Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1886-05-20
During a storm the other MIGHT the house

During a storm the other night the house
OF Charles Larson, one mile south OF rus
tin, was struck by lightning. The bolt
entered the roof and passed through the
chamber floor into bedroom occupied by
Mrs. Larson, her infant child, and a
daughter, young lady sixteen years OLD.
A silver watch hanging on the wall near
the head of the bed was melted. The bolt
shattered one post of the bedstead, then
struck the young lady on the right breast,
and tore the skin all off from the right
side TO her feet. She can hardly recover.
The mother and babe both received slight
injuries.
Mary Wright, widow of Noodia q.
Wright of Walker township, Kent county,
has begun suit contesting the will OF her
husband. She alleges that just before her
husbands death in July last she consented
TO sign certain papers, the contents OF
which were unknown to her. She signed
them because she had full confidence in
her husband, and also because she feared
i'll effects if she opposed him while he was
so i'll. She now finds that she has signed
away dover rights amounting, as is al
legged, to SGO,OOO, and her only return is an
annuity of 800 year, and that only
temporary.
A rousing meeting of citizens was held
IN Bay City the other evening when the
proposition of the Bay City, Caro- q Port
Huron railroad company was accepted
appointed TO secure right of way, depot
grounds, and obtain bonus of $4,000.
If profusion of blossoms upon the APP
'ile trees are indication, there will be a
sreat apple crop in Southern Michigan this
Year.
Chas. Adams, son of W. T. Adams, a
prominent granger and farmer OF Grand
Rapids township and ex-deputy oil in
spector, has been arrested for stealing SIX
Andalusian chickens, valued at $780, from
Henry Vaysmith's store. Three of the
chickens were found at the express office
consigned to California.
The american House I'm Wyandotte
was destroyed by fire few days ago.
S. A. Rumsey of Edwardsburg, has found
in mound on his farm a mass OF bones
from which he took.22 skulls. Each skull
bore evidence of having been crushed from
behind 10y blunt instrument. The bones
were Is inches below the surface of the
ground and i1closed by a stone wall six
inches high.
Miss Tille Tubbrook, aged 90 of Hoyt-
vile, Easton county, was buried recently.
Later foul play was suspected and W w.
Tubbrook, father of the girl, requested a
post norton examination. This showed
this, an abortion had been committed. The
matter is being investigated.
Manager Mulliken of the Detroit Lam
sing a. Northern and Chicago az West
Michigan railroads, expects that the ex-
tension on the former road from Lake
View to Howard City will be ready for
business July l.
An Ishpeming dispatch says that the
Ropes gold mine has enough milling quartz
in sight to last six months at the present
rate of stamping. The mine is now 300
feet deep, with five levels. The Phillips,
Coon and other mines are idle.
Gidion Brown, a burly Negro of Mason,
who had had some trouble with his wife,
went TO the house where she was staying,
and shot her after which he beat her head
to jelly. Brown escaped.
A party of roughs entered saloon in
Detroit the other night, in which a party
of young men were sitting, and began
abusing them. An attempt was made to
force the disturbers out, and in the row
which ensued Ludwig Cast was seriously
Injured. He fingered i'm great agony for
several days when death came to his re-
lease. The fellows who caused the disturb
ance are in jail.
Henry NJ. Miller, n FARMER residing about
four miles from Newago, quarreled with
his wife few days ago, who, on account
of his violent threats, left him and came
to Newaygo. The more Miller thought
about 10 the more enraged he became.
Late in the night the farmers around saw
q bright light burning at his place, and
upon arriving there they found both
house and barn in flames. Search was
made for Miller, who was found twenty
yards behind the house, and old army
musEet in one hand and n ramrod, with
viii, h he had touched the gun off, in the
other. He had placed the muzZle under
his chin and blew the front of his face and
brains out. Deceased had been married 80
years and was about 20 years old.
Ezra Merrill, resident of East Saginaw
since 1851, is dead