Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1885-04-30

ship, Saginaw county, has been arrested on
complaint OF Thos l.. Runnels on the charge
OF forgery Hunt, who is a well-to-do farmer,
says he Is innocent and that the arrest was
caused by his political opponent.
AT a recent funeral in Mt Clemens the Of
Heating preacher thoughtlessly announced that
''the dear brother has finished his warfare on
EARTH and gone to brighter, happier home,"
and the disconsolate widow will not speak TO
the tender-hearted preacher now.-Detroit
Journal.
The log cut OF the Saginaw Valley for the
past season amounted to 435, 43l, 900 feet.
There is in the blooms and streams old logs TO
the amount of 1874 534, 500 feet, which with the
new logs, makes grand total OF GIL, q65, $50,
shortage OF 1853, 229, l93,as compared with last
years crop.
Officer Boyle OF jackson, who was detailed
to work up further facts In the Smith murder
case, has stopped his Investigations, II being
found that Halstead's statements are unworthy
of belief. 1t Is understood that no further
proof of the completely OF W. II. Smith in the
murder has been obtained
Allie Levi, little lad about years Old lv
ing In Cadillac, met with a very painful acci-
dent AS near as can be learned he was play
ing with some of his companions around pair
of bob-sleighs that were stood up on edge
when, in some way, they were tipped over, fall
ing on the little fellow breaking both bones OF
one of his legs Il little above the ankle and
bruising him quite severely
About year ago the Benton EIarbor Plow
works were destroyed by tire, and the officers
of the company alleged that the tire was caused
by sparks from an engine on the Cincinnati,
Wabash & Michigan railroad. A suit was
brought against the railroad company, dam
ages TO the amount Of S25,0O being claimed
The suit was on trial for eight days in the cir
cult court at Bcrren Springs. and ended in dis
agreement of the jury
About O0O foot Of tho traak nf thn MiphiUap
Air Line division Of the Grand Trunk railroad,
located one mile east Of Gregory station, sunk
ont of sight recently. The rails are covered by
six feet OF water. Passengers and mail were
transferred A hand-car loaded with timber
which happened to be on the grade, went down
out Of sight and cannot bc found. The wreck
train and fifty men were at once set To work
and in four or five days the road was passablc.
c. G.. Stocking who deserted his wife and
two children in Tenton several years ago, hos
been living at saltwater, Mimi, with a colored
woman as his wife Recently a woman entered
his barber shop and began shooting at him.
claiming Stocking rs partially her husband,
though admitting the justice of the Fentou
claim. The latest returned wife Is from James.
vile, Wis, though at one time resident of
Bay City. Stocking took au early train from
saltwater.
VIII Carleton, llillstlale graduate of GO,
will deliver the alumni poem at the reunion OF
the present year, and Wallace w Hickman of
Chicago, of the class of -, gives the Grafton.
All the literary societies will hold reunions
during the commencement week beginning
Monday, June s. llllSdalc has never known
so great n gala day as il will observe this year
The college has graduated $50 students with
degrees. Ii H. thirty years old and has been
attended 10y l5,0O0 students
Late last fall farmer named Murray, living
in the tuwnshipOi Bridgeport, Saginaw county,
came 10 this city with n load of wheat, aud
after disposing of II departed for home. Since
that time nothing has been heard of him. Re
Gently team corresponding with that driven
by Murray when last srcn was found floating In
the Cass river, a mile below Bridgeport Two
boys made III, discovery u II believed the
farmer shared a similar fate, which he met 10y
driving over the side of low bridge in The
dark.
William H. Smith and Emily Mason, arrest
ed for completely in the murder of Henry
Smith, whose rcItain> were found ia n barn
IN jackson, have been released after being
confined in the county jail fOr about two weeks,
the evidence mol hring sufficient la hold them
for trial The woman Mason is the person In
whose room the clothes Of The murdered man
were found. having bcru left IN her custody
by llalstead Smith was implicated 10y Hal
stcads confession at The time the latter re-
ceivcd his life sentence
The Lake superior Railway and Ship Canal
Company has many applications for leases Of
purpose Of working them tor gold and silver,
and the company is now endeavorng to arrange
form of lease that will be satisfactory 10 all
concerned. Some Of the companies owning
large tracts of land in this region are giving
leases, the ROYALTIES in which are held at ten
per cent Of the gross product This Is too
much by onehali. and people will be slow 10
put money into an enterprise under such con-
ditions.-lshpemng Iron Agitator.
The entire soutl, half Of the Fentou block
in Flint caved IN April % On the first 0oor
were the stores of Hubbard & Wager, hard
ware ] Powell, boots aud shoes, and ! John
son, Jewcler. The second floor was occupied
by lawyers, none oi whom were in the building
nj the time Of the accident The damage 10
the building will reach 5000 and the damage
to the stock will hc aS much more. The gen
eral opinion seems 10 he that the owners of the
building, H. B. Fcnton aud the estate Of Ada
b. McCrccry, will he liable for all damage as
they had notice 81 the unsafe condition of the
building. No person being injured is almost
miracle, as the building usually, night and dav,
has many inmates Portions of the third loor
are used for sleeping rooms, but at the time
not u person was in The building. The roof
apparently cavcd IL took all before il 10 the
basement.