Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1884-10-02

ohtiiO community 10 nkutiuS tuo
flames, but when last heard from, they
were not vet subdued, and several
thousand dollars damage had already
been done to property.
Blaine will be in Michigan October
10 and 16. He will mako his debut in
Detroit on the 10Th inst. Butler will
precede him, the willy widow making
his second appearance in the state
about the 18th of October. st. John
speaks in Detroit October 6.
Sumner Howard, late of Flint, but
now a Judge of Arizona, pronounced
the sentence of death on Frederick j.
Glover, a murderer, few days ago,
and an Arizona paper says that while
Judge Howard was addressing the ac-
cused, lone could almost hear the
beating of his own heart.
Chas. X. Ford, the Wyandotte law
yer who was reported to have been
drowned IN the Raisin river some
months ago, has been discovered alive
and well in indianapolis, where he is
making cigars under the name of
Charles Raymond. 1t is believed that
Ford, alias Raymond, was trying to get
his life insurance money.
"Glve an account of the Greedy ex-
petition and the results thereof" was
one of the questions asked Mt the recent
teachers examination. One of the la
dies gave the reply: Horace Greeley
desired to become president and be-
ing nominated by the Democrats was
defeated and consequently died in lu-
matte asylum. MI Pleasant Tribune.
j. A. McLain, farmer living six
miles from Coopersville, was shot the
other night by q tramp. The fellow
had come to the house and attempted
10 run everything his own way. Both
Mclean and his son resisted this out
rage. Feeling that assistance was nee
essary the son won't to neighber's to
summon help. When he returned he
found his father had been shot
Near Midland the other afternoon
the BODY of man was discovered lying
on the bank of the Tittabawasee river
in u badly decomposed condition. From
all appearances the body had been there
nearly all summer, as the hair was
nearly all off the head. The dead man
had an overcoat on and knife was
found near him, bud there was no marks
of violence to be seen. 1t is supposed
to be the remains of man named A.
l.. Webster.
There is some talk that the Tittaba-
vase boom company will not suspend
rafting, as requested by the Saginaw
lumbermen. At the present rate of
rafting it will take about six weeks to
clean up the streams. The largest guam
tity ever RATED by his company in O
single season was in 1882, total of
Gil, 1862, go feet. To date this season
there has been RATED about 500, 000,-
500 feet In 1880 the seasons rafting
aggregated $50, $780, 10 feet. Last year
the total amounted TO but 474, 1922, $40
feet
Says the Owosso Press Will
J.. Cooper of CALEDONIA shows
us stone weighing one pound
six ounces, which he found in tho meat
pipe of one of his cows which died =
few days ago. The cow was sick ten
days, unable to eat anything, could
take only liquids, and the mysterious
case induced Mr.. Cooper 10 open the
animal after death TO ascertain the
cause. The puzzle is. how the cow could
swallow such an enormous one. 1t
measures nine inches the smallest cir
conference.
A large business is being done in
evaporating fruit at Fenton this year.
A. K. Britton will Put up forty tons,
using for the purpose 10000 bushels of
green apples. He will also make 250
barrels of vinegar. He employees about
twenty operatives. The Cook Brothers
expect to put up thirty tons of evapora-
ted apples, using 1900 bushels of
green fruit. They will make 200 bar
rels of vinegar. They employ eighteen
operatives. The business is an impor-
tant one for Fenton, and especially so
for the farmers. 1t represents to them
an aggregate of S15, ZOO to $4,000 for
the poorer grades of their apples.
The horrors of the Huron dam disas-
| ter, which occurred Jan. last, were
brought before the people of Portage
Lake the other morning with renewed
force. A second victim was found on
the sands on the lake shore near the
Osceola stamp mill-that of Charles Z.
Raymond, who was teller in the First
National bank of Houghton. His body
was mutilated beyond recognition, and
was identified only by gold watch,
bank book and other papers which were
found on his person. Mr.. Reymond's
wife's father, Capt. Chynowith of On
tonagon, was fortunately in town, and
Mrs. Raymond was Immediately sent
| tor.
D. b. Mudgett, q prominent lumber
man and farmer of Harrisville has
made an assignment to L. r. Dorr, of
that village. His liabilities are between
$4,000 and $4,000. The inventory
of properly, list of creditors, etc., is
not yet fully completed, and owing to
| the confused condition of the estate the
amount of the assets has not yet been
determined. 1t is estimated he will be
| able to pay between ID and 25 cents on
the dollar. 4. Morse g. Co of West
Troy, N. Y, are the heaviest losers, and
among the claimholders against the
estate are about % men who have been
employed in the woods and at rafting,
with amounts due them from $40 to $3.50
each. MIDGET has ben:strnggling for
the past two years, with the above re-
suits. He is highly esteemed, but had
too much business on hand for the
amount of capital invested.
Charles l.. Fuller, county treasurer
of Otsego county for the past four years
and editor and proprietor of the Otsego
county Herald, is short in his accounts
about SO, 900, and has left for parts I'M
known. He has turned over all his
property at Gaylord with the exception