Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1886-02-18

Gen Poe, chief Of United States engineers
at Detroit, condemns the project Of ship
canal across Michigan.
A tree was felled ut Pratt & Dease's camp
near East lawas few days ago which struck
another, breaAlng off the ton and throwing IL
some distance, striking Pat Delahanty, who
has relatives IN Detroit. lie was carried to
camp, supposed to be but slightly injured. He
asked 10 Ie turned over on his size, but com
planned that the pain was too severe. Iney
turned him back, when he almost immediately
died. This is the fifth man I'M ured near this
same spot Three had Legs broken and two
were k.Ied.
Joe. Z. Brown, engineer on the middle di'
vision of In Michigan Central, came in on his
engine the other night, in his usual health,
was taken with cramps and died the next
morning He was - gears old, Unmarried
anu has bcen an engineer II years. las hode
was in JacAson with h parents.
Mrs. Jones, the old lady who was the last per-
son rescued from tie burned jackson county
poorhOuse, uieu at JacAson. She was between
20 AMI 100 years OF age, and in accordance
with request she made 10 Supt. Kennedy her
remains Wete inferred at Mr.. Evergreen, in
stead OF being sent 10 Ann Arbor for oiss.c-
tiOn.
Henry earl: get judgment for S55 at East
Saginaw against the Standard lumber company
tor overtime worked beyond 10 hours day.
to hours has been made, the justice rendered
Judgment Tor all extra hours beyond ~ per day
since the state law took elect. An appeal
viii be taken
The state eGcampment, /. o. o. f., held in
Big Rapids on the nth inst, elected grand
field, Marshall; q. II. T., John Is. Award,
Camden; q. W., A. HarshaA, All ena
q. S. 4. ii. Whitney, Lansing; u. 4. Harr son
Sale, Ann Arbor; q. Jr. W., j. NJ. Crosby,
Sprlngport.
DIR. Thos. d. Bradheld has been appointed a
member Oi the examining board OF pensions
for Kent county. The board as at present
constituted consists OF Drs. Wooster, DE
Camp and Hubbard, and DIR. Wooster is sup
posed TO be the man to be succeeded.
The order of the railroad association OF
Michigan that dead bodies TO be trans ported
by these railways must be encased in an an
tiseptic interment sack, Theoretically sealed, Las
Teen revoked, owing to the opposition Oh tue
state funeral directors association and Others.
Alex Lawson, whols charged with the at
tempt to XIII the chief OF police OF MusH, gon,
is held without BAIL and is to be tried early in
May.
William Campbell, owner Of planning m II
on Twenty-third street, aged 25, and one of
Bay Guys best young men, dropped dead
the other night at O'Clock. He had called
on a Young lady to accompany him TO con-
cert when blood vessel in his brain burst,
and he expired instantly.
Ex-Sherilf Winnney tells story anent the
Crouch murder that once when he was in an
eastern city, spending the night at hotel,
unknown 10 all, an old fellow, while speaking
of the great murder mystery, asked the crown
what they could expect the sheriff OF jackson
county 10 do when the sheritf's daughter had
been married 10 Jud Crouch since the MUIR
der had taken place. In the howl that for
lowed this announcement Winney says he
slipped out Of the room, but he remembers as
he did SO that The proposition TO hang the sher-
III OF = ackson county was unanimous in the
crowd.