women who claimed
to have seen him drown, inclosing a
letter to his wife. Hrs. Hayden admit
ted to gentleman from Wyandotte
that the story of the drowning was a
conspiracy and the whole matter a
hoax. Monroe Democrat.
The furniture factory and saw mill,
one building of G. S. Black d Son, To-
Gated at the mouth of Mccoy creek,
in Buchanan, was destroyed by fire on
the 28th lust. Loss between 10000
and Sl5, 900; insured rs follows: Lon
don. Liverpool and Globe, Hartford,
Phoenix and British America, $1,000
each; Underwriters, $500; Germania,
5000, and Phonix of Brooklyn, $1,000.
Twenty men are thrown out of employ
mept. As no fire is kept about the
premises the origin is unknown. This
firm met with o similar loss ut the same
place and under similar circumstances.
six years ago.
Joseph Allen, a noted Crook was ar
rested in Hamilton, Ont, on the 2lst
isst. on change of being the principal
in the Crouch murder. He was taken
to Jackson at once. Allen has been IN
and around Jackson for some time in
secret communication with "Scotty,"
Harrington and others of like ilk, an 1
for long time detectives have been
Swallowing" him. Satisfied at last
that he was the man, the arrest was
made as above stated. The missing
papers belonging to Jacob Crouch are
reported to have been found in sand
bank ABOUT two miles from the Crouch
place. and it il believed that the "be-
ginning of the end is at hand.