Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1885-03-26

Capt. Rollin G. Dennison, captain of
the First Michigan cavalry, died in Kali
amazoo on the 9th inst.
Timothy Caughlin, who killed the
two Indian boys near the Sault, has
been held in So, 900 for trial.
Graduates of the Lansing high school
will hereafter BIO admitted to the uni
versity without an examination,
Joseph Miller of Cheboygan is under
arrest charged with breaking into and
stealing from the depot of that place.
Gov. Alger will be rendered a grand
reception concert and ball in Jackson
Assembly hvll Monday evening, April
9Th.
Harry F. Sayles, the singing
evangelist" and Miss Lucy Jenness of
Ypsilanti, were married on the 18th
inst.
The initiatory steps to secure the
extradition of the escaped convicts
captured in Windsor, Ont, have been
taken.
"Old Tommy Pykett' of Bridge
water township, Washtenaw county, is
103 years old, and good for a dozen
years yet.
Judge Cooley has notified the secre-
tary of the Republican convention of
his acceptance OF the nomination ten
dered him.
Ladies in different parts of the state
are agitating the question of soldiers
home in this state, and petitions are
being circulated.
The will of the late Willard Dodge of
Kalamazoo was offered for probate
March 16. 1t bequeaths $50, 600 10 the
Michigan Female Seminary.
The Mecosta house in Necosta and
several adjoining buildings were de.
stroyed by fire March 20, at loss of
$4,000, with $4,000 insurance.
The city council and the gas COM
pany of Ann Arbor had little misun-
derstanding. and the city has not been
lighted for nearly three months.
Otsego law and order citizens are
making determined fight against all
kinds of gambling except progressive
euchre and dealing In wheat options.
Kittie Callahan of Adrian will have to
be excused from attending the skating
rink for several evenings. Kittie fell
the other evening and broke an arm.
| I A young woman who attempted to
board moving train at Monroe was
dragged 200 feet, but the train was
luckily stopped in time to save her lifo.
Miss Maggie Adams, teacher in the
Bay City training school, fell last
evening as she was leaving the Presby.
terrain churchs, breaking both bones OF
her leg.
Young men of the seventh congress
sional district will soon have an op.
portunity to compete for the honor Of
being appointed to the naval academy
at Annapolis.
Some enterprising and benevolent
ladies of Saugatuck have organized tc
teach free OF charge sewing, cutting anC
| fitting to those of their sex ignorant o.
these accomplishments.
| Garrett Decker, Battle Greek
merchant who failed several months
ago for 1926, 900, will pay so cents on the
dollar on $4,000 of his indebtedness
He will resume business.
Benan, the murderer of Deputy.
Sheriff Kohl of Negaunee, is still ai
large. The man whom the Manistiqu,
| officer Swallowed for the murderer turn.
ed out to be another man.
Louis DeGraff was killed by Detroit
& Milwaukee train at Grand Rapids
recently, and his family will institute
suit for damages. The company signi
fies willingness to settle.
A Muskegon preacher has invente q
q sign which he wishes placed over the
entrance to every skating rink. The
sign reads: "Thls Is where the devil
holds his nightly carnival.
The unknown man found frozen tc
death holding on to barbed wire fence
near Dearborn recently. proves to have
been John Mclaughlin, Scotchman,
without relatives in this country
Peter Stack of Ypsilanti, aged 81, com.
mitted suicide on the 18th inst by hang
ing. About month before his son
suicided, and since that time the old
gentleman has been very respondent.
Unas. Scnutz, German resident OF
Fowler, was found dead in his bed al
the Fowler House on the 18th. The
coroner's jury decided that he
came TO his death from heart disease.
A Kalamazoo boy, sent out on bust
ness expedition by his father, skipped
for New Orleans, spent all the money
he had aud then worked hisiway home
by giving exhibitions of fancy roller
skating.
While playing in McDougall's mill
yard in Charlotte, Willie Klineheimer,
a lad of about IA years of age, was ia
tally injured by log rolling on him
mangling and crushing his body in q
shocking manner
The Marquette Mining Journal is
authority for the statement that syn
dictate has been formed to buy up all
the pine lands on the northern peninsu-
Ia, and that 3,000.00 acres have al
ready been secured.
John Hawthorn, aged IS, employed
by Farmer Hodges, near New Hudson,