Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1885-07-16


The authorities of jackson prison want TO let
out to some contractor the services OF 100
convicts, the contracts of 75 OF which have al
ready expired, and the balance will be idle after
October.
Joseph Hood, who had been working In
East Tawas saw mills for several years, has
been missing since June 10. July n his body
was found in the Tawas river, nearly opposite
Tawas City.
The proposition to bond Grand Rapids for
100000 In aid OF new water works was defeat
ed by the people today, very light vote
being cast The vote STOOD For bonding,
2c6; against Isl.
Roscommon county, who was behind In his ac-
counts about s., SEQ, has been continued 10 the
next term of the circuit court He gave bonds
for his appearance.
The tenth Michigan state camp meeting will
be held at Petoskey, commencing July 81 and
closing Aug. Q. The Flint IL Pere Marquette
railroad company offer special rates To those
who desire To attend.
win Copeland a young unmarried man 20
years Of age, was buried ip water works
trench In Flint. AS soon as possible efforts
were made to rescue him, but when he was
reached life was extinct.
Grand Rapids new city directory shows IT,
200 names, not including the suburbs nor the
insane in the county jail. By the ordinary
second city has 81 % inhabitants.
Internal Revenue Collector Davis of Grand
Rapids appointed q. NJ Tabor, Greenbacker
of lonia, formerly editor OF the Ionia National,
and later clerk in the house of correction, 10
be deputy TO succeed f. j. Hoppins.
A man named Mclean died suddenly In
house of ill-fame uear Big Rapids recently.
After he died bat IS was found on him. but he
is known TO have had considerable when he
entered. An investigation will be made.
A 1-years-old son of n. A. Webster of Clio,
was playing in the railroad mills when his
clothing caught on the shaft OF the grindstone
and before the machinery could be stopped he
sustained injuries which will main him for
life.
has bought two lots in the Flint cemetery as a
burial place for preachers of the conference
and their families. A handsome monument
will be erected with tablet room for many
families
The Seventh-day Adventists, in tent at
North Branch, offer a reward of 500 to the
priest, preacher or layman who will produce
one text from the bible, commanding or sug-
gesting Sunday to be observed as the
Sabbath.
Obed Underwood, aged "a years, was drown
ed in Allegan. He was trying to save little
brother and fell from some logs into the mill
race. A young man named Clovis Libby
eventually rescued the brother but was unable
to save Obed.
On Friday, July 3, a party of men while at
work on a highway In Day township, Mont
calm county, found a stone weighing some
twelve or fifteen pounds, upon the fiat surface
of which was legibly engraved John Bell, lost
May @, 1851"
Theodore c. Phillips of Bay county, died at
his home in Monitor township recently. Mr..
Phillips was postmaster at Bay City from 1870
to 1878, and then resigned to engage in farm
ing. He was prominent Republican poll
tician, and AZ years old.
Parsons, Ks, dispatch announces the
drowning at that place Of Master Mechanic
Phillips Of the Missouri Pacific road, while
engaged in repairing a washOut. His remains
win be brought TO Battle Creek, where his
family reside, for burial
A fearful accident occurred at Linden the
other evening A brakeman named Elliott,
whose home is supposed to be in Detroit, when
on top OF his train. which was freight, was
struck by the water pipe from the tank, knock
ed under the wheels of car and horribly
mangled.
Gov. Alger has appointed Frank Z. McGur-
rim of Kalamazoo, official stenographer of the
Ninth judicial circuit, and VIM. A. Frazer Of
Corunna; $. S. Dryden, of Allegan, and Cyrus
+. Russell, of Mt Pleasant, agents of the
board of corrections and charities for Shawas-
see, Allegan and Mt. Pleasant counties, re-
spectively.
The body of a unknown man was found at
the mouth of the Tawas river where IL
empties into Saginaw Bay, at Tawas City. The
body was badly decomposed, but was identified
as that Of Joseph Hood, "a Frenchman, who
worked in the shore saw mills the past eight
years. He has a family in Canada or New
York. He has been missing for three or four
weeks.
John Lum Of Perry, Shiawassee county, who
had just returned from the penitentiary, went
to HIS brother Williams house a few nights
since, and during his absence committed an
outrageous assault on Williams l6-year old
daughter. Her father with an officer started
with warrant for John, and the miserable
creature swallowed a dose of morphine to
avoid arrest.
Elijah Smith and his wife Of Detroit, were
crossing the Holden road MAY 81 over the
Grand Trunk track, when a train struck and
killed thew The administrator of their estate
Albert Ives, Jr., has instructed Dickinson,
Thurber ~ Hosmer to bring suit against the
Grand Trunk for damages. Loss of social
comfort and grievous affection will be alleged
In the bill of particulars.
Mrs. Timothy Riley, nee Weaver, Of Byron,
Kent county, is under arrest for bigamy. Mr..
and Mrs. Weaver had dwelt together In we'd
lock for 30 years, when seven years ago Mr..
Weaver was adjudged insane, and sent to
Kalamazoo. Two years ago he was discharged
as cured In the the meantime Mrs. Weaver
had become enamored Of young man named
Riley and last month married him.
Charles r. Mclean of Grand Haven, aged
about 80 years, died in Big Rapids house of
ill-fame after a brief illness. Mclean was well
supplied with money when he went into the
house, and had about So when he died. This
fact added to the mysterious death excited sus-
picion, and Jim Grove and Nettie Golden,
managers of the house, are In jail awaiting the
result of the coroner's investigation.
The state press association elected the fol-
lowing officers for the ensuing year: Presi-
dent, A. j. Aldrch OF the Coldwater Republi-
can; presidents Franklin Moore of the St.
Clair Republican, o. w Rollin of the Paw Paw
True Northerncr, and Jesse Minchen of the
Evart Review; secretary, j. w. Fitzgerald OF
the Ovid Union; treasurer, Robert Smith of
the Ithca Journal The next annual meeting
will be held at Coldwater.
The completion of the Milwaukee. Lake
Shore d Western railway will give the Agoge-
bic iron range an outlet to Lake Superior at
Ashland, where immense ore docks have been
built. The ore Is OF good quality and appears
to exist in large quantities. Should half, or
even a quarter of the mines discovered prove
valuable the district will be large and Inn
portant one, threatening serious competition
with the iron fields Of Michigan's upper PEN
insula.
James Hallon OF jackson, is dead. The
deceased was well known throughout the
state a. a business man, and had host of friends
all over the eastern stat s. Mr.. Hallon was
born In New York state in 1SC6, and would
nave been 80 years old next January. He came
10 Michigan in 1912, and located on a farm
near Marshall. After r, siding there two years
Mr. Hallon was elected sheriff and served two
terms. From 1879 he was in the hardware and
grocery business, retiring In the latter year.
tie was buried at Marshall. His
Heath was the result of a stroke of paralysis.
Aprobos of the strike of the mill men In
Raw (Hfv a hrfqf CQmparicau of