Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1885-01-22

Miss Gertie Space is stage driver be
tween Frankfort and Manistee.

Miss Gertie Space is stage driver be-
tween Frankfort and Manistee.
There were 17S, 38l barrels of kero-
sepe oil inspected in the state last year.
The expenses of the Crouch case al
the close of the Holcomb trial amount
ed to $4,000.
A disease has appeared among the
cattle of certain portions of the state
called "blackleg," aud some valuable
stock has been lost by it.
Frank Olds, the Lansing postal clerk
will recreate in the Detroit house OF
correction for the next three years fol-
tampering with the mails.
The Ohio lumber dealers are to be
invited to visit the Saginaw valley, and
liberal amount has been subscribed
towards their entertainment.
Mr.. Adams, of tho school of phar-
macy at the university, mas been APP
pointed professor of chemistry and
physics at Orchard Lake acedamy.
James Stanley and Dudley Beardsley
have been arrested in Detroit charged
with breaking into and stealing from
the Orion postotfice few weeks ago.
The tenth annual session of the Mich
igan sportsmen's association is TO meet
at Lansing Feb. 3, when it is proposed
to take new measures for Furnishing
violators of the state game laws.
Jerrie Kersies, aged 16, was looking
down an elevator shaft at the Bissell
carpet sweeper factory in Grand Rapids
when a.descending elevator. struck him
on the head, killing him instantly.
An unmarried young man named
Vett, working in the Standard roller
mills in Holland. had his clothing
caught in the gearing. He was badly
crushed and died in a short time.
An engine on the Geo. +. Woods
logging railroad, on board of which
were Engineer Briggs and his wife and
little child, capsized yesterday, killing
the child, seriously scalding the wife
and badly bruising Briggs.
The experiment of silk-worm culture
will be tried at hillsdale by S. L. Sea-
ger, who has made arrangements for
10000 worms, and has received Sc
mulberry trees from the agricultural
department at Washington.
Every.acre of government land thus
far sold in the 9th congressional district
of Michigan is held under clouded
title, and it will need a special act OF
congress to give the cloud a silver lin
ing.
The Battle Creek Adventists deny
that they expected this old world to
suspend business on Jan. s.. They say
that the prediction was the work of a
few cranks in their church, for whose
idiocies they are not responsible.
The twelfth annual convention of the
superintendents of the poor and the
union association of charities is to be
held at Lansing Jan. 27 and continue
three days. ID. b. Greene of Ypsilanti
is president and S. 5. Dryden of ALE
gan is secretary.
FIRE in Farwcll destroyed W. II.
Safford's hardware store, L. Mcclellan
grocery. II. Nj. Roy's drug store, the
post Office, A. j. Rows meat market
and two other small buildings, one
vacant and one occupied as dwelling.
The loss will approximate close TO SlO,'
900.
Fred Shultz was arrested at Manlstee
recently on a charge of assault with in
tent to kill Carl Hartwig. The alter.
cation grew out of dispute about
some land; Shultz attacked Hartwig
with Ratchet, splitting his head open,
breaking his nose and cheek-bone and
biting off his fingers and a thumb
5hultz is in Jail.
Senator Conger ha bill authorizing
the secretary of war TO purchase the
Portage Lake and River Improvement
Company's canal aud Portage Lake &
Lake Superior ship canal, the two
canals together for waterway across
Keweenaw Point from Keweenaw bay
Lake Superior. The bill provides
hat the canals shall be free waterway
fter the purchase.
There sre reasonable grounds fol
the belief that the log crop of Mich
gan will be reduced at least 40 pei
cent as compared wi tn that of last
year. The superabundance OF men fol
the woods and the reduction in the
scale of lumber supplies by all the es'
Establishments in the valley engaged IL
that business is sufficient Q 7idence thai
enrichment by the operators this sea-
SOD is not all mere pretense, as il
has usually been heretofore. Lumber.
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