Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1884-12-04
including the governor, ex-governors,
ex-generals and state officials.

Fidhh Duhcou VI iuCOuuiuks chos bA'
wife Thanksgiving night because she
attended masquerade party in opposi-
sition to his wishes Tho woman will
probably die, and Duncan has been
jailed TO await the result of her injuries.
A son of the late DIR. Rind of Adrian,
is in Jail in Detroit charged with rob-
bing the United States mail. he has
been for some time postal clerk on
the route between Monroe and Detroit.
He confesses to having stolen over 500.
Mrs. R. +. Corbett, living near Ypsi-
lanti, who for some time has been men,
tally ailing, comitted suicide recently
by taking poison. The unfortunate
woman left n note stating that She COM
mitted the deed out OF fear that she
might harm some one.
The jury in the case of Alba A. Arm
strong, charged with numbering his
wife and her paramour, George Bates,
with an ak at Newaygo, on tho 9th of
last October, returned n verdict of mot
guilty" Armstrong admitted the kill
ing, but said he did not intend TO kill
his wife.
An idea may be gained of the spread
of the roller skating craze by knowl-
edge of the fact that Morley Bros, of
East Saginaw, distributing agents of
Vineyard" skates for Michigan and
adjoining states have sold about 1926, 900
worth of the skates. and orders are still
pouring in.
Greenville ladies gave 4 'game din
ner" the other night for the benefit OF
the city's poor. The sturdy yeomanry
went into the woods last week and
turned over to the ladies all the beasts
and fowl they slaughtered, which with
pumpkin pic and such like vanities
made up very respectable bill of fare.
The position of president of the Mich
igan agricultural college, has been ten
dered to ex-Congressman Edwin Will
lifts, now principal of the State Normal
school ut Ypsilanti. The proffer was
made by the state board of agriculture,
and the matter has been taken under
Amusement by Mr.. Willitts.
Fred Kali, a young man of Monroe.
was found frozen 70 death in the chan
mel near that city. He had been out
duck hunting the evening before and
it is supposed that when he returned
he got out of his boat and sat down on
the shore TO rest. The water had risen
in the channel until il reached his neck.
The gas we'll ON George +. Tawse's
dairy farm, near Port Huron, continue:
to yield as much gas now as when il
was drilled about a month ago. Mr.
Tawse uses the gas to heat the water in
his boiler and run the engine. 1t ha:
been estimated that from 600 TO Loco
feet of gas escape from the well every
day.
Frank f. Hewlett, prosecuting attor
ney Of Jackson county, died OF con
sumption Nov. %, aged 81 years. Mr.
/ Hewlett had gained y wide reputation
for tne vigorous manner in which he
prosecuted the Crouch case, and the
people reelected him TO the Office hC
had filled so well by TIE largest major
ity ever given in that county.
q William Reimers, German tailor Of
East Saginaw, shot and fatally injured
man named Grigware, with whom
Reimer's wife had been unduly intimate.
Reimer then fired at his wife but miss d
her. He then went to his tailor shop q
short distance away, and fired two bull.
lets into his own worthless brain. Both
men were taken to the hospital and will
probably die.
Nearly 200 tons of rock have beer
treated at the Ropes gold mine, from
Ishpeming, which yielded SlS per ton
while about 81 per ton got away in the
"railings." 1t costs about So per tor
to treat the rock. The Phillips com.
pany of Chicago, is also opening 8
mine near the Ropes location, and has
also The Alger, Madden e. Hogan and
Deer Lake companies.
On Sunday, Nov. 23d, as Rev. G. w
Costing, pastor of the Methodist church
at Three Oaks, was starting for service
he was detained at tie railway crossing
by q freight train, and the snow and
flying steam prevented his seeing an.
other train approaching. He was struck
and thrown about 20 feet. 40 of which
were passed without touching the plat
form. He was unconscious for several
minutes, but strange 10 say no bones
were broken. and he will soon recover
The Saginaw Herald says Z. r. Phin
ney, of East Saginaw. has disposed OF
his mill property at Carrollton to De-
Grauw, Aymar e. Co., of New York,
parties that have been interested with
him in the property since it was built,
Stevens 81 Ladue having taken az in.
terest in the property. will operate tho
mill and cut the timber belonging to
the firm. Mr.. Phinney intends to build
steam salt block during the winter to
run in connection with the single mil
at South Saginaw, where his future op'
erations will be located. Mr.. Phinney
was a well-known and wide awake
member of the last legislature of this
statn