Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1886-08-19
The President has appointed Chas. A.
Ward collector of customs at Port Huron.


John w. Frazer, proprietor Of the Battle
Greek house in Battle Creek, was arrested
the other day charged with keeping dis
orderly house. He was convicted and SEN
fenced by Justice Flint to pay. fine OF $50
and $40 costs or go to Ionia for 60 days.
He paid up and the next morning his hotel
burned TO the ground. He saved nothing
and had no insurance Incendiarism Is
/ suspected.
Alexander Brown, the Jackson embez-
zler, was arrested in Tacoma, w. T., on
the 18th, and Sheriff Fifield started at
once for Jackson with his prisoner.
The first reunion of the Seventh Michi-
gan infantry will be held at Jackson Sep
TENDER 1i-l5. 1t is hoped and expected
that every surviving member OF this regi-
ment will unite In making this, its first
reunion q success. IL being the week or
the state fair, reduced rates will probably
be secured on all railroads.
Chas. Gliquist, a young man was killed in
the Michigamme iron mine, near lshpem-
ing by falling down shaft 225 feet. James
Nudge, aged 40, man of family, fell from
ladder in the Salisbury mine and cannot
recover
r. II. Mason of Chesaning, Saginaw
county, had thirty acre wheat field:
From four acres, without raking, 1876
bushels were threshed, and the average
yield per acre of the entire field when en-
tirely Cleaned and threshed will not be less
than fifty bushels.
Extensive forest fires in the vicinity of
Green Lake, Wexford county, have burned
over more than 1000 acres of land and
totally destroyed the camps of 3. X.
Northam.
Young Macarthur, the Charlott forger,
has been in the business before. Two years
ago he forged his fathers name and re-
ceived money at the First national bank.
That was hushed up.
Trl-. CT
Isabella county, owned by L. n. Sheppard,
burned recently, together with LOG, 600 feet
of lumber and $4,000 lath.
Michael Davitt is to lecture at Escanaba
August 2S
There is talk of piping the natural gas
newly discovered near Port Huron, to that
city, for lighting and manufacturing pur-
poses.
Mrs. John Hall, an old and respected cit.
izen of Bloomfield township, Oakland
county, is dead.
William Wells of Oneida township, is in
Jail in Charlotte, charged with assault
with intent to murder upon DIR. g. +.
Convey, the health officer at Grand Ledge,
who went to the prisoners house to pre-
scribe for a case of diphtheria and was at
tackled by Wells with an AK.
Will Trumbull, the 17-year old son Of
Emerson Trumbull, a Pittsford farmer liv-
ing four miles northwest Of Hudson, shat
tered his right arm by the discharge of his
gun while hunting.
A fireman's tournament is to be held in
Caro- August 1913. Over $500 in prizes
will be given.
An old man by the name of Frank Ed
wards of Sherman township, Huron county
was taken from his house, stripped, tarred,
put aboard of a rail and whip applied TO
his naked back in good style, and given
Inv n lInw Nhn NfpNr hn
crime charged is corrupting young girls.
His last victim was a little child only
seven years old and his own grand
daughter.
Hundreds Of bushels of blackberries upon
the Elm fruit farm of Evart Scott have
been dried up and destroyed by the great
drought His pears and peaches are also
whitening and dropping off, likewise apples
and plums. The dry weather has cost him
$1,000 or $1,000 at least, and that is only
. one of many other similar farms. The de-
struction of crops of all kinds makes
Washtenaw county poorer by many thou
sand dollars.-Ann Ar6Or Courier.
The principal business establishments of
Hastings were destroyed by fire on the
18th inst, involving loss of 100000 with
but little insurance.
The supreme court of this state has again
| decided that the docket entry of justice
| OF the peace is something that can not be
utSPuotb, tilhcl ny JuoblCc VI OuC
else. A justice has made return to a writ
OF certiorari that judgment was rem
dered December Is, while his docket said
December 10. The court stuck to the
docket.
An old man named Prior, living in Clar-
endon, Calhoun county, has been the vic
tim of confidence men to the tune of 81, $50
They bought" his farm, got him out one
side, met a stranger who showed the par
ties little game by which he had been
swindled, and all parties finally took
hand in with the usual result, the old man
backing his opinion with the cash.
W. j. Hilton, for short time past resi-
dent of Marshall, is under arrest charged
with bigamy. He married Maggie barrow
in $780, but the two never lived together.
1t is alleged that he married Clara Randall,
of Livingston county, on the 4th July
last, being still bound to his first choice.