Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1886-07-22


The coroner's jury at Ionia found YER
dict that Keeper Barnes of the prison act
ed in the discharge of his duty when he
shot Frank Vending, prisoner, who was
escaping a few weeks ago.
A spiritualist camp meeting will be hela
at Pine Lake, near Lansing, from August
s 10 o. Mrs. q. Il. Warner Bishop of Wis
consin; j: II. Burnham of Saginaw, and
]. w. Kenyon are among the speakers adj
vertised.
Representative Moffat recently present
ed petition, signed by 300 citizens OF
Grand Traverse county, urging the pas
sage of a bin prohibiting aliens from ac-
curing lands In the United States.
Howell is talking up a village improv-
ment society The object is to improve a
handsome grove near a tmall lake; build
boulevard thereto; remove the rubbish
from the lake. and fit the place for picnic
parties.
The state fair committee at Jackson has
fixed the location of the buildings to be
erected, and instructed Col. James ID.
Clark and j. G. Sharp to begin work on the
buildings at once.
During the Fourth of July celebration In
Otsego, Nun Sweetland was killed by the
explosion Of a dynamite cartridge which
had been placed Ynder tin can. piece
OF the can struck HIM in the neck and its
sharp edge literally cut mis- throat.
Thomas Kilmurray, farmer living two
miles east of Inlay City, was struck by a
train while going home on the Chicago a
Grand Trunk track the other night and in
stantly killed, his head being crushed.
When last seen he was under the influence
Of liquor.
Last year 1900 bushels of blueberries
were shipped from Roscommon. Owing
to the drought none will be shipped this
year.
Willie Mcconnell of Bay City, ID years
old, in attempting to climb over freight
train, had his foot crushed by the cars.
He suffered intensely for several weeks,
when lockJaw set in and the lad died.
The Alpena Labor Journal says that II.
y. Willis's scathing attacks upon the
saloons in that city are bearing good fruit,
and that bankruptcy is staring the liquor
dealers in the face.
Mrs. Chatterton, who murdered her hus-
band in Bowen township, Kent county, is
still in Jail, and though somewhat calmer
is still crazy and unable to realize her
crime. She cries for her baby and chill
dren. She will probably be sent to the
asylum.
Some of the most prominent business
men OF Mt Pleasant are in great state OF
excitement from the fact that United
States Marshall Pencil of Detroit, has
been there serving papers in cases COM
menced for alleged trespasses upon govern
ment Indian lands. Cases have been com
menced against VIM. n. Brown, John T..
Leaton and others. The alleged trespasses
consist of thousands of dollars of valuable
timber taken from the lands.
Marine City has hook and ladder com
pany composed of boys under 20 years.
Northern Michigan will furnish an i'm
mense crop of blackberries and whortleber-
ries this season.
j. +. Parkinson of Parkinson Station,
on the l.. A. q Mt. Z. road, five miles
north of Alma, offers grounds free for a
stave and heading mill and charcoal works
there, and says thousands of cords of hard
wood can be had handily for years to
come. The nearest postotfice at present
is Alma.
An East Saginaw man who had contract
ed to furnish local dealers with several
thousand bushels of huckleberries, which
he expected to obtain from Roscommon,
has received word that there were no ber-
ries TO be had in that vicinity, the dry
weather having destroyed the crop. Last
year 5000 bushels were shipped from
Roscommon.
Another fatal saloon row occurred in
Detroit on Sunday the 18th inst, when
Thomas Quinn was fatally stabbed by a
fellow named Fitzgerald.
While digging clay in brick yard in
Cadillac, the pit caved in on Nelson John
son, breaking both his legs across the
thighs and injuring him severely intern
ally. His recovery is doubtful.
Chas. S. Buckley, who suffered by the
$4,000 fire in Ovid on the fourth, hanged
himself in his barn the other morning No
cause is assigned for the act.
Tom Walker was arrested in Ann Arbor
some time ago, for a murder alleged to
have been committed in New Mexico last
year. Tom was in jail in Ann Arbor
waiting to be taken back to New Mexico,
but he became tired and hung himself in
his cell on the 18th inst.
Claude, the S-year-old son of Ed Earl,
was drowned while playing on the logs, In
Muskegon river in Hersey.
.no s-cvuu regiment, company u, IONA
light guards, has elected Lieut.. Stewart
Buchanan captain TO succeed X. W. Ches-
ter, recently elected major. Frank Sey-
mour was elected first lieutenant in place
of Buchanan.
David Lynch of North Shade, Gratiot
county, through gross carelessness last
Monday cut off the leg of one of his small
children with moving machine.
At the Fourth of July celebration in
Standish a crowd of intoxicated men and
an Indian named Washtahetah of East
Saginaw got into quarrel because the
latter refused to treat. The men attacked
the Indian with clubs and pounded him SC
DduiJ tuat uo ulcu LILO nt8J ulOTHlLB. ~
man named Joe Newcomb instigated the
attack and officers are now trying to find
him. Some of the others are already
under arrest.
Cobbs e. Mitchell have purchased tract
of pine land near Cadillac, and will erect
| q mill, build logging railroad and begin
cutting at an early date.
James Welsh has been nominated as re-
ceiver OF public moneys at Detroit.
Fire broke out in Durham, Peters &
| Co.'s lumber yard at Chase Lake and be-
fore it was subdued large amount OF
property was destroyed. j. A. Hack
loses $1,000 feet of hardwood lumber and a
locomotive. loss $25, 200; l.. V Wicker. 100,-
COO feet of hardwood and pine, loss $1,000;
John Spears, sc, 900 feet of hardwood, loss
$500; Durham, Peters & Co., 500, 900 feet of
| pine, loss $500. No insurance. 1t was
expected at one time that the village
would be destroyed. Incendiarism is sus.
pected.
Benjamin Archer, an Englishman living
on farm just west of Ann Arbor, got
into quarrel with his wife the other
night. She went into the house, and he
followed, shooting at her as he went. He
fired from three to five shots, but only one
took effect, passing through her right
breast and inflicting a flesh wound. He
was intoxicated at the time. Chief OF
Police Sipley arrested and lodged him In
Jail.
Firing on Our Flag.
| The American FLAG was fred on the othel