Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1885-07-02
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Alleyan Williams OF Six Corners, Ottawa
county, drank heartily OF ice water while over,
heated from work. He was taken suddenly Ill
with collie and died.
The +. q p. NJ. will place special trains at
the disposal of the newspaper men of the state
on the occasion of their annual meeting I'm
Traverse City July6
During the procession of Forcpaugh's circus
In Flint, Charles X. Steele of Reed City, fell
from a large chariot and was instantly killed
by a wheel passing over his head. He leaves q
family.
Thomas Mccain of Columbiaville, while re-
turning from Lapeer the other night, In an in
toxica.cd condition. lay down on the railroad
track and was run over by the cars and Instant
ly killed.
Representative Francis b. Egan of Wayne
county has been appointed deputy commits
sioner of labor, and win be employed TO report
statistics and make examinations. Ex-senator
Gullifer continues as deputy.
J. e. Secord of Port Huron, who had been
Panama railroad conductor, has returned
bringing with him three-foot iron cannon,
the only piece of artillery possessed by Pres
tan's revolutionists at Aspinwall.
About 1900 acres of land near Munising, has
been turned into cattle ranch. This Is u new
enterprise and will greatly interest people of
the upper peninsula as there are thousands OF
acres OF available land which might be turned
to a similar use.
A fire at Duncan City destroyed 10000 feet
of lumber and 100000 lath belonging TO
Thompson Smiths sons The loss Is fully
covered by insurance. The efforts of the Che
boygan fire department saved the big mills and
many feet of lumber.
A young man named Zorno, or Zonnor, is
under arrest at Montague, charged with the
murker of his uncle The murder grew out of
some family trouble the elder Zonnor having
charged the young man with undue intimacy
with his 1.-THE elder's) wife.
The Grand Ledge Independent puts IL very
tersely as follows: There was a man once on
time, who tho't him wondrous wise. He
swore by all the tabled gods he'd never adver-
tise. But the goods were advertised ere long,
and thereby hangs a tale: the ad. was set In
| Nonpareil and headed "Sherlff's Sale"
| The low price of wool is very discourglng TO
| the farmers, but we do not see anything that
would justify us in advising them not to sell.
| 1t is plain to all who have given 1t any study,
| that the great west with its unequealed pastur-
age can raise sheep for one half of what 1t costs
the eastern farmer.-Bro'ison Independent.
The highest awards have been conferred up
| on the Union school furniture company of
Battle Creek. at the New Orleans exposition,
on school desks, blackboard crayons, air pumps
aud general school furniture and supplies
| The leading school furniture manufacturers OF
the country competed
Fire broke out in Whipple's dry goods store,
Ovid, and before the flames could be stayed,
Armstrong; confectionery, the Y. NJ. G. A.
building, Huntley's meat market, j. w. Wise's
building, VIM. Beach's beehive factory, and
| Ocherman's barn were destroyed Losses are
heavy, as many Of the insurance policies had
just expired.
Any young man who wants TO find out how
| little he knows about mechanics, physics,
mathematics chemistry and chronological
subjects, and is willing TO exchange his knowl-
| edge for 81 200 government position, should be
| IN Ia at atan6 "
animation for fourth assistant examiner In the
patent office
| Mollie Sprick of Muskegon, who was charged
with poisoning an entire family several months
ago, but failed OF conviction, was recently SEN
fenced to three years in the Detroit house of
correction for stealing Sl3 from prominent
Muskegon man. The next morning Molle was
found dead in her cell, having suicided by
taking morphine.
Two drownings occurred in Lake Angelina,
near Ishpeming the other day. The first was a
young girl, about years old, named White.
She was playing near the lake alone and fell In.
While the lake was being searched for her body
a fish line and pole were found, which being
followed up, the body OF boy named Peterson,
| 12 years old, was discovered.
Adrian johnson was standing at the head OF
the wlndlass at the Ludlngton mine, in Iron
Mountain, about to descend, and John Melin,
his partner, was standing with him on the skip.
johnson was about to fall, and on Melin reach
! ing out his hand to arrest the fall of johnson
both fell Melin was killed and johnson can
not recover from his injuries.
Ex-Judge Edwin Lawrence Of Ann Arbor,
died Of apoplexy the other morning, aged a
years. He came to Ann Arbor In 1912 or '43
and had been n member OF the Washtenaw
county bar Al years He was q circuit Judge
holding supreme court In 1857, was at one time
editor of the Washtenaw Journal and was q
well-known pioneer of Washtenaw county.
Last Fourth of July fireoracker was thrown
under the horse ridden by A. w. Cannon OF
Washington, Macomb county, and Mr.. Cannon
| thrown to the ground receiving injuries which
were followed by months OF weary suffering
until death came to his relief last week The
! same day that Mr. Cannon 6ied his only child
passed away and the two were buried In one
grave.
The strike among the men who were engag.
ed In the laying Of water pipes In Lansing Is at
| an end, and the men have resumed work. Mr..
Myers, the contractor. last offer Is to pay either
81 30 per day or cents per linear foot for dig
! ging the trench, and he to pay all the expenses
OF pumping water from the trench, or curbine
1t when necessary. This Is an increase In
wages of about % per cent.
Charles III. c. Rynd of Adrian, sentenced &c
| the Detroit house of correction for robbing the
mails, and Chas. w. Fond, defaulting cashier
of the Farmers national bank Of Constantine,
! sent to the same institution, have been released
| through recent decision OF the supreme court
| which classes such crimes as Infamous and
| which must be proceeded against by indict-
ment, and not by information.
Thomas Foley of Clinton township, charged
with the murder of his twin babies, has an
unsavory record Three years ago he owed an
employee about 800 which he could not pay.
One night after dispute as TO the money the
young man was found hanging in the barn, and
Foley was charged WITH the murder; through
some technically he was not convicted. Mrs.
Foley now asserts that she was drugged the
night the children were murdered.
Samuel s. Bacon, prominent young lawyer
| OF Niles was found the other morning In his
bed at the Hotel Pike with a 32-caliber pistol
| shot through his breast, inflicted by his own
hand. The ball entered just over the region Of
| his heart, passing the upper lobe of the left
| lung and near the shoulder blade. Mr.. Bacon
had been married only 4S hours TO Miss Barry.
an accomplished young lady of Niles. Nc
cause has been assigned for the attempt al
suicide.
Last Friday, while s. A. Witsaman, who
| lives two miles southwest of the village, was
moving In the door yard, his little 20-months
old baby toddled up behind him, and Mr.. Wit
| saman, entirely unconscious of the child swung
his scythe around and In SO doing, he cut one
of the baby's legs almost off. Cutting clean
through the muscles and cords of the calf Of
the leg, and making an ugly cash. They dis.
ed the wound aud the little sufferer Is now as
comfortable as can be expected under the cir
cumstances, and the wound is rapidly heal
ing-Otsego Weekly Union.
Bro. left Of the Mason county News tells
this snake story; VIII TEAL, son of Ira j.
Teal, who resides four miles east of Mason,
had singular encounter with blacksnakes re.
Gently. He was blowing in the field when he
saw huge blacksnake fully eight feet long.
| He jumped ut the reptile, Intending to alght