Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1884-10-16

A Mason lady, 90 years old, has pur-
chased u pair of roller skates and is
practising daily in n vacant house, get
ting IN trim for the winter season of
roller skating.
James Haslem of Paris, Mecosta
county, lost his right hand and part OF
his left by the premature discharge OF a
gun. He was leaning upon the weapon
with his hands over the muzzle.
Deer are very fat this fall, and the
market hunters are Strengthening them
in great numbers. At the present rate
it will not be long before q deer will
be as raro beast in Michigan as is the
Megatherium.
The officers elected at tho Michigan
Beekeepers' Convention at Greenville
for the ensuing year are. President, 5.
j. Youngman, of Lakeview, Montcalm
county; Secretary, +. A. Palmer, OF Nc
Brides, Montcalm county.
Receipts at tie State University for
this semester: Medical department,
S11,2 law, $1,000; analytical and
applied chemistry. S2,065; dental, 3d.
I'll; literary, $12,660; pharmacy, ST.
1856; homeopathic, Sl,S45; total, Sal,
| 500.
Edward Lane was shooting at ducks
with a rifle near Cheboygan, A stray
bullet passed over field where George
Stewart, II years old, was digging
potatoes with his father, striking young
Stewart in the neck and killing him i'll
stantly.
A fatal disease has broken out among
| tla cham ~, thu xyiotnitv of GkorWonH
destroying whole focks. The farmers
are at loss how to fight it and want to
know if the state cannot assist them by
sending doctors to investigate and sug-
gest means of checking it.
The residence of A. +. Turner at
Cob5town, Wexford county, was burned
the other night. The..family barely escap-
ed. They were awakened just in time
to save themselves by the barking OF q
dog The dog was burned with the house
Loss about 81 500; insured for 5000.
+. f. Crapdall, native of Oneida
county, n. Y, pioneer of Clinton
county, and resident in St. Johns for
twenty-three years, a pensioner OF the
war of 1912, and veteran of the Mex
can war, died on the 10th inst, st his
home in st. Johns in the 9Sth year of
his age.
Frank r. Payne, Esq, the receiver of
he shattered Adrian savings bank, has
gone to West Virginia to look after the
interests of the depositors of the con-
Germ, whose money had been PRINCIPAL
lv invested in securities Of the West
Virginia oil and land company by Mr..
Loomis.
A doctor named John Terrell has
been convicted at Port Austin of prac-
ticing without registering with. the
county clerk as required by law. His
defense is that he registered in Tuscola
county, AM that gives him a right 10
practice anywhere in the state. The mat
ter is to be tested in the courts.
Parties who have been boring for salt
at Algonac struck q deposit at depth
of 1920 feet Large offers Lave al.
ready been made for the well. A com
pany will be organized at once and the
process of manufacture commenced.
There is great enthusiasm in the place,
and property is already advancing.
VIM. Wade of jefferson, Cass county,
, captured half-grown eagle near Pine
, pig, and while devourIng it Mr. Wade
, got shot at it, one shot taking the
bird on the head, stunning but not in.
turing it. 1t measures over six feet
, from tip TO tip of wings. Kalamazoo
Telegraph.
DR.. Van Ripper of Shaf!sburg, an itin-
Grant physician, has been arrested and
released on $500 bail, charged with OBJ
. tanning possession Of the body of Mrs
Thos. Upper Tompkins, either by
mesmerism or some other occult means
The woman, thinking she was to die,
revealed it to her husband. The doc.
) tor claims it is Matchmaking scheme
The coroner's jury in the case Of
, Minnie Leach, the victim of the terrible
/ accident at the Lansing fair ground:
give as their verdict that the deceased
came 10 her death by being caught BY
the line shaft as stated in the evidence
before them, and allege negligence or
= the part of the managers of the society
in not having said shaft properly pro
tected.
The Indians at Sault Ste. Marie com
, plain at having to vacate the ground or
the north side of the canal, where the
fish commission proposes to locate
They also claim that they know moth
ing of the sale of moro than the righ
, of way of 400 feet through the reservation
for the old canal. They further claim
that there is vet due them in annuitie;
J about 100000.
A mail pouch was stolen at Dowagiac
while hanging on the crane waiting fol
, the train at o'clock the other after
! noon, in full view of several working.
: men. The bag was cut open and the
letters taken out The letters were
found near by. All the drafts and
money had been stolen, but the postal
| notes were left. The thief was tracked
! some distance but was not captured.
Several weeks ago the village bank
ut Ovid, Clinton county, lost about
r $500 through the alleged embezzle.
ment Of Charles Drake, its cashier.
Drake was missing after the embezzle-
ment was discovered and tho sheriff
! offered $3.50 for his capture. The man
was captured IN Detroit by Sergeant
Calver of that city on the 9th inst,
and turned over to the Clinton coun.
ty authorities
The gentlemen who have been max.
ing arrangements 10 manufacture lamp
black ut Royal Oak, using the SCOT de.
posted from flame obtained by the com.
bustion of gas from natural gas wells,
have been put TO much trouble and ex.
pense by the action of some vandal who
: dropped bar of iron into their well
I resulting in the breakaQe of machinery