Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1885-08-06

broked and work commenced at Sault Ste
Marie.
Henry Ray, Coldwater contractor, died OF
drinking too much ice water at Charlotte re-
Gently.
Judge Cooley denies emphatically that he
will accept the law professorship at Ann
Arbor
One hundred and fifty of the conyicts in the
different penal institutions of the state have
applied for pardons.
ID. Longsworth, an 1S-year old brakeman,
had his head damned while coupling cars
loaded with logs at Alger
Grand Rapids cable road will be commenc-
ed in two weeks and is TO be ready for business
by the middle of September.
Kalamazoo college will be reopened Sept. Q,
the financial difficulties Of the institution hay-
ing been satisfactorily adjusted.
A party of young people camping near
Grand Haven, came across the dead body of q
man that had evidently lain there months.
hit Is officially announced that Representative
Eagan has been appointed Deputy Commits
sioner of Labor, entering upon his duties
Aug. l.
The new board of examining surgeons for
the pension department-Drs. Hayden, North
and Shank-have recently received their COM
missions.
The board of aldermen of Detroit have voted
to accept the bid of the Brush electric light
company to light the city by electricity one year
for $50, 0C0
The work of testing the bed of the st. Clair
river with the view of constructing a railway
tunnel TO connect Port Huron and Sarnia Is
now under way.
Brighton taxpayers have unanimously signed
a bond for $4,000 to aid in the construction
of the Toledo d Ann Arbor railroad, which
will touch that town
Eronl- Miller Of Sbarlrvflla Maniotoa
county, is held for trial at the October term of
the United States court at Grand Rapids for
selling liquor without license.
Louis T. Noe, an experienced railroad man
and night car inspector of the Michigan Cen
trail ra lr5 al at Kalamazoo was run over by O
switch engine and fatally injured.
Richard Fletcher, an old citizen of the town
ship of Williams, Bay county, while passing
from his sons residence to his home, fell by
the roadside and died OF heart disease.
The survey for the Detroit g. st. Clair rail-
road is a5out completed, and IL Is proposed 10
secure the right of way at once. c. +. Moore
of st. C.air, has been appointed solicitor.
G. II. Booth of Kalamazoo, charged with en-
bezzlement and the larceny OF $1,000 from
Mary A. Denslow, his cousin, was bound over
for trial in the sum of 1000 and gave bail.
The fall term OF the agricultural college will
not open until September 2, the postponement
being made on account of the scientific con-
yenton which meets in Ann Arbor August &c
Holland City -nts the soldiers home and
presents many i'll lucements, among them that
1t is II to Is degrees warmer there in winter
than in places farther south and cooler In sum-
mer
The mind cure association at Battle Creek
is largely increasing in numbers, and those
at its head feel encouraged, as many of the
new members are the leading citizens OF that
place.
Mrs. Lucy Oltmaler, the wife of Henry Oft
maier, of Ann Arbor, well-to-do employee of
the Michigan Central railroad swallowed
quantity OF morphine, from the effects OF which
she died.
The work of renoyating the state fair
grounds at Kalamazoo will be commenced in
a short time. The officers claim that the Sep
TENDER fair will be the largest and best ever
seen In the State.
Livingston county has developed new cattle
disease, which begins with hdeous groanipg
on the part OF the animal, and In from "A TO 48
ton shows the lining Of the stomach eaten as
If by acid.
Prof. w. ii. Pettee, who at present occupies
the chair of mineralogy, economic geology and
mining engineering at the state university, Is
being strongly importuned to accept the presi-
dency of the new school of mines In the upper
peninsula.
Iut OOUgTt8tllOnul cuuTcu Ut uTd0u IcIRt,
one of the Oldest religious societies in the viii
lage, will surrender its charter and turn over its
property to the home mission board. Accept
ance of the revised and modified edition Is as
signed as the cause.
The army worm has appeared in Kalamazoo
county and Is making fearful ravages on the
oat crop. One farmer who had sixty acres
which one week ago showed fair for sixty
bushels per acre, will be happy II he now Sc
cures twenty bushel.
W. G. Bennett, for upwards of twenty-five
years II clerk In the auditor-general's Office, In
Lansing, suicided the other morning by means
of twenty-five caliber revolver. He w2s 90
years old For about a month he has been
rather unsettled in mis- mind.
Mrs. Ella Ritter was found lying in ditch
north of Kalamazoo the other morning uncon-
scious. Examination showed handkerchief tied
around her reck, which was much swollen, and
her tongue protruded from her mouth. Her
husband deserted her recently
A buggy in which was seated Mrs. Nathan
Ganson OF Mundy, aged 7S, was struck by the
north Eound passeger train on the Flint d Pc
re Marquette In Flint. The vehicle and horse
were torn to pieces and the old lady so badly
injured that she died in few hours.
Henry Mangle, on Chas. Swinesberg's farm,
near Brighton. was stricken with sunstroke at
4 O'Clock the other afternoon and died in o
short time. He leaves a wife and four children
destitute. The thermometer stood at 104 de-
grees In the shade at one time during that day.
Lyman J. Wilcox, highly respected citizen
Of Rochester and one of the oldest pioneers of.
Oakland county, died of gangreene of the leg
recently, aged SO years. Mr.. Wilcox cane to
Michigan in 1924. He was the father OF the
Hon. Elliott r. and Lyman G.. Wilcox Of
Pontiac.
Mrs. NathanGauson OF Mundy, IS years of
age, was out riding at Flint the other morning
In crossing the track Of the Flint IL Pere Mar
quette railroad, the buggy was struck by
train and smashed, the horse killed and Mrs.
Gauson so badly injured that she died few
hours later.
A terrible accident occurred at Alger few
days ago. brakeman named Duff Longs
worth had his head jammed while coupling
cars. He was injured so badly that he died In
month. He was a young man and the onlj
support OF his mother.
Prof. w. w. Prescott OF Burlington, VT,
has accepted the presidency OF the Seventh
Day Adyentist's college OF Battle Creek, which
opens the college year Wednesday, Sept 2.
Prof. Prescott is a graduate Of Dartmouth
college and has had an extensive experience as
teacher and educator.
Geo. Feurst, organist in st. Patrick's
church, West Twelfth street, Chicago, was
drowned while bathing IN Manistee lake a
few days since Deceased was 81 years Of age,
and was In Manistee in company with his
mother to visit a brother and sister. The
divers are searching for his body.
IA man brought into Vassar a span of ine
work horses and offered them for sale at such
a reduced price as compared b. their value, a.
70 arouse curiosity. and y1non or1cofiouinO and