Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1885-10-22
A man named charlcs,I, et,laIr was killed by

A man named CharlcslLeClair was killed by
some logs rolling over him at SANKEY'S camp,
eight miles back rom seney. He was form.
er r, s.dent OF Cheboygan lnd was taken
there for inicnncnt
Lyman T. Kennedy is said TO have discover
ed what he believes to be valuable deposit OF
mineral paint on the borders Ola swamp on
his farm near Woodyille. Newaygo county.
He viii investigate.
Royal T. Twombly, ex-state senator and ex
mayor of Niles, died at Fort, Worth, Texas,
Oct. Is. He will be buried at Niles. Mr.
Twombly was the father Of Mrs. DIR. Farrand
of Detroit.
Owosso had 5000 fire Oct. TO- The dry
goods store of Brown & Mahoney, the produce
store of III. l.. Lewis 4 Son and the furniture
warehouse and store OF Henry Woodland were
DESTROYED.
The contracts for grading the Lansing, Aim
q Northern railroad between Salt river aud
Mt Pleasant are all made The rails on the
northern end of the route are laid as far az
Salt river.
David G. Bishop, keeper of the house of cor.
rection and reformatory, die d very suddenly
the other morning. of apoplexy. He was q
brother Of Col. S. X. Bishop OF Grand Rapids.
Frank Waudel, a IL years old Battle Creek
lal, accid .nially shot himself through the
neshy par of his left thigh, white ''fooling"
with revolver n ar the mill-pond In that city,
A flock OF sheep belonging to Supervisor W.
b. Cobb strayel upon the Grand Trunk track
near Scho )lcraft, and Were struck by a freight
engine. Twenty-one of the number were killed
Grand Rapids wants the taxpayers 70 pay
her contribution TO the soldiers home fund
and will ask the legislature to change its
charter so that this may be done.
A Hudson man has a sunfowcr four feet in
circumference. But in Almont there is one
five feet in circumference growing on a stalk
15 feet high.
year ago the house of Il. Davenport OF
Grass Lake, was set on fire. The other day
Primrose Groelhall was ARE ted, charged With
the orim,.
The 10-year-old daughter OF John Queelran
of Port Huron, was drowned in John Jenkin
sons cistern. The body was found the neM
day.
David r. Waters, well known Greenbacker,
has been appointed United States marshall fol
the We. tern district of Michigan,
The Hessian fly is destroying the early-sown
wheat in the vicinity of Bronson so badly that
many farmers talk of re-seeding.
Mrs j. +. Porter of Sturgis weighs 30
pounds, and a Chica % museum pays her SO
a week for exhibition purposes.
young lady conn cted with the st Johns
apple drying furnace pares and cores 5,
bushels OF apples per day.
One hundred and forty new dwellings have
others are in progress.
The finest business block In Maple Rapids
was DESTROYED 10y fire few nights since. Estt
mated loss 5 Zoo.
Bronson merchants claim that the trade has
increased 40 per cent snce the rebuilding Of
the burned district.
A. H. Carver, Hillsdale county farmer, Is
missing. His farm is heavily mortgaged and
he is badly in debt.
The Kalamazoo board of education have
ordered a neral vaccination of the pupils IN
the public schools.
John Mooney, shoemaker of Greenville,
attempted suicide, but doctor and stomach
pump saved him.
During the berry season over 200 bushels
of huckleberries and blackberries were shipped
from Alpena.
The Michigan buggy company Of Kalamazoo
recently shipped an order TO Sydenham.
Australia
The Dibble murder case at Howell has been
permanently closed by order of the prosecuting
attorney.
Charles ii. Call, l. the newly appointed col
lector of customs at the Superior district.
Lake Linden, Houghton county, asplres TO
the dignity of an incoi Grated vii age.
EX-Secretary of State &c rye Redfield Of Cass
county was 50 years of a,e on Oct g.
Reading, Hilsdale county, celebrated its
semi-centennial October ).