Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1884-11-06

Several stores at Bedding were de-
stroyed by fire tho other morning.
James Callaghan, harness dealer. lost
S2. 900, insurance 1900; Devine q Co.,
bankers, $4,000, insured for $4,000; s.
Unger, millinery, $4,000, insured; Ell
Jersey, marble dealer, $1,000, unin-
sured; James Granger, store, $500, no
insurance, Mrs. Filkins. 5000. uhin-
sured.
The accounts of Charles l.. Fuller,
county treasurer of Otsego county,
which were found TO be in an unsatis-
factory condition some time ago, have
been examined by the board Of super
visors, and shortage of $4,000 has
been discovered. Fuller's property, all
of which he has turned over to the
county, will nearly make good the de-
iciency.
The G. Il. q |. X. X. award yearly
special premiums for agricultural pro.
ducts grown on lands along the line
of their road. This year Mecosta takes
off a number of premiums, as follows:
w. Lander $25 for best five acres of
wheat and Sl5 for the best acre of
corn; Russell Pierce, $40 for second
best acre of corn; j. II, Rogers S5 for
third best acre of corn.
The ministerial association" of Meth
odist pastors has been organized at
Grand Rapids with the Rev. Ii. M. JOY
as president. According to the provi-
sions of the constitution all the travel
ing and local preachers and eXhorters
in the Grand Rapids district are men,
bers of the association; the presiding
elder of the district is president. The
association will have two regular ses-
sions each year, which will be given up
to the discussion Of doctrinal and liter
arY subjects.
Articles of association of the Toledo,
Marshall e. Northern Railway have been
filed with the Secretary of State capital,
100000. The road will run through
some of the richest farming lands in the
state, through pine forests which have
not yet been prosaned by u lumberman's
AK, and will prove one OF the best pay
ing roads in Michigan. The road-bed to
Elm Hall, which is already graded will
doubtless be utilized. 1t cannot be stated
definitely when work will commence but
probably soon.
About / o'clock on the morning OF
Nov. /. as the freight train No. IL, on
the Grand Rapids & Indians
railroad was returning northward III
TWO sections with passengers from 9
Democratic meeting at Sturgis, when
near Nottawa the rear train ran into
the caboose of the forward one, in which
were nine persons, killing outrightWm
Green, a hardware clerk, and fatally
iniuring George Kerns, furniture mer.
chant, both residents of Mendon. Sew,
eral others received slight injuries. Tn,
wreck is bad one.
Frank harlow of Allen, HillsdalC
county, was badly gored by vicious
bull few days ago. The infuriateC
animal broke loose and attacked Mr.
II. in the barn. tossing him out door.
when he was discovered by Mrs. II. and
q hired man, who, with club and
pitchfOrk tried to rescue him, but the
brute paid no attention TO them, unit
the hired man watched his opportunity
and sieZed the ring in the bulls nose
and led him away. Mr.. Harlow's clothe.
were nearly torn Of, and two bad cash
es torn across his body, one in his abdo
man through which his bowels pro-
truded.
A man named j. Henry Letter com
mitted suicide deliberately and in hor
rible manner ut a small hotel in Grand
Rapids few nights since. He came
from the north few days before and
nothing in his actions caused even 0
suspicion that everything was not al
right with him. He failed to come
down to breakfast or dinner one day,
and the door of his room was forced
A sjckening sight presented itself. LET
fler was lying on the bed with his throat
cut from ear 10 ear and the arteries Of
both arms severed. The bedding wa:
completely saturated with blood. In
the dead mans right hand was firmly
grasped a jack-knife, with which the
bloody deed had been done. In q
drawer of the bureau was note which
read: Here is good luck to everybody
and bad luck to Michael wager. You
are the cause of this ALL" No name
was signed. Letter had letters in hi:
pocket from relatives in Tiffany, O.,
addressed to him at Chippewa Falls
Mecosta county. He was 81 or 40 years
old.
The j. Z. Potts Salt and lumber
company, head quarters at Au Sable
have just received 700 tons of rail
road iron from Pittsburg, Pa. be-
sides fifty logging cars and two engines
from Elmira, n, Y, which they are
transporting down tho Au Sable from
Grayling in large scows seventy feet
long. This material is for their logging
railroad, fourteen miles long which il
being build abou. fifty miles down the
Au Sable in Oscoda county, in which
vicinity tho company owns 425, 900, O0(
feet of timber, mostly white pine. They
run five camps with capacity of 3d.
100000 of timber annually. Owing tc
the inactive state Of the lumber market
they expect to cut but 25,000,000 tn
coming season. These logs run down
the river to Au Sable where they are
shipped via boat to eastern markets
Sailing, Hanson & Co., will run 81,
camps in Grayling this winter. They ex
pect TO bank IL, 900, 900 feet for the drive
besides 1000, 900 for their mill at Gray
ling, which will be cut as fast as de-
livered. Their mill has a capacity OF
10000 feer per day, and is run eleve n
months of the year, This firm has TO-
100000 feet of pine. mostly Norway, tc
cut yet. Much of their stock is shipped
to points in Indiana and Illinois.
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