Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1886-02-04
insurance. The Orc caught from a stowe In


no insurance. Tie fire caught from n stove in
the drying room.
DIR. Hall, travelling physician, Is under ar
Carlisle, whose 10years-old daughter died
after being placed in Halls charge.
Mr.. Carlisle claims $1,000 damages. The
doctor says Mr.. G. has no claim against him,as
he used no medicine.
John Matthews while chopping in the woods
near Hastings. was struck by falling tree
and instantly killed.
James Rlley, who lived near WILLIAMSON,
died recently and when his will was openeS 1t
revealed that he had bequeathed his s0-acre
| farm, 500 In an old straw bed, and his stock
and household furniture TO Rev. Father Ording
| paster of the Williamson Catholic church.
d. b. Swayzee of Orion, raised 5000 bushels
of rutabagas and 400 bushels Of potatoes last
| year, and is now shipping them to market.
/ lie gets ID cents per bushel for the rutabagas.
Mrs May Peters OF Caledonia, aged 20
| years, reached Grand Rapids the other even
ing on visit TO her brother. Shortly after
reaching the city she fell in faint and died.
Twelve of the convicts in the Jackson prison
are teachers, and night school is being run In
connection with that reformatory. The night
ly attendance reaches nearly 500.
! l.. Hubbard, resident of Huron county,
raised 5000 bushels OF wheat last season.
The Elk Rapids furnace is turning out an
average OF sixty-two tons of pig iron per day.
Presque Isle county has a population OF
5000, and the nearest undertaking establish
ment Is forty miles away
The Fidelity chemical works. which were
started at Fort Gratiot about eighteen months
ago, have been closed.
Rumors of new enterprises are thick. Cen
! teryille has rumor, and it Is that hating
factory will be star c there.
Jim Carr, of Devils Rancho" who goes TO
| Jackson for ID years for the killing frankie
Osborne, leaves 100000 behind to mitigate
the sorrow of his "wife'
houghton county will build $4,000 worth Of
county buildings Including a court house, jail
and she lips resid nee. The plan furnished by
J. b. Sweet have been adopted.
The state is now caring for 1SS veterans at
the temporary soldiers home in Grand
Rapids.
The lock-step in Jackson prison has been
abandoned.
Henry c. Smith, an old and highly respected
! pioneer of Ken county, died in Grand Rapids
! January 81. Ne was Torn in Rhode Island In
| 1894, aud came To NJ Oh gan in 1896. For many
! years he represented his C nstiu ,nts on the
! Boa of Supervisors, and was member of
the lcgis allure in lS49, 1S0l and 1853 He was
democrat in 20 tics.
The civil case of VIM. l.. Webster, trustee,
against T. b. Ba ~ and others on trial in East
! saginaw, resulted in Il verd ct of $3.50 Is Tor
! plaintiff. Judge Gage char sed tie jury to the
effect that ii IS held as matt,r of law that
the mems going on the premises was a tres
! pass, and that damages resulting therefrom SO
| far as the bO Ter or engine were concerned
should lie rendered against the defendant in
| this case.
The Lenawee county savings bank Of Adrian
claims that its undivided urplus is not prop
erly assessed and brings SUIT against the city,
asking for an injunction restrain ng Collector
] MOrcE DrOcepuinU
until the suit is decided.
The Albion Republican gives the names of
| thirty-four persons who have lived at Albion
and vicinity from ~ to 40 years; IL from 45 TO
30 years; Is from 80 to 81 years.
About 800 feet of the breakwater at st. Jo-
| seph has recently be II carried away by the big
storms, in consel uence o. which the channel is
becoming filed with sand.
Randolph Battean, boy IA years old, was
killed at Homer's planning mill IN Reed City by
a plleof shayings. and ice falling on him, break
ing his neck.
A new village has been started in the
Agogebc district in Ontonagon county, called
Hubbardvlle, after Mr. Hubbard of the firm
! of Weed x Hubbard, which is erect ne n saw
mill there. The village is on the line OF the
Marquette, Lake Superior ~ Western railroad,
and hopes soon to have Dostoflice.
The new Houghton county court house will
be the finest structure Of the kind on the up
per peninsula. 1T will have a frontage OF l29
feet, depth of 9S feet and will be a court
house. jail and sheriffs residence combined.
IL will be ~ feet hgh of BRICK, with brown
stone trimmings and costs about $4,000.
Plans have BEEN drawn for S25 600 normal
school building at Alma.
The number of inmates ut the soldiers home
increases daily.
During the recent cold spell the thermometer
aN att1tN - a~ia raarigf frfN
below zero.
A Tecumseh flouring mill lately received an
order for 1000 barrels OF flour direct from
Ireland.
There are 742 students enrolled in the
normal school at lpsilanti OF this number
20Jare in III preparato y department and 533
i'm the normal The total number enrolled on
the corresponding date last year, which also
showed an increase over all former years was
40 in the normal proper and rs in the pre-
paratory; a total of 63i. The next term ofthe
school begins Feb. $.
James Brown. alias Aldrch, is under arrest
In Charlotte OH charge of bigamy preferred
~ Mary +. Brown of Lansing.
Myra Backus of Charlotte was arrested some
time ago charged with arson. Jan. % she was
acquitted and it only took the Jury atout five
minutes TO do IL.
Villages along the proposed line of the jack
sen, Hudson ~ Ohio railroad are making Wig
orous efforts 10 raise the amount required OF
them
Frank MThomas of Battle Creek was telling
trees two mi G south of Climax, when limb
struck him and knocked him insehsible, cut
ting an ugly wound in his right eye, breaking
his left leg and inhicting other injuries
Richard Dye was found dead in his dooryard
In Ionia about 4 o'clock the other afternoon,
evidently dying from apoplexy. Mr.. Dye was
one of the very Oldest settlers of 1onia. He
had x-aI on
the street nearly all day before his death.