Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1885-04-09

Mt. Pleasant had a Sc, 900 fire April

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Oregon has returned to Flint.
Lansing will bond itself to the amount
of 500, 900 in aid of water works.
Tom Navin, Adrian's ex-mayor, was
taken to Jackson prison March 81
The Ludington salt well is down
1850 feet and progressing favorably.
McBride's single mill near Stanton
was burned March 26. Loss $4,000.
Holly hopes to be provided with
some kind of street lamps before long.
A son of Randolph Rodgers, the
famous sculptor, Is student at the
university.
Isaac Blue, prominently identified
with the history of White Pigeon since
1885, is dead.
Captain Cook, an old resident of
Pontiac, slipped on an icy pavement
and broke his leg.
A company of "boomers" is to DO or
ganized in Corunna, and raid made
upon Oklahoma soon.
st. Johns chlldren attend school in
the various churches until the recently
burned school house can be rebuilt.
The summer session, for teachers of
the Adrian College normal school be-
gins July 20 and continues six weeks.
VIM. Baker, aged 90 of Reed City, is
a cripple for life by falling on the saws,
while running the edger in Raynor' mill.
A dark otter, measuring four feet
seven inches in length, was killed
on Sandstone Creek near Jackson re-
Gently.
James Nevins, for many years de-
tective and police sergeant at East Sag
inaw, was shot and killed at Winnipeg
recently.
j. G. Farwell, Singer sewing machine
agent at Marine City, has skipped"
with about $1,000 Belonging to the
company.
There is considerable talk of establish
ing a stave and heading factory at Clare
which will give employment to about
seventy-fve men.
Senator Palmer's committee on fish
and fisheries will not investigate the
fish question of the Michigan lakes this
summer as proposed.
VIM. Giard, treasurer of Winterfeld
township, Clare county, had between
500 and $500 stolen from under his
pillow few nights since.
The Centerville creamery has begnn
operations. When running their full
capacity they turn off from 1000 to l.
200 pounds or butter per day.
Miss Helen Mills former teacher in
the public schools of Detroit, died at
her sisters residence in Port Huron q
few days ago of consumption.
There is hay famine at the Tawases.
The last sales were 800 per ton, Even
the farmers have 10 feed sparingly, as
they have sold themselves short.
L. Atwell of Maple Rapids is under
arrest charged with assault with intent
70 commit bodily harm. He fired on a
night Waterman several weeks ago.
Grave robbers were caught trying to
snatch a body in the Valley City ceme-
terry atIGrand Rapids the other night,
but the gbouls escaped without identiti-
cation.
Charles Lockwood, a cadet at West
Point Military Academy. from Sturgis,
has been obliged to give up his studies
and go to New York to have his eyes
treated.
The Calumet and Hecla mine ; is
to increase the size of its skips and un-
foreground cars so that an increase OF
10000 tons moro of rock per month will
be made.
Bee-keepers in and about Fenton-
vile report heavy losses occasioned by
the severity of the winter weather. The
losses in many instances will reach
fully 80 per cent.
Mrs. Shelters, aged 50, wife of Henry
Shelters of Oxford, died on the I'd inst.
Mrs, Shelters and her husband came to
Oxford in 1887 and were among the first
to settle in Oakland county.
Washington O'Donohue, we'll
known citizen of Flint, died recently
from congestion of the lungs. He was
Immediately preceding 1880.
An item going the rounds to the eff
feet that the Goodyear house at Man
chester has been totally consumed by
fire is incorrect, There was only $500
blaze which was easily extinguished.
A new elevator is to be erected at
Sand Beach the coming summer. 1t
will be 36x60, iron clad, and with q
capacity of rs 900 bushels of grain and
storage room for 1000 barrels of flour.
The Detroit iron mining company has
placed new machinery in the Ishpeming
mine, which will give it capacity of
800 tons per day. Until business
brightens, however, it will not be work
ed for over 100 tons per day.
The latest of the Lake Superior Chip
pewa braves who are classed among
centenarians, is Mad. je.kee-wis. He
lives on the lines of the Detroit q Mack
inaw railway, q short distance from
Marquette, and claims to be 113 years
old.
John Hale of Romulus, Wayne county,
was killed while fox hunting, q few days
ago, by the accidental discharge of
gun in the HANDS of his cousin, while
they were creeping through tLicket.
The hammer OF the gun caught in q
limb
Shortly before midnight on the I'd
inst, fire at Saginaw City destroyed
the barn owned by VIM. Thompson, to-
gether with valuable horse, three
buggies and camp outfit. The loss is
1900; insurance nearly enough TO
cover.
j. G. Nestle has suit against L. L.
Bennett, proprietor of the Bay City
Evening Press, and S. G. Wilsonfor libel,
claiming SIC, 900 damage for publishing
his name in connection with an outrage