Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1886-01-14

the Jackson Patriot; secretary and treasurer,
Il. b. Fisher OF the Grand Rapids Eagle; ex-
ecutive committee, w. s. Eaton, Kalamazoo
Telegraph; +. w. Ball, Grand Rapids Demo
crat; +. ID. Cowles, Saginaw Courier.
The Marine City stave company during the
past year made 1900 barriers of salt, and
1926 barrels were packed in December. This
company has about finished shipping by the
steamer Excelsior TO Detroit 5000 barrels OF
salt consigned To western points. There are
now five salt blocks there ready Tor operation.
Other wells are being drilled, and more COM
panies are being Organized.
The Unadilla Touring mills of George
Hoyand was burned To the ground recently
and are total loss, except the engine house
and engine which was but little damaged
The lessee, William q. Piper, loses large
quantity Of flour and feed. A number of
farmers had grain stored in the mill. The
origin OF the lire Is unknown. No insurance
The papers taken from the Crouch home
stead at the time OF the murder In November
1884, and subsequently found buried In the
woods In glass jar, and which have been
missing since the death of Frank Hewlett,
the jackson county prosecuting attorney,
were found recently at Jackson by George
w. Ford among some rubbish In his office.
Representatives of the eastern Michigan
Normal school, now located at tenton, are in
Alma negotiating for removing the school to
that place. A $4,000 bonus is demanded
A.. w. Wright has headed the subscription
with $1,000. meeting OF the citizens has
not yet been called, but 1t Is safe TO say that
they will consider $4,000 too much bonns.
The 2-year-old daughter OF Louis Kettlcholm
died at East Saginaw In great agony. A few
days since the mother while attending to her
duties placed pail OF boiling water on the
floor. The child Tell into II, scalding its body
and legs so badly that the flesh came OIL with
the clothing. 1t fingered in terrible pain I'M
I'll released by death.
The Detroit, Bay City and Alpena railroad
Is being pushed TO completion rapidly, and
will soon be Ia successful operation from its
present terminus at Alger, just north of Deep
River, 10 Aipena. GOV. Alger is now on a
tour OF inspection over the line. 1t will be
changed in the spring from narrow TO broad
gauge.
John Richards of Port Iurson pine street
near Eighty is anxious TO hear from John
McGuiggan, a native Of Vienna, Ont, on be-
half of the latter's sister, who now lives In
Port Huron and has not seen her brother for
en- years. Anyone giving Mr.. Richards in
formation will be rewarded.
The Rev. L. IL. Hamlin, who came TO Michi-
gan as pioneer Baptist minister, settling at
Manchester in 1885, died in Galesburg, kala-
maZoo, on the 10th uit., in the nth year OF
his age. He was well known among the Bap.
fist ministers of this state, by whom he WAS
respected and honored.
The December output OF the Calumet mine
was :, 400 tons; FanklIn, PSI tons; Quincy,
l6l tons; Atlantic, @0l tons; Allouez, lao tons;
Huron, l3l lous; Copper Falls, 65 tons; Han
cock, for five months, 20j tons. The total
output Tor thc year OF the above eight mines
Mas 40 3S tons.
Samuel Baer, living two miles south of
| Waite Pigeon, was cleaping around his colts
hind feet when the colt kicked him in the
h al, breaking his neck anu fracturing his
SKULL. Mr. Bder lived ten minutes. lie
was one o. the early pioneers o. thlt section.
President Ashley of the Toledo, Ann Arbor
IL Northern road has signed an agreement
that the road will be extended and the cars
running To Evart by Jan. /, 1887. Work on
The surveys will be done this winter, and
grading commenced as early as practicable.
Edith Diedrch of Milford, wandered from
her homt and was found in the woods, two
miles distant early the next morning. The
Ch.ld had passed the nis ht alone in the woods,
though several hundred men were securing
Tor her In tvery direction.
Ne son Kilmer, an inmate Of the soldiers
home died Jan. 4. He enlisted as a private in
company Z, LIST Michigan infantry, and was
mustered out ut Washington as corporal, June
), lS05 He entered the nome from Charlotte
and was As years old.
Richard Abs of Carrollton, the defaulting
treasurer of the Knights Of Maccabee, who
failed 10 appear when wanted TO answer 10 the
! charge of larceny is said 10 be in Toronto,
where he has relatives. His family are still in
! Carrollton.
A little 7-year old son Of Mr.. David Beattle
| of Owosso met his death recently by playing
Loyisn pranks While bending over bacn-
wards uutll n.s hands touched the ground an
internal rupture was produced, which caused
his heath.
The superintendent of the poor at Isabella
are charged with crookedness IN the manage
ment OF the county farm, and lively discus
clio fa ts.
ylte The closest INSPECTION 10 their conduct,
| however.
Chief Engineer Hawks of the Michigan Cen
trail, ha comp c ed his pans Tor the new S25,
YOU depot at Ann Arbor. The railroad is now
negotia ing with the city for the construction
of a Sl2 90 bridge Tor Detroit street over the
/ road.
John T.. Brown, the largest lumber jobber In
the sta C will bank 6O,U OO, 00J feet of fine logs
! this wlnt,r if snow comes and remains. He
! numbers north oil Deep river, having several
camps in operation. lie halls from Saginaw.
/ The first log house in Wexford county was
built by Montgomery Thorpe, father OF Col.
! T. j. thorpe, II Cadillac, and l. located in
what is now Salem Township. The old pioneer
died there recently, being nearly % years old
Dan Keller, convict, who escaped from
Ionia last August in company with two Others,
was captured New Years Eve at West Bay
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residence. Keller is desperate character.
The Ferry lumber company of Montague,
shipped 100000 feet OF lumber during the
past year: also 5,542,000 pieces of lath and
! %35, go pickets Their docks are loaded with
lumber ready for the spring trade
Dea Isaac Mason spent the year 1927 in
Washtenaw county, Michigan, then returned
to New York, and removed TO Battle Creek In
1889. He died in Galesburg on the 9th ult,
| in the S1th year of his age.
Two years ago Julius Koehler of Mt
Clemens, lost his wife. A few Gays ago Mr.
KoehleT's three children died of diphtheria,
leaving but one enid TO comfort the terribly
afflicted father.
Daniel +. Wadsworth, defaulting treasurer
on trial ut Escanaba, has been found guilty
oil embezzement as indicted, and sentenced to
a fine of $500 or Imprisonment Of one year.
Mrs. Emily Smith, af Saginaw City, who left
/ home for Colora 10 Dec. 81, H. missing. She
wrote her husband from Chicago Dec. 81, but
has not reache her relatives in Colorado.
The work on the railroad bed between Mt
Pleasant and Salt river Is progressing. A
gang OF twenty men are at wor6 near Salt
river for man who has the contract
Thomas Harmon and crew, five men in ALL
recently cut $50 eight feet hemlock railroad
ties in seven and one-ha hours at a camp I'm
Greenwood township, Clare county.
Mrs. Ada Cornwell, wife Of well-to-do
farmer living near Liberty, Jackson county,
committed suicide the other day by drinking
Paris green dissolved in water
Jacob Stue5envol, convicted OF man
slaughter in killing Willie Pickel, In East
Saginaw several weeks ago, has been sentenced
to 10 years In Jackson.
j. NJ. Ashley Jr. was taken to Detroit i'm
mediaely alter his arrest. lie was arraigned
before United States commissioner Graves
and pleaded not guilty.